The Blind Shot...

TravisMcNair

TravisMcNair
I, Commander Travis McNair have decided to search for Raxxla. Not by more conventional means of research and logical thought, but instead a more simple minded approach. From this day forward until Raxxla is discovered, I, Commander Travis McNair will be searching for Raxxla one system at a time. No particular order, and no thought put into my chosen locations. I will keep this thread updated periodically with my location and, God willing, any notable discoveries rather related to Raxxla not. I shall not be returning to the bubble or any other inhabited space unless by necessity until i am either dead, heaven forbid, or Raxxla is discovered.
As well as being an announcement of my journey, this is also an invitation to join.
o7
 
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Secret Name

Secret Name
Thorough scanning, mapping and checking all points of interest (asteroids included) of a one system takes ~1 hour on average.
If you will play 24hours per day you will scan and map approx ~24 systems, and I am being an optimist here.
That gives you about 24*365=8760 systems per year.
If you will do it your entire life, and you will live for, say 80 years, that gives us....
80*8760=700 000 approx system per your life.
And I am being an optimist here.

More realisticaly you will need to sleep for 1/3 of your life, so...
700 000 - (700 000*1/3) = 470 000
You should be over 20 years, so a quarter of your systems are gone too...
470 000 - (470 000 / 4) = 350 000
Then, you will need to work for about half of your free time, so...
350 000 / 2 = 175 000

ED have over 100 billions of systems, and as of 08 September 2017
"Elite, players have only discovered 15,779,755 star systems. That's around 0.003941 percent "

I hope that was helpful.
 

Lakon Spaceway

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The one thing we know about the system in which Raxxla is located is that it HAS previously been visited; but, the commander who visited it didn't scan it. I believe this was confirmed by Frontier Developments.

We don't know whether that means that the commander didn't perform a system scan at all, or that means that they scanned some stuff, but not Raxxla. However, you should be able to narrow your search (considerably) by unchecking the "not visited" box on the Galactic Map Route plotter.

When I enter a system in the bubble, I honk, and, then, sometimes look at the at the system map. I don't think I have really FSS scanned much stuff in the bubble, and I have certainly never counted up the number of bodies to see if it agrees with the number of bodies I was told were present by the bip-bip-boob scan. If enough commanders are like me, then it is entirely possible that Raxxla is actually in the bubble. It is possible that the first discoverers couldn't be bothered doing whatever was the way-back-then equivalent of our post-scanner-tools thing of chasing every single ice moon around the FSS.
 

Psyral

Psyral
Lakon Spaceway said:
The one thing we know about the system in which Raxxla is located is that it HAS previously been visited; but, the commander who visited it didn't scan it. I believe this was confirmed by Frontier Developments. ...
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I am not sure that is true. (Though, it could be). I have heard the above statement before, many times, BUT I have also heard that there is no reference or link or anything that validates that statement. Do you happen to have anything official that validates that?
 

The Golden Knight

The Golden Knight
My only advice, which should hopefully go without saying: if it's a planet that's been mapped by another player, you can ignore that. That also applies to exploration in general: save on redundant work, y'know.

And with so many years of the game having officially launched, I felt it's safe to assume that every single planet in the entire "Bubble" has been probed thoroughly by at least nine different novice players.
 

Havvk

Havvk
TravisMcNair said:
I, Commander Travis McNair have decided to search for Raxxla. Not by more conventional means of research and logical thought, but instead a more simple minded approach. From this day forward until Raxxla is discovered, I, Commander Travis McNair will be searching for Raxxla one system at a time. No particular order, and no thought put into my chosen locations. I will keep this thread updated periodically with my location and, God willing, any notable discoveries rather related to Raxxla not. I shall not be returning to the bubble or any other inhabited space unless by necessity until i am either dead, heaven forbid, or Raxxla is discovered.
As well as being an announcement of my journey, this is also an invitation to join.
o7
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Raxxla is within the bubble, you'll never find it outside.
 

Psyral

Psyral
Havvk said:
Raxxla is within the bubble, you'll never find it outside.
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Why do people keep saying this? Why does it have to been in the bubble?
I can agree that any clues that point to it would most likely need to be since Ryder was killed after finding a lead that could point to Raxxla in novelette, The Dark Wheel. But he never found it before he was killed.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
Psyral said:
Why do people keep saying this? Why does it have to been in the bubble?
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Simple logic, mate.

  • Rumours of Raxxla were around hundreds of years ago, going all the way back almost to the dawn of the interstellar age.
  • Those early hyperdrive ships and slower-than-light generation ships simply didn't have the range to fly much farther than the current radius of the bubble (about 200 LY from Sol).
  • Therefore, if one of those old, slow, pokey hyperdrive or gen-ship explorers were the first to find Raxxla way back then (and thus spawn the rumours), then Raxxla must, by extension, be somewhere in the Bubble.
Edit to add: otherwise, Raxxla ends up being merely another El Dorado, a fabled, mythical city of gold that's always "just over the next hill", no matter how many hills you go over.
 
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Psyral

Psyral
But have any of them found Raxxla? There have been player initiatives to scan every system in the bubble. None have found a planet called Raxxla. Is it even a planet?

I am more of the opinion that clue to Raxxla is within the bubble, hence the source of the rumors. It could have been the lost alien relic found on Mars was the source of the Raxxla rumors. That does not necessarily mean Raxxla is in the bubble.
 
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