The Quest To Find Raxxla

[[PS4] Filthymick420]

Which is EXACTLY why I'm still enjoying the hunt for Raxxla.

The Formidine Rift mystery was ruined the moment FDev decided they wanted us to find it - the clues became increasingly simplistic until we were basically spoonfed the location of the Zurara (with direct assistance from DrewW to make sure we got it right). The absolute last thing I want to happen is for FDev to decide 'Okay, it's time for them to find Raxxla', because at that point the story is 'on rails' and there's nothing we can do to direct it.

And so we find Raxxla, and then what?
Are FDev going to add a whole new mystery to the game? No, they're not, since there are clearly no story-tellers left on the project. The Halsey and Jacques storylines are dead, Gan Romero shows no signs of being anything other than another fluff piece that FDev have already forgotten about.

Whatever the 'new era' brings, it sure isn't going to be announced with "Hey, we put some cool stuff in the galaxy but there's no way for you to find it. What? Spacelegs? Oh, no, none of that stuff. Maybe after we do atmospheric landings in 2022".

So yeah, I'll take no clues and especially no breadcrumbs thanks.

Well that's you but some of us want to find it sooner, preferably before cyberpunk 2077 is released

 

[yelboc]

As a new CMDR tbh that's how I've experienced 99% of the game, with no clues / pointers of what's happening or has happened, especially in regard to past CGs or 'Community' events or 'storylines', I'm trying to catch up and actually do them in the order they appeared but that's very hard to track in game. Very little is given in game and some of that is read between the lines....I had no idea the majority of the backstory of Colonia (according to Codex some people helped out one time basically, no mention that it moved or disappeared or the rest), the Rift mystery and the whole chase through space of Salome...none of that is explained in game, you have to come onto the internet and often rely on a YT vid recorded at that time to get any sense of what happened, including many many clues and red herrings….I go down one thought track to find that in an obscure livestream it has already been discounted by Frontier et al but there's no record of that livestream anymore....many similar things!

there is this old summary if thats of any assistance. I don't think we got much further than this, and it may save you reading all of the 508 pages (though I recommend the 1st page)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/...xI_-J_pfqj0RGWul0/edit#heading=h.yap2hbg9q7w7

 

[Tigorath]

Just a personal comment on the hunt for Raxxla.

After four plus years of theories on the where-abouts of Raxxla, with some of them rivaling the theories of the best scientific minds of our time in physics and astronomy, we have found nothing. Not one shred of what we could call evidence or proof, other than two statements from those at Frontier. This endevour reminds me of the Kryptos code outside of CIA Headquarters which no one has yet cracked. Almost 20 years after its dedication, the text has yet to be fully deciphered. It took ten years to crack the code of our own DNA, yet here we are four plus years into this search, and we have no clues at all, no workable theory, and no idea of what we need to do.

I have come to the conclusion, that if FDev makes no further statements on the matter, this has now become a fable at best and a hoax in the worst case, perpetuated by Frontier and dependent on our gullibility and belief in a story which seems to have little cohesion, based purely on lore. Frontier has a gold mine here. We all want the lore to be true. Some of us are so engaged we spend our time searching. Frontier is keeping us on the hook now with "no clues" and "it's in the game" as everyone loves a mystery.

Although I have enjoyed the journey, learned much about the galaxy and the game, and have met interesting people from around the world. I now believe that we ourselves keep the lore alive because it was given to us decades ago by Frontier for a game we love. Only when Frontier want's us to find Raxxla, will they give us the bread crumbs we need to find it. I also believe Frontier may have set aside some current permit locked system for Raxxla, but as of this date, Frontier does not have any current or future lore written for us to discover. I believe the 2020 Update, which is a paid DLC, will contain more about the hunt for Raxxla and any update after this will continue the saga.

For the game we have now, Raxxla is nothing but lore and fiction.

o7...

Hey bud, I feel your passion on this. I was in on the hunt when the Unknown Probes turned up. I spent three months of my life hunting down the Guardians. You have actually backed me up on some of my stuff so do not give up now. Never give up.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Hey bud, I feel your passion on this. I was in on the hunt when the Unknown Probes turned up. I spent three months of my life hunting down the Guardians. You have actually backed me up on some of my stuff so do not give up now. Never give up.

By Grabthar’s Hammer
Never give up!
Never surrender!

 

[PeteACarter]

I have landed the Conda inside of every type of guardian ruin. You just have to think small thoughts while landing

Breath in!

 

[Vetinari]

For the game we have now, Raxxla is nothing but lore and fiction.

That's half the problem, it always was. It was a re-used name by an author along with the DW as a good plot line for a story. A story to go with a game to give some background to the Universe. That's where it started and where it ended in DB & IB eyes at that time and probably the author's. That's why it wasn't in the game, it was never thought about as anything but a story manual to go with an actual game...maybe to provide interest on the long hyperspace jumps. Little did they know what we would turn it into. If the story was about the Kardashian Tree Frog we'd all be looking for that now instead, it was never intended to be anything is the problem.

Nothing is factual, clues in the Codex are written or told as oral myths or stories not written as factual points to work from. Even the earliest mention is a story dismissive of an old myth 'Sure, why not go find Raxxla while we're at it'. So even then it was or had become a myth. And that's the retconned lore!

I can see Raxxla being on the 8th moon, assuming DW station is guarding it. I can see both being somewhere completely different. I can see that none of it will tie into any existing myth or story with the answer 'Well we never said the clues were clues or anything but myth' (Like Salome message for the Rift returners). I can see it being 200LY from Lave, or next door to Beagle Point...or not in the game at all and we don't find out until Elite V...I can't see how anything will live up to our expectations so in some way I hope I never find it...


fast forward...FDev email July 2026 Sorry everyone, we forgot to hardwire the Server with all the Raxxla data on, into the mainframe back in 2015, we've only just found out, if you go to Lave now the beacons will show you the way as they were supposed to and the daily ferry will be active next week....

 

[TotallySirius]

I stumbled upon something odd while playing with the galmap. It's probably just a bug, but it seems to line up with a couple of things. If you search "HD 1337" it takes you to AO Cassiopeiae, which is just a different designation for that star. However, if you search again it will move a few light years away from it and just stop there. No star near that spot. I mess around with the map a lot, but I have never seen it do this.

I know some stars below and above the galactic plane will shoot you back to an empty spot, but this just moves over as if something there. A lot of people have linked the Raxxla mystery to Cassiopeia, and "A place that isn't a place" seems to fit this situation.

Once again, probably just a bug, but it made me add a few extra layers of foil to the hat.

 

[Macros Black]

Yeah, it's an interesting place!

I did manage to find a way into the interior via Neutron Star, but ultimately it's just another way in in addition to the main routes and doesn't take you anywhere that isn't easily accessed via the main routes.

I also found a particular version of that NS route for which the line goes directly through the system that the Thargoid Probes reference. No way of forcing a drop part way through the jump though, so it's nothing more than an interesting little coincidence that the route happens to exist.

Which systems take your fancy in there?

Found some non-proc systems (there's more):
8 Leporis
HD 32966 - A (Blue Supergiant)
R Leporis - C Star

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

I stumbled upon something odd while playing with the galmap. It's probably just a bug, but it seems to line up with a couple of things. If you search "HD 1337" it takes you to AO Cassiopeiae, which is just a different designation for that star. However, if you search again it will move a few light years away from it and just stop there. No star near that spot. I mess around with the map a lot, but I have never seen it do this.

I know some stars below and above the galactic plane will shoot you back to an empty spot, but this just moves over as if something there. A lot of people have linked the Raxxla mystery to Cassiopeia, and "A place that isn't a place" seems to fit this situation.

Once again, probably just a bug, but it made me add a few extra layers of foil to the hat.

There are a few glitches like that. Some catalogue stars are misplaced and/or mislabeled, and a few take you to a blank space on the Galmap.

Also, if you search for 'HD 1337' and keep pressing the '>' button you'll cycle through 'HD 13370', 'HD 13371', etc.

 

[TotallySirius]

That had crossed my mind. I also thought maybe that star was moved a few light years for whatever reason, and it just registers it as still being there. I spend hours just searching through that galmap, and I hadn't seen that before, so it got me excited.

Also, is it normal for there to be a flat plane of stars of a certain class? In the Rift, there's a a layer of M class stars, in other areas I've seen it with L class stars.

I've only been playing for a few months, so I'm still catching up.

 

[Macros Black]

I stumbled upon something odd while playing with the galmap. It's probably just a bug, but it seems to line up with a couple of things. If you search "HD 1337" it takes you to AO Cassiopeiae, which is just a different designation for that star. However, if you search again it will move a few light years away from it and just stop there. No star near that spot. I mess around with the map a lot, but I have never seen it do this.

I know some stars below and above the galactic plane will shoot you back to an empty spot, but this just moves over as if something there. A lot of people have linked the Raxxla mystery to Cassiopeia, and "A place that isn't a place" seems to fit this situation.

Once again, probably just a bug, but it made me add a few extra layers of foil to the hat.

Deserves a bug report. Continuing the search brings you to:

HD 133704, HIP 73849, HIP 73928, HIP 73974, 5 Trianguli, HIP 73765, HIP 73793, HIP 73874, HIP 73906, HD 133729, HIP 74053, HD 133738
HD 13374, HD 133740, HIP 73877, HIP 73912, HIP 73957, HIP 73987, HD 133755, HIP 10108, HIP 73474, stopped searching here.

Strangely enough, I've visited none of these systems.

Edit: One idea is to look in the nav-panel for a system listed there, but not visible in the Galmap (the one you mention)

 

[TotallySirius]

Deserves a bug report. Continuing the search brings you to:

HD 133704, HIP 73849, HIP 73928, HIP 73974, 5 Trianguli, HIP 73765, HIP 73793, HIP 73874, HIP 73906, HD 133729, HIP 74053, HD 133738
HD 13374, HD 133740, HIP 73877, HIP 73912, HIP 73957, HIP 73987, HD 133755, HIP 10108, HIP 73474, stopped searching here.

Strangely enough, I've visited none of these systems.

Edit: One idea is to look in the nav-panel for a system listed there, but not visible in the Galmap (the one you mention)

I was thinking about going back out there when I got to Elite rank in exploration. I went before and tried jumping from star to star, trying to pass through that spot. I even flew about 5,000,000 light seconds in that direction from AO Cass, and at different angles while watching the stars. Even though I'm pretty convinced it's a bug, I still think it's worth trying. There's not much else to go on at this point.

 

[Han_Zen]

I stumbled upon something odd while playing with the galmap. It's probably just a bug, but it seems to line up with a couple of things. If you search "HD 1337" it takes you to AO Cassiopeiae, which is just a different designation for that star. However, if you search again it will move a few light years away from it and just stop there. No star near that spot. I mess around with the map a lot, but I have never seen it do this.

I know some stars below and above the galactic plane will shoot you back to an empty spot, but this just moves over as if something there. A lot of people have linked the Raxxla mystery to Cassiopeia, and "A place that isn't a place" seems to fit this situation.

Once again, probably just a bug, but it made me add a few extra layers of foil to the hat.

This happens sometimes. The star was probably added both as AO Cass and HD 1337, from two differen catalogues, giving them slightly diferent positions.
Then the one from the Henry Draper catalogue was removed in cleaning, but the position reference stayed.

 

[Scytale]

I want to believe that Raxxla is indeed in game, that it hosts some kind of portal to other universes with all what it implies in matter of alien knowledge and treasures. I want to believe that DB and MB had enough sensibility and honesty to NOT defraud their customers as well as the creator of Raxxla.
(Amen.)
Well.. What I really would like is just another fresh galaxy to explore...

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

I was thinking about going back out there when I got to Elite rank in exploration. I went before and tried jumping from star to star, trying to pass through that spot. I even flew about 5,000,000 light seconds in that direction from AO Cass, and at different angles while watching the stars. Even though I'm pretty convinced it's a bug, I still think it's worth trying. There's not much else to go on at this point.

For a different system I tried jumping across the space where the missing star was - didn't work

 

[PeteACarter]

I want to believe that Raxxla is indeed in game, that it hosts some kind of portal to other universes with all what it implies in matter of alien knowledge and treasures. I want to believe that DB and MB had enough sensibility and honesty to NOT defraud their customers as well as the creator of Raxxla.
(Amen.)
Well.. What I really would like is just another fresh galaxy to explore...

I may have said this before, but I have come to the belief/hope that Raxxla will be largely uninteresting in it's own right, but unlock the DW, which may bring additional game play.

I cant imagine that FD have a bunch of servers, ready with an alternative galaxy loaded. Although that being said, I believe they use AWS, which would make it possible for them to do this, whilst spending close to 0 money. If they have, then the 1st CMDR should expect the load screen to last about 40 minutes, whilst the auto scaling group spins up some EC2 instances and the game loads!

Edit - Even more possible, if they have a failed model of the Milky Way left over from Stella Forge development and testing. Create a galaxy that doesn't look like the milky way and hey presto, new galaxy!

Damb it - I'm talking myself back into Raxxla being the end game!

 

[simulacrae]

This happens sometimes. The star was probably added both as AO Cass and HD 1337, from two differen catalogues, giving them slightly diferent positions.
Then the one from the Henry Draper catalogue was removed in cleaning, but the position reference stayed.

I often will use the HD numbers if im looking for a star and cant find due to odd naming conventions. It usually works - i think alot of them have secondary searchable names.

 

[Scytale]

AWS = Amazon Web Services ?

 

[PeteACarter]

AWS = Amazon Web Services ?

Yeah. And EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud. Basically a bunch of virtual machines sat on Amazon's modified Xen hypervisor. You only pay for them when you are using them under some payment models. They could have an auto scaling group, configured to allow 0 or more servers, sitting there idle, ready to host a new galaxy, until such time as we find it. At that point, the ASG scales up, we get a new galaxy and FDs operational costs increase!

 

[Scytale]

So you mean, technically, it wouldn't be anything amazing to be able to "jump" from the current Milky Way to, let's say, the Large Magellanic Cloud ?
FD ! I want this !