The Quest To Find Raxxla

Oseris

Oseris
Going to throw in my 2 cents and break down how I interpret this thing...

“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."

The universe itself is the mother of galaxies. Jewel on the brow makes me think of a crown. I think the whisperer and siren refer to the same thing, and I think that thing is a sentient entity. The parents grief, lovers woe, both refer to losing someone you will never get back. Maybe an event horizon? Vagabond means wandering, without home.. perhaps they yearn to find a home?

The most interesting thing is the first half of this, as it describes a location. Crown has a couple interesting definitions beyond something you wear. Obviously it means the top/peak of something. However it also means:

the part of a plant just above and below the ground from which the roots and shoots branch out.
the upper branching or spreading part of a tree or other plant.

a paper size, now standardized at 384 × 504 mm.
a book size, now standardized at 186 × 123 mm.
noun: crown octavo; plural noun: crown octavos
a book size, now standardized at 246 × 189 mm.
noun: crown quarto; plural noun: crown quartos

The paper sizes immediately look like coordinates. The tree stuff can be interpreted in a few ways. I don’t have time to get as in-depth as I’d like, sorry for the messy and over simplified post but I hope it stirs some ideas in someone.
 

bluecrash

bluecrash
Macros Black said:
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)
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the ghost system for 1337 is somewhere between the left and right point... added video of search and bug here(if it is a bug) : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19U2JsxlOiq0XFqySHi73gqSIMxekZ4ye?usp=sharing
 

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[PS4] Filthymick420

[PS4] Filthymick420
CMDR Maylor Rom said:
I looked at your Fibonacci sequence, but it does not seem to go past three. Do you have any other data to share?
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Fibonacci sequence or not, it does follow a pattern increasing in increments of one.

I hadn't noticed that before. Honestly though, with the lack of any official info or clues, I might as well start asking strangers on the street if they know anything about raxxla.
 

[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
bluecrash said:
the ghost system for 1337 is somewhere between the left and right point... added video of search and bug here(if it is a bug) : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19U2JsxlOiq0XFqySHi73gqSIMxekZ4ye?usp=sharing
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It's a bug*

Search for HD 119834, otherwise known as M Centauri (not to be confused with m Centauri, HD 116243) and you'll see the same behavior - you get taken to an empty patch of space with no star.

* Of course, it could be a clue** Someone needs to cycle through ALL of the HD stars and identify those that show as blanks, then plot them on the GalMap to see if they form a giant arrow.

** It's a bug

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Actually, now I think about it, it should be a spiral, not an arrow
 
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yelboc

yelboc
TotallySirius said:
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?

PSR J2222-0137

simbad.u-strasbg.fr

www.astronomy.com

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.
www.astronomy.com www.astronomy.com
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If you look at the Simbad entry, you will see that there is no distance figure. ED includes all stars in the star catalogues, but only those with distance estimates - so your pulsar won't be in game..
 

PeteACarter

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CMDR Maylor Rom said:
Granted, this is most likely a bug in the galaxy map, but I wonder what the search would reveal if we used the names of systems from the original game (1984) or if we used system names from Greek mythology. One thing I taught in cyber warfare is to find a bug in the system and then figure out if you can exploit it to your benefit.

To me, the system list may be a trail, if the right system name was used?

Maybe Frontier hid the path in the Galaxy Map.

I have nothing better to do, I will play with this "bug" for awhile.

This may not be a bug, but a search list.

EDIT: I tried this with "Lave" and it took me through about 14 systems, and then back to Lave, and ended there.
It does not work at all when I use REORTE or LEESTI, but it does work with LAVE.

EDIT: I tried some other system names, like ATHENA, which do nothing.

I tried EARTH and it only bounces between two systems, SOL and something called the EARTH EXPEDITIONARY FLEET.

Anyone ever heard of the Earth Expeditionary Fleet? (Closest system is EOL PROU ZO-U B18-28)

o7....
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Yes. Its in the Colonia region. I was there last week.
 

[PS4] Filthymick420

[PS4] Filthymick420
bluecrash said:
We have answers to a lot of the questions: https://discord.gg/TBxRkk // https://trello.com/invite/b/jXYrNr3...2d624e3/cmdr-bluecrashs-codex-elite-dangerous
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Well, thanks. There may have been a possibility I could someday resume a normal life, not hiding in a closet under a blanket, all tin-foiled up. desperately pouring through web pages, PDFs and paperback books, the history channel, Douglass Adams' personal diary, Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Indian mythology, 14th century English poetry, 12 century druidic verses, the Bible, a picture of L Ron Hubbard, ancient Sumerian cuneiforme tablets and a blood pact with Kthulu, with a hotas on my lap and a vr strapped to my face.

But seeing as you've put it all together for me in a neat little archive, it would almost be a shame not to.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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I have reached V1357 Cygni, the location of Cygni X-1 (the secondary in the system is the black hole with that designation). There is one planet, a lava world, which I mapped. The FSS does not show anything else in the system and I flew close to the planet and black hole and nothing unusual was apparent and nothing showed up within 1000 ls of either in the nav panel. I dropped out at the black hole and hit the body exclusion zone at 67.6 km and could not get any closer. I jumped from this proximity to another system and nothing unexpected happened (very minor module damage from heat).

I still think Han Zen's idea that the Dark Wheel toast and the Astrophel clues are giving directional markers that cross over is the best idea around right now, so if there are any other places worth a look nearby let me know, else I'll put this ship into storage at Colonia (I have a DBX with slightly longer range back in the Bubble so this way I will have long range ships in both regions).
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Edelgard von Rhein said:
I have reached V1357 Cygni, the location of Cygni X-1 (the secondary in the system is the black hole with that designation). There is one planet, a lava world, which I mapped. The FSS does not show anything else in the system and I flew close to the planet and black hole and nothing unusual was apparent and nothing showed up within 1000 ls of either in the nav panel. I dropped out at the black hole and hit the body exclusion zone at 67.6 km and could not get any closer. I jumped from this proximity to another system and nothing unexpected happened (very minor module damage from heat).

I still think Han Zen's idea that the Dark Wheel toast and the Astrophel clues are giving directional markers that cross over is the best idea around right now, so if there are any other places worth a look nearby let me know, else I'll put this ship into storage at Colonia (I have a DBX with slightly longer range back in the Bubble so this way I will have long range ships in both regions).
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I you intend on heading back, I would recommend checking out the Cygnus X Complex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X_(star_complex)

It should fit well with Gan Romero's comment about 'an area of space, not black but radiant…glowing like heaven’.
 

Vetinari

V
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."

The jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies - agree probably the Universe itself is the mother. The jewel is probably Raxxla itself (historical example El Dorado the City Of Gold, doesn't mean they know where it is, its just poetry.)

To the whisperer in witchspace - either they know these 'whispers' are real ie Thargoid attacks / hyper-dictions or its a toast to ghosts that don't exist as humour or just a toast to things they don't understand.

The siren of the deepest void - Sirens lured sailors onto rocks, never to return, its a lament to lost friends and many many people who have never returned from the hunt for Raxxla (far more poetic to say that sailor was lured to his death or met a gigantic sea-monster than just hit a reef or ran into a storm and disappeared, you know, the million and one ways for a ship to disappear without being attacked by monsters or lured into the deepest void by a woman, always a female at fault in these stories I notice. Old maps actually have sea-monsters on them because that's what they believed were there.)

The parents grief - the ones who lost children in the 'search for Raxxla'

The lovers woe - The ones who lost lovers searching for Raxxla

The yearning of our Vagabond Hearts - Nothing screams 'We don't know where it is!' like this line.

On a similar positive note has anybody tried searching the GalMap for other words like 'Wild' or 'Goose' or 'Chase'? Away from Xbox so can't check.

'There will be no clues' - there will be plenty of deliberate red herrings but 99.9% of them will be player created speculation and mis-reading or over-analysing things that don't exist. (my favourite past-time with this game so I'm not actually complaining but this thread is 500 pages long and sometimes chasing a red herring over 2 or 3 pages makes it harder to keep track of the right info is all. It is fun to speculate but not when its a bug necessarily)

'Keep our feet on the ground and we may just find it...with our heads in the clouds we'll fly right past it'. - Trad.
 

darkflemish

darkflemish
Search for it but seems not been posted before ?

Mutabilis

Eight channels containing the witchspace energy.
There are eight chart.
A point from which all the galactic witchspace wormholes are sustained.
Raxxla is the mechanism that keeps them open, generates them in the first place.
Raxxla isn't a portal, or time machine by design but an alien construction that underpins the very fabric of witchspace.
Linked to space and time.
Witchspace itself is a manufactured construct.
Raxxla is a hub, a centre point for those wormholes.
Every time you take a witchspace jump, you're passing through Raxxla.
 

Scytale

Banned
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After all this time since TDW toast was released... Still somebody who thinks that every single sentence of it DOES NOT directly relate to Raxxla ?
Raxxla is the jewel and the siren and the parent's grief and the lover's woe and the yearning... Just think to how Romero's (if Raxxla related) wife and parents must feel...
Imho.
darkflemish said:
Search for it but seems not been posted before ?
Mutabilis
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My favorite interpretation of The Myth:. Oolite's Raxxla. Every single jump through witch space is a gift that Raxxla grants us.
But very very unlikely, imho. Note, I'd love to be proven wrong. ;)
 
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