Relevant Facts (not tinfoil) are all going in the Formidine Spreadsheet. New section "Drews Clews"
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There's these three drewclues that might be worth keeping in mind
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Dielos
Hi. I've been looking for Raxxla for some time now. I new about this thread, but didn't really follow it as it seems that the only hint being followed was those missions in the OP, which you can only get on Elite.
As I believe FD wouldn't have placed something in the game and then locked it to a select few, I started looking at other approaches, which by the way all failed (or are yet inconclusive). I'll post them here just in case someone can finally kill my theories and I can rest in peace, help them move them forward, or at least give another approach and discussion to this search...
"A planet older than the Galaxy itself" - With this sentence in my head (found here), I started searching Wikipedia and other astronomical sources for the oldest stars in our galaxy. I was surprised that there are a few known stars that are actually almost as old as the universe itself inside our own galaxy! So that was it, one of them could be it... Here came the first failure. Most of these stars were actually cataloged in 2014/2015, so it was very probable that they wouldn't be in the game. I did find 2 though, but on arriving there, their ages didn't correspond with real data, and thus were probably procedural. Dead end here, although I might not have found them all...
"Parents tell their offspring the story of a ghost planet, beyond witchspace, lost in the void" - Second sentence burnt into my brain... (found again on the same link as before). Here I get to understand that Raxxla might be a rogue planet, maybe without a sun, and thus unreachable through normal means. This didn't get me to any system, but it brought me to think that Raxxla might not be a simple planet that we will find happily sitting there in the system map for us to scan so easy. My guess here is that it might be discover-able in a way similar to the ancient probes found in Sol, by flying out there and they'd pop up at some point. This would make the search very difficult, and would force to find first the correct system from which to search, and as thus I see this as improbable.
Researching on rogue planets, I did see that those that have been discovered have been cataloged initially as "Sub-brown dwarfs", and I'm in the process of studying them now better and might follow now this approach. Although with the utter mind blowing success I had with the elder stars, this might just as well prove to be another loss of time
The other thing I tried once I was bored of chasing old stars and from the solitude beyond the frontier was to re-read "The Dark Wheel", which is in fact considered official lore (at least I think so). There isn't much on Raxxla there, apart from it being the main drive of the main character and his father. So I set off to follow the steps of Alex Ryder. I ignored Leesti and Lave, and jumped directly to Tionisla. In the book, there is a graveyard here between the planet and the sun. Now, I didn't expect to find the graveyard here, but I did search the asteroid fields between planet and star for something "different"... I tried as well to find Rafe's ship, but no dice.
I continued to follow Alex Ryder's steps until I hit a permit system, which I hadn't access to. Investigating a bit, I found out that others had tried to get access to this system, but even with a permit in hand, the system remained locked by the dev's for future content probably. I finally gave up on this approach as well...
And now, I just found out of the mysterious Lady Kahina forum thread, which I'm going to follow closely.
I have really been very interested in Raxxla since I found about it, but at the moment the elusive leads are getting a bit frustrating. I just really hope that it's not locked only to Elite commanders, as that would be a great bummer. I'm not that far from Elite myself in exploration, but even so, it's still a brutal grind to get there.
If anybody has any further ideas on how to proceed with the search, I'm more than willing to keep on it and to help with any attempt. I hope as well that my points and failed tries above mentioned can maybe help start other discussions and other means of approach that are not only locked to Elite commanders.
I'm a member of the Children of Raxxla, but there have been few attempts to search for Raxxla there at the moment.
Mind you, "Raxxla - The definitive guide" by Drew Wagar to which I link in this post is not considered official lore (or at least that I know of). But as there is not much on the topic, they might have very well adapted parts of it, but is just speculation...
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I would say you were doing all the right things, Commander.
Cheers,
Drew.
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Tobias Frost May 12, 2015
I don’t suppose the Lady is also a dancer?
She freed and floated on the air her arms
Above dim veils that hid her bosom’s charms…
The veils fell round her like thin coiling mists
Shot through by topaz suns and amethysts.
Perhaps her dance is more of a political one…
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Drew Wagar May 12, 2015
Luko makes the same connection in Chapter 10.
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All the of Galnet articles about Lady Kahina were written by me. She has been on a series of exploration trips in the last nine months or so, but they may come to an end before long, so keep an eye out for her return. That may provide further insight.
In terms of the Rift itself, do bear in mind that this story was finalised in the gamma phase of the game. As I mentioned before, it does not require Horizons and you do not need to have read my book to take part (Though reading the story may help with the immersion, the clues from the book are all available on-line in these forums now).
From what I can see though, some basic assumptions about the characters involved have been made, which you may wish to reconsider. Remember I am primarily a 'character' writer, I like twists and misdirection.
Right on, Commanders.
Drew.
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How exactly does find the Voyager probe in Sol work? Can you fly off into deep space in any direction and eventually it shows up? A detailed scan of a system may not be enough, something could be hidden in a systems deep space. Then the possibility of dark systems and what to do about them should they exist. Maybe worth keeping in mind.
A separate bit of puzzlement when Drew mentions trenches of story line having to be ditched and re-worked. It seems over the past year in order to keep pace with FD's hidden timeline for things with the UA's, barnacle and meta-alloys they seem to have had to keep moving the goal posts to be easier. Perhaps the original story line was tied together and the UA's were originally meant to be far out by the Rift and they changed that and brought the story close to the bubble to be easier and more engaging for more of the players. The story line for Kahina vanishing and the UA's being found seems about the same time.
Now engineers delayed from spring to summer, perhaps the current Formidine buzz is just to keep us occupied until then and they drop new clues as Drew suggests in May and then engineers in June to be followed by another one or something else in fall? Seems to be their pattern so far.
Hum, the mind wobbles.
Thanks to the OP. Rep+1
