The Quest To Find Raxxla

[Vetinari]

We were expecting a reveal, but then we found it, or the middle of it and the then the beginning and the end, but Im not sure what else is missing or whats in between....and Halloween is a Saturday, traditionally a quiet day in the Galxay.

But we have a code that may get some hints.

 

[alexzk]

We were expecting a reveal, but then we found it, or the middle of it and the then the beginning and the end, but Im not sure what else is missing or whats in between....and Halloween is a Saturday, traditionally a quiet day in the Galxay.

But we have a code that may get some hints.

Not really, there are posts already - people got ganked and lost couple months of explo data and quit. So Galaxy is pretty loud those days.

 

[Vetinari]

Edit: Traditionally a quiet day for GalNet news or any Pilots Federation official news or activities delivered through their CMs

 

[CMDR Zulu]

Just noticed the first piece of MB's back tattoo just happens to be Adamastor....


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Adamastor - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Adamastor is a Greektype mythological character famed by the Portuguese poet Lus de Cames in his epic poem Os Lusadas (first printed in 1572), as a symbol of the forces of nature Portuguese navigators had to overcome during their discoveries. Cames gave his creation a backstory as one of the Gi

alchetron.com

Can I just say, this a great catch by Filthymick! Well done bro! People have been staring at this tattoo for years and speculating but you just made the connection so many others have failed at getting.

My question now is, is there a female statue out there or painting that matches the other entity on the right side of the tattoo? It seems to me like it’s a battle scene with two forces at play, those on left vs those on the right.

 

[Ravenl0ft]

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[Han_Zen]

The name Adamastor Is like Zurara, connected to the Portugese age of exploration.

 

[CMDR Zulu]

The name Adamastor Is like Zurara, connected to the Portugese age of exploration.

And both were likely named by the club or their surrogates. Is this implying they have or had a naming convention back then.

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence but look at how similar these two entries are; one from the Raxxla codex entry and one from the Prester John Wikipedia article.

Prester John Wikipedia Article: Evidence has suggested that locating Prester John's kingdom in Ethiopia entered the collective consciousness around 1250

Raxxla Codex Entry: The entry does not describe Raxxla or its possible whereabouts, but its existence is evidence that the Raxxla legend was already in the public consciousness by that time.

Later in the Raxxla codex entry Prester John is mentioned which is a legendary Christian king the Portuguese explorers really wanted to locate.

A lot of coincidences or confirmation bias?

Also in MB’s Tattoo, there are some furry creatures amidst the serpents and angels on the lower to middle right side. Does anyone have an opinion about what those are?

 

[Hanerib]

I like this Iberian turn of events, lots of interesting stuff to explore, like the Isle of Seven Cities, Seven Cities of Gold, Canary Islands (Islands of the dogs, fortunate islands), exploration of Americas...

I wonder if Juan Eusebio Nieremberg is related to all of this too, such a strange (if suitable in the context) reference from prez Hudson...

 

[simulacrae]

I feel, from reading your & Rochester’s posts, that I seem to be suffering from a timesIip event ... feel I’ve missed something important...
WHAT geologist? What’s the reference here??

ya sorry about that - I honestly thought i hadnt posted that ... was just musing about the crazy geologist from the halloween fun who kept calling the barnacle circles "the stones" supposedly in reference to the standing stone circles from earth...

 

[groovyhermit]

Hey fellas. I'm new to the forums so I don't know if what I'm bringing has already been solved but I noticed a couple years ago people were trying to figure out where Cirag was but I didn't see any answers. I combed through some lore snippets and timelines and I found that in the book "the dark wheel" Alex Ryder was at one point involved in a fight or Cirag sometime after his father was killed in 3125, but the planet was renamed and it's location was forgotten. The elite dangerous timeline says that in 3301 the Imperial fleet arrived on the planet Emerald in the Cemiess system to colonize it. The federation showed up to dispute it and they ended up getting in a 30 year long war over it that the Imperial fleet now controls. Seeing as how Emerald is an earth-like planet (well a moon of Jade, technically), it would make sense that a war would break out for control over it. The war would also overlap with the approximate time that the battle in the book took place. So my guess is that Emerald is Cirag. Like I said I don't know if this theory has already been brought up but I think it's a pretty solid guess.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

We were expecting a reveal, but then we found it, or the middle of it and the then the beginning and the end, but Im not sure what else is missing or whats in between....and Halloween is a Saturday, traditionally a quiet day in the Galxay.

But we have a code that may get some hints.

Well, if you’ve got the beginning, middle and end
Then you need to look for the preface and epilogue!
Edit: oh, and maybe a Foreword, and some judiciously selected critic review comments.....

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

And both were likely named by the club or their surrogates. Is this implying they have or had a naming convention back then.

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence but look at how similar these two entries are; one from the Raxxla codex entry and one from the Prester John Wikipedia article.

Prester John Wikipedia Article: Evidence has suggested that locating Prester John's kingdom in Ethiopia entered the collective consciousness around 1250

Raxxla Codex Entry: The entry does not describe Raxxla or its possible whereabouts, but its existence is evidence that the Raxxla legend was already in the public consciousness by that time.

Later in the Raxxla codex entry Prester John is mentioned which is a legendary Christian king the Portuguese explorers really wanted to locate.

A lot of coincidences or confirmation bias?

Also in MB’s Tattoo, there are some furry creatures amidst the serpents and angels on the lower to middle right side. Does anyone have an opinion about what those are?

TRIBBLES!!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I can’t remember much about the Winking Cat, but do remember that there seemed to be some emphasis on those widely-separated dates. Not interested enough to pursue it at the moment, but for anyone who is-might it be referencing a long-period (~300 years) comet? Just had a quick look and there’s one named C/1885 R1 Brooks that immediately jumped out at me, but there are a few others around that periodicity (high 200 to middle 300 year period?). Don’t forget that Centuries started at 0AD for first, so 20thC was 1900-1999 etc!

List of long-period comets - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Must get back to preparing for Tyko’s Sweols journey. Decided I want to take a Phantom instead of the AspX (I had a slightly heavy landing on a high G while collecting mats, gonna take a repair limpet!) currently at 68ly but a bit underpowered, want to do a couple of test flights before departure.

And must see grandkids today before second English Covid lockdown starts!!!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

ya sorry about that - I honestly thought i hadnt posted that ... was just musing about the crazy geologist from the halloween fun who kept calling the barnacle circles "the stones" supposedly in reference to the standing stone circles from earth...

No problem mate! I very rarely watch livestreams & wasn’t even aware of this one, so when Channel 4 News was mentioned I assumed something of major significance on UK TV Channel 4, not an FD Pythonesque teaser.

 

[Hanerib]

 

[Vetinari]

Then you need to look for the preface and epilogue!

Never a truer word spoken in jest. We are!

believe it or not some people, me included, think there may be more to find. There may be an original destination, but thats far less likely it is possible, and there may be an original destination, to me this would make sense and is what Ill spend some time doing....but not too much

And we still have a code that is not cracked and I think has some info we dont know about.

No problem mate! I very rarely watch livestreams & wasn’t even aware of this one, so when Channel 4 News was mentioned I assumed something of major significance on UK TV Channel 4, not an FD Pythonesque teaser.

tinfoil! Why Ch 4? they are British, we have a Channel 4 thats quite well known and CH4 News is as well. They could have gone for groovy hippy channel 27 or just a random one. Why choose one of the 5 terrestrial channels instead of just making something up so that 'any similarities between anybody or any organisation and any persons living or dead is purely coincidental'. is that not even considered anymore. Just seemed like the first thing Id have done is change the Channel to one that doesnt exist just in case, but maybe thats just me.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Never a truer word spoken in jest. We are!

believe it or not some people, me included, think there may be more to find. There may be an original destination, but thats far less likely it is possible, and there may be an original destination, to me this would make sense and is what Ill spend some time doing....but not too much

And we still have a code that is not cracked and I think has some info we dont know about.



tinfoil! Why Ch 4? they are British, we have a Channel 4 thats quite well known and CH4 News is as well. They could have gone for groovy hippy channel 27 or just a random one. Why choose one of the 5 terrestrial channels instead of just making something up so that 'any similarities between anybody or any organisation and any persons living or dead is purely coincidental'. is that not even considered anymore. Just seemed like the first thing Id have done is change the Channel to one that doesnt exist just in case, but maybe thats just me.

I do jest a lot!
Well. I'm British; Yorkshire hasn't declared independence ...... yet)
I'd have gone for Channel 42 News -the answers (possibly false news?) about life, the Universe, and everything!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I'm having second thoughts about the first line of TDW toast indicating SWOALS IL-Y e0. It is the highest known (EDSM) CN star at 2852ly but a long way out at 32.5 kylies
HD79319 is the highest C star at 2227ly but only 3.5 kylies from Shinrarta, which sounds to me much more likely for a (I presume from their early days with restricted jump ranges) TDW initiation requirement. Moreover the second line is moot. If Whisperer of Witchspace is a NS (someone posted a link to an FD vid on Sounds of the Stars. I listened to it but I didn't hear anything to confirm this) then there doesn't seem to be any that are higher than Goliath's Rest (from a quick whiz around in the galmap couldn't actually see any higher systems), whereas HD79319 is only 468ly from PSR J0922+0638, a dual NS, indeed the Spansh Neutron Route planner takes you through that pulsar to get to HD79319. Currently musing that Siren of the Deepest Void could be a White Dwarf- the deepest void being death? Or it could be a pulsar, which are pretty dangerous!!!

On third thoughts SWOALS IL-Y e0 is above Sag A*, so could rightly be said to be on the brow (above) the mother of galaxies ....
indecision!!!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I'm having second thoughts about the first line of TDW toast indicating SWOALS IL-Y e0. It is the highest known (EDSM) CN star at 2852ly but a long way out at 32.5 kylies
HD79319 is the highest C star at 2227ly but only 3.5 kylies from Shinrarta, which sounds to me much more likely for a (I presume from their early days with restricted jump ranges) TDW initiation requirement. Moreover the second line is moot. If Whisperer of Witchspace is a NS (someone posted a link to an FD vid on Sounds of the Stars. I listened to it but I didn't hear anything to confirm this) then there doesn't seem to be any that are higher than Goliath's Rest (from a quick whiz around in the galmap couldn't actually see any higher systems), whereas HD79319 is only 468ly from PSR J0922+0638, a dual NS, indeed the Spansh Neutron Route planner takes you through that pulsar to get to HD79319. Currently musing that Siren of the Deepest Void could be a White Dwarf- the deepest void being death? Or it could be a pulsar, which are pretty dangerous!!!

On third thoughts SWOALS IL-Y e0 is above Sag A*, so could rightly be said to be on the brow (above) the mother of galaxies ....
indecision!!!

Ah fourth thoughts!!!
HD 79319 is a one-way trip unless you have a fleet carrier to make the return journey!
You can NS boost to it from the pulsar, but there's only the Carbon star & some planets there hence no return & this therefore cannot form the target of the first line of TDW toast..

 

[Vetinari]

We dream, expect, explore, create the wildest theories .. I

..and there IS something out there I know it ..

Weve written and solved more mysteries than Fox Mulder thats for sure