It also nicely aligns with Legacy. Rex Cavus (King of the cave/hollow / the hollowed king) seeks an unknown something using Eagles - Darik and Julia's ships - to help him find it.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
- Thread starter Macros Black
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She calls on all mankind to start
to drink her water, though in dark,
for black is night.
-John of the Cross
to drink her water, though in dark,
for black is night.
-John of the Cross
Nice spot!
But it leads me to wonder how much obfuscation has been built into the lore!
Is it all just loosely used to construct a thin veneer of reality for the game, or is this instance a reflection of the codex mention of the Omphalos raising the ancient Greek Zeus/Eagle/Omphalos myth and suggesting that the critical clue lies within Elite Legacy?
(That's poorly phrased, bad night's sleep and need more coffee!)
Because Ive been pointing out for some time that Legacy has Julia, apparently from childhood, fixated on Raxxla (I know the feeling!) and intending to fly to Alliance space to look for it (but with no indication of why she suspects it is there).
The question is ... Exactly where in Alliance space?
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Her grandfather also survived the story, and he indicated Julia would likely end up searching for him and the wider family. Did Brookes indicate in the forum that Julia may have left Freeholm?
“That depends on whether Julia is still there
” M Brookes.Post in thread 'Elite: Legacy'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-legacy.50320/post-2677329
In Elite Legacy, Darik Cavus (oak hearted / cave) was primarily focused upon protecting his daughter Julia Cavus (Joves child / cave) from her grandfather, and he was against her engaging in exploration, particularly because she had an interest in looking for Raxxla.
His family had a nefarious and lucrative business, which utilised various shell companies to remain hidden.
Then we have the indication from the Codex that some members actively try to keep their children out of the Dark Wheel.
I long suspected these characters may be part of the Dark Wheel and the book is giving us some indications on how they may hide themselves, or at most a sphere of influence of where they may be?
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Since Vega is also the the location of the Gan Romero story, I see it as a more likely region (or direction) than 'Alliance space'. I suspect that Julia's book tells a child's version of the TDW story and she plans to go to Lave.
"As a girl she’d even dreamed of being the first pilot to discover Raxxla. Her father disapproved of such tales when she’d been a child. Even so, the desire to head into deep space called to her."
Is deep space the direction she would go for Raxxla or just her yearning for exploration?
"Julia as a girl dreamed of being the first pilot to discover Raxxla. ....
As a girl Julia grew up without toys with a single possession, a book about a young man’s quest to save a princess from an alien dragon locked alone each day in the tiny family cell while her parents slaved in the mines. She hoped to keep her Eagle as she’d grown accustomed to its idiosyncrasies...whether it was a suitable ship for travelling all the way to Alliance space was another matter”
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I imagine from Freeholm anything more than han 10ly or would be "deep space"
I'm somewhat new to the whole Raxxla thing and it's piqued my interest. Um.... 1770 forum pages is a LOT to chew through. Is there a TL;DR floating around please guys and gals?
And we don't know what we're looking for...Yes the TL/DR is basically we haven't found it yet
O7
But we've had lots of fun looking for something; plenty of interesting thoughts, hypotheses, concepts, wanderingss, wonderings and outright craziness...
Skimread through the last 300 pages!
Skimread through the last 300 pages!
On a serious note the very first post is where to start...
The codex is about the only other piece of information that mentions Raxxla in game...
There's the odd mention in official books on Elite dangerous...
Some think other games in the series are relevant, others don't...
And Jorki has a link in his signature on mentions from FD (from David Braben and Michael Brookes)...
The rest is conjecture and ideas from other pieces of literature linked in some way to Elite or Michael Brookes favourite books to Greek (and other) mythologies
And there is also the landscape signal and whether that is Raxxla or linked to it ...
I will have missed many other ideas, thoughts and suggestions but that's stuff off the top of my head....
Oh and not ruling out it might not actually be in the game or you can't get to it currently...
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But unfortunately some of those url links in my FDQuotes thread are so old they may well no longer work
Tempus fugit!