A Raxxla Theory

[Star Ferret]

Something I just thought of while posting in another thread....

Ok, we know the Guardians fought the Thargoids, what a million or so years ago?

I'm not sure if we know the outcome of that war but obviously the Guardians aren't around anymore, but the Thargoids are. So they probably beat the Guardians.

Now here we are.

Arrogant Humanity.

Attempting to fight the Thargoids with Guardian Tech they already beat.

Is it therefore safe to presume that ..

The Thargoids also know where Raxxla is located?

Isn't it also believed that Raxxla is somewhere within 100 - 200 ly from Sol?

Great Raxxla Potato Hunt - Help us scan every system within 200 ly of Sol

This is the Great Raxxla Potato Hunt, a collaborative exploration project. This project has the goal to search every star system within 200 lightyears of Sol, including systems already known, to find Raxxla or eliminate those systems from future search. This volume encompasses an estimated...

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So.

In theory, we could presume that since the Thargoids now consider us and much more serious threat, then they're probably going to try to prevent us from finding Raxxla??

Perhaps even parking one of their Maelstrom's near it, probably not right at it... But close enough to bring it within said Maelstroms sphere of influence?

Or maybe strategically close enough to it to try to stop us from finding it, but not making it completely impossible to find.... Presuming FD (controlling the narrative here) wants us to find it.....

Any thoughts on this?

The Thargoids know where Raxxla is, because they beat the Guardians, and they're going to try to stop us from finding it.

 

[Louis Calvert]

Something I just thought of while posting in another thread....

Ok, we know the Guardians fought the Thargoids, what a million or so years ago?

I'm not sure if we know the outcome of that war but obviously the Guardians aren't around anymore, but the Thargoids are. So they probably beat the Guardians.

Now here we are.

Arrogant Humanity.

Attempting to fight the Thargoids with Guardian Tech they already beat.

Is it therefore safe to presume that ..

The Thargoids also know where Raxxla is located?

Isn't it also believed that Raxxla is somewhere within 100 - 200 ly from Sol?

Great Raxxla Potato Hunt - Help us scan every system within 200 ly of Sol

This is the Great Raxxla Potato Hunt, a collaborative exploration project. This project has the goal to search every star system within 200 lightyears of Sol, including systems already known, to find Raxxla or eliminate those systems from future search. This volume encompasses an estimated...

forums.frontier.co.uk

So.

In theory, we could presume that since the Thargoids now consider us and much more serious threat, then they're probably going to try to prevent us from finding Raxxla??

Perhaps even parking one of their Maelstrom's near it, probably not right at it... But close enough to bring it within said Maelstroms sphere of influence?

Or maybe strategically close enough to it to try to stop us from finding it, but not making it completely impossible to find.... Presuming FD (controlling the narrative here) wants us to find it.....

Any thoughts on this?

The Thargoids know where Raxxla is, because they beat the Guardians, and they're going to try to stop us from finding it.

I don't think it's unlikely. I've said similar stuff over in the Raxxla Hunting thread, come on over and discuss your ideas

Edited for typos

 

[Sylveria]

Plot twist....

"Raxxla" is really the Guardian's name for "Earth".

 

[Darth Ender]

the guardians were beat by their own creations. goids simply weren't driven to extinction by the same creations so now they are left but guardians are not.


since so much of this post is based on an easily provably false premise, i would think the conclusions are about as plausible and real as absolutely any guess about raxxla besides being something that would disappoint players if ever found because it has no hope of living up to the decades of expectations fdev has forced players to build.

 

[Star Wanderer]

Maybe Raxxla is just a portal to a new Galaxy and Salvation for Humanity that is fleeing from Thargoids, where Elite Dangerous 2 will be waiting for us

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Isn't it also believed that Raxxla is somewhere within 100 - 200 ly from Sol?

There are some theories about what and where Raxxla is that require it to be at that sort of distance, in the sense that it was first recorded being talked about before humans could possibly have got any further out.

If Raxxla is mobile, small enough to be portable, was originally discovered by telescope imaging and only later visited, or allows time travel or other breaches of causality ... then it could very easily be much further away.

Or it might be something where the concept of "distance from it" makes no sense in the first place. (For a non-Raxxla example: How far are you away from hyperspace?)

 

[Thatchinho]

Something I just thought of while posting in another thread....

Ok, we know the Guardians fought the Thargoids, what a million or so years ago?

I'm not sure if we know the outcome of that war but obviously the Guardians aren't around anymore, but the Thargoids are. So they probably beat the Guardians.

Now here we are.

Arrogant Humanity.

Attempting to fight the Thargoids with Guardian Tech they already beat.

Is it therefore safe to presume that ..

The Thargoids also know where Raxxla is located?

Isn't it also believed that Raxxla is somewhere within 100 - 200 ly from Sol?

Great Raxxla Potato Hunt - Help us scan every system within 200 ly of Sol

This is the Great Raxxla Potato Hunt, a collaborative exploration project. This project has the goal to search every star system within 200 lightyears of Sol, including systems already known, to find Raxxla or eliminate those systems from future search. This volume encompasses an estimated...

forums.frontier.co.uk

So.

In theory, we could presume that since the Thargoids now consider us and much more serious threat, then they're probably going to try to prevent us from finding Raxxla??

Perhaps even parking one of their Maelstrom's near it, probably not right at it... But close enough to bring it within said Maelstroms sphere of influence?

Or maybe strategically close enough to it to try to stop us from finding it, but not making it completely impossible to find.... Presuming FD (controlling the narrative here) wants us to find it.....

Any thoughts on this?

The Thargoids know where Raxxla is, because they beat the Guardians, and they're going to try to stop us from finding it.

Guardians beat back their local Thargoid Meta-Alloy harvesting team. Guardians then wiped themselves out.

Isn't it also believed that Raxxla is somewhere within 100 - 200 ly from Sol?

People believe a lot of things.

 

[Esteban]

As others have mentioned: indications are that the Guardians killed themselves.

Not sure how the theory progresses to the Thargoids knowing what/where Raxxla is but I'm not sure it's material. Why? No one is certain of what the Thargoids think of us (even if they say that they are, they're guessing, at best). Barring evidence to the contrary, I'm more likely to think that, rather than seeing us as much more of a threat now, they're just kicking our butts for the trouble we keep inflicting on them. The'yre not trying to keep us from finding Raxxla. I believe that the Thargoids fully understand that we can't really touch them or follow them when they jump away, that our combat against them is more of a nuisance than a threat. That is to say if they even "think" rather than ...whatever. I won't lengthen this post.

Do the maelstroms have a 'sphere of influence?' I'm not sure Humanity has figured that out yet either. If the Thargoids didn't want us to find Raxxla, why place something that will certainly attract a lot of our attention near it? That makes no sense unless you think that the maelstroms serve to inhibit our abilities to see, detect, etc., or that you believe the Thargoids think we won't go near them because of the danger they pose.* Fat chance of that, imo.

* As an aside, from the perspective of gathering data, making observations, etc., the maelstroms aren't really dangerous places in a significant way. Sure, Thargoids will interdict our ships when we're in those systems (close to the maelstroms or not), but it's so easy to escape them (even in an only modestly fast ship) that it's only a minor inconvenience.
We can even fly into the maelstroms and escape before losing our ships.
It seems to me that if we wanted to study these maelstroms, there's really little preventing us from doing so.

 

[Rat Catcher]

I thought Raxxla was the Thargoid word for breakfast.