Wasn’t Shakespeare written by Mary Sidney?

Sister of Philip is good enough, isn’t it?
Mary Sidney helped establish old Shakes, she was a patron of the arts, especially poets and alchemy, a very interesting lady.

Astrophil / Astrophel is a male prefix designated by Philip Sidney. I’ve long held ‘Princess Astrophel’ could be a role reversal of ‘Mary Sidney’….but this leads into many conspiracies around Rosicrucian and even Oak Island and a mountain of tin-foil crack-pottery, which I’ve touched on previously…
 
Nope!

Since there is no evidence to say what Raxxla is then how can you ignore anything if you are doing a concentrated search. Raxxla may be a planet, moon or star...it may also be a ship, station, comet, NPC, Guardian AI, Thargoid Queen, wormhole or asteroid (or asteroid station, or Guardian arkship disguised as an asteroid). If you are searching thoroughly then you need to check out everything, including all the asteroid belts and planetary rings!
Doesn't the original Robert Holdstock novella say it's a planet?
 
Ah, but there was also a suggestion by someone that the originator of this report most likely actually spotted a Children of Raxxla outpost (edit: ah, no it was rOmiLaYu suggesting it might have been a CoR staging post tourist beacon https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9848975) in his nav panel. Michael Brookes said Raxxla is very difficult to find, so I’m quite sceptical about it appearing in a nav panel by happenstance. I suspect from that MB utterance alone that asteroid belt/planetary ring is a likely location.

Not throwing stones, but while you’re doing a search then be aware that unless you’re thorough then you might actually miss the real thing!
There was also a suggestion in another thread (which I can't seem to find now) that Raxxla could be a rogue planet that moves from system to system... so perhaps it was seen in the area we are searching but has moved on now. I am also kind of skeptical of it appearing in the nav panel just from a basic d-scan honk, that doesn't really make sense when everything else in a system is unexplored at that point. Well I'm still looking anyway... the COL70 sector is intriguing, I have been checking every system one by one (Thanks @Aris Tarkus for helping) to see if they are actually ALL permit locked.
 
There was also a suggestion in another thread (which I can't seem to find now) that Raxxla could be a rogue planet that moves from system to system... so perhaps it was seen in the area we are searching but has moved on now. I am also kind of skeptical of it appearing in the nav panel just from a basic d-scan honk, that doesn't really make sense when everything else in a system is unexplored at that point. Well I'm still looking anyway... the COL70 sector is intriguing, I have been checking every system one by one (Thanks @Aris Tarkus for helping) to see if they are actually ALL permit locked.
So long as you’re enjoying the search, that’s the crucial thing!

Rogue planet has been a popular hypothesis for a long time with no real justification. In his Oolite fan fiction series Drew Wagar had Raxxla as a wandering planet, but he said several times that his stories have nothing to do with the game, & he doesn’t know what it is or where.

I lean against the wandering planet hypothesis because Michael Brookes said (see my quotes thread, url in signature) that “it’s not a random thing” & “anyone can find it and more than once”. Like most (all?) of his utterances there is plenty of scope for alternate interpretations, but I’m not convinced wandering planet fits. IMHO far more likely to be a “comet” (due to range restriction for dropping into the instance) or asteroid (since very few people check these out).

The other alternative is always Neptune’s moon Triton: why is it permit locked? Holdstock’s novella had Raxxla occupied and controlled by “powerful twisted men”.
 
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Ah, but there was also a suggestion by someone that the originator of this report most likely actually spotted a Children of Raxxla outpost
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Not throwing stones, but while you’re doing a search then be aware that unless you’re thorough then you might actually miss the real thing!
Yes I'd seen that comment which I thought was highly likely hence my expectation of drawing a blank. I held off a few days but eventually decided why not help out as nothing to lose and something to do.

I'm still of the mind that we don't know anything about it
what it is
where it is
whether it is locked away
overlooked (alternate name etc.)
requires specific triggers
only becomes known when in close proximity
a myth or legend with nothing to find
 
It did, but quite likely retconned by DB who said we don’t know what it is!
This old chestnut is still out there is it?

You'll have to go back and watch the video for the context but it is clear, from watching the video, that Delta Bravo is not saying that we do not know "what" "Raxxla" is. He is commenting on the process of discovering it or finding out about it...or something. I can't be bothered to rummage around and find it, but he is CLEARLY not saying that we, the players, do not know "what" Raxxla even is.
 
This old chestnut is still out there is it?

You'll have to go back and watch the video for the context but it is clear, from watching the video, that Delta Bravo is not saying that we do not know "what" "Raxxla" is. He is commenting on the process of discovering it or finding out about it...or something. I can't be bothered to rummage around and find it, but he is CLEARLY not saying that we, the players, do not know "what" Raxxla even is.
It’s subjective. At most I would advise not to take everything DB says as canon. Personally I hold that when DB stated ‘you don’t know what it is’ he is talking to Ed in relation to the order of the questions.

For context in RL I used to transcribe interviews under caution - verbatim.

Post in thread 'The Quest To Find Raxxla'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9747737
 
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It’s subjective. At most I would advise not to take everything DB says as canon. Personally I hold that when DB stated ‘you don’t know what it is’ he is talking to Ed in relation to the order of the questions.

Post in thread 'The Quest To Find Raxxla'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9747737
Thanks for the post and clarificiation...and yes, I completely agree with you. He is speaking to the nature of a Q&A session on a live stream and nothing more.

And apologies to @Jorki Rasalas , you've changed your avatar and I didn't recognize you. I'd probably have been less snippy had I noticed it was you, old bean!
 
Thanks for the post and clarificiation...and yes, I completely agree with you. He is speaking to the nature of a Q&A session on a live stream and nothing more.

And apologies to @Jorki Rasalas , you've changed your avatar and I didn't recognize you. I'd probably have been less snippy had I noticed it was you, old bean!
No problem me old male hen!
But I do disagree! I’ve watched that video many times and see no reason at all to change my mind. He was clearly talking about Raxxla and us not knowing what it is. To be clear he answered a question “does Raxxla exist?” And he showed some signs of amusement/chortling in that response, so I suspect the nature of Raxxla is not obvious. Yes, he was looking at Ed when he said those words, but that was because Ed was continuing to chat about the predictability of questions, but David was just continuing his thought train about the question about Raxxla.

See my collection of FD quotes! (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/fdev-ed-relevant-quotes-videos.553526/); It was
DB: Beyond - Chapter Two - Launch Livestream
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=13m43s&v=-f7Zx7WUwF0
@13:45, Q: “does Raxxla exist”? A: “There’s an interesting one! What a silly question, of course (i.e. of course it exists)....You don’t know what it is though! And he did stress the “what”; The italics are my own interpretation!

My change of avatar was due to a) need for a change and b) in relation to this post
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-9741141 😁

I may change it again soon, but it seems so apt at present!
And I havent logged on for over a month now...I’m getting old, and my hands hurt.

And in one of my old posts I pointed out that someone said it’s important to know what you know (awareness) and know what you don’t know (wisdom).
Its not knowing what you know (amnesia/senility) and not knowing what you don’t know (Questing/obfuscation/ politics) that gets you. 😁
 
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hello folks, first time poster, hoping someone can shed some light. I'll tell you what I remember, and what i've found, and maybe you can tell me what really happened. in case it matters, i'm a ps4 player. Last september, I'd been playing the game a month, I accepted my first VIP-explorer mission, and set off into the black with a tiny passenger cabin on a DBx. I think my jump range was about 25ly. My memory tells me that I flew ~6000ly towards Sag A* and passed through two nebulas, the second of which had crystals in lagrange points (notable stellar objects). To begin with I was scanning systems completely, even landing on planets and collecting mats. But as time went on, with hundreds of jumps to go and a time limit for completing the mission, i started skimping. One time, I honked a system and checked my nav panel and there was a symbol i didn't recognise. I think it was a dotted hexagon. It was described as an exploration opportunity in the pop-up. I had a quick check of the noob-guide, but couldn't see it listed. It was something like 300,000ls away, and i didn't have the time or patience to check it out, and carried on jumping. thats it. Some time later, i came across the raxxla entry in the codex, and thought the icon looked like the mystery icon from my nav panel. but by now, i had no record of where i'd been and didn't know how to find it again. i eventually noticed that INARA had a log of my jumps, but it had dropped off the bottom ito the summary for september - 588 systems visited, 15000 ly travelled, that sort of thing. Eventually i discovered galmap could show visited systems - except i couldn't find any systems listed as visited passing through nebulas within 6000ly. in any direction. Recently i figured out how codex discoveries worked, and started plotting my initial codex confirmations from last september - lo and behold, there were a few of the systems i visited, laid out in a very wobbley line towards sag a*. they were shown as unvisited, but if i clicked on them i could access the system map, showing i had indeed been there. but strangely, the line goes nowhere near any nebulas, its slightly to the right of the new colonia bridge. I'm now literally scrolling up and down the galmap clicking on stars to see if i have been there. i've found a few more points on the line. so far, it stretches out from bleia dryiae zj-c c2-3 to pyramoe dc-o c9-26. So, before i spend vastly more time (re?)visiting every system within 20ly of that line, any thoughts at all on what i may have found? because if its something completely normal i'm going to feel like an idiot. on the other hand, if you go there and find raxxla, please invite me along ...
 
hello folks, first time poster, hoping someone can shed some light. I'll tell you what I remember, and what i've found, and maybe you can tell me what really happened. in case it matters, i'm a ps4 player. Last september, I'd been playing the game a month, I accepted my first VIP-explorer mission, and set off into the black with a tiny passenger cabin on a DBx. I think my jump range was about 25ly. My memory tells me that I flew ~6000ly towards Sag A* and passed through two nebulas, the second of which had crystals in lagrange points (notable stellar objects). To begin with I was scanning systems completely, even landing on planets and collecting mats. But as time went on, with hundreds of jumps to go and a time limit for completing the mission, i started skimping. One time, I honked a system and checked my nav panel and there was a symbol i didn't recognise. I think it was a dotted hexagon. It was described as an exploration opportunity in the pop-up. I had a quick
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from memory, no ,. more like the outline of it. it was a nav panel icon, so thin lines. like the "unknown signal" square, but a hexagon instead.... so actually - like the middle of that icon. like an engineer symbol but flat side down rather than point down. of course, my memory could be wrong. i couldn't see the symbol in the hud list in the beginners guide at the time; and then later when i saw the raxxla symbol (which you've posted) it immediately reminded me of the unknown icon i'd seen when exploring
 
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There was also a suggestion in another thread (which I can't seem to find now) that Raxxla could be a rogue planet that moves from system to system... so perhaps it was seen in the area we are searching but has moved on now. I am also kind of skeptical of it appearing in the nav panel just from a basic d-scan honk, that doesn't really make sense when everything else in a system is unexplored at that point. Well I'm still looking anyway... the COL70 sector is intriguing, I have been checking every system one by one (Thanks @Aris Tarkus for helping) to see if they are actually ALL permit locked.
The rogue planet is a much discussed option. The question is how far could a rogue planet have moved?
Even a fast one would move at a fraction of light speed, one would think.
Realistically it may have switched system once, since 3300.
From the time it was first mentioned, it may have moved about the same distance as the generation ships, I think.
 
The rogue planet is a much discussed option. The question is how far could a rogue planet have moved?
Even a fast one would move at a fraction of light speed, one would think.
Realistically it may have switched system once, since 3300.
From the time it was first mentioned, it may have moved about the same distance as the generation ships, I think.
Ya my little pet theory if it is a “rouge planet” - it would move like a fleet carrier on a schedule and attach itself like a moon to existing planets within systems.
 
hello folks, first time poster, hoping someone can shed some light. I'll tell you what I remember, and what i've found, and maybe you can tell me what really happened. in case it matters, i'm a ps4 player. Last september, I'd been playing the game a month, I accepted my first VIP-explorer mission, and set off into the black with a tiny passenger cabin on a DBx. I think my jump range was about 25ly. My memory tells me that I flew ~6000ly towards Sag A* and passed through two nebulas, the second of which had crystals in lagrange points (notable stellar objects). To begin with I was scanning systems completely, even landing on planets and collecting mats. But as time went on, with hundreds of jumps to go and a time limit for completing the mission, i started skimping. One time, I honked a system and checked my nav panel and there was a symbol i didn't recognise. I think it was a dotted hexagon. It was described as an exploration opportunity in the pop-up. I had a quick check of the noob-guide, but couldn't see it listed. It was something like 300,000ls away, and i didn't have the time or patience to check it out, and carried on jumping. thats it. Some time later, i came across the raxxla entry in the codex, and thought the icon looked like the mystery icon from my nav panel. but by now, i had no record of where i'd been and didn't know how to find it again. i eventually noticed that INARA had a log of my jumps, but it had dropped off the bottom ito the summary for september - 588 systems visited, 15000 ly travelled, that sort of thing. Eventually i discovered galmap could show visited systems - except i couldn't find any systems listed as visited passing through nebulas within 6000ly. in any direction. Recently i figured out how codex discoveries worked, and started plotting my initial codex confirmations from last september - lo and behold, there were a few of the systems i visited, laid out in a very wobbley line towards sag a*. they were shown as unvisited, but if i clicked on them i could access the system map, showing i had indeed been there. but strangely, the line goes nowhere near any nebulas, its slightly to the right of the new colonia bridge. I'm now literally scrolling up and down the galmap clicking on stars to see if i have been there. i've found a few more points on the line. so far, it stretches out from bleia dryiae zj-c c2-3 to pyramoe dc-o c9-26. So, before i spend vastly more time (re?)visiting every system within 20ly of that line, any thoughts at all on what i may have found? because if its something completely normal i'm going to feel like an idiot. on the other hand, if you go there and find raxxla, please invite me along ...
Set course to visited systems only, sometimes it will plot systems lost in the blue marker list but visited
 
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