The Quest To Find Raxxla
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According to a tourist beacon “Astrogator Extreme holidays carry the image of the legendary explorer Augustus Brenquith” - is this actually in-game? i dont remember ever seeing a tourist mission with that image!
In my language ROTA means , path ,route , every 7/8 year old here knows the word....cool analogy
exam. in my gps ill set my "rota"
Thanks
O7 Cmdrs, following my meandering around a fresh Cmdr profile, as you may have followed it inspired me to throw a few fresh questions at FD about in game mechanisms and how things are intended to work (see Polaris permits).
Below is a confirmation that the ‘old’ Dark Wheel missions (see page 1) are no longer in game.
Of course this is not confirmation of any alternatives, just that those missions are no longer in game. Make of it what you will.
Below is a confirmation that the ‘old’ Dark Wheel missions (see page 1) are no longer in game.
Of course this is not confirmation of any alternatives, just that those missions are no longer in game. Make of it what you will.
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Indeed! 
I keep a pile of salt to pinch over such claims
It’s running low of late...
I keep a pile of salt to pinch over such claims
It’s running low of late...
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We always seem to have theories that end up having a already discovered system as possible location for Raxxla. EDSM gives you howmuch a system is scanned and all of those are always 100% scanned. I don't think they could be hiding something there. I think if Raxxla were to be ingame that it wouldn't be in a system that's already fully scanned on EDSM. We should either look at systems that aren't fully scanned on EDSM or not scanned for EDSM. The reason why I refer to EDSM is because there are systems that are discovered in game but not fully scanned for EDSM. Which means they still could be hiding something. But big systems like Delphi or Merope are very unlikely to still have unscanned things.
According to Mr Wagar that seems not logical. When Raxxla was first mentioned it Achenar was not even settled. So it has to be in 200ly from sol(ca 26000 stars) Mostlikely in an unhinabited system or a planet far out from it suns(futher than discovery scanner alows) or its not visible on HUD scope inside the ship.
Exactly. Until we know WHAT it is (DB quote!), and therefore how to recognise it when we find it, I will continue to follow the game lore which suggests it is close to Sol.
This is what puzzles me about the Great Raxxla Potato Hunt- they have visited a lot of systems centred on Sol, but how would they recognise if they did find it?
I suspect Raxxla can only be accessed via the Omphalos Rift, which the codex indicates is some form of tunnel.
So Raxxla likely is only instantiated when you find and enter the Omphalos tunnel. Presumably a tunnel would not show on fss scan, and may even be invisible. “Place that is not a place”?
This is what puzzles me about the Great Raxxla Potato Hunt- they have visited a lot of systems centred on Sol, but how would they recognise if they did find it?
I suspect Raxxla can only be accessed via the Omphalos Rift, which the codex indicates is some form of tunnel.
So Raxxla likely is only instantiated when you find and enter the Omphalos tunnel. Presumably a tunnel would not show on fss scan, and may even be invisible. “Place that is not a place”?
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Once again, you dont need to see/have/find Raxxla to know of its existence. It can be known from 3rd party info such as an alien artefact or communicated by aliens etc. So you can't assume just because the 1st mention is early that its in Sol and surroundings.
Oh and the FSS can see to infinity..
Well, not had confirmation that anyone has decoded Thargoidian. Ram Tah has said nothing about Raxxla from Guardian decyphers. An alien artefact is exactly that, alien, so likely to convey little meaning other than that aliens had been there to drop it.
But there is one strange thing that I’d like answered-a tourist beacon tells us of Augustus Brenquith’s solitary search for new worlds and that he had found Ackwada since an ancient message capsule was recovered from outside the orbit of Jupiter with his data crystal that told us so. SO how did that data crystal get to Jupiter? Is there perhaps a wormhole there?
And if the fss could detect everything then we’d have found TDW station AND Raxxla by now.
P.S. and I seem to remember at least one megaship in an asteroid belt that it recently failed to find!
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It can't detect comets.And if the fss could detect everything then we’d have found TDW station AND Raxxla by now.
Has anyone looked in Sol for comets? Wouldnt be surprised if Raxxla was Halley’s comet!
Might explain why they never got around to implementing graphics for comets?
Might explain why they never got around to implementing graphics for comets?
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Ad comets: look for something like this: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-drop-into-normal-space-close-to-them.350586/
I didn't mean literally everything is found by FSS, but bodies and signal sources are found up to infinite radius within a system, unlike the old discovery scanner that had limited range. So if a system is honked these days, then all bodies and signals are shown. It cant show things that only exist within an instance such as the recent hidden megaship, and comets don't really exist as bodies in game even if things can orbit their non-existency (which is weird..)Well, not had confirmation that anyone has decoded Thargoidian. Ram Tah has said nothing about Raxxla from Guardian decyphers. An alien artefact is exactly that, alien, so likely to convey little meaning other than that aliens had been there to drop it.
But there is one strange thing that I’d like answered-a tourist beacon tells us of Augustus Brenquith’s solitary search for new worlds and that he had found Ackwada since an ancient message capsule was recovered from outside the orbit of Jupiter with his data crystal that told us so. SO how did that data crystal get to Jupiter? Is there perhaps a wormhole there?
And if the fss could detect everything then we’d have found TDW station AND Raxxla by now.
P.S. and I seem to remember at least one megaship in an asteroid belt that it recently failed to find!
The crystals found near Jupiter were sent by a remote probe as far as I recall, so no wormholes required. All old tech sub-light-speed travel, which limits the total range. So from Ackwada, >158 yrs to get the data if it goes at c..
The date of discovery can be calculated as 39 years after Rockforth was founded on Ackwada - 2673. So 2712 - so well after 2296 when Art Tornquist was chiding Cora. No data about when Berenquith was exploring that I can find, so cant say when he set off. Even at 0.5c, the dispatch of the crystal is well after 2296.
Beacon: Ackwada Discovery [Ackwada]
The official discovery of this system and its habitable planet is nowadays is credited to Augustus Brenquith, although the Rockforth Corporation claim the land deeds and development rights to the system. Thirty nine years after the Corporation declared the system its own; an ancient message capsule (a common way for sending messages at the time) was recovered from outside the orbit of Jupiter in the Sol system.
The discovery aroused considerable interest amongst archeologists on Earth at the time while the capsule was in transit to the New Delhi University there was heated debate as to whether the artefact should be opened or not. When the capsule was studied, the seal was seen to be broken, so the matter was resolved. Inside the capsule was a message crystal with the log of the second five years of Augustus Brenquith's solitary search for new worlds, his 'glittering lagacy', included in the list of planetary systems that he had stumbled upon was that of Ackwada.
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Beacon: Rockforth Corporation Founding [Ackwada]
The Rockforth Corporation was founded on Ackwada by the Rockforth Family in 2673, the family that first settled the world.
The Rockforth Corporation began by running Ackwada earning significant foreign exchange from tourism and 'genuine ground-grown food' which it sold far and wide, making very significant revenues. It has since grown into a powerful interstellar corporation, still specialising in agriculture and tourism, with the corporation running giant corporate farms on habitable worlds across especially Federal human space. It has also become quite acquisitive, buying up many of its client companies.
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Thx a lot! I never thought comets could exist in game
We all know the saying: "Place that isn't a place, door that is also the key." The Main Menu isn't a place, you could be almost outside the Galaxy, no where near a station, and the main menu still shows you docked. The main menu is a door to the world of ED, and it is the key to open that door as well. So either the main menu is raxxla, or there are hints about where raxxla is. Either of those, or I am completely off.
The “ glittering legacy” makes me think of the Tholmathon “crystal record”. I also like the fact that the seal was broken and one would assume the first volume of his discoveries… stolen
Maybe a recreation of his route is in order…
edit…. Hmmm if this was his second 5 years then it took him at most 10 years to get to Akwanda … assuming he left from earth… he was traveling at least at eight times FTL….
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Hmmm, going down that line of thinking, maybe the "personal journey" is to close the game, and Raxxla is in the real world - or is the real world!
Another option, "the place that isn't a place" is the insides of our ships. Which would make "the door" space-legs with ship interiors, and hence unreachable....