The Quest To Find Raxxla

[Trickylion]

There is a tourist marker in Zelada talking about missing ships, lost to thargoids, also there was a lost ship marker in another system, referring to treasure, but I ran out of bookmarks and had to delete it.
more markers and more materials data space pls

 

[Scytale]

Hypothesis: Raxxla is (in)Sirius.

So, no longer a rogue planet ?

 

[Jaiotu]

Hypothesis: Raxxla is (in)Sirius.


Names:
The names Raxxla and Sirius are similar in buildup. Both have six letters and two letter pairs. A simple two step encryption will encode Sirius -> Raxxla:
- Byte rotation, with three characters/byte gives sirius -> rissui.
- Substitution r=r, i=a, s=x and u=l rissui -> raxxla.

Door/Gateway:
Ancient Egyptians considered Sirius to be the most important star and a gateway to the 'other world'. They would not bury their dead during the 70 days each year, Sirius was invisible below the horizon. The gateway was not open.
A properly performed mummification takes 70 day, to mimic this period.

Key:
Sirius is also known as Alpha Canis Major. An official abbreviation of Canis Major is 'CMaj'. This is also an abbreviation for the musical Key 'C Major'.

Other silly stuff:
- Planet called 'Waypoint'. Waypoint to what?
- Planet called 'Lucifer', meaning 'light-bringing'.
- Antares crashed mysteriously, when exiting the system.
- Sirius is controlled by 'powerful, twisted men. Powerful enough to hire an assassin to kill the threat to their dominance.'(ask Ran Corsen).

If you start to wander in to the more alternative regions of the internet, there are of course countless claims for Sirius' magical properties, celestial bodies and inhabitants. It also has a significance in most ancient cultures. Egyptians and Dogons were particularly fixated on this star. I will not go further into that.

So, what do you think? Is something obfuscated in the outer rim of the Sirius system? Are there other clues I have overlooked?

If you can find a connection between Sirius and the year 2814 you'll have me convinced.

 

[Louis Calvert]

If you can find a connection between Sirius and the year 2814 you'll have me convinced.

What's 2814?

 

[Jaiotu]

What's 2814?

In Salomé's message from Beagle Point during the Distant Worlds Expedition she said that the first mention of Raxxla was recorded in the year 2814. While it is possible that Drew Wagar just made that date up I sincerely doubt it. I think Drew got that date from Frontier. Not fully sure how much we can trust Salomé's message since it sits in a "not-quite-canon" space ... though her message was live streamed by Frontier Developments themselves.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

So, no longer a rogue planet ?

“Rogue planet” can have a couple of meanings. The conventional astronomical one is that it’s a planet that does not belong (natively or captured) to a star, and wanders a lonely path through space. There was a recent astronomical titbit in the BBC News/Science that such a planet might still be warm enough to sustain life through radioactive decay at its core. The alternative is that Raxxla has an alien structure that can cause it to move between star systems; in one story (in DrewW’s Oolite saga, not ED canon) it was a moon of Lave before it moved elsewhere.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

In Salomé's message from Beagle Point during the Distant Worlds Expedition she said that the first mention of Raxxla was recorded in the year 2814. While it is possible that Drew Wagar just made that date up I sincerely doubt it. I think Drew got that date from Frontier. Not fully sure how much we can trust Salomé's message since it sits in a "not-quite-canon" space ... though her message was live streamed by Frontier Developments themselves.

It’s in-game/Galnet so is ED canon. I would love to have a good read of the FD internal lore book! What was the date setting for the Dark Wheel, does that fit this date?

 

[Jaiotu]

It’s in-game/Galnet so is ED canon. I would love to have a good of the FD internal lore book! What was the date setting for the Dark Wheel, does that fit this date?

I think the original Cobra Mk III was released around 3100AD. Since Alex Ryder and Elyssia Fields stole an old one from the Tionisla Graveyard the events of The Dark Wheel would have to have happened after 3200.

 

[Louis Calvert]

In Salomé's message from Beagle Point during the Distant Worlds Expedition she said that the first mention of Raxxla was recorded in the year 2814. While it is possible that Drew Wagar just made that date up I sincerely doubt it. I think Drew got that date from Frontier. Not fully sure how much we can trust Salomé's message since it sits in a "not-quite-canon" space ... though her message was live streamed by Frontier Developments themselves.

That's shortly after the Faraway network was established, the dawn of commercial Hyperspace travel -literally - in the older Lore it was established in the 2800's and dismantled around 3100. While that might have been retconned, the 2800-ish date is still listed as the start of commercial hyperspace travel: https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/07-JAN-3303.

Total speculation: I'd assume from that date that early in the establishing of the Faraway network an expedition ran across Raxxla. If that's accurate then it lends a lot of weight to the idea that Raxxla must be in the bubble - maybe even very close to the core worlds.

 

[Jaiotu]

Total speculation: I'd assume from that date that early in the establishing of the Faraway network an expedition ran across Raxxla. If that's accurate then it lends a lot of weight to the idea that Raxxla must be in the bubble - maybe even very close to the core worlds.

The Dark Wheel novella also indicates that a mishap in Faraway could result in time travel. It could be that Raxxla doesn't exist yet and instead of going out in search of Raxxla we should be staying home and building it.

 

[Louis Calvert]

OOOH Twisty. I like that too

 

[Han_Zen]

If you can find a connection between Sirius and the year 2814 you'll have me convinced.

2814 is at least well within the time frame between the establishment of the Sirius colony and the events of The Dark Wheel.

I did a bit of checking on the in-game orbits of Sirius A and Sirius B. Their Semi major axis', match their relative mass. If there is a hidden body in the system, it's either planet sized or very far out.

The difference between a rouge body and a hidden native body in a system, is basically how you locate it.
For a rouge body(a guest in the system), it should be possible to find it in the same way as the Voyagers were found. Aim for the right system and fly until you get a 'Slow Down' message or see something moving in the sky.
For a native body, we are dealing with orbits. Very hard, unless you know something specific.

 

[Scytale]

Interesting, but doesn't it seem a bit far fetched to want Raxxla to be both a rogue planet AND a guest body in a system ? Isn't it more logical if Raxxla were either one OR the other?

 

[Han_Zen]

Interesting, but doesn't it seem a bit far fetched to want Raxxla to be both a rogue planet AND a guest body in a system ? Isn't it more logical if Raxxla were either one OR the other?

It's the same thing. If a rouge planet passes through a system, it's a guest there. Given that it has enough momentum, it will eventually leave again.
If it doesn't, it may get absorbed in the system and eventually get a stable orbit.

 

[Scytale]

It's the same thing. If a rouge planet passes through a system, it's a guest there. Given that it has enough momentum, it will eventually leave again.
If it doesn't, it may get absorbed in the system and eventually get a stable orbit.

Yeah. Well, I was forgetting that, in this game where even light is faster than light, a rogue planet also could be FTL ....
What I mean is, there is some lore describing Raxxla as a "rogue planet", so at some time it was. If now it is bound to a system or visiting...it must have moved very fast since.
But NVM

 

[Han_Zen]

Yeah. Well, I was forgetting that, in this game where even light is faster than light, a rogue planet also could be FTL ....
NVM

According to those that believe in the Dogon myth, it should be in orbit around Waypoint.

Spoiler

 

[Scytale]

According to those that believe in the Dogon myth, it should be in orbit around Waypoint.

Spoiler

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_universo/sirius07_03.jpg

Now you are talking !!![up]
I like it.
Thanks ! I love these threads where we learn so many interesting things! [yesnod]

 

[Jaiotu]

Yeah. Well, I was forgetting that, in this game where even light is faster than light, a rogue planet also could be FTL ....
What I mean is, there is some lore describing Raxxla as a "rogue planet", so at some time it was. If now it is bound to a system or visiting...it must have moved very fast since.
But NVM

I don't believe that there is any canon lore implying that Raxxla is a rogue planet. If memory serves the Rogue Planet concept comes from Drew Wagar's very excellent Oolite Saga which is a work of fan fiction. Don't get me wrong; that doesn't disqualify the rogue planet theory it just means that it isn't backed up by any canonical sources.

 

[Scytale]

I don't believe that there is any canon lore implying that Raxxla is a rogue planet. If memory serves the Rogue Planet concept comes from Drew Wagar's very excellent Oolite Saga which is a work of fan fiction. Don't get me wrong; that doesn't disqualify the rogue planet theory it just means that it isn't backed up by any canonical sources.

Fair point. Always the same problem. Finding something we don't know what it is exactly... in a haysack.

 

[Wishblend]

I have been interested in raxxla for a while but not really started looking for it apart from when I am on my deep space trips or expeditions, has anyone suggested looking in the dark areas between the arms of the galaxy?