Major Clue(s) on Raxxla - And How To Locate It

[MrShinyTorterra]

"To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies! To the whisperer in witch-
space, the siren of the deepest void! The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of
our vagabond hearts. To Raxxla!"

The first clue to Raxxla is a Point Of Interest in the system Col 285 Sector BG-O d6-93 on planet 1D (Coordinates: -5.8360, 177.3792) https://canonn.science/codex/communication-array-delta-69/?highlight=gravit
It talks about a gravitational pull of some massive object. (Along with the signal, something has appeared on the planet’s surface that according to our surveys simply can’t be there. There is a gravitational pull of some massive object but there’s nothing we can detect physically there. The gravitational field measured approximately 0.1 Gs, but we can’t see what’s creating it. Whatever it is, it’s the source of the signal.) When scanning the data point in the centre of the structure it sais that it can't locate the data package anymore. This can mean that the source of the signal is no longer there (but it's not impossible it's still there). An unknown signal with mysterious events, a massive object with a gravitational pull and not detectable. That is Raxxla/The Omphalos Rift.

Not only does this fit the description of Raxxla, matches some theorie's that Raxxla moves therefor fitting the legend that The Dark Wheel found Raxxla, then lost it and tries to find it again. The data log comes from someone named "J Bottone", the Art Director.

Some other interesting Points Of Interest that mention something like this are:

Transmitter VJS-81 | Canonn Research Group

Transmitter VJS-81 can be found in the HR 6890 system on body A 1

canonn.science

Leucos Crashed Ship | Canonn Research Group

A wrecked Anaconda crashed nose-first into the moon Leucos A 5 a at -36.1280, -45.2436, scattering its cargo behind it. The wreckage, which includes Brewer Corp and Caine Massey crates as well as a number of Salvage cargo canisters from the following types: Prototype Tech Assault Plans Tactical...

canonn.science

But it isn't specific.

How To Locate It:
This might not show the current location of Raxxla/Omphalos Rift but it tells us how to find it. Like FD said "It exists, we know where it is and we know why people haven't been able to find it..."(https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-day-i-met-david-braben.25158/#post-536632) We can't scan for Raxxla, we can't use the Discovery Scanner, we can't use the FSS but it can be found using Gravity and we have a tool to messure that. When in orbital cruise we have a meter in the bottom right corner of the HUD. Find the system, find the planets, find the gravitational anomaly, find Raxxla.

We can either triangulate a system using the previous POI mentions or find a pattern. Or a new POI with more information.

 

[Jack Wilmslow]

Gives a little more credence to my rogue planet theory.

Also I do think that there is a lock on it where it doesn't get recorded on the journal files which means if it is existing in a system it wont show up on EDDB/EDSM/Inara etc. However I think, what ever it is, will still be viewable in game.

At the very least you have come across something that is linked, even if it is not Raxxla.

 

[Doctorpotato]

I really have no idea where to put this post, so here it goes.

Like many people before me for 5 years I have a thought on raxxla, I have heard the story's and every rumor.

I have played EDH for a while now, not big into combat but fly a corvette, I had outfitted it to be an exploration ship and she dose this job very well.

But I digress, I'll get to my point. I think all the "leads", story's, and planets ported from the original game are red herrings.

I personally think Raxxla is a spacestation that frame shifts between the 42 sectors in the milkyway. I think this is so by the way the devs act in the updates and how games are made. I would put money on the fact it was to be an epic surprise for the players when found, but we did not find it due to the limitations on system scans at the time, update, now we skip it because it's just rock worlds worth nothing and no ELW or anything worth the time to check out, so now the galaxy is full of found world's, so they gave us the mechanism on how raxxla works via the fleet carriers but dumbed down so raxxla is still valuable when/if found.

I would love to say there are threads of story's linking to raxxla but in truth they said they would not give clues and I can assure you they will not just give us its star location, raxxla is too valuable being lost at the moment to keep long term players engaged and new players excited about the great mystery.

Raxxla will be found, and it will be an epic moment for the community.

Remember to add in a new game mechanic takes an enormous amount of time, effort and energy, not to mention play testing to work out the bugs, so raxxla has to be using known game mechanics to function nothing new but used in a new way.

How will this help us search for raxxla, well my best guess to test my theory is to find a small quadrant and go to ether the center or hot locations that are close to this center and park your butt down and wait and see if raxxla shows up. With fleet carriers should be easier now. If you are wondering why we have yet to see it in the bubble, well my guess is it's pop location is in Polaris and that might be how you get the permit.

My two cents, worth much less too.

 

[Tuberasa]

Raxxla is a gateway into another universe. Also known as the game engine. Once you startup the game, you enter another universe.

 

[Elliot Coleman]

Raxxla, if it even exists (which I have my doubts) more than likely is locked behind an unobtainable permit.

The more likely explanation is it's simply a myth with just enough information to keep us mindlessly searching the galaxy for "something", without actually being a thing.

 

[Comandante]

Raxxla, if it even exists (which I have my doubts) more than likely is locked behind an unobtainable permit.

The more likely explanation is it's simply a myth with just enough information to keep us mindlessly searching the galaxy for "something", without actually being a thing.

Spot on.

To date, this is the best explanation ever I've heard about Raxxla since I've played from the very start. It saddens me to say so.

Looking back, it couldn't really be anything else anyway. Why would FD concentrate any effort at all to adding content to something that probably very few (less than 0.01% of players?) would ever see, when the content for lore is already so thin on the ground?

 

[BL1P]

Raxxla is the name of the map seed used to create the galaxy.

 

[CSperson]

"To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies! To the whisperer in witch-
space, the siren of the deepest void! The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of
our vagabond hearts. To Raxxla!"

The first clue to Raxxla is a Point Of Interest in the system Col 285 Sector BG-O d6-93 on planet 1D (Coordinates: -5.8360, 177.3792) https://canonn.science/codex/communication-array-delta-69/?highlight=gravit
It talks about a gravitational pull of some massive object. (Along with the signal, something has appeared on the planet’s surface that according to our surveys simply can’t be there. There is a gravitational pull of some massive object but there’s nothing we can detect physically there. The gravitational field measured approximately 0.1 Gs, but we can’t see what’s creating it. Whatever it is, it’s the source of the signal.) When scanning the data point in the centre of the structure it sais that it can't locate the data package anymore. This can mean that the source of the signal is no longer there (but it's not impossible it's still there). An unknown signal with mysterious events, a massive object with a gravitational pull and not detectable. That is Raxxla/The Omphalos Rift.

Not only does this fit the description of Raxxla, matches some theorie's that Raxxla moves therefor fitting the legend that The Dark Wheel found Raxxla, then lost it and tries to find it again. The data log comes from someone named "J Bottone", the Art Director.

Some other interesting Points Of Interest that mention something like this are:

Transmitter VJS-81 | Canonn Research Group

Transmitter VJS-81 can be found in the HR 6890 system on body A 1

canonn.science

Leucos Crashed Ship | Canonn Research Group

A wrecked Anaconda crashed nose-first into the moon Leucos A 5 a at -36.1280, -45.2436, scattering its cargo behind it. The wreckage, which includes Brewer Corp and Caine Massey crates as well as a number of Salvage cargo canisters from the following types: Prototype Tech Assault Plans Tactical...

canonn.science

But it isn't specific.

How To Locate It:
This might not show the current location of Raxxla/Omphalos Rift but it tells us how to find it. Like FD said "It exists, we know where it is and we know why people haven't been able to find it..."(https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-day-i-met-david-braben.25158/#post-536632) We can't scan for Raxxla, we can't use the Discovery Scanner, we can't use the FSS but it can be found using Gravity and we have a tool to messure that. When in orbital cruise we have a meter in the bottom right corner of the HUD. Find the system, find the planets, find the gravitational anomaly, find Raxxla.

We can either triangulate a system using the previous POI mentions or find a pattern. Or a new POI with more information.

From what I gathered from those logs, the signal was on the planet surface, 10km from the settlement. Did anyone manage to find anything at a point matching those criteria, or no?

 

[Rochester]

Great work; currently revisiting this within ‘the quest’.

IMO from the logs it reads as surface based situations, likely pertaining to Thargoid / human hybrid experimentation? so in other words, Thargoids narrative, but who knows?

In regards to the gravitational anomaly theory of using our huds, has anyone looked at these readings when encountering Thargoids on planet surfaces, either the ‘motherships’ or when Thargs enter/exit witchspace?

I suspect this was foreshadowing Thargoid warp situations, how they are able to open wormholes, who knows.

Post in thread 'The Quest To Find Raxxla'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-10090760

 

[Galvinero]

Great work; currently revisiting this within ‘the quest’.

IMO from the logs it reads as surface based situations, likely pertaining to Thargoid / human hybrid experimentation? so in other words, Thargoids narrative, but who knows?

In regards to the gravitational anomaly theory of using our huds, has anyone looked at these readings when encountering Thargoids on planet surfaces, either the ‘motherships’ or when Thargs enter/exit witchspace?

I suspect this was foreshadowing Thargoid warp situations, how they are able to open wormholes, who knows.

Post in thread 'The Quest To Find Raxxla'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-10090760

You have seen voyager no? You have seen how the nacelles angle themselves? Angled nacelles means a modifiable warp bubble. Thargoids, change thier geometry, if witchspace is a place, our geometry won't really work, just like in witchspace, everything is off, becuase you are seeing shadows of what is in that dimension. Notice the compass going nuts when jumping? Becuase there is no direction in witchspace, it's a dimension that has no visable direction

 

[Nereid Shepard]

Maybe this is where the thargoid shenaniganery is going... Raxxla?

 

[Progen Dom Rosa]

Raxxla, if it even exists (which I have my doubts) more than likely is locked behind an unobtainable permit.

The more likely explanation is it's simply a myth with just enough information to keep us mindlessly searching the galaxy for "something", without actually being a thing.

they have repeatedly said it's not in a locked system and the system it is in had it's star scooped

 

[Ian Doncaster]

they have repeatedly said it's not in a locked system and the system it is in had it's star scooped

Do you have a direct source for either of those?

Quite a few of us have looked without finding anything more than other players claiming that they'd heard Frontier had said it, so it'd be good to get that cleared up.

EDIT: thinking about it, if you can find a player claiming to have heard the second before May 2019, that would also be useful.

 

[Progen Dom Rosa]

I am of the firm believer that what they say is true. I also believe that our next villains in the story may come out of raxxla.

 

[Progen Dom Rosa]

I am of the firm believer that what they say is true. I also believe that our next villains in the story may come out of raxxla.

We would need to go back to Lavecon 2017 (if that footage even still exists) of the interview with Michael Brooks.

 

[Rochester]

Context is key.

Those statements have no validity now as the source is not shown, there does exist an equal number of Cmdrs who understand those statements were actually made in a thread related to the insertion of the Voyager probes.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

We would need to go back to Lavecon 2017

The problem with the rumour that it was at Lavecon 2017 is that there's no evidence in and around 2017 of the statement being made; the first suggestions that it might have been then appear much later (and don't always agree on which convention).

Given the tendency of Elite fans to leap on absolutely any official statement and extrapolate huge amounts of things from it ... it just seems really weird that one of the main people who worked on the early days of Elite Dangerous could mention anything about Raxxla without tens of people excitedly posting about it at the time.

That's why I was asking if you had anything earlier than May 2019 for it: where are the people talking about this statement in late 2017 and 2018, if it was made that early?

 

[Planewalker]

I personally think Raxxla is a spacestation that frame shifts between the 42 sectors in the milkyway.

For some reason i have also always thought that it was a mobile base.

Problem is that it runs counter to "it is in a dark system with eight planets orbiting a gas giant".

Mr. Braben himself confirmed that it is in the game and Brookes confirmed it can be found by anyone and is not random.

Anyone who thinks raxxla isn't real clearly missed the "It (raxxla) is in the game and we know where, we also know why it has not been found".


Someone somewhat recently made a quite informative post about the statements which i of course can't find right now.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Problem is that it runs counter to "it is in a dark system with eight planets orbiting a gas giant".

That's the Dark Wheel station - it's possible that that has Raxxla aboard/nearby because at some point they found it, but equally it might be that they're still looking.

 

[Planewalker]

That's the Dark Wheel station - it's possible that that has Raxxla aboard/nearby because at some point they found it, but equally it might be that they're still looking.

Think i got the two confused somewhere along the line. XD