I think I've found RAXXLA.

[shockbait]

I hope "Raxxla" is in the game, in some insanely convoluted and hard to reach place(but it's probably just in a belt, because who even checks those?), but GTA5 sucked the "Mystery Seeker" out of me after nearly a decade of the "Mt.Chiliad Mystery".
I have Thalassophobia, and I combed the bottom of the ocean in that game looking for clues, all I found were non-interactable easter eggs.

 

[HansAcker]

I mean... if it really is "a thing", object, place or anything... would you even be able to recognize it if you saw it? It is entirely possible that many people got close or after all this time actually visited that system but didn't even know.

Well, there is one report from someone claiming to have seen Bigfoot Raxxla years earlier:

Raxxla!

You'll have to ask him how it was he found out that it was he. (As said above, I can't remember) I'll pass. To be honest, if Michael Brookes pm'd me and said: We stuck Raxxla somewhere random It's so trivial you can go there and not notice We've been telling people when they've missed it I'd...

forums.frontier.co.uk

It sparked a bit of an egg-hunt along the possible route but I guess it didn't turn up anything.

So at least concerning myself, I believe I found it. Found it in the search itself.

Then you have achieved True Raxxla

 

[CMDR Isabella_The_Fox]

Well, there is one report from someone claiming to have seen Bigfoot Raxxla years earlier:

Raxxla!

You'll have to ask him how it was he found out that it was he. (As said above, I can't remember) I'll pass. To be honest, if Michael Brookes pm'd me and said: We stuck Raxxla somewhere random It's so trivial you can go there and not notice We've been telling people when they've missed it I'd...

forums.frontier.co.uk

It sparked a bit of an egg-hunt along the possible route but I guess it didn't turn up anything.

Then you have achieved True Raxxla

Yeah, just as the Codex states that it is, by some people, seen as some sort of "cosmic enlightenment" i guess that's what i would call it for me.

Regarding the Thread you linked, i had a quick look through the post in question and some posts after that one and i agree 100% - That could be something happening to different players all the time, who just don't know about it and keep on moving.
The only thing that i know for a fact is:
I will probably never stop searching.
And that seems to be the whole point of Raxxla, from FDev's perspective.

It is indeed like ancient El Dorado or other similar mysteries of our world, but in space. People like me are curious, interested in the mysterious "unknown" which can not be known. I'm not a "paranormal hunter" or anything, i'm in fact very scientific in regards to life.
I base my observations on scientific fact, not ghost stories. - And regarding Raxxla the simple truth of the matter is that we don't have much to go on.

What's even more interesting to me is that the Dark Wheel seems to be in search for that place for over a hundred years. El Dorado has been sought after for over 4 centuries in real life. I doubt anybody would ever find that, same with Raxxla. El Dorado and other comparable things of our real world might be all the same thing.
A story to inspire the curious minds to go out there and search. Search for the new and unknown.

 

[Brian of Earth]

I was just at a memorial beacon, so I am all cried-out.

 

[SlickPBW]

I'm still unclear if that was a thing you were always able to do in the original game, or if it was only through the emulator that I was able to "misjump" purposely.

In the ‘84 version, I remember being able to purposefully misjump by maximizing pitch and roll during a hyperspace jump. You would end up in “witchspace” with a Thargoid or two which would release thargons.

 

[Frankymole]

In the ‘84 version, I remember being able to purposefully misjump by maximizing pitch and roll during a hyperspace jump. You would end up in “witchspace” with a Thargoid or two which would release thargons.

Yes, the deliberate misjump was borrowed from Traveller RPG.

 

[Frankymole]

What's even more interesting to me is that the Dark Wheel seems to be in search for that place for over a hundred years. El Dorado has been sought after for over 4 centuries in real life. I doubt anybody would ever find that, same with Raxxla. El Dorado and other comparable things of our real world might be all the same thing.
A story to inspire the curious minds to go out there and search. Search for the new and unknown.

This is interesting. I've watched a Decoding The Unknown youtube video about it.

Lost City of Z - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[CMDR Isabella_The_Fox]

This is interesting. I've watched a Decoding The Unknown youtube video about it.

Very interesting indeed.
I'm planning something for the last week of August but I'm not sure on how to interpret the "No Advertising" rules of the forum regarding livestreams and stuff, so I will refrain from posting any links or anything, but I will definitely start another long journey to finding "Raxxla", or anything else of interest, out there in the vast void.

Right now I'm sitting in an asteroid station in the system PMD2009 48 deep in the Orion Nebula. Was a real pain to get back there because of the Col70 permit-locked zone, but it's a real eye catcher and since Aegis owns that station and one of their megaships is currently stationed there it's a fitting starting point for my travels, i think.

Will be fun to go out there exploring again, been sitting around in the bubble for far too long

Edit: I'm just very glad that I found this for future ease of access: https://www.edsm.net/en/galactic-routes/show/id/203/name/To+the+Orion+Nebula!

 

[Schmack]

Raxxla is that land mirage you see during hyperspace jumps. It exists between space and time, like the outer limits.

 

[Isoob]

By any way commanders...lemme just drop that: its mentioned only elite pilots will / can find Raxxla. Does it mean, you have to reach elite in any discipline to have a chance of finding Raxxla??

 

[CMDR Isabella_The_Fox]

By any way commanders...lemme just drop that: its mentioned only elite pilots will / can find Raxxla. Does it mean, you have to reach elite in any discipline to have a chance of finding Raxxla??

That could be possible, yeah. I doubt you have to Elite every rank, though it might be a possibility.
I mean at least for the Dark Wheel i can imagine, that you'd need to max out all three main ones.
Because if the DW only approaches the most distinguished pilots... having "only" one Elite rank wouldn't be enough for them, i'm sure. (Of course only lore wise, since i doubt any player has been approached by some mysterious Dark Wheel thing. They wouldn't stay quiet about it. At least ONE would talk.)

But regarding Raxxla, i'd certainly hope that if it were only possible by Elite rank, they mean one of the three.

 

[Isoob]

THx, 4 reply.
Yeah, I did read this, but wondered whether at least one of the "core" ranks must be maxed out. Looks like, the rest must reach a certain level as well...

 

[Schmack]

That could be possible, yeah. I doubt you have to Elite every rank, though it might be a possibility.
I mean at least for the Dark Wheel i can imagine, that you'd need to max out all three main ones.
Because if the DW only approaches the most distinguished pilots... having "only" one Elite rank wouldn't be enough for them, i'm sure. (Of course only lore wise, since i doubt any player has been approached by some mysterious Dark Wheel thing. They wouldn't stay quiet about it. At least ONE would talk.)

But regarding Raxxla, i'd certainly hope that if it were only possible by Elite rank, they mean one of the three.

So Raxxla is Shinrarta Dezhra?

 

[CMDR Isabella_The_Fox]

So Raxxla is Shinrarta Dezhra?

Nah, i don't think so. That would be too easy and if we go by what most people seem to believe it seems to be a planet. But i would not really call that "proof" since in the codex it speaks of it "possibly" being a planet, possibly being so much other stuff, that it seems to me it could really be anything else.
If Frontier really did go down the route of having it be a planet or at least ON a planets surface... i don't think it would be somewhere so easily discoverable.

I mean, take one "Rags to Riches" exploration route in the bubble itself and you basically reach Elite quite fast. (Even though i've been too lazy and am only on the last rank before Elite, even though i've played for years)
And they also said (or at least D. Braben did, if i recall correctly) that we "would know it when we find it", which seems like it would be something significant.
So if it were in ShinDez, it probably would've been found by elite explorers already.

Edit: Although the already posted clip suggests that a player possibly was in the right system, scooped fuel and jumped out again. Possibly without realizing or knowing of Raxxla.
There was also a thread on the forum by somebody claiming to be the guy that honked the system, saw "Raxxla" pop up even though it was unpopulated and jumped out again, but there has been no solid evidence to that story nor has it been found in the suggested area.

 

[Schmack]

It would odd for Raxxla to pop up when the planets haven't been discovered, since honking doesn't technically discover the planets, only that they exist. It would have to be a close planet.

 

[CMDR Isabella_The_Fox]

It would odd for Raxxla to pop up when the planets haven't been discovered, since honking doesn't technically discover the planets, only that they exist. It would have to be a close planet.

Yeah, that's where the person and many others wondered if Raxxla would just show up as if it were populated, although the system doesn't show it.
But since nobody has been able to confirm any of that, it's probably just not true. That would be the easiest explanation and, scientifically (Occams Razor Principle), the most logical. Since nothing in the game works that way and i personally don't think the devs would go out of their way to change how bodies in a system behave just to show "Raxxla" no matter what... probably not true.

 

[Leadfoot]

So Raxxla is Shinrarta Dezhra?

It would be a rather funny joke if we could go to Jameson Memorial, and when at the hanger deck level (assuming legs had never been implemented) hit the arrow keys down up down up right left right left ENTER key. Your ship starts to move but instead of going up to the flight deck, it goes down to a hidden deck and you receive a vision that says

"Welcome to Raxxla, Commander. Here is your Panther Clipper as a reward."

 

[CMDR Isabella_The_Fox]

The good old Konami Code xD

 

[Schmack]

It would be a rather funny joke if we could go to Jameson Memorial, and when at the hanger deck level (assuming legs had never been implemented) hit the arrow keys down up down up right left right left ENTER key. Your ship starts to move but instead of going up to the flight deck, it goes down to a hidden deck and you receive a vision that says

"Welcome to Raxxla, Commander. Here is your Panther Clipper as a reward."

With elephant butt leather seats and fuzzy dice.

 

[Arindor]

Raxxla is the proverbial carrot at the end of a really, really long stick. However:

So Raxxla is Shinrarta Dezhra?

The only system where you need all three Elite ranks to enter.

No, it would not surprise me if Raxxla was hiding in plain sight at all.