Ark of the Covenant, surely?
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Me too. ”Raxxla Gateway”!
It should have been “Relax Gateway”, but the signwriter was dyslexic
Or the DW station is actually orbiting something called Raxxla, possibly a Guardian Ark ship or Thargoid planet-sized mothership.
@Han_Zen: incidentally you mentioned the book “Wanted” a few pages back & planet close by a neutron star. I’m re-reading it now and the bounty hunter jumps into a disused system -“Witch’s Reach”, one of the systems locked by PF with no known permit-is this coincidental I ask myself?! Has anyone checked to see if the other locked systems appear in any of the books?
Witch's Reach is a strange one. Like Polaris, there is supposed to be a specific permit for it. It has never been obtainable.Me too. ”Raxxla Gateway”!
It should have been “Relax Gateway”, but the signwriter was dyslexic
Or the DW station is actually orbiting something called Raxxla, possibly a Guardian Ark ship or Thargoid planet-sized mothership.
@Han_Zen: incidentally you mentioned the book “Wanted” a few pages back & planet close by a neutron star. I’m re-reading it now and the bounty hunter jumps into a disused system -“Witch’s Reach”, one of the systems locked by PF with no known permit-is this coincidental I ask myself?! Has anyone checked to see if the other locked systems appear in any of the books?
I've done some alignment checks on it. It lines up with Polaris(Celestial pole) and Cat's Eye(Ecliptic pole) on the opposite side of Sol, when viewed flat in the Galaxtic plane. I have no idea if that means something?
The only other lore visits to unobtainable permit locked systems I remember are the two visits to COL 70 Sector, in Premonition.
I'm sorry! I tried! But I kept losing track of what where my idea's, and what where just re-hashes of things I'd read, so I gave up and decided to just run with it and see what I came up with!
Brace yourselves, this goes loooooong!
Ok then folks, my idea's about Raxxla and how to find it!
Lets a have a look at the Raxxla 'symbol' from the Codex entry.
It looks like its this one:
There appears to be an alternate/older version with only 18 dashes making up the inner hexagob, narrower green lines/lanes linking the sides of the two hexagons and a smaller central symbol, but this one looks like the right one.
So, a hexagon within a hexagon, linked at the mid point of each side by a green 'lane' or line.
This makes me think the number six is significant somehow (more on that in a bit).
The inner hexagon is represented by a series of 33 dashes - alternating sides of 6 dashes then 5 dashes. The 6 dashed sides are top, lower right and lower left.
These corespond with the three arcs around the edge of the central symbol.
Taken as a whole, this central symbol puts me in mind of the targetting reticule in our ships HUD - all be it inverted.
Like this one:
Of course, that could just be because I'm a gimbal scrub, so here's a fixed gunsight, too:
Now, I'm not sure if this might mean that the outer details (hexagons, lines/lanes, dashes) all lead to the centre point, our target - in essence, Raxxla, or if it means we have to start from the centre, and work outwards.
This latter notion of starting in the middle and working outwards came when I read somewhere (I don't recall where! Only earlier today, or at earliest yesterday, too!) about the circle in the centre of the Raxxla logo being the Astronomical symbol for the sun.
Well, its the Astrological symbol for the sun, which since we're dealing with the myth, legend, conspiracy and superstition that is Raxxla, is close enough - I can feel all the astronomers giving me the stink eye for that one!
Ok, the Sun. Sol. Do we start there? Is the end there? I have a Sol permit (Beta backer), never used in 5 years, maybe its time I went 'Home'.
But what if its not Sol?
What?
I'll come back to this in a bit.
But for now, something else to consider.
The Dark Wheel.
Their Toast, specifically:
"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. To Raxxla!"
This is probably not an original suggestion - but has anyone tried reading it as a set of directions? A road map to Raxxla, of sorts?
I'm sure many people have, but I'm going to suggest it and have a try anyway
Ok, so earlier, I said I felt the symbol makes the number 6 significant.
Working from that premise, I can get six points of reference from 'the toast':
1: To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
2: To the whisperer in witchspace
3: the siren of the deepest void!
4: The parent's grief
5: the lover's woe
6: and the yearning of our vagabond hearts.
Reading it 'straight up' without 6 being significant, can pare it down to three:
1: To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
2: To the whisperer in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void!
3: The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of our vagabond hearts.
But for now I'm sticking with six - its my 'pet theory' for now, and reducing to three puts a lot of parameters on 3, whilst pretty much guaranteeing 2 is in some way 'Thargoids, Listy!'
So, suggestions for where these 6 points of mine might be (I don't claim a full set of answers, otherwise I'd be posting screenies of Raxxla and declaring 'Oooooh!!!!!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Found it! Raxxla is mine LULZ!') are listed below:
1: To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
Ok, so this is where it gets mythological, as noted in my previous post.
Mother of galaxies = Mother Deity(ies). Bear with me. There are many Mother Deities from many mythologies, so we need to narrow it down a bit, and justify that conflation with galaxies. So. In Ancient Egypt the Milky Way was a symbol of fertility, and the Nile, wich meant fertility of the adjoining land, which meant survival for the people of Egypt. So there's my conflation
Egyptian Mother Deities? Isis. There are others (notably Sopdet, later conflated with Isis, who was associated with the star Sirius). But lets stick with Isis, she's pretty much THE Egyptian Mother Deity - also, she wore a headress. Two horns supporting a 'sun disk, or 'the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies'!
So, we could be back to starting at Sol. But there is also a star bearing Isis' name. There's Sirius to consider, if we accept Sopdet as a sort of prot-Isis. There are several other stars that I found in the Galmap named after mother deities - Ishtar and Hathor, and there are doubtless more!
I'm going to stick with Sol, Isis or Sirius as possibilities for now.
2: To the whisperer in witchspace.
This ones a toughie. the obvious thing to want to do is link it to Thargoids. But they're not a place. Now, I remember reading somewhere, last time I was playing (so around two years ago) about legends of pilots seeing 'cities' in witchspace - anyone know what I mean? If anyone could point me at those I'd appreciate it.
But 'cities in witchspace' aren't a place we can readily get to atm.
Could 'whisperer in witchspace' reference transmissions, either sent or received? Like the Thargoid probe (yay, linked it to Thargoids anyway!) at, iirc, Merope 5 C, beaming transmissions to Col 70 space? So, Merope? Col70?
Not sure at all on this one, but with the Pleiades getting a look in at 3, lets plonk for Col70, for now.
3: the siren of the deepest void!
My first thought on this one was 'somewhere in the Formidine Rift' - confalting the rift with 'deepest void'. I'd have to learn a lot more about the FR mystery to support that idea, I think. Also, the FR is out in the same direction as at least one, maybe two, of my later ideas for 5 and 6, so I'll put the FR down as a 'no' for now.
Back to Mythology, then?
Ok, why? 'the SIREN of the deepest void'. I didn't find a list of Mythological Siren names to check the Galmap with until just this minute as a I write this, but I did recall the Pleiades, the '7 sisters' are connected to 'the Oceanids' (sea nymphs, close enough to sirens, right?) through the name Asterope and/or Sterope, so lets narrow down to one of those two stars.
'Deepest void' in this case referencing the ocean habitat of the Sirens/Oceanids.
4: The parent's grief
Ok, so for this one I confess I started out mythological once again, scouring classical myths for grieving parents.
Then it occured to me. Elite has its own grieving parent. And they are linked to a stellar location.
John Jameson.
HIP 12099.
5: The lover's woe
This can only be 'a broken heart'. The only stellar location I can come up with for that is the Heart Nebula, so that's what I'm riding with for 5 atm.
6: and the yearning of our vagabond hearts.
At first I focused too much on the heart side of this. What would a 'nomad heart' want most? A companion? A mate. A soul mate. THe Soul Nebula?
To close, literally and figuratively, to the Heart Nebula under 5, so discarded that.
Focus instead on the vagabond part. What might a nomad, a wanderer, a seeker want? A home, perhaps? Who is this wanderer? the player(s), perhaps (if I may be so meta!)?
And recalling that 'you have to be Elite to find it' remark attributed to the Devs (maybe even DBOBE himself, I forget specifically), then perhaps that home could be none other than Shinrarta Dezhra!
Ok, wow. Thats a lot of speculation, supposition, tinfoil, flakey reasoning and dodgy premises to be going on with for now!
But, erm, there's more!
So, are these six points a literal map? Start at 1, travel through 2,3,4,5 to 6, find Raxxla? That whould pretty much imply that Raxxla is found, it's Shinrarta Dezhra, and Raxxla was the friends we made along the way!
Woot! Hurrah! Zomg!
Yeah, I find that as unsatisfying as you did, reading that, too!
So what if these six places/points are clues to Raxxla, in some way?
Go to each (in specific order, or at random?), find clues there, assemble clues, travel to Raxxla/next layer of Mystery?
Could be.
But what if we combine my mad ravings on these six locations with my earlier ravings on the Raxxla symbol...?
Six side. Six lanes/lines. Six locations. A target in the centre of them all.
What then?
So, ok, those six locations. Array them around the outside of the Raxxla Hexagon. From pure arbitrary force of human-o-centric habit, put 1 at the top, 2-6 following clockwise.
Ok, the six lanes/lines now become lines linking opposite locations, until we have a common point where the three lines (linking six dots) meet in the 'centre'.
It doesn't have to be a literal centre point - the reglar lines and hexagons of the symbol could be an abstraction just to show six points to be linked, where the lines cross 'bingo!'.
I haven't done this part of the exercise yet - find the Galmap tricksy to manipulate for long periods of time. My normaly great sense of spatial awareness and relationships seems to quickly drain away when I'm in there!
Just to stir/season the pot one last time maybe the 'arc's around the centre circle are meant to block the 3 lines/lanes from the edges, filtering the 6 linked points down to 3 points to triangulate between. The result should be broadly similar though, right? A nominally central point?
There be Raaxla! Or at least, the next layer of the mystery, waiting to be unravelled.
Or a monument of crumpled lumps of tinfoil, accreted from the hats of all prior Raxxla Questors to pass this way only to depart, disappointed, they where on the wrong track all along?
Ok, so, thats really all of my mad ravings on the Quest for Raxxla so far!
None of it is presented as 'full and final form, a solid theory of where and how to Find Raxxla'.
Its more 'the stream of conciousness ravings of another tinfoil lunatic' presented here in case there are scraps of good idea's, or the germ of a productive clue for someone else to incubate.
Have at it! Build it up! tear it down! Expound upon the idea's within, or shut them down and gently bury them!
let me knoiw if you find anything of merit in these crazed imaginings. Or if its all just a re-hass from something 667 pages ago that I simply never noticed!).
If you read all this - thanks for sticking with it, hope it wasn't a total waste of your time!
Bonus tinfoil:
Am I the only one that sees the Raxxla symbol every time they're in the docking bay...?
PS: It's late, I'm tired, and I should be in bed, so if there's a million typo's, run-on sentences that make no sense, etc, my apologies, I'll try and catch 'em all over time!
PPS: If I suddenly disappear, you know I'm on to something, and the Dark Wheel done disappeared me!
There's much there that's familiar, but you got the spirit of it - well done - now you have to make those hunches stick with in-game evidence..
Good luck !
I'm sorry! I tried! But I kept losing track of what where my idea's, and what where just re-hashes of things I'd read, so I gave up and decided to just run with it and see what I came up with!
Brace yourselves, this goes loooooong!
Ok then folks, my idea's about Raxxla and how to find it!
Lets a have a look at the Raxxla 'symbol' from the Codex entry.
It looks like its this one:
There appears to be an alternate/older version with only 18 dashes making up the inner hexagob, narrower green lines/lanes linking the sides of the two hexagons and a smaller central symbol, but this one looks like the right one.
So, a hexagon within a hexagon, linked at the mid point of each side by a green 'lane' or line.
This makes me think the number six is significant somehow (more on that in a bit).
The inner hexagon is represented by a series of 33 dashes - alternating sides of 6 dashes then 5 dashes. The 6 dashed sides are top, lower right and lower left.
These corespond with the three arcs around the edge of the central symbol.
Taken as a whole, this central symbol puts me in mind of the targetting reticule in our ships HUD - all be it inverted.
Like this one:
Of course, that could just be because I'm a gimbal scrub, so here's a fixed gunsight, too:
Now, I'm not sure if this might mean that the outer details (hexagons, lines/lanes, dashes) all lead to the centre point, our target - in essence, Raxxla, or if it means we have to start from the centre, and work outwards.
This latter notion of starting in the middle and working outwards came when I read somewhere (I don't recall where! Only earlier today, or at earliest yesterday, too!) about the circle in the centre of the Raxxla logo being the Astronomical symbol for the sun.
Well, its the Astrological symbol for the sun, which since we're dealing with the myth, legend, conspiracy and superstition that is Raxxla, is close enough - I can feel all the astronomers giving me the stink eye for that one!
Ok, the Sun. Sol. Do we start there? Is the end there? I have a Sol permit (Beta backer), never used in 5 years, maybe its time I went 'Home'.
But what if its not Sol?
What?
I'll come back to this in a bit.
But for now, something else to consider.
The Dark Wheel.
Their Toast, specifically:
"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. To Raxxla!"
This is probably not an original suggestion - but has anyone tried reading it as a set of directions? A road map to Raxxla, of sorts?
I'm sure many people have, but I'm going to suggest it and have a try anyway
Ok, so earlier, I said I felt the symbol makes the number 6 significant.
Working from that premise, I can get six points of reference from 'the toast':
1: To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
2: To the whisperer in witchspace
3: the siren of the deepest void!
4: The parent's grief
5: the lover's woe
6: and the yearning of our vagabond hearts.
Reading it 'straight up' without 6 being significant, can pare it down to three:
1: To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
2: To the whisperer in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void!
3: The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of our vagabond hearts.
But for now I'm sticking with six - its my 'pet theory' for now, and reducing to three puts a lot of parameters on 3, whilst pretty much guaranteeing 2 is in some way 'Thargoids, Listy!'
So, suggestions for where these 6 points of mine might be (I don't claim a full set of answers, otherwise I'd be posting screenies of Raxxla and declaring 'Oooooh!!!!!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Found it! Raxxla is mine LULZ!') are listed below:
1: To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies!
Ok, so this is where it gets mythological, as noted in my previous post.
Mother of galaxies = Mother Deity(ies). Bear with me. There are many Mother Deities from many mythologies, so we need to narrow it down a bit, and justify that conflation with galaxies. So. In Ancient Egypt the Milky Way was a symbol of fertility, and the Nile, wich meant fertility of the adjoining land, which meant survival for the people of Egypt. So there's my conflation
Egyptian Mother Deities? Isis. There are others (notably Sopdet, later conflated with Isis, who was associated with the star Sirius). But lets stick with Isis, she's pretty much THE Egyptian Mother Deity - also, she wore a headress. Two horns supporting a 'sun disk, or 'the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies'!
So, we could be back to starting at Sol. But there is also a star bearing Isis' name. There's Sirius to consider, if we accept Sopdet as a sort of prot-Isis. There are several other stars that I found in the Galmap named after mother deities - Ishtar and Hathor, and there are doubtless more!
I'm going to stick with Sol, Isis or Sirius as possibilities for now.
2: To the whisperer in witchspace.
This ones a toughie. the obvious thing to want to do is link it to Thargoids. But they're not a place. Now, I remember reading somewhere, last time I was playing (so around two years ago) about legends of pilots seeing 'cities' in witchspace - anyone know what I mean? If anyone could point me at those I'd appreciate it.
But 'cities in witchspace' aren't a place we can readily get to atm.
Could 'whisperer in witchspace' reference transmissions, either sent or received? Like the Thargoid probe (yay, linked it to Thargoids anyway!) at, iirc, Merope 5 C, beaming transmissions to Col 70 space? So, Merope? Col70?
Not sure at all on this one, but with the Pleiades getting a look in at 3, lets plonk for Col70, for now.
3: the siren of the deepest void!
My first thought on this one was 'somewhere in the Formidine Rift' - confalting the rift with 'deepest void'. I'd have to learn a lot more about the FR mystery to support that idea, I think. Also, the FR is out in the same direction as at least one, maybe two, of my later ideas for 5 and 6, so I'll put the FR down as a 'no' for now.
Back to Mythology, then?
Ok, why? 'the SIREN of the deepest void'. I didn't find a list of Mythological Siren names to check the Galmap with until just this minute as a I write this, but I did recall the Pleiades, the '7 sisters' are connected to 'the Oceanids' (sea nymphs, close enough to sirens, right?) through the name Asterope and/or Sterope, so lets narrow down to one of those two stars.
'Deepest void' in this case referencing the ocean habitat of the Sirens/Oceanids.
4: The parent's grief
Ok, so for this one I confess I started out mythological once again, scouring classical myths for grieving parents.
Then it occured to me. Elite has its own grieving parent. And they are linked to a stellar location.
John Jameson.
HIP 12099.
5: The lover's woe
This can only be 'a broken heart'. The only stellar location I can come up with for that is the Heart Nebula, so that's what I'm riding with for 5 atm.
6: and the yearning of our vagabond hearts.
At first I focused too much on the heart side of this. What would a 'nomad heart' want most? A companion? A mate. A soul mate. THe Soul Nebula?
To close, literally and figuratively, to the Heart Nebula under 5, so discarded that.
Focus instead on the vagabond part. What might a nomad, a wanderer, a seeker want? A home, perhaps? Who is this wanderer? the player(s), perhaps (if I may be so meta!)?
And recalling that 'you have to be Elite to find it' remark attributed to the Devs (maybe even DBOBE himself, I forget specifically), then perhaps that home could be none other than Shinrarta Dezhra!
Ok, wow. Thats a lot of speculation, supposition, tinfoil, flakey reasoning and dodgy premises to be going on with for now!
But, erm, there's more!
So, are these six points a literal map? Start at 1, travel through 2,3,4,5 to 6, find Raxxla? That whould pretty much imply that Raxxla is found, it's Shinrarta Dezhra, and Raxxla was the friends we made along the way!
Woot! Hurrah! Zomg!
Yeah, I find that as unsatisfying as you did, reading that, too!
So what if these six places/points are clues to Raxxla, in some way?
Go to each (in specific order, or at random?), find clues there, assemble clues, travel to Raxxla/next layer of Mystery?
Could be.
But what if we combine my mad ravings on these six locations with my earlier ravings on the Raxxla symbol...?
Six side. Six lanes/lines. Six locations. A target in the centre of them all.
What then?
So, ok, those six locations. Array them around the outside of the Raxxla Hexagon. From pure arbitrary force of human-o-centric habit, put 1 at the top, 2-6 following clockwise.
Ok, the six lanes/lines now become lines linking opposite locations, until we have a common point where the three lines (linking six dots) meet in the 'centre'.
It doesn't have to be a literal centre point - the reglar lines and hexagons of the symbol could be an abstraction just to show six points to be linked, where the lines cross 'bingo!'.
I haven't done this part of the exercise yet - find the Galmap tricksy to manipulate for long periods of time. My normaly great sense of spatial awareness and relationships seems to quickly drain away when I'm in there!
Just to stir/season the pot one last time maybe the 'arc's around the centre circle are meant to block the 3 lines/lanes from the edges, filtering the 6 linked points down to 3 points to triangulate between. The result should be broadly similar though, right? A nominally central point?
There be Raaxla! Or at least, the next layer of the mystery, waiting to be unravelled.
Or a monument of crumpled lumps of tinfoil, accreted from the hats of all prior Raxxla Questors to pass this way only to depart, disappointed, they where on the wrong track all along?
Ok, so, thats really all of my mad ravings on the Quest for Raxxla so far!
None of it is presented as 'full and final form, a solid theory of where and how to Find Raxxla'.
Its more 'the stream of conciousness ravings of another tinfoil lunatic' presented here in case there are scraps of good idea's, or the germ of a productive clue for someone else to incubate.
Have at it! Build it up! tear it down! Expound upon the idea's within, or shut them down and gently bury them!
let me knoiw if you find anything of merit in these crazed imaginings. Or if its all just a re-hass from something 667 pages ago that I simply never noticed!).
If you read all this - thanks for sticking with it, hope it wasn't a total waste of your time!
Bonus tinfoil:
Am I the only one that sees the Raxxla symbol every time they're in the docking bay...?
PS: It's late, I'm tired, and I should be in bed, so if there's a million typo's, run-on sentences that make no sense, etc, my apologies, I'll try and catch 'em all over time!
PPS: If I suddenly disappear, you know I'm on to something, and the Dark Wheel done disappeared me!
Good tinfoiling. I’ve covered some of the same, search through this thread for Jorki posts if you want some different interpretations; none of them have panned out as yet
Mmm. I was wondering if there are clues in the books as to how to obtain the permits. Would tie the books into the game nicely. FD put a lot of effort into in-game support for Premonition/Reclamation (unfortunately leaving stuff like the terraforming and beacons out, and the difference between the system description in book and game, which would have greatly increased immersion
). Would make sense for them to have similarly supported their other writers!Also Witch’s Reach star is the same type as TDW station pic, and it has a single planet........
Holy sh.., we're all mad here. 
Ok, sorry for my idea posted here. I follow this thread for long time ago (I play ED 4 years) And I needed say something about that...
I'm losing my mind with this thread
Ok, sorry for my idea posted here. I follow this thread for long time ago (I play ED 4 years) And I needed say something about that...
I'm losing my mind with this thread
Hi Everyone, I have decided to take some time to compile my thoughts on Raxxla and how the Codex and previous clues have could be interpreted. To the experienced Raxxla hunter much of this may look familiar, but I recommend reading through the whole document in order to get an idea of how this theory may play out in game. THere are certainly some findings in here that others have not mentioned yet. Enjoy.
Edit: Ignore this
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Bravo...as I've said in the past - regards Gurus mysteries, if this or something like this is not already in game FD should be taking notes...
Thats some good writing and referencing.
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Well, running out of ideas. On the hypothesis that the codex pic could be a straightforward instruction (astronomical symbol for Sol, surrounded by a belt, and 33 blobs) I’ve scanned all Sol Tourist Beacons out to Jupiter, then moved to start (from EDSM 1027ls), finish (from EDSM 1632ls) and centre (from system map 2.66 AU=1327ls) of the asteroid belt and D-scanned 33 times at each position.
Nothing to report!
It’s rather strange that there is no asteroid belt to select and travel to! Nor any roids instanced. I’m sure there used to be when Jorki (now Questing as Tyko) first got the Sol permit couple of years ago but it was in the wrong position between Sol & Mercury & I raised a bug report on it.
Nothing to report!
It’s rather strange that there is no asteroid belt to select and travel to! Nor any roids instanced. I’m sure there used to be when Jorki (now Questing as Tyko) first got the Sol permit couple of years ago but it was in the wrong position between Sol & Mercury & I raised a bug report on it.
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Scolio
Scolio, your presentation is fantastic!. So much cleaner and clearer than anything I've ever presented and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I for one never really gave much thought to how it all ties directly into the world of Elite from a game play perspective, as in with an aim at finding something in game as a result of understanding the heroe's journey better, or how to apply each step to an actual movement to decipher. I think your translation is really good and I sincerely hope you find what it is you're looking for as you study it further.
The fact is that there is Overwhelming Evidence to suggest that the Heroe's Journey, and a Willingness to participate in it, is in fact the foundation of the quest at minimum,
if not the full truth. It appears to be the ground on which we each must build on before we can attempt to go further, lest we are happy with no clear aim or sense of direction.
I do find it intriguing that though I may have suggested it in the past, you on your own came to the same conclusions. But I know that we Both need to work on understanding the material and its application much deeper.
Before the codex came out, the sense of Adventure, the Great Call, was absolutely missing and though it was fun, in essence it was just a mere point and click adventure.
The codex truly was that Great Call To Adventure, and I know we are not alone in having felt or heard it.
Cheers. o7
Scolio, your presentation is fantastic!. So much cleaner and clearer than anything I've ever presented and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I for one never really gave much thought to how it all ties directly into the world of Elite from a game play perspective, as in with an aim at finding something in game as a result of understanding the heroe's journey better, or how to apply each step to an actual movement to decipher. I think your translation is really good and I sincerely hope you find what it is you're looking for as you study it further.
The fact is that there is Overwhelming Evidence to suggest that the Heroe's Journey, and a Willingness to participate in it, is in fact the foundation of the quest at minimum,
if not the full truth. It appears to be the ground on which we each must build on before we can attempt to go further, lest we are happy with no clear aim or sense of direction.
I do find it intriguing that though I may have suggested it in the past, you on your own came to the same conclusions. But I know that we Both need to work on understanding the material and its application much deeper.
Before the codex came out, the sense of Adventure, the Great Call, was absolutely missing and though it was fun, in essence it was just a mere point and click adventure.
The codex truly was that Great Call To Adventure, and I know we are not alone in having felt or heard it.
Cheers. o7
Come to Aquilas Halo ... Bring Trinkets!
I like it as a sun with three astroid belts and 33 planets/bodies. Still getting used to all the extra bits and bobs in the sol system... Now with 20 planets?
Ya sounds like a glich if theres no asteroid field... though i cant remember either way myself.
edit... hmmm counted out from sun 33rd body (planets and moons) is Hi'iaka... Born of an Egg... Goddess of Hulu...
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You might be interested in Holdstocks Mythago series. He explores with the ideas of innate forms of myths and the prototypical quest.
Then, Raxxla is our journey?
A nihilist theory, I love it.
State of clarity? It is not a place?
I don't want believe in the journey at the Triple Elite... Is this a first pass to start to search Raxxla?
A nihilist theory, I love it.
State of clarity? It is not a place?
I don't want believe in the journey at the Triple Elite... Is this a first pass to start to search Raxxla?
CHIRAM TELAT MECHASOT
One in essence, but three in aspect. In this trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world.
The Sun is the father and the Moon the mother.
The stone is the fire, carried in the belly of the Archambault Terminal. It is the living morning light which illuminates those still buried in the darkness of materiality.
One in essence, but three in aspect. In this trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world.
The Sun is the father and the Moon the mother.
The stone is the fire, carried in the belly of the Archambault Terminal. It is the living morning light which illuminates those still buried in the darkness of materiality.
if raxxla is alien, there's no reason to think anything based on earth has anything to do with raxxla or where it is.
There's not much reason to think there is any non-random placement of it, as anything with some sort of puzzle to unlock would potentially be figured out ...maybe very early on in the game and be extremely anti-climatic. I doubt fdev wants that...raxxla is far more valiable never being found ...or only being found after many years and when fdev wants it to be found..
The only real need is for it to be somewhat close to the bubble. I dont think there is any additional rhyme or reason to where it actually is other than that. Probably a system picked at random that happened to have the necessary characteristics to hide it in. Nothing deeper than that.
There's not much reason to think there is any non-random placement of it, as anything with some sort of puzzle to unlock would potentially be figured out ...maybe very early on in the game and be extremely anti-climatic. I doubt fdev wants that...raxxla is far more valiable never being found ...or only being found after many years and when fdev wants it to be found..
The only real need is for it to be somewhat close to the bubble. I dont think there is any additional rhyme or reason to where it actually is other than that. Probably a system picked at random that happened to have the necessary characteristics to hide it in. Nothing deeper than that.