Technically I think the whole game is amazing TBH. My point was less about technical and more about cost. As in, it would not be costing FD anything (or very little) to have a 2nd galaxy sat there, not being used, until we find it. Hope that makes sense.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Patience, there's lots of groundwork to be done yet, but Elite Dangerous: Uncharted will come*.
*Well, we can hope. : ) Actual arrival may be less than implied.
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You can search for stars by their HD and HIP numbers and, I think, GLIESE too.
Basically, 10 years ago, to have Raxxla "ready" FD would have had to pay for infrastructure. Be that physical servers, or with physical hosts that could support virtual servers.
With cloud methodology and cost models, however, they would only have to start paying for Raxxla at the point we find it. This removes one big cost barrier to Raxxla being a portal to another galaxy.
The other barrier would be implementation. Why would you get busy developers to build a new galaxy, when they are still busy working on Milky Way. My assumption is, however, that this barrier would be removed by the fact you could use a model of the Milky Way that Stella Forge spat out during development cycles, that was not very much like the Milky Way.
With these assertions, you now have a feasible way that Raxxla could exist and how FD would not mind if we dont find it for years/ever. No money is being spent, and no massive effort has gone into it.
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This is caused by the incorporation of Rl star catalogues. Some of these catalogues cover areas of the sky where observations have concentrated on a narrow angle only, and therefore there are a large number of stars in a cylinder that faces away from Sol. This is the case in NGC7822 where all the 'S-xxx' stars are from such an observation.
So yes if you see a large area like your plane of M's, its because of some RL astronomy study that got written in from a catalogue.
I had a feeling it might be something like that. That's why it doesn't hurt to ask.
I try to keep an eye out for anything that seems artificial, but I don't think that is going to work here. I thought I had found a stellar stream the first time I saw a 2MASS cluster. That obviously turned out to be a disappointment. I still keep the theory that there could be a stellar stream that acts as a bridge to something just outside of the Milky Way.
I had a feeling it might be something like that. That's why it doesn't hurt to ask.
I try to keep an eye out for anything that seems artificial, but I don't think that is going to work here. I thought I had found a stellar stream the first time I saw a 2MASS cluster. That obviously turned out to be a disappointment. I still keep the theory that there could be a stellar stream that acts as a bridge to something just outside of the Milky Way.
Didn't find any streams the first time around the galaxy. Then again, it doesn't have to start at the outer rim...
My main reason for thinking that comes from what I read in CoR's Holdstock Report, which describes The Dark Wheel as being a dark galaxy. The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is in the process of being absorbed by the Milky Way, and has a stream that wraps around the Milky Way several times. The stars seem to be old and at the end of their lives, which may make it seem "dark." A large percentage of the stars in Canis Major are red giants, which could fit with the codex image for the Dark Wheel. The thing is, I think that comes from old lore, and stellar streams may not even exist in the game. Everything seems to lead to a dead end.
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I hadn't thought of this. I know you can cycle through systems by continuing to search, but it does seem odd that Lave would bring up multiple results. I can't get on until I put my little Thargoids to bed, but I'm going to try some other systems to see if anything happens.
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The whole game is definitely amazing. However, being that's it's getting old to a lot of cmdrs and the fact that anyone who wouldn't want this in game is lying, it seems like the smartest option.
Is there someone that seriously doesn't want this?
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I'm thinking it was a system awarded to that faction for the Distant Worlds Expedition? EDSM says they are the main faction in that system. I wasn't around for all of that stuff, so I'm not sure.
Nevermind that, I don't think it had anything to do with DW. It does seem to be tied to a player faction, though.
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I think it may have to do with the different designations. For example HIP 73849 is also HD 133708. I'm pretty sure that what I was searching could be a dead end, but you actually got a pretty good idea from it.
I originally searched that just because of "1337" being in the name, since it would be a reference to Elite. Then thinking about it after that, HD 1337 sounds like "H-Delete," which made me think of "Hexedit" and erased memories from the FR story. It was probably just a bunch of empty connections.
Lave is definitely interesting, though. considering the history of it, and the number of systems that seem to be associated with the name. How far apart are the systems that show up when searching? Would it be possible to jump to all of them in a single path?
I originally searched that just because of "1337" being in the name, since it would be a reference to Elite. Then thinking about it after that, HD 1337 sounds like "H-Delete," which made me think of "Hexedit" and erased memories from the FR story. It was probably just a bunch of empty connections.
Lave is definitely interesting, though. considering the history of it, and the number of systems that seem to be associated with the name. How far apart are the systems that show up when searching? Would it be possible to jump to all of them in a single path?
GalMap searches for more than just system names - it also returns planets, stations and possibly other stuff. In addition it returns partial matches where the start of the name matches the search string, so "Lave" will return "Laveykin Station" and variations thereof and "Lavender" if that happens to be a thing.
I was aware that stations and planets show up, I just think it's odd that so many would start with "Lave," but I haven't been to every system. "Holdstock" brings back 10 results, all in the bubble. I think if there is something to find, it would be outside the bubble. I've been trying everything, though. I even played around with the "hollow earth theory," and with more than just Earth.
"Holdstock Platform"
"Holdstock Enterprise"
"Holdstock Vista"
Yeah, I don't think that one is going anywhere either.
"Holdstock Platform"
"Holdstock Enterprise"
"Holdstock Vista"
Yeah, I don't think that one is going anywhere either.
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I was aware that stations and planets show up, I just think it's odd that so many would start with "Lave," but I haven't been to every system. "Holdstock" brings back 10 results, all in the bubble. I think if there is something to find, it would be outside the bubble. I've been trying everything, though. I even played around with the "hollow earth theory," and with more than just Earth.
"Holdstock Platform"
"Holdstock Enterprise"
"Holdstock Vista"
Yeah, I don't think that one is going anywhere either.
According to EDDB there are 15 stations named 'Laveykin something'. He was a Russian cosmonaut, apparently. All of those will show up in a GalMap search for 'Lave'.
Yuri Gagarin has 18 stations. It's just coincidence that Lave matches up with a Russian cosmonaut.
I remember getting excited by something similar, back in the Formidine Rift days, until I figured out what the search was doing.
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I guess we shoukd be grateful there wasn't a cosmonaut named 'Raxxlaski'
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So basically what you're saying is... The Russians took Raxxla?!
I'm kidding, but what is the working theory for Raxxla at this point? Has anyone even scratched the surface of this?
Face value maybe, or it could be a clue (I like clues)
"To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies! To the whisperer in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void! The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of our vagabond hearts."
Among other, borderline psychotic theories that I have come up with, lets try breaking this down...
Sentence 1 has 1 clue - To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
Sentence 2 has 2 clues - To the whisperer in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void!
Sentence 3 has 3 clues - The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of our vagabond hearts
Could be the beginning of a Fibonacci Sequence.....
1 - My best guess is Sag A - Sag A is sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the Galaxy"
2 - My current thinking is somewhere in the Formidine Rift - Not meaning to mix my mysteries, but the comms at one of the club sites talks about this exact phrase.
3 - My best guess is Aganippe - This is based on Greek mythology, specifically Thebes. New Thebes is in Aganippe
Next in the sequence would be 5, which I have so far been unable to hazard a guess at, based on 1,2 & 3
Having suggested they adopt the Golden Mean for the engineering progression, which they didn't...
I'm not convinced Braben is aware of, or focused on the Fibonacci phenomena. I could be wrong...
[Edit: If they were, we should be observing this factor in Thargoid (bio / plant) aesthetics, but we don't. They seem to have applied a binary factor: 32, 64, 128 tharglets, the same as cargo capacity increase.]
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A while ago I tried finding PSR J2222-0137. The main star is a pulsar, but the second star is a faint white dwarf with a temperature of only 3000 K. Apparently at this stage it is just compressing carbon, forming a planet size diamond. I thought it would be a good candidate for the "Jewel that burns in the brow of the mother of Galaxies," but I can't find it anywhere. There's no other designation for the system, and I tried searching the area where it should be. Has anybody else tried to find it?
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PSR J2222-0137
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Remarkable white dwarf star possibly coldest, dimmest ever detected | Astronomy.com
A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected — an Earth-sized diamond in space.
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