The Quest To Find Raxxla

[Ian Doncaster]

The Thargoid mystery used a very complex set of nested mysteries

One of which - there's still no obvious reason why it uses morse code at all - is still there.

That said, despite the complexity and length of time needed to solve the mystery, the eventual solution can be explained very quickly for both the sensor and probe, and is relatively quick to replicate once you know what you're doing. The difficulty so far has come from figuring out the right thing to do, not from doing it.

 

[Rochester]

The UA mystery was long and hard. It wasn't overly complex in the beginning, but it was hard to pick out the morse code.
MB actually dropped the 'have you tried listening to it' hint well before we found the first UA. There was a lot of searching, due to the WIngs trailer.
On mai 4th 3301 FD tweaked something that made the convoys spawn. At least three UA were captured that day. Due to a multiplayer bug, these actually multiplied. Quite a few commanders had one and a lot of recordings were made. Nothing came from the extensive sound analysing.
The mores code was discovered by commanders Jmains and QorbeQ (who had a friend with practical morse experience), by listening to the recordings. The code spelled 'Sega Port'. The name of the station instance where the recording was made.
The community was later able to extract the graphical representation of each letters dash and dot sequence, but this was done manually by listening.

For each update after that, the UA evolved. They started to point to Merope (5C). They started spawning in the wild (first in the Pleiades, then in a 50 ly shell around Merope). Finally they started to morse the layout of our ships, if we were close enough.

All this happened while we didn't know if it was Thargoid or something else.

I think this is a necessary reminder about puzzles generally in game; that the ‘whole’ UA puzzle was not presented to us in its entirety on day one. It evolved overtime.

Content - or ‘clues’ were fed to us. This is actually baiting, FD were pushing us towards certain areas or at minimum, leading us down a narrative path.

One could not have uncovered all of it from day one. It was ultimately a live narrative story - not really a mystery, FD wanted us to explore it and ultimately uncover it’s secrets.

Remember FD did go on record in an interview given by the previous CM Arthur that this is precisely what they do - they insert narrative content over time.

Raxxla I suspect is now different, in respect that I believe it’s actually an archived narrative. I think FD still do drop hints, but they are now probably rather wide. I strongly suspect that the Raxxla Codex was inserted as a retro-fix, to tidy it up and put it to bed…

The alternative is too unpalatable to contemplate; that like everything else it too could be locked behind a narrative.

Again, I think that like the ‘Missing’ it probably ‘used’ to be the case but no more, I doubt there are any ‘new’ clues to find, I suspect everything we need is already in game, because if it’s not, then FD are in control of what, where and when we find such content, if that’s the case there really is no point in looking.

However, I take amusement in the assumption that we might actually have uncovered something much bigger, maybe something FD were not aware of, and only Brookes knew of… but that could just be what Raxxla is, or only one small part of it?

 

[El Saico]

There’s various posts linked. I’ve updated the post to include as many of these as possible 07.

Honestly I’ve probably not included ‘every’ Yoruba deity. The difficulty starts in knowing where to start, and where to stop, but I believe I’ve plotted ‘enough’ systems named after various deities, so as to satisfy my curiosity and to acknowledge many were place intentionally.

I believe there to be a great deal of intentional obfuscation as well, granted but that a certain percentage do have an intentional alignment.

Spacial mapping might not highlight this perfectly but I believe it outlines its influence. As to if this is by design or if it simply uncovers an unconscious hand we can’t yet know?

It’s a big question to answer ‘how’ much of all this is actually really by design and what is just an abstraction.

We always must acknowledge humans love to resolve patterns out of chaos. All this could just be total bio-fuel.

I don’t ever presume to state my findings are 100% true, I try and identify there’s a probability towards them being so, my objective is always to look for ways to focus resources to where they might best yield an outcome - as if to ask ‘is this a good enough reason to look in this area’…

It’s up to everyone to assess if it’s valid or simply space-madness.

A bit more on the orishas: Oduduwa was the one who descended on the golden chain to create Earth - an alternative name present as a system is Odudu.
He usurped the role from his brother Obatala (Oxalá, Orishala), who was assigned the role but got distracted by a party on the way out. As punishment, Olorun relegated the latter to create humankind - and the reason for our flaws is that he hit the liquor too much on the job.

The Empire/Underworld - Federation/Chaos - Alliance/Empyrean arrangement seems definitely on purpose, and a natural extension from how FFE presented them:

FFE Population Map

We can then extrapolate that, if Raxxla is indeed Eden (perhaps on literal Earth?), it's necessary to find the gates of the Empyrean somewhere in the historical Alliance-Federation border and then the golden ladder to descend on.
...speaking of which, wasn't the Halsey tour all about the Federal frontier?

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Just a passing thought...can't remember who posted the pic of the fish pond in the space station and the discussion of it's relation to Paradise Lost cosmology..

But has anyone actually tried to land/fly through the appropriate part of that pond layout??

 

[simulacrae]

Just a passing thought...can't remember who posted the pic of the fish pond in the space station and the discussion of it's relation to Paradise Lost cosmology..

But has anyone actually tried to land/fly through the appropriate part of that pond layout??

Finally a real use for that Orca

 

[CMDRCorrMorningstarFelian]

Just a passing thought...can't remember who posted the pic of the fish pond in the space station and the discussion of it's relation to Paradise Lost cosmology..

I posted the pics and someone else linked it to Paradise Lost using the image on this post. That said, these really do not look to be portals to another universe so kindly don't upset station security. Besides, I don't think people want a ship slamming into the station.

 

[Rochester]

I posted the pics and someone else linked it to Paradise Lost using the image on this post. That said, these really do not look to be portals to another universe so kindly don't upset station security. Besides, I don't think people want a ship slamming into the station.

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By the way this could be a great opportunity to photobomb the FD social media engine with posts about Raxxla, except rather than a typical ‘an Asp in front of it’ Cmdrs pose in these Milton gardens. Let’s flood FD with lots of shots of these gardens!

 

[Robert Rockbite]

Just a passing thought...can't remember who posted the pic of the fish pond in the space station and the discussion of it's relation to Paradise Lost cosmology..

But has anyone actually tried to land/fly through the appropriate part of that pond layout??

Oh, if your're that desperate that you want to try flying into things then I would suggest you try flying into that dark gas giant in Shinrarta Dezhra, I think it was B3. Pretty spooky fellow, that one.

 

[selbie]

Just a passing thought...can't remember who posted the pic of the fish pond in the space station and the discussion of it's relation to Paradise Lost cosmology..

But has anyone actually tried to land/fly through the appropriate part of that pond layout??

If only...

Edit: my earlier post?

 

[selbie]

Got me looking at those station gardens again, and I noticed the Hebrew Qoph letter ק inverted has a similar appearance to the gates in the garden walls.
The letter is "suggested to have originally depicted either a sewing needle, specifically the eye of a needle (Hebrew קוף quf and Aramaic קופא qopɑʔ both refer to the eye of a needle), or the back of a head and neck (qāf in Arabic meant "nape")"

Eye of a Needle - this is a metaphor for a narrow opening or, in the spiritual sense, a test of self to remove one's own "worldly baggage" in order to enter the gates of heaven.

Then I remembered the name Halsey can be interpreted as 'Neck' of a Road. Was she tested by the beings and is now embarking on her new spiritual journey.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Oh, if your're that desperate that you want to try flying into things then I would suggest you try flying into that dark gas giant in Shinrarta Dezhra, I think it was B3. Pretty spooky fellow, that one.

If it's got anything resembling an Omphalos then I'm up for trying to fly into it!
But it will have to wait a while....just got 4 skill magazines to get in Starfield and then the final two missions before NG+

 

[El Saico]

A bit more on the orishas: Oduduwa was the one who descended on the golden chain to create Earth - an alternative name present as a system is Odudu.
He usurped the role from his brother Obatala (Oxalá, Orishala), who was assigned the role but got distracted by a party on the way out. As punishment, Olorun relegated the latter to create humankind - and the reason for our flaws is that he hit the liquor too much on the job.

The Empire/Underworld - Federation/Chaos - Alliance/Empyrean arrangement seems definitely on purpose, and a natural extension from how FFE presented them:

FFE Population Map

We can then extrapolate that, if Raxxla is indeed Eden (perhaps on literal Earth?), it's necessary to find the gates of the Empyrean somewhere in the historical Alliance-Federation border and then the golden ladder to descend on.
...speaking of which, wasn't the Halsey tour all about the Federal frontier?

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After some more thinking, I'm not very sold on Erebus because "Hell's Gate" is directly related to Jaques as the battle site where Imperials captured him and did further modifications afterwards.
So the answer might be somewhere else on the tale of our cyborg bartender explorer friend.

 

[CMDRCorrMorningstarFelian]

There's a lot of ambiguous details with Jaques. In "...All that Glisters" he states he's at least 300 something at that point. However, that is approximately 3200 to possibly even the mid-3200s (haven't attempted to date the story). Jaques is by his own admission connected to the building of Peter's Base (Coriolis) in Facece which easily dates him to 2750 or so. That's before we even get to Battle of Hell's Gate. I personally err on the side it may even have been Battle of Achenar following Mudlark extinction. Achenar (previously known by Achernar) is at the end of Eridanus. Eridanus (sometimes spelled Eridanos) is one of the rivers of Hades. Attaching relevant story snippets and origin story of the Coriolis in the first manual. Anyway, Jaques may be the oldest character in the series.

The system bears the traditional name of Achernar (sometimes spelled Achenar), derived from the Arabic آخر النهر ākhir an-nahr, meaning "The End of the River". However, it seems that this name originally referred to Theta Eridani instead, which latterly was known by the similar traditional name Acamar, with the same etymology. The IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) approved the name with the spelling Achernar for the component Alpha Eridani A on 30 June 2016 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achernar?wprov=sfla1

 

[Broken_One]

In the Elite: Dangerous CODEX it states the Coriolis and basically any current version of starport (including obis and the others) are all BREWER made. There was one Rival corp that created a station I think in TAU CETI, which summaraly had an 'accident'. Since then no one has gone away from Brewer.

 

[CMDRCorrMorningstarFelian]

In the Elite: Dangerous CODEX it states the Coriolis and basically any current version of starport (including obis and the others) are all BREWER made. There was one Rival corp that created a station I think in TAU CETI, which summaraly had an 'accident'. Since then no one has gone away from Brewer. View attachment 382782
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I understand all that. However, sometimes it is better to consider the official lore of Elite Dangerous the officially sanctioned version of the Elite Pilots' Federation history that they allow the public and rank and file CMDRs to know. Heresy is deeply interwoven in the story especially via the Revised Catholic Mission of Aymiay, Sol, and Beta Hydri.

ANTI-POPE TO VISIT GRAHAMHURST
J.J.

Consternation was expressed by many of the delegates to the Annual Federal Theological Synod at the news that Decius Torquemadoc, the Gnostolic Antipope is due to land at Lomasport, Aymiay, later this week to join their deliberations.

The Synod, held traditionally at Grahamhurst University, has not yet included the Gnostolic Anti-religion in their Inventory of Recognised Faiths and Gnostolicism has for long been black-listed by the clerical orders.

It is thought that major demonstrations are being planned by leading clerics to greet the arrival of the Antipope. However, Admiral Bentley, together with an escort of Naval Cruisers has been dispatched from Alpha to prevent the kind of blood letting seen at last year’s Synod when the Enthralled Cenobites of Epsilon clashed with the Moderate Chapter of the Two Day Adventists.

You're playing with and a gentle reminder..

I am not the hero but I am not a villain, either. What was that about theocracy factions not necessarily being an officially sanctioned religion? I fear no evil, the shadow is mine and so is the valley.

 

[CMDRCorrMorningstarFelian]

Allow me to explain why I am an explorer: unlike the dystopic hell-scape we find ourselves in, you can trust yourself because there no one else in control. It is far better then to be the map-maker than the poor fool who wronged the map-maker and is sent with potentially bad or incomplete information as karma.

The stuff the Pilot's Federation gives out is woefully lacking in context. Sure, you can find that trade post to sell your cargo, just don't think the Elite Pilots' Federation is giving up any of their power.

 

[Broken_One]

I understand all that. However, sometimes it is better to consider the official lore of Elite Dangerous the officially sanctioned version of the Elite Pilots' Federation history that they allow the public and rank and file CMDRs to know. Heresy is deeply interwoven in the story especially via the Revised Catholic Mission of Aymiay, Sol, and Beta Hydri.

My quote is from the official Elite: Dangerous lore that all rank and file CMDRs get. Coriolis was created by Brewer corp.

 

[CMDRCorrMorningstarFelian]

My quote is from the official Elite: Dangerous lore that all rank and file CMDRs get. Coriolis was created by Brewer corp.

This game launched in 1984 and started in a backwater dictatorship system by the name of Lave. It's leader at the time, Dr. Hans Walden, was particularly noted for his usage of propaganda. It is entirely possible for both statements to be true. According to the Elite Pilots' Federation, the Coriolis owes it's origin to Brewer Corporation. According to Jaques himself, he was instrumental in the design of Coriolis which became his initial base, Peter's Base in Facece. One is a primary source and other second-hand source. Regardless, I mentioned the year of the launch of the series because of a quote from George Orwell's "1984" that is particularly important to keep in mind:

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

-George Orwell from "1984"

If I had wanted to harm others, all that had to be done is blindly agree with the consensus or simply never speak out. I spoke out because the watered down version that has been officially sanctioned is not helpful in finding Raxxla, and the community needs to come to terms with that idea. That and Frontier Developments and David Braben consider it to be one continuous universe.

 

[Planewalker]

The stuff the Pilot's Federation gives out is woefully lacking in context. Sure, you can find that trade post to sell your cargo, just don't think the Elite Pilots' Federation is giving up any of their power.

-and at the same time the entry on raxxla in the codex is to be taken very literal wrt clues.
Agree on them not seceding power.


It is a bit interesting it was said that anymore clues and it would be a spoiler.

 

[Rochester]

My recent investigations into the gates of hell and the path of Jacques, has me again thinking; way back to Michael’s commissioned Saxon shield and its potential allegorical links to Paradise Lost.

The design depicts a halo’ed Michael with a heavenly gate in the background; a raven with a smouldering eye watches over them.

I do believe that such pictorial metaphors were evidence of Brookes intentionally albeit clandestine hints - outside of the game. I’ve come to believe this is so due to his Drabbles, being within close relation in context to a wider cosmological construct.

This shield image for me depicts the same design as for his book cover, an archangel fighting serpents outside the gates of heaven (again some unknown figure holding smoke in the background). And I duly suspect these do depict a location in game.

Over the past few years my investigations I believe have identified a design and meaning to the location of hundreds of systems in the bubble. I strongly believe Brookes did write his ‘unpublished book’ but he applied it as an architecture in the game, I believe this was done without the knowledge of FD, and it’s original intention was to act as an architecture for an archived narrative; parts of it likely still exist and probably are in use, but at most I feel these are foundations.

Likewise I feel the location of Raxxla is described in the Codex, and it is this architecture which it alludes to.

Given the Saxxon/Celtic/Norse references, what else may be interpreted from this sheild design?

I don’t believe, much like with the Codex it’s a direct interpretation, or even depicts a precise location, but rather they all, are pictorial metaphors whose references outline various applicably named systems spread over a relative large area, but when viewed together identify some path, direction or fulcrum.

I’m somewhat confident such a location is very close to being around a sphere of influence close to Shamash / Helios / Olorun / Fall / Sheela na Gig, as these all conveniently located around a hypothetical area of heaven.

Presently I’m too close to the data seeing everything factually, needing some time away to help see the wider abstraction, to look for some other interpretations. My only doubts are that said allegory, although potentially correct may relate to an opposing location, but I feel we’ve draw the are for investigation towards a focal point where if one assessment fails to yield results the other ought to follow to be accurate.

I believe we are incredibly close. My only hope is FD has not locked this behind some narrative gate. But I’m confident that if they have, we already have those keys, and this insight rankles them somewhat, which if narrative is payment due in my opinion.

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