The Quest To Find Raxxla

[Ughkoff]

How long have you sat and listened to the beacon for?

1 hour. when there was an event it broadcast every 10 or 20 minutes if my memory is correct. An interesting event happened in the Odyssey mode. Two unauthorized signals were displayed on Lava 2, but it is still forbidden to land there

 

[Thatchinho]

1 hour. when there was an event it broadcast every 10 or 20 minutes if my memory is correct

Ah, fair enough. I’ve just checked and that UCB should broadcast hourly, at 10 past the hour. It’d be worth double checking at the next scheduled time, and if it’s still not broadcasting then it may well be bugged.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Haven’t checked lately, but I would be surpriced If they are gone.
You don’t have to be in the system to check. If you have the sysmap, they show up.

OK, just checked. Ran up EDO and looked in both Star of India and Alpha Centauri system maps. Nothing showed, even after 20 minutes of watching the SOI system map, but then the star wasnt very active wrt CME..

For interest of anyone who didnt check the previous references here is SOI in Horizons from 28/5/2020 showing the anomaly to the left of the star.

and here are three pics of it taken just now, also in Horizons. The first two show how it grows with time, and the last shows the star shifted vertically, but the anomaly hasnt shifted as much, while the star background doesnt move, demonstrating they are all in different graphical layers.

and here's a pic of the one (just above the mouse pointer) in alpha cent in Horizons taken just now. Had to brighten them all to make the anomaly show in the pics.

Edit: the fact that these “anomalies” didnt seem to appear in EDO, and their graphical behaviour, reinforces my belief that they are from some software bug related to the way the CME animation operatesin Horizons!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

You made me wonder something: were anomalies been introduced in same time as the codex entry of Raxxla or was it before/after ?
In the game market, there is something called "particles anomaly" that noone ever found a way to get them even with research limpet controller (whatever the anomaly type).
So i'm afraid if Raxxla is linked to anomalies, it could be just as broken as them (anomalies are broken since their beginning...).

No, Han_Zen and I called these things anomalies because ... they are!
What you are talking of is labelled "anomalies" (P-type and Q-type) in the codex and on the screen when you meet one in space but they are some type of energy-bsed lifeform I think (Michael Brookes seemed to be quite taken with the idea of energy-based lifeforms). They are a form of Notable Stellar Phenomena, but what we are talking about only exists (as far as we know) in the system map of some (many, but not all!) systems. I did try to track them down within their system after seeing them appear in the system map, but nothing was there, hence anomalous!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I'm near an unregistered beacon orbiting Lave 2. It seems... the beacons are broken/switched off, and nothing else is transmitting indeed, we need to somehow persuade the FD wizards to check if Raxxla is working, otherwise maybe we are trying in vain. And the meeting does not take place because some script does not work

In my signature I have a link to a spreadsheet of Listening Posts and UCB which I compiled from various sources as an aid to hunting various things. I update it when anyone reports something new that can be verified. They are listed alphabetically by system name so can provide a quick check if you come across an LP or UCB and wonder if it is new.
For Lave UCB I have broadcast time as 10mins past the hour.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

No luck with my recent escapades in interrogations. Last couple of missives got the run around. I believe I’m on their watch list, I may be getting a visit soon from the club.

Reported it (again!) as a bug for fun https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/49331#

be careful when you hear a knock at the door! we'll send you a birthday cake containing a file, and heavily laced with lavian brandy in case the file is no use against an energy barrier.

 

[marmaduke davus]

can i add my 2 cent? as an explorer thats been every region elite dangerous universe,cant stop visit all systems.the 4th letter tells me alot , need to be fuel scoop ,4th letter system has jy-f next letter important ,a is normally a brown dwarf or someting no fuel scooping from,b is usually a red dwarf, letter c is yellow or k usually,letter d is a white star normally can get neutrons on them f and g ,looking maybe giants or just rare

 

[Ughkoff]

In my signature I have a link to a spreadsheet of Listening Posts and UCB which I compiled from various sources as an aid to hunting various things. I update it when anyone reports something new that can be verified. They are listed alphabetically by system name so can provide a quick check if you come across an LP or UCB and wonder if it is new.
For Lave UCB I have broadcast time as 10mins past the hour.

I will definitely use this link, but most of the beacons have already been verified by me. In particular, the beacon near Lave 2, when we were just looking for a planet with fallen Thargoids. Then everything worked. Yesterday I decided to revisit our entire journey from the very beginning, including mentions of Ruxxla in the context of a story in a 1990 magazine. Arrived at the beacon, it is there, but does not transmit any signals for an hour (maybe the event just ended and it was turned off as unnecessary or bug)

 

[marmaduke davus]

part of my common sense area tells me its a permit area raxla will be found in,pay your membership

 

[Adel]

can i add my 2 cent? as an explorer thats been every region elite dangerous universe,cant stop visit all systems.the 4th letter tells me alot , need to be fuel scoop ,4th letter system has jy-f next letter important ,a is normally a brown dwarf or someting no fuel scooping from,b is usually a red dwarf, letter c is yellow or k usually,letter d is a white star normally can get neutrons on them f and g ,looking maybe giants or just rare

Nice tips

 

[marmaduke davus]

i cant rember how to put vids up,id show you one,it tells people of earth more resources in space than earth stop killing each other

 

[LumpTheNoLeggedDog]

Of course it can. It’s provided by the Pilots Federation.

If Frontier is lying that would end very bad for them. They would loose all of their honors and respect. Lying to players is not something they should take for granted.

 

[Rochester]

If you perceive Raxxla as being something ground breaking, and you are representative of a significant percentage of the player base, you might feel like FD have lied, but FD are still not beholden to us.

They have never (unless you hold AT to his statement) described it as something amazing. So they aren’t liers, Galnet isn’t 100% accurate either, it being in the control of a rather mysterious group and has in the past been interrupted by certain powers, DB has himself alluded to such.

The vast majority of hub-bub concerning Raxxla and these 1304 pages is fan projection. May I remind, we are still contained within the ‘lore & role play’ section.

I would still be happy if Raxxla was a million-gallon vat of custard, as much as if it were something awesome; yet I still suspect the puzzle will certainly be more rewarding than the prize; but I do like custard; custard is pretty awesome.

 

[LumpTheNoLeggedDog]

Interesting system I found. Not in the game. System is moving and is thought to pass by Sol systems every 100K years.
WISE 0720−0846 system (a.k.a Scholz's Star).

Scholz's Star - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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[LumpTheNoLeggedDog]

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I got there but it is not there. lol

 

[Thatchinho]

If Frontier is lying that would end very bad for them. They would loose all of their honors and respect. Lying to players is not something they should take for granted.

It wouldn’t be FD lying.

If, for example, President Hudson puts out a statement saying something and it turns out not to be entirely truthful, is that FD lying? No it isn’t. And the same principle applies.

 

[Robert Rockbite]

...
But I seem to remember a green star is impossible, though I can’t remember the physics behind that.
Mmm, unless perhaps it’s an Exotic star? Seem to remember quarks have Colour!
...

Actually, a "green" star could be a very common phenomenon - if we change the definition of green.
For example, if we use a spectrometer to analyze the light of Sol from the bottom of our atmosphere, we could define that the light is green, because that's where the peak in the spectrum is.
With this definition, the "colour of a star" could also be understood as the color of the peak of the theoretical black body radiation corresponding with its surface temperature (~ Wien's displacement law).

However, if we would follow the mundane convention that the colour of a star is defined by its visual appearance to the human eye, then the range of possible colours should be close to the black body locus, which, unfortunately, excludes green. For a more or less "normal" star to actually appear green, it would have to travel at a significant fraction of lightspeed. And it would have to be the star that is travelling, not us, because supercruise does not cause red-shift or blue-shift.

And in your picture above, the anomaly is not quite the same colour as the star either, but more blue.
So maybe it's a general feature of CMEs that their colour is tinted towards the peak of emission of the star.
However, this would mean that greenish CMEs should be quite a common phenomenon and therefore incompatible with the axiom that Raxxla is at least rare.

Maybe Raxxla is related to Glowing Green Giants? They are green and very rare.

Glowing Green Giants - The Definitive List

Most gas giants, even those which are classified as "life-bearing", are not particularly rare - about one system in ten seems to have a life-bearing one, with either "water-based life" or "ammonia-based life". They're so common that Universal Cartographics do not pay any premium for them at all...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[LumpTheNoLeggedDog]

It wouldn’t be FD lying.

If, for example, President Hudson puts out a statement saying something and it turns out not to be entirely truthful, is that FD lying? No it isn’t. And the same principle applies.

Where do you see that Pilots Federation wrote all of codex ?
Codex is basically in game manual about what is what. Codex is collection of facts and information.

 

[Thatchinho]

Where do you see that Pilots Federation wrote all of codex ?
Codex is basically in game manual about what is what. Codex is collection of facts and information.

No it isn’t. You access it via the ship’s menus. Ergo it is part of the game. It is not a manual. The out of game manual is the manual.

That’s just basic principles of the game.

But if you want confirmation, here you go:

Galnet News | Elite Dangerous Community Site

community.elitedangerous.com

 

[LumpTheNoLeggedDog]

No it isn’t. You access it via the ship’s menus. Ergo it is part of the game. It is not a manual. The out of game manual is the manual.

That’s just basic principles of the game.

But if you want confirmation, here you go:

Galnet News | Elite Dangerous Community Site

community.elitedangerous.com

If it is a lie it doesn't really matter how you will cover it up. Still a lie.