Epsion Orionis is enterable. Even has a nav beacon.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I have tried to replicate it in other systems, without success.
I’m still not convunced it’s a Sirius only thing though.
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I get same message all the time in V886 Centauri while doing some bounty hunting. I'm a regular there because it's close to Founder's World. So I guess it is not Sirius exclusive.
Anyone know the type of Hyperdrive during the events of The Dark Wheel book? From what I understand, it was the quirium drive? I may be wrong, it's a bit early for me to dive down into this rabbit hole before my coffee so I'm sure I'm gonna miss a thing or two. As we all are, I'm trying to find Cirag. In the dark wheel novel, they're in one place and suddenly they drop out of hyperspace before the planet.
Although sometime before, they're in ''South City''. It states that it's a section of a Coriolis station. So there's no exact way of locating their previous destination except that there is only one South City in Elite: Dangerous and it's in the system HURUKUNTAK as an outpost, there is only one Coriolis station in that system. (I'm sure that trail has been picked up sometime in the past few years). When Elite: Dangerous was made, I believe even Drew had to change the locations of a few places in a book I believe, since the positioning of the galaxy in the older games wasn't accurate. Nevertheless, i think Cirag is within the systems of the old worlds.
Although sometime before, they're in ''South City''. It states that it's a section of a Coriolis station. So there's no exact way of locating their previous destination except that there is only one South City in Elite: Dangerous and it's in the system HURUKUNTAK as an outpost, there is only one Coriolis station in that system. (I'm sure that trail has been picked up sometime in the past few years). When Elite: Dangerous was made, I believe even Drew had to change the locations of a few places in a book I believe, since the positioning of the galaxy in the older games wasn't accurate. Nevertheless, i think Cirag is within the systems of the old worlds.
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Ok, so just to clarify:
BL is primarily in the Trapezium sector which isn't Permit Locked. I've been through it before, and by coincidence was already more or less next to it, in V1615 Orionis, just outside the Orion Nebula.
Behind BL (as viewed from the Bubble) is the Horsehead Dark Region (and the Horsehead nebula within it) which is permit locked.
Col 70 is roughly a 1,000 ly diameter sphere which is permit locked, but with various permit locked regions within, and a path through. The primary route in on the bubble side is via the Witchhead sector. The route out on the far side is via BL, to the right hand side of the Horsehead (as viewed from the bubble). Once out past Horsehead Dark region it should be possible to plot a route to Epsilon Orionis.
On that route through Col 70, in terms of nebulae there's the Witchhead, Orion, Running Man, Flame, and Barnards Loop all of which are unlocked and then the Horsehead Nebula which is locked.
So in a sense the Horsehead Nebula is blocking the route in the way you're describing, although the Horsehead Dark Region is much bigger than the Nebula itself.
Hope that clears up what I mean a bit so far.
If time permits later, I'll see if I can head over to Epsilon Orionis, and see what the route's like.
Now in terms of Thargoid activity, Barnards Loop is 500-600 ly from the nearest known indications of Thargoid presence. That's further than Sol is from Merope, so I don't think any connection can be drawn between known Thargoid activity and BL. That's not to say there definitely isn't any relation between, and the Horsehead being locked certainly indicates something is going on, just that there's nothing actually known to be the Thargoid related in the vicinity as it stands.
In fairness, for it to be possible to do via finding a planet called Raxxla, then it would have to be known as such to UC / the PF / your ships Navcom. Which would kind of need the folks on Raxxla to have an arrangement in place with UC, etc. that the big flashing 'this is Raxxla' sign pops up if you scan the planet. Which would be a kind of odd thing for them to do.
Here's my effort to work out where Cirag should be from a fair way back in the thread:
Awesome. I'll try and replicate it. If we can prove that it isn't unique to Sirius then we can (almost) eliminate it as a possible clue.
Yes. Those drives were fueled by Quirium.
As far as "south city" ... my bet is that it was a reference to the internal geometry of the station and not to the name of the station itself ... however you still could be on to something. In South City Alex Ryder met a man named Patrick McGreavy who was deformed by parasites that he contracted on Dykstra's world. Maybe we could find Dykstra's World and from there gain clues to locate Cirag? A long shot ...
Please tell me if I am wrong: in ED game story line, for a planet to have any non procedural name, doesn't it need that the PF actually gives it this name ?
If so, how any unknown planet could appear with any name ? Raxxla will never appear as Raxxla, imho.
(Some time, I must learn to read all the posts before posting mine...ninja'd; I let this one here, too lazy to hexedit it . Out of rep, Thatchinho... (By the way..Thx Mod !)
Old age?
Space Madness??
The Club???
Ah, no it was Scytale!
I was first tempted to make Doc believe it was due to his addiction to that ingnominious Bourbon it is said he is so found of, but ...naaah...too much respect for him
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I was first tempted to make Doc believe it was due to his addiction to that ingnominious Bourbon it is said he is so found of, but ...naaah...too much respect for him
Bourbon? I'm more of a cheap beer/fine wine kinda guy. Okay, you got me. The wine is cheap too.
Hello fellow tinfoil-wearers! Have you seen the last three comments from November 4, 2017 on the Raxxla-page of the Elite-wiki? They were all made by the same person (according to the saved IP - that btw. belongs to an ISP only about 100 miles from Frev HQ) and provide some interesting info i haven‘t seen before.
Here are the 3 posts:
Especially the directions from Lave to Ben Ryders Gateway at a hidden system 1 jump away from Tionisla cought my interest. The second quote is also quite mysterious, as afaik the original Elite did not have Raxxla in game. I also did research on that „Micro Bit Computer Magazine“, but could not find any trace it ever existed.
What do you guys think? Is this already known info? A troll trying to mislead, ramblings of a madman or actual hints from someone involved with Fdev?
Here are the 3 posts:
Especially the directions from Lave to Ben Ryders Gateway at a hidden system 1 jump away from Tionisla cought my interest. The second quote is also quite mysterious, as afaik the original Elite did not have Raxxla in game. I also did research on that „Micro Bit Computer Magazine“, but could not find any trace it ever existed.
What do you guys think? Is this already known info? A troll trying to mislead, ramblings of a madman or actual hints from someone involved with Fdev?
Nothing exciting to report from Epsilon Orionis I'm afraid mate (other than it being quite a nice system). No nav beacon though.
The route wasn't bad, it's just the route plotter struggling when it would need to divert around a bit of a permit locked route.
Image of the route below if you're interested:
I think someone has posted on the Wiki after reading fan fiction.
It's definitely a troll. The game was implemented in kilobytes and has been pulled apart and folded back together so many times that if Raxxla were hiding in the code we'd know.
The game was written long before Holdstock was hired to write the manual and The Dark Wheel novella ... and we know that Raxxla was Holdstock's invention as it appears in The Alien World a few years prior.
Braben and Bell would have had to totally recode the game and exceed the limited resources of thec8 bit computer era. Anyone who played the original would quickly identify that the depth of gameplay described goes way beyond what Elite had to offer.
Also... Check out my link a few pages back to an old interview with David Braben where he confirmed that Raxxla did not exist in the original game.
There have been many unofficial ports and mods to the game over the years though. Quite possible someone shoehorned their own version of Raxxla in there ... it just wouldn't have any bearing on Raxxla in Elite Dangerous.
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yeah, there are definitely several things in those comments, that don‘t add up. probably indeed just a (quite entertaining) troll.
The place isn't totally uninteresting. Main star is an actinic blue. The orbiting black hole is fairly small at 8 solar masses so you can get within 26 Km from it's center. The system nearly has all jumponium except arsenic. Two of the landables are about 2700 diamater so searchable if you like and the third landable at 7G is a challenge.
https://imgur.com/a/bYGds
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You know: Its certainly creative Trolling. But.......... i'm just gonna head to Lave REAL QUICK. Just for fun anyway.