The Raxxla Symbol in the Codex. Our single biggest stand-alone clue.
- The circle with the dot in the middle: Astronomical Symbol for our own Sun. Ask yourself, if it is not this, what is it? And if you agree with this interpretation of what it is, then we immediately have a clear path forward.
- Three lines circling the Sun: Our main asteroid belt, or possibly the three Lagrange points on Jupiter’s orbit. Alternatively, an extension of the main belt called the Hilda asteroids has three roughly equilateral sides and reaches almost out to Jupiter’s orbit with its three rounded corners.
- 33 "dots": Possibly all the bodies that lay outside the main asteroid belt (minus one! Enter tin-foil, full body suit territory for that, but not now). If so, this theory would be tethered to the fact that Fdev never put in the majority of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons. Jorki’s post has different, more eloquent thoughts on the 33 dots, a good read.
- The Six Pointed Star: Taken from Jorki’s research, this is often worked into the astronomical symbols for individual asteroids. As you will see while progressing through this post, this ties in exceptionally well to an underlying theme.
- The Hex Shape Background: Nothing concrete here. Ultimately, it doesn’t even have to be anything other than a canvas for the rest of the clues, but I have no doubt that its relevance will reveal itself to us at some point. Wishful thinking would have seen Fdev put Saturn’s amazing hex-shaped storm in the game, but alas, ‘tis not so.
We need a permit for Sol. Why?
From the moment I first logged into this mind-blowing game, I wondered why on earth (haha) we didn’t start there, but instead would need to earn our way there with rank?
Rationale: Fdev wouldn’t want to risk any newbies stumbling upon it due to the sheer numbers of all new players over time. Also potentially fits with “It’s a journey every player has to make for themselves.”
An alien artifact on Mars....?!?!???
What?!??? I guess you could ignore this detail, or you could
stop and think about it…
ALIENS HAVE BEEN TO SOL!! In terms of a story being told, does it make ANY sense that this detail isn't significant? Or is it more likely to be a "Sixth Sense" moment, where everything starts clicking into place once you really start paying attention to the details?
The 32-segment asteroid field designation around the Sun where our main asteroid belt should be.
This denotes asteroid belt game-wide, exemplified by most or all other systems with asteroids. So the anulus (disc) tells us they are there and gives us search parameters, now we just need to find them! The only other known
(to me, please let me know if you know of any others) system to contain this visual designation of (an) asteroid field(s) in the system map, with no asteroids, is New Yembo. What is interesting about New Yembo is that
an old CG aimed us directly at it. I believe this to be done purposefully by Fdev, to demonstrate that the architecture of Sol in relation to the missing asteroids is very intentional. New Yembo demonstrates both "present" (1) and "missing" (3) asteroids belts. Even more odd is their placement.
A major missing asteroid's ancient Greek name visually spells Raxxla.
Going back a whole 4 years, we revisit
PublicStaticVoid's post . His research turned up
Gallia =
Γαλλία in ancient Greek. Notice anything? It gets better. There is a giant asteroid in Sol's "missing" main asteroid belt named
148 Gallia. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that, but if that was my own find I woulda recorded myself dropping a giant mic....
A side note here: Most commanders will have noticed by now that FDev tends to name many of the stations after relevant inspirational, historical, and influential people in astronomy, science, and science fiction. In light of that, consider this tidbit when weighing this particular piece of evidence..... two brothers with the last name Henry discovered 148 Gallia. A quick look in EDDB reveals there are an astounding 45 stations that are named after Henry. I mean, if
you actually needed
more, then there it is.
Elite Dangerous contains all the dwarf planets in our actual system, except the best known: Ceres.
Would you believe that
Ceres, despite being arguably the best known of these dwarf planets, is the one missing? And, would you believe that its orbital path lies on the edge of the main asteroid belt? Must be a coincidence…. Hahahaha! Again, ask yourself which is the more likely scenario: Fdev forgot to put Ceres in the game, but got all the other, lesser known dwarf planets, or: This
does really seem to tie in suspiciously well with the entire "Raxxla in the unfindable asteroid belt" theme going on here... and was
very likely one of Fdev's most obvious, very intentional clues right from the start.
A fair amount of players subscribe to the idea that Ceres has been used to terraform mars: (DB spoke about the possibility in an interview) To them, I ask - is it plausible to suggest that the asteroid would have left no visible impact on Mars? And also for there to be no remains whatsoever?
You can actually enter a HUD-visible area of this missing asteroid belt in/around the segmented disc.
Okay, so this…. I mean, kinda starts killing off any remaining doubt, no? With it, we have direct access to where we know things are supposed to be, despite appearing not to be. It is a smoking gun, whether you first identify it as that or not.
It is not super easy to find, but I've created a short, detailed description of how to consistently find your way to it at the end of this post. Because this IS where we start looking.