dunno, i left the wing the guy mentions (i colored it out out of respect for him and the remaining members of the dying or dead wing) before they got added to the canonn chat. that being said, the other name i crossed out (despite being a really crabby person) is credible in my eyes. an admin on one of the main ED Facebook groups. If i can weasle any more info out of my source i will. He was my mentor when i first started flying, nearly 4500 in game hours ago, and knows more about xenobiology and lore than any other commander ive come across. I'd say that i have a pretty solid grasp on the lore myself, but Raxxla always has been a mystery. The tales i heard abiout Raxxla early into my ED career honestly kept me coming back. never been much of an explorer, but im slowly building an explorconda and when she's done i will actively join the search. until then i just keep an ear/eye out for any scrap i can find, and this tidbit he told him got me hot again.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Good work.
My final opinion is that the Raxxla symbol depicts very long hexagonal segmented prism that is either portal (artificial wormhole)
or a tunnel into Dyson sphere (some details hints the later one).
Dotted inner hexagon depicts one of the many stages (tunnel parts). Dot in the middle hints height.
In simple words - imagine standing in a lift, you are going down while looking at the glass floor.
There is some math behind but it is irrelevant for the story.
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Raxxla
The idea that Raxxla is an alien construct wouldnt surprise me if it turns out to be true. What is interesting though is the fact that not a single one of us has found Raxxla. Its the 34th century and somehow with all the modern tech we havent found it yet... But somehow circa 23 century raxxla was found. You have to ask yourself why that is. Could that be because everyone is so quick to leave the bubble? Everything moves so fast now and noone slows down anymore. When is the last time you've spent some serious time scouring planet surfaces in Sol? I am willing to bet almost every single one of us has spent more time searching for barnacles than we've spent in sol.
The idea that Raxxla is an alien construct wouldnt surprise me if it turns out to be true. What is interesting though is the fact that not a single one of us has found Raxxla. Its the 34th century and somehow with all the modern tech we havent found it yet... But somehow circa 23 century raxxla was found. You have to ask yourself why that is. Could that be because everyone is so quick to leave the bubble? Everything moves so fast now and noone slows down anymore. When is the last time you've spent some serious time scouring planet surfaces in Sol? I am willing to bet almost every single one of us has spent more time searching for barnacles than we've spent in sol.
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I mean... There was an alien device/object found on Mars. It didn't just pop out of nowhere. Someone was obviously in Sol before humanity had the technology to notice. We found 1 barnacle, then another... then another.. then another... Same with Guardian sites, and brain trees, and anomalies, and ELW, and everything else... Yet there has only been 1 alien device/object found in sol and because it was found in the 23rd century we just forget about it. Hell there is even a beacon saying "Hey guys... Look over here".
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Just my opinion and, honestly based on little evidence. If you’re going to the void, which I’ve considered myself so who knows I might bump into you, I’d think looking specifically for triple star systems may be of help. The reason being if we look at TDW symbol, and use the center to line up with the Core region (they’re the same shape) the three orbs seem to be in the void region. I figure the three orbs might be three stars.
Why are you calling them Guardian Gateways?
Yep, including that one that should be in the bubble.
When you say 'we' here... who's the 'we'?
And how sure are you that there's actually only been the 1?
My Paint says TDW symbol form the Codex has 3 triangles - north, center, bottom.
I hereby express my enormous rage because an artist misaligned right part of guardian key drop-point for 20 pixels to the left, to inadvertently delude us from figuring out Pilots Federation manipulations over mankind by using Raxxla future tech from the past!
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I hereby express my enormous rage because an artist misaligned right part of guardian key drop-point for 20 pixels to the left, to inadvertently delude us from figuring out Pilots Federation manipulations over mankind by using Raxxla future tech from the past!
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So yeah this was months ago but I was just catching up.
FWIW, yes, I have. Me and a few friends holed up at Ray for a couple months and hunted the crap out of pirates down there. Nothing useful came of it with regard to Raxxla.
I will also look out for systems with six barycentric stars, especially if they have only one planet orbiting all of them, as I think it's possible the Raxxla symbol may be the description of a system in Guardian format. Sadly my post here ( https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...rch-Division?p=7328463&viewfull=1#post7328463 ) failed to get a confirmation, so I might have misinterpreted it.
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I won't be setting out just yet and am likely to stop by Colonia on my way out there, maybe this weekend or next. Depending on which ship I use (Python, AspX or DBX) I may also need to do some minor engineering.
I cant do astrophysics math but my guess is something to do with tide locking. Like if the moon is tide locked to the gas giant and its orbit is slow enough, it would always be on the dark side.
Also if this is true that it doesnt show up in things like the Full System Scanner even when close, then if anyone is using shader fixes for whatever reason they need to delete this one:
e29d91120fc28c8e-ps_replace.txt
Because that shader fix removes the glowing orbs of ships/stations.
My assumption is that the FSS can detect it like it could detect the Zurara. Although with the Zurara I wasnt able to scan it from afar for some reason I had to get much closer to the planet for the scan to work, but maybe the scanner was bugged or I didnt have the view I thought I had.
Blimey. I'd forgotten about that.
Yes. When I put Raxxla in those fan novels I was trying to figure out a way to have Raxxla be a portal and a planet (as per description in the Dark Wheel) which had somehow not been found despite decades of searching. I figured it had to be meta-physical in some manner, hence the wierdness/witchspace implementation in Mutabilis. I'd do it differently now (not that I have anything to do with Raxxla in ED I hasten to add), but that sort of slightly ethereal, magical, otherworldness struck me as quite a good way of realising Raxxla.
Oolite was true to the original game Elite, where we had different 'galaxies', galactic hyperspace and other conventions now long abandoned by ED. Whatever they do with Raxxla in ED, it will be different.
I hope they come up with something compelling, but, whatever they do, it's going to be very very tough to make it live up to 30+ years of expectation and also makes it more than one person going "here it is" and everyone else watching it on Youtube. Tough one.
Cheers,
Drew.
Hi and thanks, Drew, for the explaination. As you very well know, many of us fans of the Elite lore are always starving for any of your comments and guidances.
I understand pretty well that messing with space-time in a "relativestic" context would be quite a slippery ground in a game like ED. That's why, I guess, even light is faster than light in ED.
Nevertheless, I hope Raxxla will turn out to involve something more exotic and exciting than, let's say, a very human stranded ship or a Bilderberg Club - like organisation. We already have that IRL...
At least, it's what the disappeared fine E/F missions seemed to be pointing at. People knew what they were doing, then.
(Happy past times, when there was a consistent story told in ED, and Btw, I am still wondering how the Witch's Seven Veils actually managed to evade my interdiction a certain 29th... Overwhelming pilot's skill or witch-trick?)
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Probably nothing but I was going through (on the galmap) the stars of Cassiopeia. Rho Cassiopeia is a G Class White Yellow Super Giant. It is logged in EDSM as a G class white yellow super giant. Seen posts from people who have made the jumps to it and say it’s a G class white yellow super giant. BUT, now, according to the galmap, Rho Cassiopeia is now an F Class White Supergiant. ?????
I was just there, first star I ever went to that required use of jumponium in/out of so spent a bit of time in the system. Theres a landable planet and a fantastic view that far out/down in the galactic plane, but thats all I found.
G'day CMDRs,I've been catching up on this thread but I was hoping someone could bring me up to speed, as the thread is pretty big. Direct message if you don't want to clog up the thread, but essentially I'm doing more exploration than anything else these days and have always eye'd off this Raxxla thread from afar. What I'd simply like is a breakdown of were we're at with finding Raxxla, to help direct me on where to explore. Is there a certain, I don't know, navigational direction from the bubble, or sector that hints have lead to that I could follow to whatever is the current theory? I just figure as I learn a bit more about Raxxla, I would like to include it as part of my exploration
1) there are no clues
1a). (Codex entries for Dark Wheel & Raxxla appear to be more fd misdirection, but some have faith that they are clues)
2) there is much speculation
2a) (there is also much mythology)
3) there are as many hypotheses as players
4) actually there are probably more hypotheses than players
5) there is no concensus on any hypothesis or set thereof
Good luck in your Quest. Let us know if you find anything!
PS. We are always happy to discuss hypotheses!
PPS. We are even happier when someone presents some evidence!
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