The Quest To Find Raxxla

alexzk

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clavain said:
Is that a dot dash I see in their latest social media (an A)? Are we going to get one letter a day now for ten days?
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Crap. Clicked that link and browser hang :D while carrier was jumping. Don't do that :D
All those "medias" are draining CPU / GPU more then Elite itself.

My i7 is not fast enough to read facebook :D
 
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Rochester

Rochester
clavain said:
Is that a dot dash I see in their latest social media (an A)? Are we going to get one letter a day now for ten days?
https://www.facebook.com/274252200563/posts/10164821478405564
Source: https://www.facebook.com/274252200563/posts/10164821478405564/?substory_index=0
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On first assessment there doesn’t seem to be anything here that looks ‘super weird’, but I’m only using basic filters and colour sliders on an IPhone.

There is however a full and very clear skybox image behind all of the front layer, it’s very clear and detailed I can even distinguish dust clouds and star colours, does it mean something? who knows.

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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
clavain said:
That makes sense. In my travels the areas where it seemed to match most closely from spinward were the distant views from the Orion Dark Region, which isn't that far from Cone Nebula, for varying definitions of far. I'm just a couple of years behind the times and wanted to check it out myself (plus somewhere I have an image of the Pleiades from a video that looked very similar also, so still hanging on to the remote chance of that theory).

Did you or anyone else manage to get into NGC 2264 or Cone Nebula before they were locked down to check the views?
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Galmap isn't locked down ;)

I've spent quite a bit of time in the past trying to find a direction from which the view of BL provides a match for the Barnacle logo. No joy at the time, but I'd still suggest others give it a try.

AFAIK, no conclusive match for the Barnacle logo has ever been made. There's been quite a few 'it's X' type claims, but never personally seen one that's stood up to close examination.

Something worth considering though is that there is nothing to say that the logo is based on the same EM spectrum range that we see.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
TrillClinton said:
Fernweh basically means to yearn for the far. It's the of opposite of homesick (Heimweh in german).


In my opinion the toast is still one of the most solid puzzles there are in regard to tdw or raxxla so excuse my tinfoil as i dive in a little :)

My translation from german to english (am native german):

"To the Jewel, that shines at the forehead of the mother of all galaxies! To the whispers in the blackness of space, the siren in the deepest nothing! To the parents grief, the lovers woe (lament works too) and yearning of every vagabond! To Raxxla!"

The main differences being:

They chose to write forehead (Stirn) instead of brow (Braue), but seeing it as calling it the middle or the focal point of something/place gets across either way, more visually speaking (trying to find the eyes) it would place the supposed jewel kind of differently. Interesting fact, "Gestirn", is a german word for light emitting or reflecting bodies in space.
"Stirn" can also mean a front facing part.
Mother of all galaxies seems to be the implication of the original english text too imo, it just gets specificly pointed out in german, don't know why (could just as easily been "Mutter der Galaxien" which would have been a perfect fit).
Also, the german text does not only refer to A "whisperer" but general whispers, but refering to the siren in the same sentence just like the original, makes the source of the whispers kind of singular again. "Schwärze" could be translated to darkness but "blackness" is a much closer. Of course the darkness of space tends to be black so no big news here but still a wierd choice of words.
The deepest nothing is also a wierd choice as Quoted OP stated The Void is also called the Void in the german translation of the game, meaning the void mentioned in the toast could be a entirely different place to the one on the map.
Rover apparently is just an older word for vagabond so yeah, "Vagabund" is just Vagabond.

The difference in wording and word count could mean one of three things:
1. the hints the toast gives are even more vague than we tought OR just partially with more specific information troughout different translations
2. there is a specific sequence or phrasing to be found in the toast, respective of the languages structure and/or poetic customs, so the changes are on purpose
3. bad translation

if the first option is believable it would mean that:
-the placement of the "jewel" is more of a central object than lying between two "eyes"
-the mother of all galaxies is not Cassiopeia, but maybe something either more cosmological or an even more important name giving entity
-witchspace not being mentiones could mean either its not important or the english translation has the next piece of info needed taht identifies the blackness as witchspace
-the void in the toast is not the void we know

Option two reeks of spacemadness so i stay away from that until my options run out.

of course bad translation is the easiest option, but the toast itself is not arkwardly worded at all, it all fits well, just some facts are off, so either the translator had some freedoms in translating the toast (which would be suspicious if considered a hint), or it was just not that important to get right (which would atleast exclude the toast as a piece of the puzzle).

I picked this toast apart time and time again, in german and english alike, thought id chime in to clear the german translation.

Happy Hunting o7
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Cosmically speaking the mother of all galaxies is the Big Bang. But can’t see how that could be relevant as a clue
 

clavain

clavain
So, this is not the image I was going to use to illustrate my Thargoid ship design theory, but it illustrates that point plus what I was talking about with regard to the Milky Way often cutting across the view of Barnard's Loop et al (which I don't think happens when you look at it in the Galaxy Map BTW), as well as one or both of the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds also being very close and in view. Neither of those, nor the Milky Way, appear in the Thargoid logos I believe, so if it does represent BL the viewing point needs to be further away - this only seems to happen once you are at a certain distance, and is less likely the further away you are, so the Cone Nebula hypothesis may still hold.

https://imgur.com/a/pgL67TS
Source: https://imgur.com/a/pgL67TS


Note the small "standard" Nebula to the top right. The darker central core is very similar in shape to the Thargoid flower ships. I had another image where this or another similar nebula were backlit by the Milky Way, and in the centre of Barnard's Loop, and all that was visible because of that lighting was a very ethereal central core, and it took me quite some time to figure out exactly what I was looking at and for a second thought an Interceptor was in front of me. Was very cool, will find that image and post it here also. Just more supporting evidence perhaps for the links between Thargoids and nebulae generally.
 

clavain

clavain
Here is the one of the small nebula being backlit (centre of screen - this might be the Flame Nebula, or Witch Head perhaps, not certain):
https://imgur.com/BkqE5Ev
Source: https://imgur.com/BkqE5Ev


I also find the actual views of the BL area are much more complex when flying than when viewed in the Galaxy Map. Here is one from our Orion Dark Region way, and you can see the Milky Way is still present, among other objects:
https://imgur.com/VtLi0W7
Source: https://imgur.com/VtLi0W7


And even further out, back near NGC 2264/Cone Nebula, the Milky Way is still very close and prominent:
https://imgur.com/8DzoFO9
Source: https://imgur.com/8DzoFO9
And look at those really bright stars to the left, wonder what they might be?
 
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