"Raxxla is the 8th moon of a gas giant" ... you mean old the Dark Wheel station in low power mode probably.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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LOL whoops, turns out that I do mean that! Too much information, Im old and confused 
Not rank-locked for a lot of CMDRs who are Backers from the Kickstarter!
What's wrong with Tau Ceti?
Tau Ceti was first system where life was discovered off Earth. It was one of the first major human colonies.
From the History section of the Federation codex, we can read: "The year 2162 saw a dispute between the colony of Tau Ceti 3 and the Federation authority, centered on the colonists' repeated refusal to limit the damage they were inflicting on the alien ecosystem."
In ED Tau Ceti 3 is Bell's Wreck. This is wrong. The story of the colonists happened on the earth like world Taylor Colony (Tau Ceti 2). This is confirmed by Tourist beacon 0169.
Taylor Colony and Bell's Wreck has switched places since Fe:2, so this is an understandable mistake. Still sloppy, for such an important system.
A bigger problem is that Taylor Colony is marked as Terraformed in ED. It's strange that a planet where the alien ecosystem triggered the establishment of the Federation and was colonized 140 years before the first ever terrafoming, is tagged like that.
The same problem exist with: Reagan's Legacy in Delta Pavonis, Homeland in Beta Hydri and Biggs Colony in Altair.
All of them are marked as terraformed, in contradiction with both old and new lore.
Tau Ceti was first system where life was discovered off Earth. It was one of the first major human colonies.
From the History section of the Federation codex, we can read: "The year 2162 saw a dispute between the colony of Tau Ceti 3 and the Federation authority, centered on the colonists' repeated refusal to limit the damage they were inflicting on the alien ecosystem."
In ED Tau Ceti 3 is Bell's Wreck. This is wrong. The story of the colonists happened on the earth like world Taylor Colony (Tau Ceti 2). This is confirmed by Tourist beacon 0169.
Taylor Colony and Bell's Wreck has switched places since Fe:2, so this is an understandable mistake. Still sloppy, for such an important system.
A bigger problem is that Taylor Colony is marked as Terraformed in ED. It's strange that a planet where the alien ecosystem triggered the establishment of the Federation and was colonized 140 years before the first ever terrafoming, is tagged like that.
The same problem exist with: Reagan's Legacy in Delta Pavonis, Homeland in Beta Hydri and Biggs Colony in Altair.
All of them are marked as terraformed, in contradiction with both old and new lore.
Quite a few of the original bubble worlds like Lave and Reorte and Riadquat were all procedurally-generated names from the original 1984 game, which is the main reason why they are so weird. I don't think Raxxla was a world in one of the original 8 galaxy maps from 1984, but others here will probably know.
It was actually impossible for the name generator in Elite to make a system called Raxxla.
Raxxla was only in the book.
Which, to be fair, never claimed R was a system. Towards the end it's referred to as a planet. OF all the systems that _were_ in the DW novella and the 1984 game, only Tionisla, Teorge and Aona exit in ED. Tionisla we all know well, and Teorge, the home of Elyssia Fields was Salome's destination. Aona is just a lonely star, and no water worlds (in the novella its the source of the Moray Starboats)
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Would be very weird, even nonsense, that the PF gets a system locked with Raxxla in. Quite inconsistent from a lore point of view.
I don't think that obfuscated = locked . I hope it will turn out to be something more... exotic ?
But with FD, who knows ?
That dragon turns out to be a five headed hydra. Then, logically, the Wizard needs five alter ego.
The Dark Wheel.
Besides, both are in the Codex.
And never forget the rest of the phrase: ".. so people know what they are doing." It gives all its sense.
The thing is... we all knew what we were doing until the E/F missions suddenly disappeared.
FD...
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If Raxxla is hidden through an arbitrary or deceptive means people will be upset, and I imagine lots will quit and never come back to the ED franchise. Such ways include permit locks that cant be obtained, Raxxla being in witch space, or being on a star we cant reach so its inaccessible. It would just feel cheap. In the least there must be a way for us to discover where it is even if we cant reach it- e.g. being able to find out in game that it is actually in witch space. That would at least be equivalent to finding it. But for them to just pop up one day and be like "guess what guys!" would everyone off.
I personally think finding TDW will be key to getting leads to where Raxxla is. They may not know its location, but after all this time they may well have lots of strong leads that a player could work with.
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"A place that is not a place, a door that is also the key."
-> "A place that is not placed at the same place all the time, acessible only when the key (time-lock) is right."
If I would be FD I would made it obfuscated using the same mechanic like thargoid incursion zones. Present all the time but invisible and non-interactive, active only during certain periods (weekly tick e.g.)
"A planet not gravitational bounded to a star" but time-based bounded so it never appears on the same place in the system - switching dimensional planes in intervals. Like in old purged books.
And we already have in the game that planet that you can land on only under certain angle at certain time interval because of high speed rotation.
Enlarge the orbit, made it visible/obfuscated during longer period, retain high speed... Me evil. FD good. Raxxla - precious!
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The same line pattern appears on mail slot bullseyes a smashed x with a line running through the middle. The center of the Raxxla logo has two circles and three partial circle lines, this resembles the data core of a Guardian beacon. The hexagon is used in game to represent engineers and modified modules. A dotted line may represent a crossable barrier or cloak. The Omphalos rift or possibly the omphalos stone in Delphi. No omphalos in the system of Delphi that can be seen but I'm sure you guys have already been there lol.
"The stone itself has a carving of a knotted net covering its surface, and has a hollow centre, which widens towards its base. The Omphalos at Delphi came to be identified as the stone which Rhea wrapped in swaddling clothes, pretending it was Zeus. This was to deceive Cronus, his father, who swallowed his children so they could not grow up and depose him as he had deposed his own father, Ouranos."
Any way that's my 2 cents about logo connections atm.
The bubble is a lie!!!!!111!!!!
There is only one shape in this galaxy. And it is the cube!!! 8D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWSkYqqkMA
We know what is going on now. They are trying to kill us all!! Once it is finished we will all be stuck in it and we are finished!!!! Raxxla will be the trap. It will portal us in and we will never be able to leave!
I noticed it near HD 38563C. It was a wall of stars. I knew instantly something was up. I moved around and found solid corners etc....
https://imgur.com/a/Tj2fTl1
BTW, there is also a line of stars at the center of the galaxy. It seems to basically span the whole thing. (some of this is col 70 but it keeps going far past it.)
https://imgur.com/25xAqsk
A cloaking device would be awesome if that is where that line of logic leads!
I wonder if both of our cubes will be related in the end.
I've never been able to look at that guardian ball you get those blue prints from close enough to see if it was related. I'll have to look at some still photos.
There is only one shape in this galaxy. And it is the cube!!! 8D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWSkYqqkMA
We know what is going on now. They are trying to kill us all!! Once it is finished we will all be stuck in it and we are finished!!!! Raxxla will be the trap. It will portal us in and we will never be able to leave!
I noticed it near HD 38563C. It was a wall of stars. I knew instantly something was up. I moved around and found solid corners etc....
https://imgur.com/a/Tj2fTl1
BTW, there is also a line of stars at the center of the galaxy. It seems to basically span the whole thing. (some of this is col 70 but it keeps going far past it.)
https://imgur.com/25xAqsk
A cloaking device would be awesome if that is where that line of logic leads!
I wonder if both of our cubes will be related in the end.
I've never been able to look at that guardian ball you get those blue prints from close enough to see if it was related. I'll have to look at some still photos.
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Idk if it’s been mentioned before but, news to me anyway, the company that started Universal Cartographics, was Omphalos InfoTech. They’re a big company that gobbles up all the cartographic data they can, what their business is with it idk, other than The Club making their list of earth-likes. Idk if there’s a hint in the name or if it’s just coincidence, but there is an Omphalos of sorts gobbling up data on the spiriting stars that is the Milky Way. How a Rift, in the form of an artifact/gateway would fit into that tho, idk.
What is the source of this info ?
Usually if it is a corporation it should also have a home system.
It was from the UC Codex article. “...arising from a merger of Omphalos infotech and Devaine-bright interstellar” at work atm so I cant get a screen grab but that’s where it’s from.