The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Of course it’s fluff. This happened on an ELW. It can’t have any in game representation.
FFE was also full of fluff stories. Even land marks, like streets, parks and castles were stolen.
If there has ever been a hint regarding Raxxla in Galnet, I’m sure it’s in one of the fluff stories.
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Yeah, reading that recent Alliance Festival and its Details made me think the same.
I mean they could have come up with any writing and fluff describing the event. So why choose "grand themes of grief"?
Just a keyword match that caught my eye (a bit following "hidden in plain sight" search patterns) but it got me thinking.
Not any smarter than before obviously, but if you were someone overseeing ELITE... wouldn't you get frustrated not a single person ever even came close to finding an exceedingly well-hidden "easter egg" of sorts?
I still go by what the leak said and the official statement and clarification on GALnet vs. fluff vs. in-game content. But yet, these details catch my eye occasionally.
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Disclaimer : currently in Deep Space since weeks, so these kind of thoughts just happen. Blame space madness if you must
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There was no need to finish the Cultural Festival either.
I assume they had a bunch of stories already written up and translated (which takes time and money) so they're just spinning through them because, why not?
All these stories take place on inhabited planets, so there's no way we can interact with them (as @Han_Zen says). This makes them automatically fluff.
But feel free to chase them down and prove me wrong
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Because raxxla is fluff?
There are no articles in Galnet about Raxxla, at all. Potential hints must be hidden inside other stories, If ther are any at all.
I think there are, but not quite the type we are looking for. Take the Tionisla dance show. FD put in words that match up with the Raxxla codex. I’m sure FD does this on pourpose. Not as a hint of location to us that has read all there is about Raxxla, but as an interest trigger for players that will end up here eventually.
Not everyone knows about the old games and the old books. FD hands out little key words, so they can Google their way down the rabbi hole.
Same as the old Founders missions.
The fluff of legends...
We know Galnet is being suspended, but we don't know how much they already have written and queued up in the updater. We may see weeks of additional stuff after the official cutoff as they cycle out of the system.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Winking Cat stories are some form of clue. They all seemed to be a bit strange to me, their style seemed a bit different and, in a way, more pointed reporting than the other galnet posts, if that makes sense.
Progress report: After my spell of BH diving I went centroid hunting, did about 7 different possibilities including back towards the bubble then way out near Altera’s Eye again! (think that was the centroid of Heart Neb, NGC7822 and Zeta Cass). Then had a sightseeing trip through the Orio-Persean string (pretty B types, nothing to report), then back via a 2Mass-xxx asteroid base to sell data, back to another centroid near Zeta Cass, and a final BH dive. All in vain, so decided to do a little mooching in the bubble. Friday afternoon I visited Earth (possible poetic solution to jewel?) and its tourist beacons (p.s. there were 4 probes detected in Sol, one’s a bug, two Voyagers, I think third is New Horizons but I’d have to go check my pix from previous investigations). Then Alphekka/Gemma (Scytale’s Corona Borealis, but that’s Ariadne’s crown not Cassiopeia’s as I originally thought), Thetis at Nefertem 6a and Siren (possible whisperer/siren solutions), then Styx, Asphodel, Tartarus and Tionisla (all relating to death, possible solution to third line of toast). Did a search of Tionisla 6 moons (has 8), flew at slow SC from star to New Caledonia, then investigated all 7 asteroid clusters. Nothing to report!!!
I was interested in Tionisla because Simulacrae’s comments about it and DrewW’s comments on the lore importance of the orbital graveyard made think & I did a search on Dark Wheel to refresh my memory. I found:
Elite Dangerous: Premonition by Drew Wagar:
“Just before we’d paid a visit to this weird junkyard in Tionisla …’
‘The graveyard?’ Luko queried, ‘Ah … yes.’
‘You know about the graveyard?’ Hassan asked.
Luko pursed his lips for a moment as if considering what to say. ‘I have heard much of it. A strange place, no? They say it is connected with old stories. They say it was once the headquarters of the Dark Wheel …’
Hassan frowned. ‘The Dark Wheel? Aren’t they a faction in Shinrarta Dezhra?’
Luko chuckled.
‘Somehow I think they are not related,’ Luko said. ‘Hmmm … Life, she saw, hope.’
‘I’m sorry?’ Hassan said, with a frown.
‘That’s what Shinrarta Dezhra means,’ Luko explained. ‘Life, she saw, hope. Languages of old Earth I was told. Zhizn, life. Ra’at, she saw. Nadezhda, Hope. Zhizn Ra’at Nadezhda.”
Elite: The Dark Wheel by Robert Holdstock:
“Tionisla itself is a bright yellow world, and the cemetery is always between the planet and its star. As you fly close, the whole strange graveyard seems to be expanding from the circle of the world behind.
The first thing you see is a shimmering, silver disc, a double spiral of tiny bright points. It slowly turns: it's a galaxy in miniature, with the same intense blur of light at its centre, because here is where the biggest tombs are to be found.
.......
Tethered below this vast, rotating mausoleum is the dodecahedral shape of a 'Dodo' class space station, the home of the Cemetery Authorites. Here you go through security checks and get your visitor's visa. And as you stand in the queue, staring up through the translucent ceiling of the Customs Hall, you can see the battered, broken ships of many of the dead, still attached to the silent tomb that contains the body.”
So: old-style station, only used by “Cemetery Authorities” so low-powered? (might have been retconned to a wheel?), miniature galaxy=“spiralling stars”, Astophel=“star lover”= the interred pilots? Home (“hub”? of the Dark Wheel? Rotating on the inner rim!). I know DreW is tied by NDA, but to publish the first extract in an FD-sponsored book means they didn’t object to it; so it must be either lore or a red herring (suggestive, but not really very helpful!
).DrewW’s comments about the lore importance of Tionisla made me wonder if FD actually had included it from the outset (possibly updated in subsequent phases) as “Raxxla”. Death can, after all, be said to be a gateway, and it is certainly “a journey we all must make”.
Not sure, however, if the game instancing constraints would permit its inclusion, it should, after all, comprise hundreds/thousands of ships plus other bits (crosses, henges, etc to which the ships are attached). (Edit: just to clarify- I did not expect the graveyard to be visible in the normal instance, I was looking for a “gateway” uss etc that might be a transition to a separate instance which would be hiding it).
Summary: off-the-wall interpretation of what and where Raxxla might be, but not found as per clue interpretations. Still suffering Raxxla Madness, confused, last remaining hypothesis disproved; but I have renamed my ship to “Deep Fernweh”!
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Exactly, so since it’s in Galnet means that the Winking Cat is something that can be interacted with.
Though I currently don‘t see how, or why. Good luck in your search Edelgard!
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Wasn't it finally established that the-good-Luko-always-where-and-when-needed, was actually a TDW undercover agent/asset with the task to chaperone the witch?
It's a pity that the conclusion of the FR mYsTerY made him (as well as the other characters created by DW disappear from ED...(or are they back ? The Winking Cat ?)
FD-created characters have not their charism by far, imho.
So flat...
It's a pity that the conclusion of the FR mYsTerY made him (as well as the other characters created by DW disappear from ED...(or are they back ? The Winking Cat ?)
FD-created characters have not their charism by far, imho.
So flat...
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Or it means that the WC story was written before the Galnet Cut.
I think Luko being a DW recruiter was agreed, and his “stranding” on the cult planet that Salomé misjumped to was fixed (how? Did he have access to a time machine???), but can’t remember the source-was it hints from DrewW?
(I’m still trying to figure out the giraffe and vain queen clue which I reread on the Tionisla tourist beacon, how did Camelopardis fit into the story?)
So GalNet leaves at leaswt one more mystery...is the Alliance Festival story just a story finishing off or is it a 'there will be no clues'?
Fernweh - I keep meaning to look into this as a line of enquiry.
Death a journey we all must make - so we have to turn off 'auto-respawn' somehow? I think there's a star system that you have to get to CQC 50 and then reset to 0 to unlock the permit for, don't quote me but do correct me if I'm wrong pls. If so then this M.O. is already in game so not impossible....
cant remember who sorry, said above about DW being able to contact explorers in deep space and needing to leave clues elsewhere to get their attention. Engineers like Palin and Chloe do a pretty good job of knowing when you've crossed 5K LY without needing to get back and sell the data and MB has said that the 'inbox' is specifically for these type of contacts, not specifically DW but other orgs who can contact you without waiting for you to dock somewhere. He also said Engineers are 'monitoring' the pilots and choosing who to send the invite to (that's how it works in MB's mind) so other people can easily monitor the same pilots...
Fernweh - I keep meaning to look into this as a line of enquiry.
Death a journey we all must make - so we have to turn off 'auto-respawn' somehow? I think there's a star system that you have to get to CQC 50 and then reset to 0 to unlock the permit for, don't quote me but do correct me if I'm wrong pls. If so then this M.O. is already in game so not impossible....
cant remember who sorry, said above about DW being able to contact explorers in deep space and needing to leave clues elsewhere to get their attention. Engineers like Palin and Chloe do a pretty good job of knowing when you've crossed 5K LY without needing to get back and sell the data
and MB has said that the 'inbox' is specifically for these type of contacts, not specifically DW but other orgs who can contact you without waiting for you to dock somewhere. He also said Engineers are 'monitoring' the pilots and choosing who to send the invite to (that's how it works in MB's mind) so other people can easily monitor the same pilots...(I’m still trying to figure out the giraffe and vain queen clue which I reread on the Tionisla tourist beacon, how did Camelopardis fit into the story?)
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I don't think the 'no fluff' policy has been implemented yet. According to this post, it's still being considered: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/galnet-changes.519008/page-13#post-7947876
Why a time machine ? He just could never have spent these suspicious "20 years stranded". Just a lie. Or would it be physically impossible? Can't remember..
Btw, after the December patch, asap depending on my saved money, it will be my pleasure to get you all invited, my excellent fellow-threaders, to visit Raxxla.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/post-your-fc-name-here.520418/post-7978775
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Why a time machine ? He just could never have spent these suspicious "20 years stranded". Just a lie. Or would it be physically impossible? Can't remember..
Btw, after the December patch, asap depending on my saved money, it will be my pleasure to get you all invited, my excellent fellow-threaders, to visit Raxxla.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/post-your-fc-name-here.520418/post-7978775
because from the evidence re condition of his ship he had arrived there much earlier than she, so how did he know she would misjump there? Could not be predicted since a misjump, hence he must have known after the fact then travelled back in time? Or perhaps a mistake not picked up in proof reading?
or did he really get stranded there for 20 years and then she accidentally arrived? If he was an Elite DW pilot why couldn't he send an emergency rescue message back to his DW pals?
Really must reread all these stories....