No sweat, we're on the same page and mostly agree on the interpretations of DB's statements. I'm just playing devil's advocate so we don't get too far ahead of ourselves if there is other possible interpretation.

The only reason i brought this all up is because you and others had brought up Raxxla confirmations in response to the leak's "no Raxxla" statement. Raxxla could indeed exist but not expressly be in the game. "There is no Raxxla in Elite" is a loaded statement in itself. There could be scenarios in which Raxxla is technically in Elite, but this art designer would not be "lying" in the traditional sense to say it does not - if Raxxla is some sort of information, for example. Or perhaps Raxxla exists as something uninteresting for players, such as a barren planet surrounded by false rumor. In that sense, would someone be lying if they claimed Raxxla didn't exist?

Im totally with your interpretations of confirmations so far, but we have to admit that they are pretty open to interpretation, and that this leaker has much more established credit than FD at the moment.
 
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No sweat, we're on the same page and mostly agree on the interpretations of DB's statements. I'm just playing devil's advocate so we don't get too far ahead of ourselves if there is other possible interpretation.

The only reason i brought this all up is because you and others had brought up Raxxla confirmations in response to the leak's "no Raxxla" statement. Raxxla could indeed exist but not expressly be in the game. "There is no Raxxla in Elite" is a loaded statement in itself. There could be scenarios in which Raxxla is technically in Elite, but this art designer would not be "lying" in the traditional sense to say it does not - if Raxxla is some sort of information, for example. Or perhaps Raxxla exists as something uninteresting for players, such as a barren planet surrounded by false rumor. In that sense, would someone be lying if they claimed Raxxla didn't exist?

Im totally with your interpretations of confirmations so far, but we have to admit that they are pretty open to interpretation, and that this leaker has much more established credit than FD at the moment.
I saw an amusing (and quite well thought out) theory on Raxxla about a week ago. I cant find the link now, but it went along the lines of:
DB is "a friend" and the developers are the real DW. Elite Dangerous itself is Raxxla, as it provides us with a gateway to another galaxy (in game version of our galaxy) and thus the game itself is a place that isnt a place.
I don't buy it myself, but I found it an interesting idea and plays in nicely to what you just said
 
I hope Raxxla is in game and is found by someone who has put the work in rather than someone just tripping over it. Sadly I highly suspect it's hidden behind an unobtainable permit lock and will only be unlocked in future content or if and when player numbers drop to an all time low to draw lost commanders back in, a sort of safety net if you like
 
No sweat, we're on the same page and mostly agree on the interpretations of DB's statements. I'm just playing devil's advocate so we don't get too far ahead of ourselves if there is other possible interpretation.

The only reason i brought this all up is because you and others had brought up Raxxla confirmations in response to the leak's "no Raxxla" statement. Raxxla could indeed exist but not expressly be in the game. "There is no Raxxla in Elite" is a loaded statement in itself. There could be scenarios in which Raxxla is technically in Elite, but this art designer would not be "lying" in the traditional sense to say it does not - if Raxxla is some sort of information, for example. Or perhaps Raxxla exists as something uninteresting for players, such as a barren planet surrounded by false rumor. In that sense, would someone be lying if they claimed Raxxla didn't exist?

Im totally with your interpretations of confirmations so far, but we have to admit that they are pretty open to interpretation, and that this leaker has much more established credit than FD at the moment.
To be honest, I don't mind if Raxxla is a barren world, as long as I get a decal saying "I visited Raxxla" It can sit alongside my latest decal, which reads "I helped Aegis end humanity"
 
I hope Raxxla is in game and is found by someone who has put the work in
Me too. My personal belief is that it's in-game, near, or in the bubble.

I think that it's on the "8th moon of a gas giant", but that the gas giant and/or moons are not shown on a scan. Who would notice a missing (hidden) planet or moon? For example, it could be on our doorstep: Just "a little further" past Hutton Orbital. Who would ever look out there?

I think Raxxla will probably turn out to be some sort of alien artifact in orbit around (or on) the moon, which is the entrance to 1 or more new galaxies. That would tie in nicely with the original story.

I don't have the patience to find something like this, but I hope someone does!
 
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greetings to you all, raxxla seekers.

i only recently started getting interrested in Raxxla. and been reading this thread a bit. i didn't read all of it, so if this has been pointed out previously, i apologise for repeating it.
i've been looking at the codex logo lately, and i cant help but see a box inside a box. and 6 fragments.
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so i did some paint overlaying.
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i named the fragments from 1 to 6. if you pull them together to the center, they form a perfect box and deductively Raxxla is inside?
what could the 6 fragments be? 6 clues? 6 keys? 6 missions?
also what does the supposed raxxla inside look like? is it familiar in any way?

here is the final result without all the lines.
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just some random tinfoil hat thoughts :)
 
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I'm not making any assertions either way, just pointing out that we actually have no confirmation that Raxxla exists as something in game. I think that, should Raxxla fail to exist as a physical entity in game, there would be no lies on part of FD at this point.
We actually do have confirmation that Raxxla exists as something in the game. Any time you access the Codex you are presented with Raxxla, as something, in Elite Dangerous. It exists as an entry in the Codex which is in the game. Part of the mystery of Raxxla is the question of whether or not it actually exists and, if it does, what is it? Up until someone actually finds Raxxla we will have zero evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists. For those that don't believe it exists ... that is perfectly fine. There are plenty of other things to do in Elite Dangerous that don't include hunting for Raxxla.
 
greetings to you all, raxxla seekers.

i only recently started getting interrested in Raxxla. and been reading this thread a bit. i didn't read all of it, so if this has been pointed out previously, i apologise for repeating it.
i've been looking at the codex logo lately, and i cant help but see a box inside a box. and 6 fragments.

so i did some paint overlaying.
i named the fragments from 1 to 6. if you pull them together to the center, they form a perfect box and deductively Raxxla is inside?
what could the 6 fragments be? 6 clues? 6 keys? 6 missions?
also what does the supposed raxxla inside look like? is it familiar in any way?

here is the final result without all the lines.

just some random tinfoil hat thoughts :)
The concept of the tesseract has been mentioned in this thread before but this is a clear demonstration of how the Raxxla symbol fits it. Thanks for posting!

The more I go over the geometry like this, the more I think that the Raxxla symbol from the Codex is a clue to what Raxxla is and not where it is. The arrangement of two parallel cubes into a tesseract (one of the easiest ways for me to visualise it) does lend itself to being a means of travel between two locations. The only part of the symbol it does not explain is the central dot with three arcs around it. I do wonder if that is a representation of our ship with full shields but it could also refer to something needed to activate it (Thargoid Probe, Sensor and Link?) or some action we have to take, like activating the switches in Guardian Beacons.

If the Raxxla symbol describes what Raxxla is, then I think the where is going to be found from analysis of Princess Astrophel and the Spiralling Stars, possibly with 'fernweh' as a cryptographic key. I also need to read about The Kingdom of Prester John as that is much less well-known than the other myths it is mentioned alongside, which makes me wonder if there is also a clue in there somewhere. Tau Ceti, as the place first mentioned in the Codex article, might represent a starting place in game to a path of sorts, once you know where to go.
 
Prester John as that is much less well-known than the other myths it is mentioned alongside, which makes me wonder if there is also a clue in there somewhere.
I doubt (or more so hope) that the mention of Prester John is intended to simply illustrate that Raxxla is elusive. If there are clues hidden somewhere in that old legend then the problem becomes one of trying to sort out just which version of the legend those clues are hidden in.
 
The concept of the tesseract has been mentioned in this thread before but this is a clear demonstration of how the Raxxla symbol fits it. Thanks for posting!

The more I go over the geometry like this, the more I think that the Raxxla symbol from the Codex is a clue to what Raxxla is and not where it is. The arrangement of two parallel cubes into a tesseract (one of the easiest ways for me to visualise it) does lend itself to being a means of travel between two locations. The only part of the symbol it does not explain is the central dot with three arcs around it. I do wonder if that is a representation of our ship with full shields but it could also refer to something needed to activate it (Thargoid Probe, Sensor and Link?) or some action we have to take, like activating the switches in Guardian Beacons.

If the Raxxla symbol describes what Raxxla is, then I think the where is going to be found from analysis of Princess Astrophel and the Spiralling Stars, possibly with 'fernweh' as a cryptographic key. I also need to read about The Kingdom of Prester John as that is much less well-known than the other myths it is mentioned alongside, which makes me wonder if there is also a clue in there somewhere. Tau Ceti, as the place first mentioned in the Codex article, might represent a starting place in game to a path of sorts, once you know where to go.
Look at the centre of the logo. It could well be a depiction of the surface scanner, from commanders PoV.

There are 6 large symbols and 33 "dash" symbols. Could this indicate that we should use our surface scanner in a system where we are surrounded by a 6 stars and 33 orbiting bodies?
 
Look at the centre of the logo. It could well be a depiction of the surface scanner, from commanders PoV.

There are 6 large symbols and 33 "dash" symbols. Could this indicate that we should use our surface scanner in a system where we are surrounded by a 6 stars and 33 orbiting bodies?
In fact, I just got my surface scanner out. The centre of the logo IS the surface scanner. Either that, or the artist had just been scanning a planet before he came up with a random shape pattern....but I rather go with the former :)
 
In fact, I just got my surface scanner out. The centre of the logo IS the surface scanner. Either that, or the artist had just been scanning a planet before he came up with a random shape pattern....but I rather go with the former :)
Or it could be a set of instructions, a treasure map. From the starting point, Tau Ceti?? Sol?? SD? Go to the 6th closest star, and then go to the 33rd object in that system and get your surface scanner out.

I really wish I hadn't had a moment of madness, when I decided to take a 31 ly Beluga on a DW passenger mission to Empyrean Straits when I have a 60 ly ASP and a 65 ly conda in the hanger. Sigh. I could have been back by now, to play with this. As it is, I'm still 380 jumps from Shin. Sigh
 
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Or it could be a set of instructions, a treasure map. From the starting point, Tau Ceti?? Sol?? SD? Go to the 6th closest star, and then go to the 33rd object in that system and get your surface scanner out.

I really wish I hadn't had a moment of madness, when I decided to take a 31k ly Beluga on a DW passenger mission to Empyrean Straits when I have a 60k ly ASP and a 65k ly conda in the hanger. Sigh. I could have been back by now, to play with this. As it is, I'm still 380 jumps from Shin. Sigh
Hold on!!!! "She claims she's found a map to some pirate stash, and all I have to do is loan her my ship to go dig it up. Maybe we should go find Raxxla while we're at it!" Maybe the logo really IS a map, with Tau Ceti as the starting point????

This would also be "a little bit obvious!"
 
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In fact, I just got my surface scanner out. The centre of the logo IS the surface scanner. Either that, or the artist had just been scanning a planet before he came up with a random shape pattern....but I rather go with the former :)
if i assume that in fact the center logo is a surface scanner, then the way i interpret it is like this :
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1 - Surface Scanner Lines.
2 - A Planet.
3 - Something On A Planet.
4 - ?
does this mean that Raxxla is a Something that is Scannable on a planet? that is if we assume that this interpretation of the logo is true.

Edit 1: Maybe 4 is simply the "instance boundaries" in wich the Planet Exists? in wich case, if we take the rest of the logo in consideration(the 6 triangle pieces). maybe we could say : 6 pieces are required, to enter the instance/system in wich this planet exists, on wich we can scan the supposed Raxxla object?
 
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if i assume that in fact the center logo is a surface scanner, then the way i interpret it is like this :
1 - Surface Scanner Lines.
2 - A Planet.
3 - Something On A Planet.
4 - ?

does this mean that Raxxla is a Something that is Scannable on a planet? that is if we assume that this interpretation of the logo is true.
Yes. I think my working theory (in part because of this, and in part because of the DB discussion last night) is that Raxxla is not a planet. I think it might be the Martian relic, which was found 16 years prior to the first Raxxla reference, giving the rumour time to spread. If this holds up, we could be looking for a crash site. Maybe the ship was transporting the relic, and the relic burned through it, causing it to crash. (Like thargoid - or perhaps simply thargoid). The ship could be called Andromeda, or similar. Then we would have the jewl that burns bright on the mother of galaxies......????
 
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