Well, today is my three score and ten. The preservation in alcohol approach seems to be working, I intend to pursue it with greater vigour today! 
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I think you are missing out on some of the pre-history of the DW squadron. It wasnt originally created by Scolio.
Possibly, as I wasnt interested in joining I didnt pay much attention. On Inara Scolio is detailed as the Squadron Commander & base as Tionisla; from the posts I read I assumed it was his initiative. Searching IRH for āsquadronā shows a mention by Scolio in #news announcing the formation of a DW squadron dated 11/7/22, but I thought it was older than that (Inara is showing squadron date as 912 days) as I joined the server because several people were very helpful in checking out the āgreen glowā observations (proven to be a graphics glitch) I spotted while asteroid hunting in Sol, and that was around December 2020 to Feb 2021. I thought the squadron idea was floated around then, but memory is hazy. I eventually got fed up with all the lore trolling and pareidolia B_S I was reading and dropped out of the server a while ago, until last week when I thought Iād check it out again.
Edit: @yelboc do you want to clarify the DW Squadron history for us?
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Oh, and while rereading some IRH posts I came across my post about the station ad showing an old station by Brewer orbiting above a planet, the ad says ālooking down on worlds since 3100ā. A station is expensive so would only be put in a system being colonised. By 3100 the colonised worlds were Sol, Tau Ceti, Delta Pavonis, Altair, Beta Hydri & Eotienses, and maybe Achenar & Arcturus.
Edit: mmm, canāt see anything that says when Tionisla was colonised, just that itās one of the old worlds...
Edit2: ah...the Old Worlds were established in the early 2400's. The first four colonies, Lave, Leesti, Diso, and Zaonce, were established between 2412 and 2422. They established trade routes and created their own colonies in Reorte, Riedquat, Tionisla, and Orerve.
Edit3: that Brewer station ad seems to be from pre-release artwork. Might be the basis for TDW station?
Edit: mmm, canāt see anything that says when Tionisla was colonised, just that itās one of the old worlds...
Edit2: ah...the Old Worlds were established in the early 2400's. The first four colonies, Lave, Leesti, Diso, and Zaonce, were established between 2412 and 2422. They established trade routes and created their own colonies in Reorte, Riedquat, Tionisla, and Orerve.
Edit3: that Brewer station ad seems to be from pre-release artwork. Might be the basis for TDW station?
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I need to re-evaluate my Yggdrasil sphere of influence, I unintentionally omitted all of those systems, probably due to a mental block against pre-Dangerous lore (thatās bias for you sometimes itās subconscious).
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Never the less, including these old systems may identify something, so Iāll update the Yggdrasil analysis.
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Old worlds also included Quator, Orrere (base of The Code pirate group), Uszaa.
From tourist beacon Lave colonised- Colonial Deep Space Cruisers Herschel and Oberon reached the system then designated L-453 in 2412. Oberon crops up regularly wrt TDW lore..a hint??
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Well just that Scolio was given the squadron by the originator, and the incidents referred to above happened before it was handed over.Possibly, as I wasnt interested in joining I didnt pay much attention. On Inara Scolio is detailed as the Squadron Commander & base as Tionisla; from the posts I read I assumed it was his initiative. Searching IRH for āsquadronā shows a mention by Scolio in #news announcing the formation of a DW squadron dated 11/7/22, but I thought it was older than that (Inara is showing squadron date as 912 days) as I joined the server because several people were very helpful in checking out the āgreen glowā observations (proven to be a graphics glitch) I spotted while asteroid hunting in Sol, and that was around December 2020 to Feb 2021. I thought the squadron idea was floated around then, but memory is hazy. I eventually got fed up with all the lore trolling and pareidolia B_S I was reading and dropped out of the server a while ago, until last week when I thought Iād check it out again.
Edit: @yelboc do you want to clarify the DW Squadron history for us?
Well, today is my three score and ten. The preservation in alcohol approach seems to be working, I intend to pursue it with greater vigour today!
Well, if the originator of the DW squadron was at the time an employee/CEO of FDev then it could have been a meaningful invitation. Otherwise itās not....
Even if it was a FDev group, I feel it still is a red herring. Regardless of who runs it, it still is a player squadron and anyone in it most likely would be spreadimg false information especially as I don't believe FDev would be willing to give something more the what bragging rights (go down in history as person to discover..)) could give.
To throw a number... 100k, a Cobra III skin and sign an nda would be my thought.
To throw a number... 100k, a Cobra III skin and sign an nda would be my thought.
Ah, I did do some digging but didnt find any info. So it seems that the āDW Squadron invitationā under discussion was meaningless wrt game storyline and the people involved in those claims are deluding themselves, as I expected. End of discussion, back to the Quest!
It could have been relevant. Allen Stroud, who was contracted to write a lot of the ED lore had this to say
However a player group setting up a Dark Wheel Squadron is IMHO opening the gates to potential misinformation, delusion and trolling. Iād hope FD would be more careful about how they implemented TDW. However the response that @Rochester got from them IIRC seemed to indicate TDW may be mere fluff, or may be a storyline that they haven't switched on at present.
Edit: if the latter, then maybe nobody has as yet excelled sufficiently to earn their invitation!
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Well, I did that this morning, then travelled out to the comet uss in normal cruise. Nothing appeared, still in a shipping lane!
So then went to Hathor (in-game system) who was for the ancient Egyptians the mother/consort to Horus the Sky (mother of galaxies?). Her most common depiction was a woman wearing a headdress of cow horns and a sun disk (jewel on the brow?). Nothing found!
So then went out to visit Holloway Bioscience Research Facility 15 in Snake Sector GW-W c1-1...creepy.
Now back in Sol to hunt Halleyās comet to see if that will show in nav panel...
Is this really a game? Do I really enjoy this activity? Hand is hurting!!
Halley's will show up.
I have updated my Yggdrasil ramblings to include the old worlds. Not much to report. Still open to assessment.
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Ironically, the requested page can not be found... will try another way to view it.
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