Looks like I shall be bouncing around Mother Gaia systems for a bit
Running of the Hypothesis that others have gathered.
1) The early interstellar pilots talked of Raxxla and the dark-wheel station.
2) Meaning ancient FSD travel too and from to find and get word back over specific timespan around of the space of the early colonies.
suggesting that it could be 0ly up to 200 ly from Sol.
3) It was discoverable with ED 1.0 - meaning it's not a location findable via horizons planetary surfaces, and Horizons and Beyond stations and hackable terminals.
So honks and eyes are all we got.
4) It's lying in plain sight but it might not register.
5) It's a journey, so a long haul in-system.
or that in itself is the hint, the route, to take, which is what I am following.
But I have to do economical jumps to not miss a thing and is consistent with early explorers and ship capabilities of the newly started ED1.0 ED pilots and accounts.
omphalos rift, sure it's a stone that marked the "middle" of Zeus kingdom which he called Delphi, and the Oracle lived there.
(Yes the Pleiades ).
And there is even a Delphi Chapter house in "Sol", but it's an installation that appeared post-release....(?)
I was happy to learn that the "Omphalos hypothesis" is actually the Creationist handbook, (or last thursdayism's) .
The silly idea that all of creation was indeed "manufactured" by a creator, and that all the ruins and fossils were just "placed there" on purpose, and reality is not that "old".
But in Elite, that's actually true....our Digital avatars live in a created and simulated reality......is the Rift, our computer screens?
I can't think of any subtle joke that Raxxla is some kind of Asset put into the game as a message from Gods of Elite's Universe....the Developers themselves
A portal to another world? Cambridge and meet David Braben
I wonder if it would be a sign like in Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy from God.
"Sorry for all the mess"
40 economic jumps to my first (of several) destinations on my Journey, all of which, are 100ly away from sol.....this is going to take some time and patience.