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The Quest To Find Raxxla
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1. can you answer if there are pirate fractions in the sol or the like? if not, how do pirates get into a closed system? Is this a flaw in the developers, or do pirates have a loophole?
2. Targoid base is a planetarium? it seems to me that this is too ridiculous ... But what if the dark wheel in the book spoke precisely of this? - You know, this is a difficult question. Your father was looking for traces of the mythical Raxxla. He wanted to know if it really exists? If the legends don’t lie, then there should be an installation created by an alien mind, with the help of which passages to other Universes, to all their treasures are opened. he may have a couple of weeks. Tell me, but there’s not one base, I’ll answer, then they found only one base and probably took it as a basis, what do you think?
3. The dark wheel. If the organization was founded in the 22nd century, then there are not many options where the station can be, at that time all a couple of systems were known. correct if it’s wrong, but it seems that the dark wheel has lost the coordinates of the raxla, if so, then the toast of the dark wheel is not the way to raxla, but something else?
2. Targoid base is a planetarium? it seems to me that this is too ridiculous ... But what if the dark wheel in the book spoke precisely of this? - You know, this is a difficult question. Your father was looking for traces of the mythical Raxxla. He wanted to know if it really exists? If the legends don’t lie, then there should be an installation created by an alien mind, with the help of which passages to other Universes, to all their treasures are opened. he may have a couple of weeks. Tell me, but there’s not one base, I’ll answer, then they found only one base and probably took it as a basis, what do you think?
3. The dark wheel. If the organization was founded in the 22nd century, then there are not many options where the station can be, at that time all a couple of systems were known. correct if it’s wrong, but it seems that the dark wheel has lost the coordinates of the raxla, if so, then the toast of the dark wheel is not the way to raxla, but something else?
It's a fine idea. One that has been experimented with, quite a bit. Both RA 10 10 50 and RA 20 50 are interesting options.
The main problem is that without a declination, there is no direction. There is a 180° sector of directions. This sector forms a plane.
If you have a declination as well, you get a vector. If you have a second plane, you also get a vector.
Regulus is on the ecliptic. If you define the ecliptic as your second plane, the hypothesis is worth testing further. I've never tried jumping directly from Sol to Regulus.
Hey Vetinari,
Actually I can clarify your point 1!
Since I've been cataloging all known old videos and snooping for content I've come across lots of little comments like this.
Fly Dangerously,
/ Ra.
It would be worth placing links to all these old videos on the first page of this thread to clarify the sources!
@Macros: what do you think compadre?
It's a fine idea. One that has been experimented with, quite a bit. Both RA 10 10 50 and RA 20 50 are interesting options.
The main problem is that without a declination, there is no direction. There is a 180° sector of directions. This sector forms a plane.
If you have a declination as well, you get a vector. If you have a second plane, you also get a vector.
Regulus is on the ecliptic. If you define the ecliptic as your second plane, the hypothesis is worth testing further. I've never tried jumping directly from Sol to Regulus.
Source: https://imgur.com/a/Vh1wVcB
Source: https://imgur.com/a/BbBfhul
No doubt you've come across interesting things, everyone has worked very hard but I doubt Frontier has up untill now put anything in the game spectacular enough to live up to the hype. I think Raxxla will only be added with the big update. Just my 2c
Doesn't really offer much of a quest though does it? Wait until the next update and then what? Magically search the other 99% of the galaxy that hasn't been visited?
Its all tinfoil and fun and storytelling with a lot of interesting astronomy and mythology interspersed, if you cant enjoy that then try another thread but posts seeming to just invite argument will find little response here, we're having too much fun to bite.
Its all tinfoil and fun and storytelling with a lot of interesting astronomy and mythology interspersed, if you cant enjoy that then try another thread but posts seeming to just invite argument will find little response here, we're having too much fun to bite.
As long as your having fun and your mum is proud of you bud
Hey Vetinari,
Actually I can clarify your point 1!
Since I've been cataloging all known old videos and snooping for content I've come across lots of little comments like this.
Fly Dangerously,
/ Ra.
Oh My Randomonius!
Now that is enlightening and answers a ton of questions all over the place and hopefully means a lot of fun to come, although it does imply a DLC type trigger which is booooo but if it has to be it has to be.
Any more like that please post, anything where he refers to fdev communication or working or game mechanics or set up is insightful and could be helpful. I thought for a long time he didn't realise how much he knew or thought we wouldn't be interested, now I suspect its the NDA he's working around.
One question, now MB has left ED who is the lore-keeper at fdev?
I refer you to my previous answer in #15,543
I think the part about class Y 'stars' counting as the gas giant for the location of The Dark Wheel station is a good call. Systems with a brown dwarf / gas giant primary used to be called 'dark systems' in the lore and were not always well recorded (Elite: Reclamation talks about them in this way) so it would make sense as a place to build a hidden base.
Since The Dark Wheel's hidden station has, from the Codex entry, been around for a very long time, there might not have been that many 8th moons around which to have constructed one at the time but the number of available 'dark systems' was probably much higher.
To some extent, I think 'The Club' would have checked the obvious places for The Dark Wheel home base. People, both friendly and otherwise, have been looking for them for centuries but no such base has ever been found. I doubt permit locks would be an issue for some of these people. A permit lock would only attract the attention of the wrong kind of person. After considering this point, a 'dark system' still seems like a good place to hide a home base.
Yes, it wasn't until I saw that video that a few things clicked into place. He's skirting NDA with other comments, and if DW is involved in a DLC/Lore in Elite I say all good!
Also, there is so much content covered in the videos, it'd be hard to just post stuff. More often than not it's comments like yours that triggers relevance in my brain, fortunately I can recall most of the video content, but if I stumble across anything that seems pertinent I'll post it up.
I can't comment on MB's replacement, but given the live-stream activity it isn't Paige Harvey seeming to take on that lore / enthusiasm role keeper is it?
Always on the lookout for potential suspicious activity:
In this 5 year anniversary live-stream they're jumping from SOL to ALPHA CENTAURI at 48:35 and for fun, look at Pluto and Saturn (no particular reason) just before the jump. I know they are espousing the jump sound and graphics etc, but struck me as odd. It's most likely nothing, but you never know!
Source: https://youtu.be/JLx3hbs6qmg?t=2915
In this 5 year anniversary live-stream they're jumping from SOL to ALPHA CENTAURI at 48:35 and for fun, look at Pluto and Saturn (no particular reason) just before the jump. I know they are espousing the jump sound and graphics etc, but struck me as odd. It's most likely nothing, but you never know!
Pluto is always interesting, in the context of the Michael Brookes tattoo.
The top left of the image probably display(top down), Triton, Charon(ferryman of Hades and moon of Pluto) and the river Styx(another moon of Pluto. Not in game) .
Pluto is of course the same god/place as Hades, located at the other side of the river Styx.
It may seem strange both mythologically and astronomically to put a sea god like Triton, with that bunch of underworld characters. There may be at least an astronomical explanation inn the fact that Triton is believed to ba a captured moon(it's to big and orbits in the opposite direction). Many astronomers thinks that Triton was originally a Kuiper belt object, like Pluto and it's moons.
In Greek mythology the sea gods were also gods of the rivers.
In the tattoo there seem to be two rivers merging into one. The other one(not Styx) is most likely Archeron, the river of woe.
Archeron is Galactic region 23.
Oh ho, that reminds me, I was looking into the comments that appear for the mission providers. Specifically the intro ones to see what was common, or unique and noted the 'Haylcon Days' on an occasional comment.Pluto is always interesting, in the context of the Michael Brookes tattoo.
The top left of the image probably display(top down), Triton, Charon(ferryman of Hades and moon of Pluto) and the river Styx(another moon of Pluto. Not in game) .
Pluto is of course the same god/place as Hades, located at the other side of the river Styx.
It may seem strange both mythologically and astronomically to put a sea god like Triton, with that bunch of underworld characters. There may be at least an astronomical explanation inn the fact that Triton is believed to ba a captured moon(it's to big and orbits in the opposite direction). Many astronomers thinks that Triton was originally a Kuiper belt object, like Pluto and it's moons.
In Greek mythology the sea gods were also gods of the rivers.
In the tattoo there seem to be two rivers merging into one. The other one(not Styx) is most likely Archeron, the river of woe.
Archeron is Galactic region 23.
It could be another completely random comment, but seems on anedotal evidence to be a comment tied to a few specific organisations.
NOUN
halcyons (plural noun)
- a mythical bird said by ancient writers to breed in a nest floating at sea at the winter solstice, charming the wind and waves into calm.
Halcyon days. A tranquil period of happiness, especially in the past. The phrase refers to the period around the winter solstice that is associated with calm weather, which in Greek mythology was attributed to the power of the fabled halcyon bird that was said to calm the wind and sea.
So if people can keep an eye out for that in the text and let us know how widespread that comment is that would be helpful.
Fly Dangerously,
/ Ra