Probably a mistype. That should be "+/-200 / +/-200 / +/-200"

Just nitpicking, in case your cited info should be taken as correct by someone.

The project describes itself as examining "all star systems within 200 ly of Sol." That suggests a +/- 200 ... box.

The search progress diagram at https://sites.google.com/view/greatraxxlapotatohunt/home (dated to 2025-11 in the preceding text) shows coordinates from -200 - +200 along each axis.

Also the project status tracker refers to sections covering coordinates in ranges with +/- 200.

Nice, thanks for the links.

I meant in this case +/-100 because the coordinates of Erebus are half of that, so you have to get VERY creative to get this out of 100LY box. Which means it's even less likely for something to be there that simply hasn't been scanned.
 
Which means it's even less likely for something to be there that simply hasn't been scanned.
Certainly any theory which places Raxxla in (or even near) the bubble has to have an explanation for how it's concealed that means no-one has found it yet beyond "maybe no-one has visited that system and performed routine exploration scans yet". Merely finding the system Raxxla was in could be almost no progress at all, in that case.

I personally expect it's a lot further out, and if there are clues pointing to in-bubble systems it's because those systems contain further hints as to its location. But "in a well-travelled system, but you can only find it by doing ......." is a possibility that projects like the potato hunt aren't attempting to rule out.
 
I personally expect it's a lot further out, and if there are clues pointing to in-bubble systems it's because those systems contain further hints as to its location.

Those would be fished out by the potato hunt project if they were beacons, points of interest, structures, etc. So far nothing of significance to Raxxla has been found. The window for anything to come up is closing (as the progress tracker is now at over 93%. There were some rather significant things found, but nothing obviously pointing to Raxxla in any way.

In a way, I find the project results fascinating simply because of the sheer number of random stuff directly in the SOL neighborhood that we previously didn't know about. And those are just preliminary scans - people just found them and took a quick gander to see if there was anything obviously special about it. This is going to keep many people fairly busy for quite a while.
 
Those would be fished out by the potato hunt project if they were beacons, points of interest, structures, etc.
They'd be found, certainly - and the cataloguing work being done by the potato hunt is immensely valuable even if entirely irrelevant to Raxxla. Their significance to Raxxla might not be recognised depending on the nature of the puzzle, though.

Say (not a suggestion this is the actual answer, just an example of form) that the initial clues to Raxxla point to four systems. The names of certain objects in those four systems then form a further clue. The potato hunt - and for that matter, a whole bunch of third party databases - have known for years that Piper Survey exists (in fact, there's three of them). It's only as part of a wider theory that its name can be recognised as forming part of the next stage of the Raxxla hunt - the station itself is just an ordinary station, but realising that Piper Survey's name is part of an anagram with the other three then leads further.
 
They'd be found, certainly - and the cataloguing work being done by the potato hunt is immensely valuable even if entirely irrelevant to Raxxla. Their significance to Raxxla might not be recognised depending on the nature of the puzzle, though.

Say (not a suggestion this is the actual answer, just an example of form) that the initial clues to Raxxla point to four systems. The names of certain objects in those four systems then form a further clue. The potato hunt - and for that matter, a whole bunch of third party databases - have known for years that Piper Survey exists (in fact, there's three of them). It's only as part of a wider theory that its name can be recognised as forming part of the next stage of the Raxxla hunt - the station itself is just an ordinary station, but realising that Piper Survey's name is part of an anagram with the other three then leads further.
You can tinfoil all you want and imagine all sort of theories and possibilities, but that doesn't really help narrow it down. And without any hints or tips it would be like looking for a needle in the hay stack, except much more difficult.
 
You can tinfoil all you want and imagine all sort of theories and possibilities, but that doesn't really help narrow it down. And without any hints or tips it would be like looking for a needle in the hay stack, except much more difficult.
Indeed. I'd certainly spend more time looking for it myself if I could figure out ways to translate the fairly limited clues we have into "and therefore Raxxla is here" or even "and therefore a clue to Raxxla is here".

Theories which place it in/near the bubble but don't say how it must be hidden from normal scanning to have avoided tens of people finding it in the last decade are clearly missing a major critical component - and if that component isn't naturally arising out of the rest of the theory, to me it's a sign that the entire theory is likely wrong.
Theories which place it in deep space need to narrow its location down rather more than that (and it probably still has some concealment against an accidental jump-honk-scan even then)
 
Those would be fished out by the potato hunt project if they were beacons, points of interest, structures, etc. So far nothing of significance to Raxxla has been found. The window for anything to come up is closing (as the progress tracker is now at over 93%. There were some rather significant things found, but nothing obviously pointing to Raxxla in any way.

In a way, I find the project results fascinating simply because of the sheer number of random stuff directly in the SOL neighborhood that we previously didn't know about. And those are just preliminary scans - people just found them and took a quick gander to see if there was anything obviously special about it. This is going to keep many people fairly busy for quite a while.
So I know they said it was taken out of the game but what if the the thing we are looking for is a megaship strapped to a mini planet like this and its still in the game but reserved for something. But it only spawns the thing if conditions are met and it just sets itself up as a moon temp within a system its resting its engines in. That's if we take drews story as a hint that he denies he doesnt know but we aren't him so I take what the elite author's all say with a grain of salt because they could be under a heavy NDA.


And if it is still in the game I wonder if its in an astroid belt cause how often are those just overlooked cause like 90% everyone that plays Elite ignores them cause they think they hold nothing.
 

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Have a suggestion on @Rochester's map project: Can you please extend your maps using Eridanus? The Yggdrasil tree connected to far off regions including some springs. The more I look at this and the tourist stations the more I cannot shake the feeling this should extend past the Bubble.

You arn't too far off about the tree theory. if you sit above the plain above sol you can see star patterns and paths that stretch out like tree arms. Sol's sits within a very unique star cluster of systems.
 
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The constellation Eridanus is named after a river and is one of the largest and longest constellations in the sky. It's associated with many rivers that humans know of, including the Nile, the Euphrates, and the Rhine.
Explanation:
  • Eridanus is divided into a Northern Stream and a Southern Stream.
  • The Northern Stream starts at Rigel, the star that represents Orion's foot, and ends at the paws of Cetus.
  • The Southern Stream extends from there, moving south, southeast, and then southwest.
  • The brightest star in Eridanus is Achernar, which is also the ninth-brightest star in the night sky.
  • Eridanus has been associated with rivers in ancient cultures of Greece, Babylon, Egypt, and Asia.
  • To the Babylonians, Eridanus represented the Euphrates, and to the Egyptians, it represented the Nile.

As sailors began to travel to the Southern Hemisphere, the constellation was extended to the star Achernar.
Other constellations associated with water include:
Delphinus, Equuleus, Piscis Austrinus, Carina, Puppis, Vela, Pyxis, and Columba.
 
So I know they said it was taken out of the game but what if the the thing we are looking for is a megaship strapped to a mini planet like this and its still in the game but reserved for something. But it only spawns the thing if conditions are met and it just sets itself up as a moon temp within a system its resting its engines in. That's if we take drews story as a hint that he denies he doesnt know but we aren't him so I take what the elite author's all say with a grain of salt because they could be under a heavy NDA.


And if it is still in the game I wonder if its in an astroid belt cause how often are those just overlooked cause like 90% everyone that plays Elite ignores them cause they think they hold nothing.

So something like Warinus but with engines?
 
First, credit where credit is due. Thanks to @Beng_Ammon for his thought provoking post on Raaxla which can be found here:

My Raxxla Notes

Thanks too to @Jorki Rasalas for his latest post which helped me pull all my ideas on this together. Below is the key phrase.


"For years people have been counting the dashed lines, and thinking this is a hexagon.

It is not a hexagon. It is a 3d cube inside a 3dcube. there is a sun astronomical symbol, and a broken up orbit line, surrounded by dashed lines, and 6 green bars." - Ben Ammon

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His friend @Inverted Walrus helped him modify the Raaxla logo accordingly to show how it embodies the cube-within-a-cube model.

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Ben, then lays out his fascinating theory linking the rays of the main sun with the occlusion of celestial bodies and Raaxla's location within the system. But that isn't the subject of my post. There is another cube-within-a-cube model that depicts how a hyperdimensional object will appear in three dimensional space - the tesseract.

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Just as a cube will cast a 2D shadow, the tesseract is the 3D "shadow" of a 4th dimensional object - something existing in N dimensions, in hyperspace. So, what if Raaxla, when we find it, is just part of the real thing which actually exists in hyperspace or witchspace? We see part of it in our 3D reality but when the conditions are right, the whole thing is pulled out of hyperspace and then pops up in the ED universe?

"A place that is not a place, a door that is also a key"

The Raaxla that we see here may just be a tiny part of something else, and that something else may be related to this part of the toast:

" To the whisperer in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void!"

What the visible part of Raaxla is, is the puzzle because it could be anything and hidden anywhere. And one more thing, when I found that hidden structure next to Forester's choice in the Golconda system the telltale warning "Structure Detected!" was not in my flight logs, ED Discovery couldn't find it. There is zero sign of me encountering anything unusual in Golconda at all as far as the logs are concerned. Wouldn't be surprised if Drakkster's logs, even if he had recovered them, would have show nothing at all either 🤷‍♂️

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You should watch this if you haven't already:
Source: https://youtu.be/zkv70CNzOYc?si=2ZzL6Nvb3x_5eNeV&t=145
 
Decoding that is a real pain, because it's masked by the noise, and there isn't really a great way to separate the signal from the noise - it's not combined together but FDEV basically completely surrounded the signal source with noise sources so there isn't really a "stand here, you'll hear it better situation".
Can you record the noise on it's own and then remove those wavelengths from the combined recording?
 
So, if in the real world we were to suddenly have the capability of the early space explorers in Elite who supposedly found Raxxla, what stars or other celestial bodies/phenomena would the scientific community of today choose to try to visit first? Or several locations in order of "priority."
 
And if it is still in the game I wonder if its in an astroid belt cause how often are those just overlooked cause like 90% everyone that plays Elite ignores them cause they think they hold nothing.

I started skipping scanning them after I kept running into nothing but pirates. Maybe I should start checking them out again.
 
I started skipping scanning them after I kept running into nothing but pirates. Maybe I should start checking them out again.
Thats the key though your looking for specific pirates around a star. Thats what we keep bypassing. Its a system pirates are looking for and want to use Or have found and are using. The reason I am thinking its an astroid base or a megaship planetoid looking thing recently is I think Raxxla and the Darkwheel are the same thing connected. Find Raxxla Found the Darkwheel. Find the Darkwheel you found Raxxla. Allot of the codex is in past tense meaning this could be a all new set of pirates under a different name using the station and planet and it not being the ones in SD I think those are red harrings. We also dont know if they rebuilt the station.

Edit: The only currently low power and offline and shutdown stations currently in the game are all in the witchhead nebula.
 
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Find Raxxla Found the Darkwheel. Find the Darkwheel you found Raxxla. Allot of the codex is in past tense meaning this could be a all new set of pirates under a different name using the station and planet and it not being the ones in SD I think those are red harrings.

Damn it, I knew inside it was a bad idea to stop investigating asteroid fields. Your scenario is 💯 % plausible 👍
 
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