well we don't really care about what's written on it. But what's being broadcasted on the bridge antenna. That's something I am going to be recording tonight when i return to the bubble. Was out at the guardian sites to confirm something.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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The dot issues goes a bit back too as others have been following others . Take here for example - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/star-hidden-on-the-gal-map.324896/
yeah it was the mass of matter they were after as they breath gases instead of air. If you go around their surface sites you can see gas barnicles expelling ammonia around the area.
The dots I'm talking about specifically are far enough that they are "behind" Magellanic Clouds in galmap, judging by parallax.
As far as I can tell, everything you see in galmap is some actual object, which may or may not be available for selection in the search box (and you can't click on anything out side of the bounding box anyway). All those little dots and galaxies you see there? They are actual objects represented in the game, there is no classically understood "skybox".
right was more saying people been chasing the same blue dots thinking they are stars that lead to someplace. They become more evident if you are either way above the galaxy or far below it or on the far out bounds of the spiral arms.
So here is a funny thing: the position I calculated from the duplicate systems skew lines in NGC 188 actually lines up with IRL position of NGC 188. I queried simbad for objects in that location and I got this:
Some of those stars actually exist in NGC 188 in the game.
So, 1. in Elite those stars got moved "closer" (by a factor of 2 or so), and 2. the skew lines are pointing at the original location where NGC 188 is supposed to actually be.
I'll try to see if this pattern holds for the other larger sets of duplicates that are known.
Some of those stars actually exist in NGC 188 in the game.
So, 1. in Elite those stars got moved "closer" (by a factor of 2 or so), and 2. the skew lines are pointing at the original location where NGC 188 is supposed to actually be.
I'll try to see if this pattern holds for the other larger sets of duplicates that are known.
Right, we know that. That's evident once you pair them with the galmap view. My idea here is that they are there to form axes for a system of coordinates so to speak, and perhaps Raxxla is at 0.0.0.
Edit: at the very least, approximating their actual position would allow us to probably identify what those objects are supposed to be assuming they are real astronomical objects.
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I've updated the table in my previous post:
forums.frontier.co.uk
Now with precise coordinates and system addresses to disambiguate this against any other database for anyone that would want to play with this data.
Also, the calculated position is not actually reachable, but it's still well within bounds of the galmap and targetable (and afaict it's empty). It's in Formidline Rift (aka still far from the actual "blue dot")
The Quest To Find Raxxla
In our current universe of ED, we have 2 first encounters. The first first was around the year 3100. For the most part the public was not aware of the super powers involvement and any story about the Thargoids was myth and exaggeration. The Mycoid virus was used and the Thargs stopped a majority...
Now with precise coordinates and system addresses to disambiguate this against any other database for anyone that would want to play with this data.
Also, the calculated position is not actually reachable, but it's still well within bounds of the galmap and targetable (and afaict it's empty). It's in Formidline Rift (aka still far from the actual "blue dot")
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yep i hear ya CMDR and i'm hoping to have time this weekend to finally get them all scanned & done!
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By the way everyone....
Well... it happened again...
Similar scenario as what i posted about recently a few pages ago , today i stumbled upon yet another truly AMAZING SPACE discovery....which being a 1+ year newb, i of course thought for a few minutes (again) that i had actually uncovered Raxxla ( or something related to it ) .
First, as i was just about to jump toward my destination, i notice the following very ironic & appopriate SHIP...
...which as you can see ^ made me think i was onto something, since 'David Braben' is after all the originator of Elite Dangerous game! So, i attempt to follow "his" ship....but of course he JUMPS and ugh i didn't have a wake-scanner outfitted on my new AX Python.
/facepalmBut anyways, i'm feeling like it could still be a good omen or whatever, so i head off toward my destination ( Guardian ground sites area, to prepare for what @PilotB replied to me about ^^ ) and then... i encounter something incredible that i've never seen ( nor heard ) of before in my casual year+ playing this wondrous "game" ...
Yeah, as i'm just jumping system to system lah-dee-dah i see THAT ^ within FSS and then on my Nav-panel-1 and i literally jumped outta my chair with excitement!
i'm thinking "omg this must be IT!" , especially since i'm not only cargo-carrying a 'gaurdian relic' but also my only 'trinket of hidden fortune' lol so maybe it works!!!
So i slow down and try to remain calm , taking as many screenshots as i can ( for documentation just in case ) without accidentally crashing my game from alt-tabbing too much ( aka de-sync ) . And eventually, i drop into the 'instance' and....you guessed it...i see THESE...
...which of course, at least to me, is still EPIC sights to witness for my very 1st time ever! Especially with all the mysterious whizzing SOUNDS i heard in there.
But alas, once i started scanning everything, i realized it's only ( "only" ) new CODEX entry type stuff. Which again is still very very cool for me to discover & stumble upon randomly on my own.
Heck, this 'Notable Stellar Phenomena' didn't even appear as yellow-targettable UNTIL i saw/selected it first within Nav panel-1 listing. Which means if i wasn't paying attention, or wasn't checking FSS routine, then i darn sure could've missed it completely.
Makes me wonder: What else could be hiding out there amongst the remaining 99% of stars & systems as yet unknown?
Took me over a year of casual flying/playing to finally come across this seemingly rare, albeit Codexed, situation. -- Point being: imho, these types of situations & circumstances ( re: sorta hidden/prompted nav listing ) is probably the same type of instanced coding used for RAXXLA i believe.
p.s. Anyone know if these 'crystals' and/or 'molluscs' can be mined? i didn't have any Mining-lasers equipped unfortunately. However i did try using both Research limpets and Collector limpets and neither could "attach" or get anything from the crystals & molluscs. i also tried shooting beams & plasmas at both objects, but nothing doing.
( i also used my Xeno-scanner, just to see, and it scanned but didn't turn up anything blue-typed onto Info panel-4 )
you can't mine the crystals and the molluscs are usually the small ones so too small for a research limpet to attach to. You can perform various ship actions to get extra codex entries.
I love these moments. I've got 3k+ hrs in ED (Mostly exploration) and I still get them.
Yes sir! This is why it's important to check the nav panel. Most objects/POI/signal sources are visible on the nav panel from 1k ls out, some are less. I heard that there is a mega ship somewhere that was only visible in the nav panel and 500 ls out. A cmdr did exactly like you did and stumbled onto it.
I've never found a stellar phenomenon on my own, they have always been found by someone else. This makes me wonder if they are visible on the FSS when first discovering a system.
Read the codex on these, the life in the clouds might react to your ship. This could be your heat sig, lights, speed and so on. I think the Mollusks excrete dust when lights are on them.