Hi Commanders.

Long time lurker again here.
I have been thinking for a while whether to post this but I think the time has come where I feel it's in everyone's best interest if it was out there as I do need help proving/justifying my theories.

I believe that Raxxla is a conduit. A conduit to a network of wormholes spread throughout the Milky Way. The reason none of these wormholes have been discovered is because they are hidden behind the mysterious permit locked systems spread throughout. Imagine being able to traverse from one end of the Galaxy to the other within minutes? From the Bubble to Colonia within an instance?

I also believe to find this conduit, you must assist a minor faction that knows about it. This faction has remained unnoticed throughout the whole ordeal. The Dark Wheel is just a distraction. The real faction we should focus on is The Link


Why do I think this?
Going back to the interview with Brookes about Raxxla, when he mentioned about "no clues" and said something along the lines of "You have to make some things a little obvious so that people will know what they are doing".

We have the codex which is the main source of clues but I believe there are other sources in game. One of which being the in game system descriptions. I would have scattered the clues in various ways if I were a dev, including these.
Most of these are written in a descriptive tone with a third-person perspective, providing some information. However, this one is different.....

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The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One. From the Gate, the Conduit leads One to All. They are Many, but there is One Link. Those who are Not, will Never Be. Down below, the followers of the Link care not of politics, or puny power struggle. The One explores the All from the Conduit. They will open their eyes to Others to trade. But close their fists to Who is Not

This description is unusual for several reasons. It does not explain anything clearly, but rather hints at some secrets that other system descriptions do not have. It uses a first-person point of view, as if the faction itself wrote it. Moreover, it mentions a 'Gate' and a 'Conduit' that could be related to Raxxla. It also has a spelling mistake (bellow) and is wrong grammatically with it's use of capitalisation, suggesting it only been seen by a small number of people and not proof checked perhaps.

Another mysterious clue I discovered is the tourist beacon.

Tourist Spot 0442 This hot world has long lost its atmosphere from the constant battering of the stellar wind.

This to me suggests this world was once thriving with life or a civilisation but now is desolate. Could there be something hidden here?

Where is this?

NLTT 46621 Only 48 light years away from Sol which may appease some of the conspiracies that Raxxla is within the bubble and being known about pre FSD era.

Why am I asking for help?

As per the mysterious message on page 28 in the Elite Dangerous Manual

"All you need to know is that my organisation has a very specific remit: to seek out those who have the potential to become real movers and shakers, those precious few with the talent to mould and shape the galaxy around them, to create change on a grand scale"

I believe that there are certain elements to this game that have never been discovered because certain factions need to be either in control of their home system or expanding to other systems.


The Link, for example, has never controlled NLTT 46621. When I found them, they had only about 4% influence. I have raised this to match the current dominant faction, 'The Leaders of Eros', but I face the challenge of the BGS. This system has a population of over 4 billion and it would probably take 10-20 commanders to sway the war in their favour. Each time I try, I lose 4-0.

That's where you come in commander. I want to put the Link in charge of NLTT 46621 and help them expand. I hope they will reveal their secrets to us then.
I can't do this alone.

Are you with me?
 
I also wanted to note, I found another odd thing and while speaking of factions, I should mention it...

INARA, gets its faction information from? like if it's a player faction or not?
it must be from our logs/journal files right, when we scan the system/dock at a station?

I ask because so far, the only Minor Faction that I've been able to find on INARA that doesn't say simply YES or NO in the PLAYER FACTION spot, is in fact, The Dark Wheel, in ShinDez.
it's listed as "Related" instead of Yes or No with a definition of "an existing NPC Faction related to players"

questions:
are there any other factions on INARA listed this way? there doesn't seem to be a way to search by this information other than check each one manually . ...

is this tag given by INARA, or by the game in our logs? if the game, then we probably need to find more factions like that, or continue to attempt to expand this one's influence, which is only controlling 17 systems, which isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, it might take until they control 25 or 50 systems at the same time, before that faction gets "shutdown" by the real DW, or unlocks some other game stuff/storyline/ect.
 
Hi Commanders.

Long time lurker again here.
I have been thinking for a while whether to post this but I think the time has come where I feel it's in everyone's best interest if it was out there as I do need help proving/justifying my theories.

I believe that Raxxla is a conduit. A conduit to a network of wormholes spread throughout the Milky Way. The reason none of these wormholes have been discovered is because they are hidden behind the mysterious permit locked systems spread throughout. Imagine being able to traverse from one end of the Galaxy to the other within minutes? From the Bubble to Colonia within an instance?

I also believe to find this conduit, you must assist a minor faction that knows about it. This faction has remained unnoticed throughout the whole ordeal. The Dark Wheel is just a distraction. The real faction we should focus on is The Link


Why do I think this?
Going back to the interview with Brookes about Raxxla, when he mentioned about "no clues" and said something along the lines of "You have to make some things a little obvious so that people will know what they are doing".

We have the codex which is the main source of clues but I believe there are other sources in game. One of which being the in game system descriptions. I would have scattered the clues in various ways if I were a dev, including these.
Most of these are written in a descriptive tone with a third-person perspective, providing some information. However, this one is different.....

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The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One. From the Gate, the Conduit leads One to All. They are Many, but there is One Link. Those who are Not, will Never Be. Down below, the followers of the Link care not of politics, or puny power struggle. The One explores the All from the Conduit. They will open their eyes to Others to trade. But close their fists to Who is Not

This description is unusual for several reasons. It does not explain anything clearly, but rather hints at some secrets that other system descriptions do not have. It uses a first-person point of view, as if the faction itself wrote it. Moreover, it mentions a 'Gate' and a 'Conduit' that could be related to Raxxla. It also has a spelling mistake (bellow) and is wrong grammatically with it's use of capitalisation, suggesting it only been seen by a small number of people and not proof checked perhaps.

Another mysterious clue I discovered is the tourist beacon.

Tourist Spot 0442 This hot world has long lost its atmosphere from the constant battering of the stellar wind.

This to me suggests this world was once thriving with life or a civilisation but now is desolate. Could there be something hidden here?

Where is this?

NLTT 46621 Only 48 light years away from Sol which may appease some of the conspiracies that Raxxla is within the bubble and being known about pre FSD era.

Why am I asking for help?

As per the mysterious message on page 28 in the Elite Dangerous Manual

"All you need to know is that my organisation has a very specific remit: to seek out those who have the potential to become real movers and shakers, those precious few with the talent to mould and shape the galaxy around them, to create change on a grand scale"

I believe that there are certain elements to this game that have never been discovered because certain factions need to be either in control of their home system or expanding to other systems.


The Link, for example, has never controlled NLTT 46621. When I found them, they had only about 4% influence. I have raised this to match the current dominant faction, 'The Leaders of Eros', but I face the challenge of the BGS. This system has a population of over 4 billion and it would probably take 10-20 commanders to sway the war in their favour. Each time I try, I lose 4-0.

That's where you come in commander. I want to put the Link in charge of NLTT 46621 and help them expand. I hope they will reveal their secrets to us then.
I can't do this alone.

Are you with me?


No need to lurk (and add my commander if you like Logan 5 - Also Welsh :) - just back from Thor's Helmet and looks like I am 2 jumps away... well in the system now and called over my Mamba from the carrier ;))

"The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One." - I was thinking a Scottish accent with the "no" bits... but "no bellow" - don't shout? and why is One capitalised? LOL


Wow...all the courier missions are to Colonia from the first station.... bit far to get allied quickly and dumped a load of exploration data earlier :(.... and no donation missions either!
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Not done a lot of BGS for a bit but the population size can be tricky for solo cmdrs from memory.... and starting wars without a way to win will just lose assets in the system unfortunately.... How much time have you put in to each war and what activities have you been doing, all combat?

And have you been starting wars in the last 4 weeks as their Inf seems to have gone up quite a bit - a few losses?
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In terms of the system it looks like "Leaders of Eos" is a non-player faction, as are all the other factions in the system...which is good (don't need real players trying to take/keep control).. traffic on EDSM is not huge but is only a guide, 40+ from Inara and 19 ships in the last 24 hrs from local news in game (guessing they are using the neutron star for a boost)... Local power bounty for one cmdr of 215 Million... hope he isn't on one of the fleet carriers...LOL

Interestingly "The Link" is not listed as NLTT 46621 being their home system on EDSM (but is native on Inara)
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and guessing this is your fleet carrier ;)
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Looking at the non Eos assets in system and your comment "The Link, for example, has never controlled NLTT 46621. When I found them, they had only about 4% influence" - Did you not consider taking out the other Faction assets first while the influence was down near theirs for total control of the system and more likely to win those first (more bases = more random pilots dumping stuff) and it would be good to take the entire system over and deter others from trying.... Although now you're up there, taking the first station (Nusslein-Volhard Terminal) will be boosted from wandering CMDRs popping in to trade/fix ships/dump exploration data/etc... and you can always hammer Eos and boost the others one by one later but will take longer...

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Intriguing.....
 
Interesting. Coincidentally I checked out that tourist beacon yesterday and was mildly annoyed it was so uninteresting!
Worth a go!

Also - What's with Burr Point? Doesn't have any icon or detail on inara.
 
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Slightly off-topic but related:

Are the HIP stars in game, supposed to be at their real location, RA/Declination they are at in the HIP catalog IRL?

Because I only just noticed one that isn't... it was complete chance that I bothered to check, but there is an HIP star IRL that is also in-game, but at a different RA/Declination... just wondering if this is common or strange and figured CMDRs here would know best XD

Edit: or would systems have moved due to the time between now and 3308? By enough to seriously alter the RA/Declination location displayed in-game?
All catalogue stars in ED have been imported into the game using galactic coordinates (Not RA / DEC) and distance. Most will get pretty accurate values for RA / DEC, when you calculate back from game coordinates. You are typically a few percent off. The closer you are to the celestial poles the greater inaccuracy on RA.
ED is mostly based on J2000 data, bu some stars are probably fro older data. The sky in ED has not been adjusted to year 3300. Polaris is still the north polestar, in ED.

If you see catalogue a star that is in a totally wrong position, it's most likely due to an import error. Thousands of stars were imported and some data are just wrong. Quite a few stars were imported twice, from different sources. There has been clean up fixes, but I'm sure there are still plenty of bugs.
 
No need to lurk (and add my commander if you like Logan 5 - Also Welsh :) - just back from Thor's Helmet and looks like I am 2 jumps away... well in the system now and called over my Mamba from the carrier ;))

"The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One." - I was thinking a Scottish accent with the "no" bits... but "no bellow" - don't shout? and why is One capitalised? LOL


Wow...all the courier missions are to Colonia from the first station.... bit far to get allied quickly and dumped a load of exploration data earlier :(.... and no donation missions either!
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Not done a lot of BGS for a bit but the population size can be tricky for solo cmdrs from memory.... and starting wars without a way to win will just lose assets in the system unfortunately.... How much time have you put in to each war and what activities have you been doing, all combat?

And have you been starting wars in the last 4 weeks as their Inf seems to have gone up quite a bit - a few losses?
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In terms of the system it looks like "Leaders of Eos" is a non-player faction, as are all the other factions in the system...which is good (don't need real players trying to take/keep control).. traffic on EDSM is not huge but is only a guide, 40+ from Inara and 19 ships in the last 24 hrs from local news in game (guessing they are using the neutron star for a boost)... Local power bounty for one cmdr of 215 Million... hope he isn't on one of the fleet carriers...LOL

Interestingly "The Link" is not listed as NLTT 46621 being their home system on EDSM (but is native on Inara)
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and guessing this is your fleet carrier ;)
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Looking at the non Eos assets in system and your comment "The Link, for example, has never controlled NLTT 46621. When I found them, they had only about 4% influence" - Did you not consider taking out the other Faction assets first while the influence was down near theirs for total control of the system and more likely to win those first (more bases = more random pilots dumping stuff) and it would be good to take the entire system over and deter others from trying.... Although now you're up there, taking the first station (Nusslein-Volhard Terminal) will be boosted from wandering CMDRs popping in to trade/fix ships/dump exploration data/etc... and you can always hammer Eos and boost the others one by one later but will take longer...

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Intriguing.....
See this is exactly the help I’m looking for!
Yes I’ve been attempting this for a few months now and The Link did originally have a few assets including Lounge Laboratory but they’ve lost a few since.
I’ve been doing missions and conflicts zones mainly but always face an uphill battle (pun intended) trying to win the war. I can solo a high intensity cz with my corvette relatively easily but it seems I am up against others who are picking the leaders of eos.

In terms of traffic, before the wars, this system was getting approx 5 cmdrs a day so it surprisingly isn’t a high traffic system.
Plus the system description has been in legacy elite dangerous so I’m surprised no-one has pointed it out before.

I have seen donation missions pop up occasionally, they also give out some in wedge market and lounge laboratory so check there too. But I have been allied with the Link for a long time now and so far they haven’t given me any extra missions which is why I want to see whether it’s this system they need to operate in or another….
 
See this is exactly the help I’m looking for!
Yes I’ve been attempting this for a few months now and The Link did originally have a few assets including Lounge Laboratory but they’ve lost a few since.
I’ve been doing missions and conflicts zones mainly but always face an uphill battle (pun intended) trying to win the war. I can solo a high intensity cz with my corvette relatively easily but it seems I am up against others who are picking the leaders of eos.

In terms of traffic, before the wars, this system was getting approx 5 cmdrs a day so it surprisingly isn’t a high traffic system.
Plus the system description has been in legacy elite dangerous so I’m surprised no-one has pointed it out before.

I have seen donation missions pop up occasionally, they also give out some in wedge market and lounge laboratory so check there too. But I have been allied with the Link for a long time now and so far they haven’t given me any extra missions which is why I want to see whether it’s this system they need to operate in or another….
"The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One. From the Gate, the Conduit leads One to All. They are Many, but there is One Link. Those who are Not, will Never Be. Down below, the followers of the Link care not of politics, or puny power struggle. The One explores the All from the Conduit. They will open their eyes to Others to trade. But close their fists to Who is Not"

The use of capitalised letters looking out of place is bugging me (Highlighted red above where they are possibly out of place)...
e.g. Assuming "The Link" is correct as a name...
"One Link" - not "One The Link"
"the Link" - not "The Link"
etc....

So we have: A, O, G, C, O, A, M, O, L, N, N, B, L, O, A, C, O, W, N

Directions?.......

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Some literary references to "no above, no bellow", if you ignore the spelling and assume below as mentioned further on...

Probably one for @Rochester ;)

Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony

"FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY! 7.
If ever I have spread out a tranquil heaven above me, and have flown into mine own heaven with mine own pinions:
If I have swum playfully in profound luminous distances, and if my freedom’s avian wisdom hath come to me:—
—Thus however speaketh avian wisdom:—“Lo, there is no above and no below! Throw thyself about,—outward, backward, thou light one! Sing! speak no more!"

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
338 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III
"no above, no below ! Throw thyself to and fro, out, back, thou light one ! Sing ! Speak no more !
Are not all words made for the heavy ? Lie not all words unto the light one ! Sing ! Speak no more ! '
Oh ! how could I fail to be eager for eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings, the ring of recurrence ?
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should have liked to have children, unless it be this woman I love. For I love thee, O Eternity !
For I love thee, O Eternity!""


And slightly more tinfoil/space madness based on the mis-spelling of "bellow", lets remove the extra "l" from the first bit and see what it looks like...

"The Link is Al; no above, no below, we are One."

Be afraid the Guardian AI is coming.... :eek:

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Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony -
no Above, no Below is mentioned again, strange use of capitalisation - also highlighted other trigger words for me based on the various theories on here...


VI​

(He flies beneath him, outstretched like a swimmer; his vast-spreading wings, wholly concealing him, seem like one huge cloud.)

Anthony. "Whither do I go? But a little while ago I beheld in a glimpse the form of the Accurst. Nay!—'tis a cloud that upbears me! Perhaps I am dead, and am ascending to God....

"How freely I respire. The immaculate air seems to vivify my soul. No sense of weight!—no more suffering.

"Far below me the lightning breaks,—the horizon broadens, widens,—the rivers cross each other. That blond-bright spot is the desert; that pool of water the ocean!

"And other oceans appear!—vast regions of which I knew nothing! There are the countries of the blacks, which seem to smoke like brasiers!—then is the zone of snows always made dim by fog! Would I might behold those mountains where the sun, each evening, sinks to rest!"

The Devil. "The sun never sinks to rest; the sun never rests!"

(Anthony is not surprised at this voice. It seems to him an echo of his own thought—a response made by his own memory.

Meanwhile the earth gradually assumes the shape of a ball; and he beholds it in the midst of the azure, turning upon its poles, and revolving with the sun.
)

The Devil. "So it does not form the centre of the universe! Pride of man! humiliate thyself!"

Anthony. "Now I can scarcely distinguish it. It mingles confusedly with other glowing worlds. The firmament itself is but one tissue of stars."

(And they still rise.)

"No sound!—not even the hoarse cry of eagles! Nothing? I listen for the harmony of the spheres."

The Devil. "Thou wilt not hear them! Nor wilt thou behold the antichtonus of Plato,—or the central furnace of Philolaüs,—or the spheres of Aristotle, or the seven heavens of the Jews, with the great waters above the vault of crystal!"

Anthony. "Yet from below the vault seemed solid as a wall!—on the contrary I penetrate it, I lose myself in it!"

(And he beholds the moon,—like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.)

The Devil. "Formerly it was the sojourn of souls! Even the good Pythagoras adorned it with magnificent flowers, populated it with birds!"

Anthony. "I can see only desolate plains there, with extinct craters yawning under a black sky!

"Let us go towards those milder-beaming stars, that we may contemplate the angels who uphold them at arms' length, like torches!"

The Devil (bears him into the midst of the stars):

"They attract at the same time that they repel each other. The action of each one results from that of others, and contributes thereunto,—without the aid of any auxiliary, by the force of a law, the virtue of order alone!"


Anthony. "Yes!... yes! My intelligence grasps the great truth! It is a joy greater than all tender pleasures! Breathless I find myself with astonishment at the enormity of God!"

The Devil. "Even as the firmament ever rises as thou dost ascend, so with the expansion of thy thought will He become greater to thee; and after this discovery of the universe thou wilt feel thy joy augment with the broadening and deepening of the infinite."

Anthony. "Ah! higher!—higher still!—- forever higher!"

(Then the stars multiply, scintillate. The Milky Way develops in the zenith like a monstrous belt, with holes at intervals; through these rents in its brightness stretches of prolonged darkness are visible. There are rains of stars, long trains of golden dust, luminous vapours that float and dissolve.

At times a comet suddenly passes by; then the tranquillity of innumerable lights recommences.

Anthony, with outstretched arms, supports himself upon the Devil's horns, and thus occupies all the space between them.

He remembers with disdain the ignorance of other days, the mediocrity of his dreams. And now those luminous globes he was wont to gaze upon from below, are close to him. He distinguishes the intercrossing of the lines of their orbits, the complexity of their courses. He beholds them coming from afar,—and, like stones suspended in a sling, describe their circles, form their hyperbolas.

He perceives, all within the field of his vision at once, the Southern Cross and the Great Bear, the Lynx and the Centaur, the nebula of Dorado, the six suns in the constellation of Orion, Jupiter with his four satellites, and the triple ring of the monstrous Saturn!—all the planets, all the stars that men will discover in the future. He fills his eyes with their light; he over-burthens his mind with calculation of their distances: then, bowing his head, he murmurs
):

"What is the purpose of all that?"

The Devil. "There is no purpose. How could God have a purpose? What experience could have instructed him?—what reflection determined him?

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Anthony: What is the purpose of all that? The Devil: There is no purpose.
"Before the beginning he could not have acted;—and now his action would be useless."

Anthony. "Yet he created the world, at one time, by his word only."

The Devil. "But the beings that people the earth come upon it successively. So also, in heaven, new stars arise—different effects of varying causes."

Anthony. "The varying of causes is the will of God!"

The Devil. "But to admit several acts of will in God is to admit various causes, and therefore to deny his unity.

"His will is inseparable from his essence. He can have but one will, having but one essence; and inasmuch as he externally exists, he acts eternally.

"Contemplate the sun! From its surface leap vast jets of flame, casting forth sparks that disperse beyond to become worlds here-after;—and further than the last, far beyond those deeps where thou seest only night, whirl other suns,—and behind them others again, and beyond those yet others ... without end!"

Anthony. "Enough! Enough! I fear!—I will fall into the abyss!"

The Devil (pauses, and rocks Anthony gently in the midst of space).

"Nothingness is—not—there is no void! Everywhere and forever bodies move upon the immovable deeps of space! Were there boundaries to space, it would not be space, but a body only: it is limitless!"

Anthony (stupefied by wonder):

"Limitless!"

The Devil. "Ascend skyward forever and forever,—yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below—nor height, nor depth as signified by the terms of human utterance. And Space itself is comprised in God, who is not a portion thereof of such or such a size,—but is Immensity itself!"

Anthony (slowly):

"Matter..., then,... must be a part of God?"

The Devil. "Why not? Canst thou know the end of God?"

Anthony. "Nay: on the contrary, I prostrate, I crush myself beneath his mightiness!"

The Devil. "And yet thou dost pretend to move him! Thou dost speak to him,—thou dost even adorn him with virtues,—with goodness, justice, mercy,—in lieu of recognising that all perfections are his!

"To conceive aught beyond him is to conceive God above God, the Being above the Being. For He is the only being, the only substance.

"If the Substance could be divided, it would not be the Substance, it would lose its nature: God could not exist. He is therefore indivisible as infinite;—and if he had a body, he would be composed of parts, he would not be One—he would not be infinite. Therefore he is not a Person!"

Anthony. "What? my prayers, my sobs, my groans, the sufferings of my flesh, the transports of my love,—have all these things gone out to a lie,—to emptiness, unavailingly—like the cry of a bird, like a whirl of dead leaves?"

(Weeping):

"Oh, no!—there is Some One above all things,—a great Soul, a Lord, a Father whom my heart adores and who must love me!"

The Devil. "Thou dost desire that God were not God;—for did he feel love, or anger, or pity,—he would abandon his perfection for a greater or a lesser perfection. He can stoop to no sentiment, nor be contained in any form."

Anthony. "One day, nevertheless, I shall see him!"

The Devil. "With the blessed, is it not?—when the finite shall enjoy the infinite in some restricted place, containing the Absolute!"

Anthony. "Matters not!—there must be a paradise for the good, as there is a hell for the wicked."

The Devil. "Can the desire of thy mind create the law of the universe? Without doubt evil is indifferent to God,—forasmuch as the Earth is covered with it!

"Is it through impotence that he endures it, or through cruelty that he maintains it?

"Dost thou fancy that he is eternally readjusting the world, like an imperfect machine?—that he is forever watching the movements of all beings, from the flight of a butterfly to the thought of a man?

"If he have created the universe, his providence is superfluous. If Providence exists, then creation is defective.

"But evil and good concern only thee—even like night and day, pleasure and pain, death and birth, which are relative only to one corner of space, to a special centre, to a particular interest. Since the Infinite is permanent, the Infinite is;—and that is all."

(The Devil's wings have been gradually expanding: now they cover all space.)

Anthony (now perceives nothing: a great faintness comes upon him):

"A hideous cold freezes me, even to the depths of my soul! This is beyond the extreme of pain! It is like a death that is deeper than death! I roll in the immensity of darkness; and the darkness itself enters within me. My consciousness bursts beneath this dilation of nothingness!"

The Devil. "Yet the knowledge of things comes to thee only through the medium of thy mind. Even as a concave mirror, it deforms the objects it reflects; and thou hast no means whatever of verifying their exactitude."

"Never canst thou know the universe in all its vastness; consequently it will never be possible for thee to obtain an idea of its cause, to have a just notion of God, nor even to say that the universe is infinite,—for thou must first be able to know what the Infinite is!"

"May not Form be, perhaps, an error of thy senses,—Substance a figment of thy imagination?"

"Unless, indeed, that the world being a perpetual flux of things, appearance, on the contrary, be wholly true; illusion the only reality."

"But art thou sure thou dost see?—art thou even sure thou dost live? Perhaps nothing exists!"

(The Devil has seized Anthony, and, holding him at arms' length, glares at him with mouth yawning as though to devour him):

"Adore me, then!—and curse the phantom thou callest God!"

(Anthony lifts his eyes with a last effort of hope.

The Devil abandons him.
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That’s certainly interesting, could the capitalisation be referring to the star types, with C being Carbon stars, N being Non sequence, and would the W be white dwarf or wolf-rayet? Could it be the “Journey every player has to travel for themselves” that Brookes alluded to during his lore interview?
 
I have absolutely no idea!

Is there a way to find out if there ever was a player faction there?

Would that show on the EDDB/INARA list if there was and they got kicked out or otherwise disabled? If there's never been a player faction there, and there's not one now, and there's no other mechanism by which players/backers could write system descriptions, then yeah, that's a very interesting system description indeed!
 
Inara usually shows past factions.

One other option: was it once a player faction but is no longer?

I have a player faction and there was a submission process to request them based on a few rules back in the day and FD could reject them for various reasons like being offensive of course or them being related to the lore from memory (I could dig out the emails and check).

I threw in Emperor's Dawn for a laugh as they were in the story line early on and supposedly wiped out by Patreus as a terrorist organisation. They granted the application which I was surprised by as it wasn't long after the story played out.

The first tranche were put in fairly quickly from memory but they got inundated at the time and it was some time before they did more groups.

There is no way of removing them as far as I know.
 
From the game you can't tell if its a player or non-player faction, only on Inara or maybe from journal files.

I'd have to check the latter when I login with my alt account (main is 20kly out)

Edit: there is this post and they are not on the list

 
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I guess one way of seeing whether this description is intentional or not is to raise a support ticket and flag it for spelling/grammar errors, if they come back and say it's by design then we might be onto something! :ROFLMAO:

Looking back at the kickstarter page there were 12 backers who got the writer's pack and 6 more from the tiers beyond that would be eligible.
 
From the game you can't tell if its a player or non-player faction, only on Inara or maybe from journal files.

I'd have to check the latter when I login with my alt account (main is 20kly out)

Edit: there is this post and they are not on the list

{ "Name":"The Link", "FactionState":"None", "Government":"Theocracy", "Influence":0.225451, "Allegiance":"Independent", "Happiness":"$Faction_HappinessBand2;", "Happiness_Localised":"Happy", "MyReputation":0.000000 }

Yeah nothing I can see in the journal file for player faction...


"23 MARCH 2023
Greetings Commanders,

We trust that you have been enjoying Update 14 and all the action the Thargoid War is bringing to the bubble. Amidst everything going on, we are taking a moment to update you on our upcoming plans.

.....

Player Made Factions: Applications Closing

Player Made Factions have played a key role in expressing your will over the shape of the bubble. This goal is at the heart of our plans for Elite and reflected in the Thargoid War. Our focus is now turning to investigate how upcoming systems will allow every player and player group to have a meaningful impact on the galaxy’s landscape. This means we will be closing applications for PMFs, however we will process any remaining applications."

Didn't realise PMF registrations stayed open that long... memory plays tricks! :)

And I guess the replacement was never announced.... it was rumoured to be base building at one point....

Source: https://youtu.be/xg6UquHecW0
 
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"The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One. From the Gate, the Conduit leads One to All. They are Many, but there is One Link. Those who are Not, will Never Be. Down below, the followers of the Link care not of politics, or puny power struggle. The One explores the All from the Conduit. They will open their eyes to Others to trade. But close their fists to Who is Not"

The use of capitalised letters looking out of place is bugging me (Highlighted red above where they are possibly out of place)...
e.g. Assuming "The Link" is correct as a name...
"One Link" - not "One The Link"
"the Link" - not "The Link"
etc....

So we have: A, O, G, C, O, A, M, O, L, N, N, B, L, O, A, C, O, W, N

Directions?.......

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Some literary references to "no above, no bellow", if you ignore the spelling and assume below as mentioned further on...

Probably one for @Rochester ;)

Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony

"FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY! 7.
If ever I have spread out a tranquil heaven above me, and have flown into mine own heaven with mine own pinions:
If I have swum playfully in profound luminous distances, and if my freedom’s avian wisdom hath come to me:—
—Thus however speaketh avian wisdom:—“Lo, there is no above and no below! Throw thyself about,—outward, backward, thou light one! Sing! speak no more!"

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
338 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III
"no above, no below ! Throw thyself to and fro, out, back, thou light one ! Sing ! Speak no more !
Are not all words made for the heavy ? Lie not all words unto the light one ! Sing ! Speak no more ! '
Oh ! how could I fail to be eager for eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings, the ring of recurrence ?
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should have liked to have children, unless it be this woman I love. For I love thee, O Eternity !
For I love thee, O Eternity!""


And slightly more tinfoil/space madness based on the mis-spelling of "bellow", lets remove the extra "l" from the first bit and see what it looks like...

"The Link is Al; no above, no below, we are One."

Be afraid the Guardian AI is coming.... :eek:

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Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony -
no Above, no Below is mentioned again, strange use of capitalisation - also highlighted other trigger words for me based on the various theories on here...


VI​

(He flies beneath him, outstretched like a swimmer; his vast-spreading wings, wholly concealing him, seem like one huge cloud.)

Anthony. "Whither do I go? But a little while ago I beheld in a glimpse the form of the Accurst. Nay!—'tis a cloud that upbears me! Perhaps I am dead, and am ascending to God....

"How freely I respire. The immaculate air seems to vivify my soul. No sense of weight!—no more suffering.

"Far below me the lightning breaks,—the horizon broadens, widens,—the rivers cross each other. That blond-bright spot is the desert; that pool of water the ocean!

"And other oceans appear!—vast regions of which I knew nothing! There are the countries of the blacks, which seem to smoke like brasiers!—then is the zone of snows always made dim by fog! Would I might behold those mountains where the sun, each evening, sinks to rest!"

The Devil. "The sun never sinks to rest; the sun never rests!"

(Anthony is not surprised at this voice. It seems to him an echo of his own thought—a response made by his own memory.

Meanwhile the earth gradually assumes the shape of a ball; and he beholds it in the midst of the azure, turning upon its poles, and revolving with the sun.
)

The Devil. "So it does not form the centre of the universe! Pride of man! humiliate thyself!"

Anthony. "Now I can scarcely distinguish it. It mingles confusedly with other glowing worlds. The firmament itself is but one tissue of stars."

(And they still rise.)

"No sound!—not even the hoarse cry of eagles! Nothing? I listen for the harmony of the spheres."

The Devil. "Thou wilt not hear them! Nor wilt thou behold the antichtonus of Plato,—or the central furnace of Philolaüs,—or the spheres of Aristotle, or the seven heavens of the Jews, with the great waters above the vault of crystal!"

Anthony. "Yet from below the vault seemed solid as a wall!—on the contrary I penetrate it, I lose myself in it!"

(And he beholds the moon,—like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.)

The Devil. "Formerly it was the sojourn of souls! Even the good Pythagoras adorned it with magnificent flowers, populated it with birds!"

Anthony. "I can see only desolate plains there, with extinct craters yawning under a black sky!

"Let us go towards those milder-beaming stars, that we may contemplate the angels who uphold them at arms' length, like torches!"

The Devil (bears him into the midst of the stars):

"They attract at the same time that they repel each other. The action of each one results from that of others, and contributes thereunto,—without the aid of any auxiliary, by the force of a law, the virtue of order alone!"


Anthony. "Yes!... yes! My intelligence grasps the great truth! It is a joy greater than all tender pleasures! Breathless I find myself with astonishment at the enormity of God!"

The Devil. "Even as the firmament ever rises as thou dost ascend, so with the expansion of thy thought will He become greater to thee; and after this discovery of the universe thou wilt feel thy joy augment with the broadening and deepening of the infinite."

Anthony. "Ah! higher!—higher still!—- forever higher!"

(Then the stars multiply, scintillate. The Milky Way develops in the zenith like a monstrous belt, with holes at intervals; through these rents in its brightness stretches of prolonged darkness are visible. There are rains of stars, long trains of golden dust, luminous vapours that float and dissolve.

At times a comet suddenly passes by; then the tranquillity of innumerable lights recommences.

Anthony, with outstretched arms, supports himself upon the Devil's horns, and thus occupies all the space between them.

He remembers with disdain the ignorance of other days, the mediocrity of his dreams. And now those luminous globes he was wont to gaze upon from below, are close to him. He distinguishes the intercrossing of the lines of their orbits, the complexity of their courses. He beholds them coming from afar,—and, like stones suspended in a sling, describe their circles, form their hyperbolas.

He perceives, all within the field of his vision at once, the Southern Cross and the Great Bear, the Lynx and the Centaur, the nebula of Dorado, the six suns in the constellation of Orion, Jupiter with his four satellites, and the triple ring of the monstrous Saturn!—all the planets, all the stars that men will discover in the future. He fills his eyes with their light; he over-burthens his mind with calculation of their distances: then, bowing his head, he murmurs
):

"What is the purpose of all that?"

The Devil. "There is no purpose. How could God have a purpose? What experience could have instructed him?—what reflection determined him?

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Anthony: What is the purpose of all that? The Devil: There is no purpose.
"Before the beginning he could not have acted;—and now his action would be useless."

Anthony. "Yet he created the world, at one time, by his word only."

The Devil. "But the beings that people the earth come upon it successively. So also, in heaven, new stars arise—different effects of varying causes."

Anthony. "The varying of causes is the will of God!"

The Devil. "But to admit several acts of will in God is to admit various causes, and therefore to deny his unity.

"His will is inseparable from his essence. He can have but one will, having but one essence; and inasmuch as he externally exists, he acts eternally.

"Contemplate the sun! From its surface leap vast jets of flame, casting forth sparks that disperse beyond to become worlds here-after;—and further than the last, far beyond those deeps where thou seest only night, whirl other suns,—and behind them others again, and beyond those yet others ... without end!"

Anthony. "Enough! Enough! I fear!—I will fall into the abyss!"

The Devil (pauses, and rocks Anthony gently in the midst of space).

"Nothingness is—not—there is no void! Everywhere and forever bodies move upon the immovable deeps of space! Were there boundaries to space, it would not be space, but a body only: it is limitless!"

Anthony (stupefied by wonder):

"Limitless!"

The Devil. "Ascend skyward forever and forever,—yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below—nor height, nor depth as signified by the terms of human utterance. And Space itself is comprised in God, who is not a portion thereof of such or such a size,—but is Immensity itself!"

Anthony (slowly):

"Matter..., then,... must be a part of God?"

The Devil. "Why not? Canst thou know the end of God?"

Anthony. "Nay: on the contrary, I prostrate, I crush myself beneath his mightiness!"

The Devil. "And yet thou dost pretend to move him! Thou dost speak to him,—thou dost even adorn him with virtues,—with goodness, justice, mercy,—in lieu of recognising that all perfections are his!

"To conceive aught beyond him is to conceive God above God, the Being above the Being. For He is the only being, the only substance.

"If the Substance could be divided, it would not be the Substance, it would lose its nature: God could not exist. He is therefore indivisible as infinite;—and if he had a body, he would be composed of parts, he would not be One—he would not be infinite. Therefore he is not a Person!"

Anthony. "What? my prayers, my sobs, my groans, the sufferings of my flesh, the transports of my love,—have all these things gone out to a lie,—to emptiness, unavailingly—like the cry of a bird, like a whirl of dead leaves?"

(Weeping):

"Oh, no!—there is Some One above all things,—a great Soul, a Lord, a Father whom my heart adores and who must love me!"

The Devil. "Thou dost desire that God were not God;—for did he feel love, or anger, or pity,—he would abandon his perfection for a greater or a lesser perfection. He can stoop to no sentiment, nor be contained in any form."

Anthony. "One day, nevertheless, I shall see him!"

The Devil. "With the blessed, is it not?—when the finite shall enjoy the infinite in some restricted place, containing the Absolute!"

Anthony. "Matters not!—there must be a paradise for the good, as there is a hell for the wicked."

The Devil. "Can the desire of thy mind create the law of the universe? Without doubt evil is indifferent to God,—forasmuch as the Earth is covered with it!

"Is it through impotence that he endures it, or through cruelty that he maintains it?

"Dost thou fancy that he is eternally readjusting the world, like an imperfect machine?—that he is forever watching the movements of all beings, from the flight of a butterfly to the thought of a man?

"If he have created the universe, his providence is superfluous. If Providence exists, then creation is defective.

"But evil and good concern only thee—even like night and day, pleasure and pain, death and birth, which are relative only to one corner of space, to a special centre, to a particular interest. Since the Infinite is permanent, the Infinite is;—and that is all."

(The Devil's wings have been gradually expanding: now they cover all space.)

Anthony (now perceives nothing: a great faintness comes upon him):

"A hideous cold freezes me, even to the depths of my soul! This is beyond the extreme of pain! It is like a death that is deeper than death! I roll in the immensity of darkness; and the darkness itself enters within me. My consciousness bursts beneath this dilation of nothingness!"

The Devil. "Yet the knowledge of things comes to thee only through the medium of thy mind. Even as a concave mirror, it deforms the objects it reflects; and thou hast no means whatever of verifying their exactitude."

"Never canst thou know the universe in all its vastness; consequently it will never be possible for thee to obtain an idea of its cause, to have a just notion of God, nor even to say that the universe is infinite,—for thou must first be able to know what the Infinite is!"

"May not Form be, perhaps, an error of thy senses,—Substance a figment of thy imagination?"

"Unless, indeed, that the world being a perpetual flux of things, appearance, on the contrary, be wholly true; illusion the only reality."

"But art thou sure thou dost see?—art thou even sure thou dost live? Perhaps nothing exists!"

(The Devil has seized Anthony, and, holding him at arms' length, glares at him with mouth yawning as though to devour him):

"Adore me, then!—and curse the phantom thou callest God!"

(Anthony lifts his eyes with a last effort of hope.

The Devil abandons him.
)
Might by a cypher?

 
"The home of The Link. The Link is All; no above, no bellow, we are One. From the Gate, the Conduit leads One to All. They are Many, but there is One Link. Those who are Not, will Never Be. Down below, the followers of the Link care not of politics, or puny power struggle. The One explores the All from the Conduit. They will open their eyes to Others to trade. But close their fists to Who is Not"

The use of capitalised letters looking out of place is bugging me (Highlighted red above where they are possibly out of place)...
e.g. Assuming "The Link" is correct as a name...
"One Link" - not "One The Link"
"the Link" - not "The Link"
etc....

So we have: A, O, G, C, O, A, M, O, L, N, N, B, L, O, A, C, O, W, N

Directions?.......

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So I had a look at a possible path choosing the nearest star with the classification and seemed to be going OK without having to jump an incredible distance...

Looked to be getting a tenuous path once the next star I could find was over 600LY....

A - Alderamin

Degraded emissions on entry
Nothing else unusual

O - HIP 23692

Degraded emissions on entry
Nothing else unusual

G - HIP 22569

48 Degraded emissions on entry
Water world
Nothing else unusual

C - BD Camelopardalis

S Type Giant
Degraded emissions on entry
Nothing else unusual


O - HIP 18442

3 Black holes
Nothing else unusual


A - HIP 19547
Veering away from the general direction of the California Nebula
Nothing else unusual

M - Wredguia XA-F b25-2

Heading slightly back on the path
Nothing else unusual

O - Mintaka - 647LY / Menkid 708LY
L
N
N
B
L
O
A
C
O
W
N
 
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