The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I know. This does not mean that it's not a hint.
There are about 2-3 hints per system which reinforce a certain interpretation. And with that description I'm confident that the Herme-system is about Hermes.
I guess that FSD from the current Community Goal means that I will delay my investigation of the Soul and Heart Nebula.
After reading a little bit of mythology-stuff, there are many threads merging; I now also see why people see Cassiopeia-Andromeda as the possible reference for Mother Of All Galaxies (although Hera is the other obvious possibility).
I've read a bit into the Perseus-myth, which is also a possible connection since the Soul/Heart Nebulas are in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way.
There are a few points where I'm unsure:
On the other hand, perhaps now is the ideal time to head out to the Soul/Heart Nebula as everyone will be working on getting the double FSD? Tinfoil hat on: The club will be moving Raxxla away from the Heart/Soul Nebula while everyone is distracted
After reading a little bit of mythology-stuff, there are many threads merging; I now also see why people see Cassiopeia-Andromeda as the possible reference for Mother Of All Galaxies (although Hera is the other obvious possibility).
I've read a bit into the Perseus-myth, which is also a possible connection since the Soul/Heart Nebulas are in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way.
There are a few points where I'm unsure:
- the Orion-constellation seems to be special (especially since the ever watchful 'eye' of Barnard's Loop is in there) in real-life mythology and ingame
- I have three very special systems, where the names of the deities are written wrong:
- Herme = Hermes: related to Soul
- Ma'a = Ma'at: related to Heart (your heart is weighed against gold for entrance into the afterlife)
- Odins = Odin: don't know how to relate to the Soul/Heart Nebulas
- I currently have 3 deities from 3 different cultures/mythologies where the name is wrong; the systems all have a description which relates specifically to a trait of the deity
- I don't know if there are more deities where the name is wrong; I currently assume there might be two more deities, one male, one female:
- one from the Hinduistic "parthenon"
- one from another mythology; Sumerian/Babylonian? South-/Meso-American?
- if there are two more deities with the feature "name missing a character" or "name having an extra character", then this would be a different interpretation of the Isis-puzzle
- perhaps I can solve the Dahan-puzzle before heading out?
On the other hand, perhaps now is the ideal time to head out to the Soul/Heart Nebula as everyone will be working on getting the double FSD? Tinfoil hat on: The club will be moving Raxxla away from the Heart/Soul Nebula while everyone is distracted
is there any actual proof that raxxla CAN be found?
Depends on your standard of proof..
footage or official post from a dev saying the players CAN find it?
No is the short answer, nothing from Frontier that specifies that.
We have witness statements (unsubstantiated as in no backup witness statements, or a 1 to 1 convo) but many werent written about at or near the time, and in fact have evidence to the opposite, with one notable exception
Frontier refuse to confirm any unsubstantiated accounts for many years....and now the last time we got a go at it they wouldnt even confirm what DB had said on record on video. Coz a 'We can confirm these statements or 'known' facts are correct and Frontier authorised' would go a long way.
In game its written as part myth part reality (or perceived reality) so take your pick
Nobody in-game that we know of has actually been there or seen evidence of it.
Strictly, beyond reasonable doubt, no.
About all we have is this:
So in balance of probabilty, I'd say that is yes..
maybe but there is a big difference between being in game and being obtainable by players. I have seen this before in other games. if it is not obtainable by players the devs better take care that the players never find out. that happened in one game I used to play and the player base turned into an angry mob. needless to say the game failed.
Its worse than that, theres debate about what 'exists' actually means.
If we're considering this true, and personally I'm taking it with a pound of salt, it means a couple of things:
1) the system has a high chance to be present on EDSM or EDDB (IF it was scanned and IF the data was sold to UC) - MB said it has been entered AT LEAST ONCE
2) if the system was scanned (and DB said we only need basic scans to find it), it didn't show up, at least not with only one scan, so we still need to know what to look for
So a good few years ago (cant remember what thread i posted it in) I randomly selected a system in which i would keep track of after each update to see if there was any changes made as some people noticed some before, turns out to be correct, in the image attached the L dwarf star its belt and those two planets never existed a few months back, yes the system was fully scanned thoroughly by myself and the first located CMDR Apex and Baconofdeath, now i fly out here after about a year since we last checked and it has a new star and planets......is it possible that FDEV is changing star/planet locations from system to system on the fly (Potential Raxxla being Rogue) and the system you searched last year that came up as not containing it now holds it.....
Can i get a dev to confirm on whether system changes of rogue planets happen at least, I doubt one will but would adleast confirm it as a yes or no.
Can i get a dev to confirm on whether system changes of rogue planets happen at least, I doubt one will but would adleast confirm it as a yes or no.
I dont want to know if this is the case, I think it could kill the game for me. its always there in the background.
1. 0.5% of the galaxy has been 'visited' - CM in a recent post - approx 0.1 in EDSM. Means approx 80% not on EDSM.
2. Honk n jump was and is a thing, actually stopping and looking around was frowned upon
I'll try not to worry until we start detabting what "what" and "mean" actually mean.
Not a criticism, just claryfing for someone who doesn't check these things: I believe you might have the decimal point in the wrong position. It think it should be 0.05 and 0.01% (actually EDSM currently says 0.015421% as I write this).
They can change systems within limits. I believe that they can only add to the outer bounds of a system , so they couldnt add a new planet between A1 & A2. Cant remember who said this , might have actually been MB.
I've also noticed that what takes place in game and out of game is a very thin veil. I've never seen something quite break the 4th wall like elite does. Something that I think the community fails to see sometimes and is not 100% using to their advantage.
Ok, so....the reason we may not be making much progress on their exploration data is most likely due to them adding more and more each time that we dont know about? Seems very bad considering there is enough to explore in Elite for centuries as is :-( As for the Raxxla topic so they could be potentially adding and removing this planet from system to system each Thursday provided it is not included in the current line of star orbits.......
Hi all,
I am a lurker who has read as much discussion of Raxxla as I can find. Lately I have been researching the Zurara messages and I think I came up with the answer to the penultimate line:
A final word, a course to follow, a poor miser's sum
The answer, I believe, is dead reckoning. Death is finality. A reckoning is both a course to follow and a final accounting / sum.
I have not seen this offered up as an answer to this line anywhere, so I figured I would contribute.
EDIT: Misspelled Zurara as Zuraya
I am a lurker who has read as much discussion of Raxxla as I can find. Lately I have been researching the Zurara messages and I think I came up with the answer to the penultimate line:
A final word, a course to follow, a poor miser's sum
The answer, I believe, is dead reckoning. Death is finality. A reckoning is both a course to follow and a final accounting / sum.
I have not seen this offered up as an answer to this line anywhere, so I figured I would contribute.
EDIT: Misspelled Zurara as Zuraya