I feel it is necessary for me to begin to share my research over the past month for the mysterious Raxxla. I can't say I have 'the' answer yet but I feel I am getting really close. I have been sharing my findings with Canonn Science but Aluminum has become a rare element over the last few months. I may have talked about it too much, and let's be honest most people are tired of talking about Raxxla. Thus, If you lack the tin foil I'd request you'd go pick some up before reading the rest of this and don't try the Ignosis ;it is fresh out.
Raxxla, to most, does not exist: This is the mindset of people now. No one trusts what Braben or Drew say in regards to Raxxla, after all Raxxla 'is' proposed as a myth. Unfortunately I don't let puzzles go, it is part of my mindset, I am dug in like a tick . My foil stays on until 'Raxxla' leads somewhere.
Research:
I am willing to bet everyone of you have at one point typed 'Raxxla' into the star map. You may have even spent a few hours searching for it, with so many players you'd expect Raxxla to have been found already. I am no different, I have at least 100hrs worth of Raxxla gameplay. My latest quest has had me scouring 'A' type 'Rho' Supergiants (Raxxla has an 'A' and Rho is the Greek 'R'), which eventually dead ended at Rho Leonis which is impossible to reach.
It was at this point that I realized I am missing something important. FDev is far to clever and prideful to let the biggest Elite Dangerous mystery be found with a fishing expedition or at far reaches of the Galaxy. The mystery has to be closer to home and it has to be right under our nose the entire time. Maybe we will never truly find where Raxxla is, maybe we already have and just don't know it. Maybe hundreds of thousands of players have just flown right by it.
I have set down the controller and picked up the text books. The extent of the last few weeks of my research has been to plug various names I come across into the Star map and seeing if they return anything then checking out the database. At some point I decided to think of Raxxla as a myth and how myths evolve over time. If Raxxla was indeed a real place at one point it may have been textually/grammatically mutated from it's original form, after all there arent very many references to the word in modern history.
Raxxla is loosely related to the Gauls and our friend Julius' conquest against them. The word Gaul was obtained through a 'visual' translation of the word Gallie (Γαλλία), which over time may have evolved to 'raxxla'. I found a reference to Caesar calling the Gauls Faxxoi/Γαλλία because of the way in which they bathed saying they bathed liked 'barbarians'. Fortunately for me, unlike Raxxla, Γαλλία exists very frequently in modern text.
It wasn't until last night that I was browsing through some old Astronomy books that I came across a reference to Γαλλία. It comes in the form of 148 Gallia. Gallia is a massive asteroid in the asteroid belt within the Sol system. I began to do some investigation through threads I have found that the Asteroid belt in the Sol System is missing in game. I mean, the Asteroids are there in the system map but a nav marker doesn't appear in game.
I believe 148 Gallia is the closest I can get to Raxxla in my investigation. If we can locate it mathematically we might be able to find it in game.
My logical progression towards it being Raxxla:
The Sol system is the perfect place to hide Raxxla, right under our noses. lt was also the first System developed by FD. This means it has been in the game the entire time. It is locked behind an 'obtainable' permit and none need boosted FSDs or secret ingame mechanics to get there. It is indeed well hidden and will require a major mathematical expedition to get to, after all we need to fast forward it's orbit to 3303. There are various other reasons why it would be in a Fed controlled system and not appear on your nav panel but I won't spoil any books. Ask Dj_Truthsayer he has it all if you want spoilers.
Lastly, the preceding paragraph is entirely speculation: Raxxla in game at one point may have been a real place. It might have existed in lore before the Earth did. This might be the reason we have trouble finding it. Raxxla does exist, it's just no longer in it's planetary form anymore. It may have been that humans in game are the relics of an alien race that existed in Sol long before we did. Maybe 148 Γαλλία is a piece of that world, and maybe a portal survived Raxxla's destruction and is free floating in the Sol System on a gigantic asteroid hidden in the 'invisible' asteroid belt. Who knows
148 Gallia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/148_Gallia
Raxxla, to most, does not exist: This is the mindset of people now. No one trusts what Braben or Drew say in regards to Raxxla, after all Raxxla 'is' proposed as a myth. Unfortunately I don't let puzzles go, it is part of my mindset, I am dug in like a tick . My foil stays on until 'Raxxla' leads somewhere.
Research:
I am willing to bet everyone of you have at one point typed 'Raxxla' into the star map. You may have even spent a few hours searching for it, with so many players you'd expect Raxxla to have been found already. I am no different, I have at least 100hrs worth of Raxxla gameplay. My latest quest has had me scouring 'A' type 'Rho' Supergiants (Raxxla has an 'A' and Rho is the Greek 'R'), which eventually dead ended at Rho Leonis which is impossible to reach.
It was at this point that I realized I am missing something important. FDev is far to clever and prideful to let the biggest Elite Dangerous mystery be found with a fishing expedition or at far reaches of the Galaxy. The mystery has to be closer to home and it has to be right under our nose the entire time. Maybe we will never truly find where Raxxla is, maybe we already have and just don't know it. Maybe hundreds of thousands of players have just flown right by it.
I have set down the controller and picked up the text books. The extent of the last few weeks of my research has been to plug various names I come across into the Star map and seeing if they return anything then checking out the database. At some point I decided to think of Raxxla as a myth and how myths evolve over time. If Raxxla was indeed a real place at one point it may have been textually/grammatically mutated from it's original form, after all there arent very many references to the word in modern history.
Raxxla is loosely related to the Gauls and our friend Julius' conquest against them. The word Gaul was obtained through a 'visual' translation of the word Gallie (Γαλλία), which over time may have evolved to 'raxxla'. I found a reference to Caesar calling the Gauls Faxxoi/Γαλλία because of the way in which they bathed saying they bathed liked 'barbarians'. Fortunately for me, unlike Raxxla, Γαλλία exists very frequently in modern text.
It wasn't until last night that I was browsing through some old Astronomy books that I came across a reference to Γαλλία. It comes in the form of 148 Gallia. Gallia is a massive asteroid in the asteroid belt within the Sol system. I began to do some investigation through threads I have found that the Asteroid belt in the Sol System is missing in game. I mean, the Asteroids are there in the system map but a nav marker doesn't appear in game.
I believe 148 Gallia is the closest I can get to Raxxla in my investigation. If we can locate it mathematically we might be able to find it in game.
My logical progression towards it being Raxxla:
The Sol system is the perfect place to hide Raxxla, right under our noses. lt was also the first System developed by FD. This means it has been in the game the entire time. It is locked behind an 'obtainable' permit and none need boosted FSDs or secret ingame mechanics to get there. It is indeed well hidden and will require a major mathematical expedition to get to, after all we need to fast forward it's orbit to 3303. There are various other reasons why it would be in a Fed controlled system and not appear on your nav panel but I won't spoil any books. Ask Dj_Truthsayer he has it all if you want spoilers.
Lastly, the preceding paragraph is entirely speculation: Raxxla in game at one point may have been a real place. It might have existed in lore before the Earth did. This might be the reason we have trouble finding it. Raxxla does exist, it's just no longer in it's planetary form anymore. It may have been that humans in game are the relics of an alien race that existed in Sol long before we did. Maybe 148 Γαλλία is a piece of that world, and maybe a portal survived Raxxla's destruction and is free floating in the Sol System on a gigantic asteroid hidden in the 'invisible' asteroid belt. Who knows
148 Gallia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/148_Gallia
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