But yet again not everything in the original game or books are in this current game, so possible they moved it well far away so it wouldnt be easy to find given its possibilities when found
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Not sure if it was mentioned but fernweh means far away in german im pretty sure
Sometimes I forget myself and look for real mysteries. That's what happened to me during the unraveling of the Guardian's bases. But after that failure (I couldn't collect all the keys on my own from an alleged bug in the program) I keep trying to hit myself over the head.
I do not understand how you can look for something in the game where there are closed areas, and maybe they are just closed to the right time and do not require any permission.
As for the mark Thargoids I'm afraid to get it on his aircraft carrier or a ship, because I think as soon as I get such a mark then immediately come interceptor and suck me all.
Maybe that's the thing we are missing.. as said. Raxxla is a rumoured myth...talked about... the jokes on us.. its exactly that..i really hope not or rage quit world wide :/
I sense uncritical document hoarding, on the net.
That's right. Other documents are only available to members of the other organization and if they are published, the developers can see it and adjust the game.Well, let’s face it...
Not many documents published by anyone else!
Someone said: Whatever the rules of the game, they are the same for both sides.
Galnet: "Pilots can provide further help by directly delivering repair materials to damaged starports"
but it doesnt say what materials!
Edit: Ah, maybe that’s a second phase as they’re only asking for Basic & Advanced Medicines!
but it doesnt say what materials!
Edit: Ah, maybe that’s a second phase as they’re only asking for Basic & Advanced Medicines!
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Well, adjust the tinfoils because I am going to expose my theory.
The Raxxla logo from the codex can be interpreted in various ways. My interpretation of the logo is that it could be a system with one star and three asteroid belts, this system containing 33 bodies. It would also be necessary to go through six different systems to access it. What if everything was as simple as jumping to six systems in a specific order to open Raxxla's door and jump to the final system?
Perhaps everything is as obvious as jumping around spelling the word RAXXLA using one letter for each system. After many days looking for systems I have realized that the word RAXXLA can be spelled with six jumps if we start with the RA system (ancient Egyptian deity of the sun, the jewel that burns, RAxxla ...)
Ok, these are the systems adjacent to RA that the word RAXXLA can be formed with: RA - AINE - XIRANG - XIHE - LAMAKU - ADAD
R: RA (Ra was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld. He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky.Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus. At times the two deities were merged as Ra-Horakhty, "Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons".)
A: AINE (Aine is an Irish goddess of summer, wealth and sovereignty. She is associated with midsummer and the sun, and is sometimes represented by a red mare. As the goddess of love and fertility, she has command over crops and animals and is also associated with agriculture.)
X: XIRANG (also known as hsi-jang, Swelling Earth, self-renewing soil, breathing earth, and living earth is a magical substance in Chinese mythology that had a self-expanding ability to continuously grow.)
X: XIHE (One of the two wives of Di Jun (along with Changxi), she was the mother of ten suns in the form of three-legged crows residing in a mulberry tree, the Fusang, in the East Sea. Each day, one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage driven by Xihe. Folklore also held that once, all ten sun birds came out on the same day, causing the world to burn; Houyi saved the day by shooting down all but one of the sun birds.)
L: LAMAKU (No references, Indonesian word for "my old")
A: ADAD (Adad, Haddad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions. Represented as a thunderbolt, a lion or a bull. Equivalent Gods: Zeus, Jupiter, Ba'al .)
I have tried jumping in order, in reverse, trying all the combinations and I have not found anything. Maybe you have to fly with some kind of item in the cargo hold but the task is colossal with the large amount of items in the game. I've started testing with Guardian cargo but it may take me forever to test this theory, so I'm sharing it for anyone who wants to test it.
This theory may not get anywhere, like all the ones we've tried before, but I think it's worth a try. All kinds of suggestions are accepted.
o7
The Raxxla logo from the codex can be interpreted in various ways. My interpretation of the logo is that it could be a system with one star and three asteroid belts, this system containing 33 bodies. It would also be necessary to go through six different systems to access it. What if everything was as simple as jumping to six systems in a specific order to open Raxxla's door and jump to the final system?
Perhaps everything is as obvious as jumping around spelling the word RAXXLA using one letter for each system. After many days looking for systems I have realized that the word RAXXLA can be spelled with six jumps if we start with the RA system (ancient Egyptian deity of the sun, the jewel that burns, RAxxla ...)
Ok, these are the systems adjacent to RA that the word RAXXLA can be formed with: RA - AINE - XIRANG - XIHE - LAMAKU - ADAD
R: RA (Ra was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld. He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky.Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus. At times the two deities were merged as Ra-Horakhty, "Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons".)
A: AINE (Aine is an Irish goddess of summer, wealth and sovereignty. She is associated with midsummer and the sun, and is sometimes represented by a red mare. As the goddess of love and fertility, she has command over crops and animals and is also associated with agriculture.)
X: XIRANG (also known as hsi-jang, Swelling Earth, self-renewing soil, breathing earth, and living earth is a magical substance in Chinese mythology that had a self-expanding ability to continuously grow.)
X: XIHE (One of the two wives of Di Jun (along with Changxi), she was the mother of ten suns in the form of three-legged crows residing in a mulberry tree, the Fusang, in the East Sea. Each day, one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage driven by Xihe. Folklore also held that once, all ten sun birds came out on the same day, causing the world to burn; Houyi saved the day by shooting down all but one of the sun birds.)
L: LAMAKU (No references, Indonesian word for "my old")
A: ADAD (Adad, Haddad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions. Represented as a thunderbolt, a lion or a bull. Equivalent Gods: Zeus, Jupiter, Ba'al .)
I have tried jumping in order, in reverse, trying all the combinations and I have not found anything. Maybe you have to fly with some kind of item in the cargo hold but the task is colossal with the large amount of items in the game. I've started testing with Guardian cargo but it may take me forever to test this theory, so I'm sharing it for anyone who wants to test it.
This theory may not get anywhere, like all the ones we've tried before, but I think it's worth a try. All kinds of suggestions are accepted.
o7
Fernweh basically means to yearn for the far. It's the of opposite of homesick (Heimweh in german).
In my opinion the toast is still one of the most solid puzzles there are in regard to tdw or raxxla so excuse my tinfoil as i dive in a little
My translation from german to english (am native german):
"To the Jewel, that shines at the forehead of the mother of all galaxies! To the whispers in the blackness of space, the siren in the deepest nothing! To the parents grief, the lovers woe (lament works too) and yearning of every vagabond! To Raxxla!"
The main differences being:
They chose to write forehead (Stirn) instead of brow (Braue), but seeing it as calling it the middle or the focal point of something/place gets across either way, more visually speaking (trying to find the eyes) it would place the supposed jewel kind of differently. Interesting fact, "Gestirn", is a german word for light emitting or reflecting bodies in space.
"Stirn" can also mean a front facing part.
Mother of all galaxies seems to be the implication of the original english text too imo, it just gets specificly pointed out in german, don't know why (could just as easily been "Mutter der Galaxien" which would have been a perfect fit).
Also, the german text does not only refer to A "whisperer" but general whispers, but refering to the siren in the same sentence just like the original, makes the source of the whispers kind of singular again. "Schwärze" could be translated to darkness but "blackness" is a much closer. Of course the darkness of space tends to be black so no big news here but still a wierd choice of words.
The deepest nothing is also a wierd choice as Quoted OP stated The Void is also called the Void in the german translation of the game, meaning the void mentioned in the toast could be a entirely different place to the one on the map.
Rover apparently is just an older word for vagabond so yeah, "Vagabund" is just Vagabond.
The difference in wording and word count could mean one of three things:
1. the hints the toast gives are even more vague than we tought OR just partially with more specific information troughout different translations
2. there is a specific sequence or phrasing to be found in the toast, respective of the languages structure and/or poetic customs, so the changes are on purpose
3. bad translation
if the first option is believable it would mean that:
-the placement of the "jewel" is more of a central object than lying between two "eyes"
-the mother of all galaxies is not Cassiopeia, but maybe something either more cosmological or an even more important name giving entity
-witchspace not being mentiones could mean either its not important or the english translation has the next piece of info needed taht identifies the blackness as witchspace
-the void in the toast is not the void we know
Option two reeks of spacemadness so i stay away from that until my options run out.
of course bad translation is the easiest option, but the toast itself is not arkwardly worded at all, it all fits well, just some facts are off, so either the translator had some freedoms in translating the toast (which would be suspicious if considered a hint), or it was just not that important to get right (which would atleast exclude the toast as a piece of the puzzle).
I picked this toast apart time and time again, in german and english alike, thought id chime in to clear the german translation.
Happy Hunting o7
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Sounds very similar to something I undertook some time ago (logged in this thread), whereby I identified a concentric spiral close to Sol that spelt out Rax la...it was just missing an X, it was rather simple and obvious and to my surprise, the alignment with an overlaid concentric spiral map, fitted perfectly... but I never found anything...
Did map lots of undiscovered and partially discovered systems, with very close range to Sol, but still could have flown straight past it without knowing...
I do feel if there are clues in game they will correlate once we find them and they will be obvious. I don’t believe MB statement of there being no clues, because 1 I feel he was alluding to the questions being asked of him at that time or 2 that there was nothing to show at that time because it’s could also be a narrative locked item.
However if Raxxla’s location is purposely placed, and not arbitrary, it stands to reason the system naming has some meaning and can be associated with elements from the Codex, but obviously we haven’t as yet been able to isolate this.
Good work to Cmdr Exekrator, any theory is a valid theory here and kudos for its application. Keep up the good work.
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That makes sense. In my travels the areas where it seemed to match most closely from spinward were the distant views from the Orion Dark Region, which isn't that far from Cone Nebula, for varying definitions of far. I'm just a couple of years behind the times and wanted to check it out myself (plus somewhere I have an image of the Pleiades from a video that looked very similar also, so still hanging on to the remote chance of that theory).
Did you or anyone else manage to get into NGC 2264 or Cone Nebula before they were locked down to check the views?
By no clues I'm guessing he mean't they weren't going to put anything on the forums or social media or the like along the lines of "have you listened to it". ;-)
Pretty confident as well that there will be some sort of bread crumb trail in game that we can follow, it is just finding the start of that trail and interpreting it correctly at all stages which is the challenge. That and not knowing whether it is behind some sort of lock based on commander status or affiliation/faction or something else entirely that needs to be met before the start of the bread crumbs are even revealed somehow in game.
Well if you want proper tinfoil, and Ive never mentioned it coz its too much tinfoil, the statement 'There will be no clues' is a future tense statement. It allows for there to be existing clues already there in the present or past. But I dont really hold to that view myself, just keep it in the back of my mind to look for any supporting evidence, of which there has been none so far.
Uncritical in the sense that they are "sanitized" CoR documents, that may or may not reflect reality, be completely accurate, or even just be plants of false trails. ;-)I sense uncritical document hoarding, on the net.
But presumably the Codex info for Raxxla and TDW are clues, hence...
Unless they are false leads of course.
Which is suspicious in and of itself. ;-)Well, let’s face it...
Not many documents published by anyone else!
Oddly, I didn't see any Canonn documents referenced there, but might have missed them, have only had a quick look so far. Also suspicious. But then again I am now naturally suspicious and trust no one. Except penguins maybe.
In English they are written as 'stories' or 'myths' mostly. The one piece of evidence is a reference to a diary or journal kept by Art, all that proves is that Art mentioned the same myth or story. theres a few 'debunkers' in there as well, its not a gateway to alternate universes etc that are written as more 'final word' to draw a line under and move on. It kind of ties up the old myths, debunks a few, and tries to set the record straight of what we should now believe (as opposed to any old lore or Oolite lore that may have crept in).
Even the DW toast is 'allegedly' that of the DW, same for the Station but thats written as 'probably true but not found' that it exists somewhere.
Not sure how they translate and even in English its subtle, which allows for all sorts of interpretations, but some of it is definitely 'weighted against' and some is 'weighted towards' which seems to imply we are supposed to disregard some as pure myth or story and believe more in others.
What we dont know is how true any of it is as you say. Could be deliberate disinformation but that seems more and more unlikely as time goes by and it is supposed to be taken at face value.
Is that a dot dash I see in their latest social media (an A)? Are we going to get one letter a day now for ten days?
Source: https://www.facebook.com/274252200563/posts/10164821478405564/?substory_index=0