The Quest To Find Raxxla

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The location of the site in the screenshot is Kadrusa A3. Set navigation to the settlement of Austin Holdings; as you approach, you should see the formation quite easily. It's about 35km, at a bearing of about 150 degrees from the settlement.
 

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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
rOmiLaYu said:
The rogue planet theory has been bandied about a good bit. The problem with it, from my perspective, is that I dont think it would work within the game mechanics. As is, you jump into a system and the game creates it. This is all based on stars and their orbiting bodies. If there was truly a "rogue planet," how would the game "draw it" and how would you find it? To my mind the game is billions of little cubes that you can jump into. I dont know that theres a mechanic whereby Stellar Forge can migrate data across those cubes.
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It's a tricky one. Rogue planet is a star type, so it can be either a separate system or a non main star in a regular system.

If it is a separate system, we need to find it in the Galaxy map. There is no filter for that class, so it's quite a challenge to find. 😁

If it's in a star system(passing slowly trough), it would not be gravitationally bound to the main star. It's unlikely to be in the normal plane of the system and it's most likely far out(far out is much bigger than close in). We don't know if it's even displayed in in the system map. There might be lots of rogues in the galaxy, there might be non or just one.

The only thing i have seen in the game, that made me think rogue planet are these 'system map anomalies' that shows up in a few systems:

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Unzoomed they look like these (bottom left and top right).

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alexzk

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I saw yesterday some circle on FSS! Later I figured it was rings, planet was less then 100ls to arriving point. So once you open FSS it shows unusual objects there (rings) immediately.
On example of FC we can see that persistent objects may trip between stars. So planet should be something like FC, but with orbit Eccentricity > 1
 
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yelboc

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Jpotter said:
  • Given Hyperspace limitations during that time and known lore, this should limit the possible location to the current day bubble (early in the stream Drew notes maybe around 100ly away from Sol, but late in the stream expands that to basically the entire bubble)
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This is oft stated, but there is little evidence to support the statement:

It should be first noted, that although our drives are restricted to jump only to stars, earlier tech had no such restriction in lore, and thus if you wanted to plot a route somewhere, you could do so as long as you had fuel etc. This means that 8ly jump range is not a problem for deep space exploration (please see the original novella, where the young Ryder jumps to Rafe's ship in the middle of nowhere )

We expect to get somewhere in a matter of hours. In the original novella, Ryder senior had been away for months, and possibly longer. You can get a long way in months at 8 ly per jump.

So I think it is not reasonable to expect Raxxla to be close to Sol. - TDW station has its own reasons to be in the bubble - mainly that you need to be where the action is, but for Raxxla, it could be anywhere in the M-W.
 

yelboc

yelboc
Jorki Rasalas said:
No, parsec is a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.26 light years. It is used by astronomers for measurement anywhere-either within or without the Milky Way.
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Parsec is a functional unit a bit like an Inch (which is the length of the thumb from knuckle to hand roughly, and a handy size for timber work), a bit like imperial versus the SI unit based LY, although a year is also rather functional.

It comes from measuring things by parallax from Earth. 1 Parsec is the distance a star would be, if it shifted +/- 1 arc second in the sky between one side and the other of the earths orbit - hence par-sec or parallax-second.

Unfortunately, it was coined and popularised (1838) before we realised that the speed of light is constant (1884), so astronomers still use this rather earth-centric unit. LY makes much more sense if you believe in the fixed speed of light in the universe.
 

alexzk

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yelboc said:
Parsec is a functional unit a bit like an Inch (which is the length of the thumb from knuckle to hand roughly, and a handy size for timber work), a bit like imperial versus the SI unit based LY, although a year is also rather functional.

It comes from measuring things by parallax from Earth. 1 Parsec is the distance a star would be, if it shifted +/- 1 arc second in the sky between one side and the other of the earths orbit - hence par-sec or parallax-second.

Unfortunately, it was coined and popularised (1838) before we realised that the speed of light is constant (1884), so astronomers still use this rather earth-centric unit. LY makes much more sense if you believe in the fixed speed of light in the universe.
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Thanks, didn't know that history. Was always wondered why they don't use LY wider.
 

alexzk

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What if we search for planetary nebula? If you read how others cmdr describe them, that will match to what federal president said before disappear.
Also just linked article couple posts above, those nebulas may look as spiral star. And we need at least double star system to create spirals, or dwarf + big giant.
Only 1 issue ...they don't last for long. Usually couple thousands years.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
yelboc said:
Parsec is a functional unit a bit like an Inch (which is the length of the thumb from knuckle to hand roughly, and a handy size for timber work), a bit like imperial versus the SI unit based LY, although a year is also rather functional.

It comes from measuring things by parallax from Earth. 1 Parsec is the distance a star would be, if it shifted +/- 1 arc second in the sky between one side and the other of the earths orbit - hence par-sec or parallax-second.

Unfortunately, it was coined and popularised (1838) before we realised that the speed of light is constant (1884), so astronomers still use this rather earth-centric unit. LY makes much more sense if you believe in the fixed speed of light in the universe.
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Unless you’re in a ship named Millenium Falcon
Cos Han made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs! 😁
 
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