Elite Dangerous: The Mystery of Raxxla, Turning the Wheel Initiative - Some Facts & Theories

In this video we delve into the quest to find Raxxla and look into a player theory involving the Thargoid attacks that might bring an interesting new angle on both the Thargoids and the search for Raxxla. A player initiative to uncover the mystery of Raxxla started this year and its starting to see some tentative results.
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[@Irish_all_day]

You really wanted to laugh when you mentioned cmdr darthballs lol. Way to maintain your composure

[@TheBuurPit]

I thought I did well there :D

[@TexasSpartan099]

I agree. You could tell. 🤣 I couldn't help but snicker.

[@ceiling_cat]

Darth and balls torture

[@grahamcrabb7714]

😆

[@JG27Korny]

Raxxla most probably is in a permit locked system with a functionality to be developed it will be ready when the stable release of Star citizen is out.

[@arthurmorgan2418]

So, it will be ready in *never* years?

[@1otenwithonotzero223]

What's a "permit locked"?

[@ravennfall6034]

@@arthurmorgan2418 nope not permit locked, it's quiet close to sol

[@IsaacFox]

xd

[@infn8loopmusic]

Pretty sure LFT 509 is a potential spot because it's right next the other system where dark wheel has a ton of planetary bases.

[@TRG29338]

It's simple we kidnap Aisling until the Dark Wheel comes for us then follow them back to Raxxla.

[@ultraviolencegaming4155]

TDW literally hates the powerplays....? If you kidnapped Aisling and told them, they'd be fucking thrilled

[@arthurmorgan2418]

@@ultraviolencegaming4155 so, mission accomplished?

[@mdmckea]

As Churchill once said, "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Great Raxxla theories though. Oh, and absolutely outstanding footage - this video is worth watching just for that alone. Rheeney outdid herself on this one. ō7 CMDR

[@ssjsjb]

Great job as always Cmdr. Everytime I hear your ending I'm like Burr: follow the greens out Me: Oh that's why I get yelled at when leaving the station. Burr: Keep clear of the toaster rack Me: Damn it not again!

[@north_jp]

so it's a JOURNEY everybody must travel themselves, and theres a song by Journey called "wheel in the sky." possible clue?

[@lunamaria1048]

Not everyone knows Journey or that song so not a very fair clue :/

[@SWIFTO_SCYTHE]

WHEEL in the sky keep on turrrrninnnggg

[@GalnetDigest]

Confirmation bias is certainly a risk, but without any other leads, I'm fascinated to see how this goes and where it ends up. Will the Dark Wheel even want to see us turning mob-handed up at their secret base in LFT 509? I'm allowing myself to get just a little bit excited!

[@arthurmorgan2418]

Everybody gangsta till galnet starts exposing the hidden lore

[@rixxo]

As some cmdrs mentioned before: "It's a journey that everyone must travel for themselfs" Raxxla is Elite Dangerous and I think fdevs will never admit this because it will piss off a lot of people

[@arthurmorgan2418]

Raxxla is elite dangerous? Could y'all elaborate on that fam?

[@nb3860]

"Cosmic Enlightenment"

[@xxparan01axx11]

My squadron has its own tinfoil section devoted to solving this, I'm just worried Fdev are pulling our leg... I feel like a secret seeker of Shadow of the colossus

[@JB-gb7uu]

That game's big door does open up. It was figured out only about 2 years ago. It just has some statue and a sword or something. I forget.

[@HadrianDuval]

Great Dark Wheel recruitment video.

[@crazygolm]

Brilliant video as always!

[@KopRules]

Fantastic video, some awesome shots! O7 Buur Pit 🤩

[@00ddub]

So you’re thinking that the “Dark Wheel” is the ring of permit locked systems?

[@TheBuurPit]

No tbh :)

[@cmdrgogen3203]

We need more of such videos and stories, to move people away from iceboxes where they stare into glowing rocks for weeks and months until they reach 500 billion credits. o7

[@arthurmorgan2418]

Well, doing that would make people more capable of solving such a mystery, so...

[@folcotook3049]

Interesting stuff, CMDR. o7 and well done.

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

Good one. Been turning the wheel for a few weeks now. Interesting to see how it turns out since FDev community members are watching.

[@OrangePheonix]

All very interesting! But got distracted with the awesome footage 🤣. Some great insights in this report!

[@TheBuurPit]

I know. She's quite selfish like that.

[@Joseph-wh5of]

I've been to raxxla... I've walked those unholy grounds. It is where the darkness turns to light in the light is shrouded within the Darkness. A realm hidden behind a cosmic curtain on the edge of the universe... Just joking I have never found it...

[@exiletsj2570]

Yea we know.

[@arthurmorgan2418]

Still plucked at me feels tbh

[@cmdrblp]

When you're looking for a piece of thread to tug at, everything in the galaxy starts to look like a questionable piece of thread. Also unrelated, I see the union rep for limpets has been sponsoring your footage this week. No limpets were harmed in the making of this report, I'm assuming. o7

[@cmdrsoundo5240]

OOO Love it. let go help the dark wheel

[@phillipk3599]

I believe developers said that people have been to the system but didn't scan the planet

[@tacticalderpy2077]

There is something thats been bothering me about the Sol system. UV Scuti isn't in the game because "its measurements werent known at time of game release". But they threw Persephone, which is just a theory. There is the asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. But they have tweaked systems post release to reflect new official findings. Not saying its connected, but its odd. Plus Triton is locked. Players grind to see the home system and a notable body is locked is just irritable. Just make it not landable like the gas ball Titan.

[@bravepart]

I think the 'Journey everyone needs to take for themselves' hints at passenger lounge missions. They've always brought players directly to places of note or lore significance in the game. Also hidden in plain sight, I definitely believe a thread is hidden therein.

[@leeebbrell9]

i love this sort of stuff

[@pythagorasaurusrex9853]

Raxxla = Whoever finds Raxxla wins a weekend in Cambridge with a tour at Frontier's and a dinner with DB. The Club / Dark Wheel = Frontier itself, because releasing patches and adding/removing features in ED manipulates the powers and outcome of the game.

[@grahamcrabb7714]

Wow, makes me want to go out and find it! But I remember reading "The Dark Wheel" the short story that shipped with the original Elite and I do have the original copy awaiting DB's autograph (if I ever get to meet him that is 😉) and each time I read it get inspiration to play the game or realised I missed something from last read! Now....... what if the original story had a cryptic clue or story within the story?? (Thinking to myself, got to read book again now after seeing this video!) Enjoyed the video Cmdr B very immersive, and great visuals (credit to Cmdr Rhny?) thank you and O7.

[@TheBuurPit]

Cheers Graham o7

[@Planetside223]

I still say it's in the starting area, everyone has to make those trips and where better to hide something than in an area where the only people that can go there dont know what Raxxla is yet

[@PrimetimeCasual]

I think the "journey" part would coincide nicely with a permit lock. The problem, as you mentioned, is that with the sheer amount of stars there will almost always be a way to find an X that marks the spot you want it to be. That FDev fixed that bug *that* quickly is, for me, an indication that this bug might indeed have been a threat to whatever they have planned to keep hidden. Be it Raxxla, Guardians, Thargoids, or whatever else is lurking out there in the black. That said, I think Turning The Wheel is indeed an interesting approach and might uncover something, even if it is just deeper understanding of the BGS.

[@maunz5791]

Perhaps this system is not really permanently locked, but just very complicated to unlock. Every cmdr has to do something like opening every single thargiod base map to gain access to the system. This would be thargoid related, fit to the quotes of frontier staff and also fit to frontiers obsession with never ending grind. :) And nice and inspiring video! ;)

[@higgsbonbon]

let's GOOOOOOO

[@xsneakatokex8783]

XD

[@sirdee9607]

Nice Idea

[@phillykano]

We get the permits on odyssey as a story lore progression and be able infiltrate dark wheel and go to those installations where raxxala i bet since its paid dlc

[@TRG29338]

I've been thinking this too. If they pulled their writers off of galnet they must be writing something. I doubt they will open up a brand new story when everything they've started so far is unfinished. So it's Thargoids, Guardians or Raxxla or all 3.

[@xsneakatokex8783]

If they arent pulling are leg with this stuff and it is real, than im on board with this theory. Makes the most sense to me.

[@rickjames6469]

This is what I am working towards

[@markbutler5977]

Another thing that stands out as being so close to our noses is the game name. ELITE. Could find that one of the conditions to unlocking something is being triple elite. (Possibly even quad elite. CQB) Couldn't even start to theorize how it might fit in but it is like a scab in my mind I can't stop picking when I think about the search for Raxala.

[@DrMoofK]

I'm calling it now. Raxxla is a wormhole to Andromeda. And if we find it and it is indeed that, there will be a heavy Dark Wheel presence already there.

[@CRG]

Just came to me that a journey everyone must complete for themselves probably refers to a system permit and perhaps multiple. Like other permit locked systems they are all something that each player must obtain themselves. Question is though how do you get the permits?

[@gpisic]

My hypothesis is that u need to max out your credits or at least be close to it, then something will happen when you fly around in one of the core systems. So basically the same stuff you needed to do in the original Elite game.

[@lunamaria1048]

I have been investigating for Raxxla since before it was common knowledge.. My investigations have gone cold because of a locked region, and another because of a locked system.. My Dark Wheel reputation is maxed out for years lol.. I remember doing that mysterious mission that i hear is no longer available, after increasing my rank to elite in something, i think.. Been so long now, i forget

[@Gears_ofwar]

Any news?

[@Windrake101]

I know its a bit late for this video. BUT Fdev never "stamped out" the purchase of system data from permit locked systems. Some like LFT 509 never could be bought for some reason, but i've been able to get nearly all permit systems around the bubble, and a few systems inside COl 70 no problem!

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Spooky....when I 'Liked' the video, it had 509 thumbs up.....

[@Dv1TV]

LMFAO 7:07 x marks the spot!

[@mainSPECdestro]

It's a portal to another bubble. The permit locked systems on the other side of the galaxy that the gnosis was originally headed to.

[@Dan-kb7rv]

With the cartographic bug did anyone get a map of Polaris? Not played for a while so not up to date with recent developments but know that was always a point of interest.

[@oneofdavidsmightymen]

All very good but did FDev not say in a livestream that a Cmdr has already visited the system Raxxla was in so permit locked systems could be a rabbit hole

[@TheBuurPit]

No. Thats an oft repeated story with no foundation in truth.

[@kkmardigrce]

After I train my SLF pilot to Elite (25% towards it) I'm doing missions for DW (Dark Wheel, not Distant Worlds ;) ) faction. There is nothing worth mentioning to do anyway and I've had my share of expeditions. See you!

[@onasknox9284]

The stellar winds blow and the dark wheel turns, an age passes, thargoids come again...

[@seanbiggs1827]

It's that a fucking dark arisen reference!?!

[@onasknox9284]

@@seanbiggs1827 wheel of time

[@FurryEskimo]

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but that intersecting points of intersecting points, just means that system is in the middle, right?

[@TheBuurPit]

Yes.

[@Windrake101]

I don't think LFT 509 has anything to do with the DW. Especially when there is a _much_ more obvious candidate that some people have long since caught wind of. One system that has significance meta-history wise with Elite, and a star that holds certain historical significance for humanity. And as for the DW at Shinrarata? Felicia herself gave us this clue: " _Whenever someone tries to usurp the Dark Wheel name, sooner or later they get quietly shut down. And that's how I know._ "

[@kylepenquite8329]

So what if LFT 509 is but one more system in a extra series of X's that we have yet to find? So found LFT 509 by the X, but what if we have more X's we need to coincidentally find and at the center of them will be the shadow station?

[@TheBuurPit]

That's always a possibility... I certainly don't think it'll be a short journey and I don't think it'll be easy.... And I'm quite pleased about that.

[@TDogsYard]

I got a question, have we assumed there aren’t more than 8 moons at the gas giant where the secret dark wheel base is supposed to be?

[@TheBuurPit]

No. The lore says the 8th moon of a gas giant. There could well be 12 moons and it's the 8th one we want. Ultimately we need more than 7 :)

[@tmmkyr]

I had a mission where I had to destroy a pirate named raxxla. I don’t know, but I wanted to say this 😂😂

[@torodinson6958]

have there been any developments on this? This vid is 3 years old. did the community expand the influence of the "dark wheel" to see if there was any results?

[@comfortsnail6342]

i believe they tried but whatever they did didnt seem to have an affect

[@00ddub]

I still think Raxxla is less of a name and more part of the riddle. Like an anagram, acronym of even initials. RA-XX-LA...something like that. Maybe it’s a strange shorthand code for some coordinates???

[@HalNordmann]

Wait, that seems like a possible theory! If you convert those letters to their numerical equivalents, you will get a set of coordinates, possibly with the Founder's World as the start! Lets try it! 16/1-22/22-12/1

[@kessilrun6754]

I'd be surprised if FDev put the actual planet in the game. If so, how did they justify moving it from Andromeda? The only RAXXLA that existed, in the MW, was the named Coriolis station, a place you stopped to ask for permission to access the Andromeda gateway. So the planet has never been in the MW. We're looking for the wrong thing. Much harder to find a station. It can be in a belt. I bet you "something" is in that LFT belt, or perhaps one of the rings.

[@lordonyx7671]

I wonder if there might be more permit locks to that puzzle

[@TheBuurPit]

For sure.

[@lordonyx7671]

Watching another pilots channel right now you might want to mention. His name is mattius he's doing an amazing job, answered a lot of my questions.

[@TDogsYard]

Omg where can I find those beautiful green mountains

[@TheBuurPit]

That's Traikaae CH-Y c10 named "Labarinto" by players.

[@lacedup6809]

Didnt he say it had something to do with "founders planet" i have never played this but super interesting

[@TheBuurPit]

The faction in question was only found in one system at the start, shinrarta dehzra which contains a planet called founders world. It's an earth like planet that can't currently be landed on our interacted with in any meaningful fashion.

[@lacedup6809]

@@TheBuurPit May i request that you watch a video by oddheader? Thats where i came from. It had something from darthballs in it. You might already know, but whats in the vid is what im talking about.

[@lacedup6809]

@@TheBuurPit kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmLOiGisacqeldU. About 13 mins in

[@Funnygalsproductions]

It should be found in the game code

[@tsw2scotland341]

Anybody know what planet that is and how to get to it the one in the beginning of the video thanks

[@TheBuurPit]

Its: Traikaae CH-Y c10

[@tsw2scotland341]

@@TheBuurPit thank you Cmdr

[@Ren_Skirata]

Hutton orbital is Raxxla

[@wop52000]

One does nit find Raxxla. Raxxla finds you. ....ahmmmm

[@ultraviolencegaming4155]

If its a journey everyone must take for themsleves, i sincerely doubt itll be kicked off by a community event

[@lordonyx7671]

I though they knew where it was, not were looking for it?

[@15Akel]

if someone finds raxxla will get an update for ship interiors xD

[@DaveSkillzGaming]

But thargoids are coming from cone which lines it up even better 😉

[@oogityboogity6644]

Earth is raxlaa

[@statickaiinaweirdworld179]

What if...that's not a moon...

[@alecturner07]

Hmmm, 509 "just happens" to be an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part, not to mention the country calling code for Haiti. Coincidence? LOL /s - I don't think so!

[@scottgrimwolf7168]

Maybe it is a ship?

[@zabbadak6504]

there's only one problem , if the wheel gets turned to far fdev comes up with something, remember the Gnosis jump??? But hey , at least they have something to do.

[@platypusrex2287]

HR 6421

[@xogengaming2198]

Ok I been trying to get out a stream about this but it keeps getting pushed out so raxxla is in Formidine Rift all the clues point to there now heres a big clue the system it's in has been honked but not fully scanned also the system it's in has a big gas giant and has 3 earth like moons my Squadron is looking in there now the dark wheel that u know are descendants of the original dark wheel they are not a fake or anything like this what would be good is if we had more people out in the rift looking now as for what it is it's a gate way in to the next galaxy in ed whitch is already in the game so I did not want to do it this way but I will get a stream out at some point u will all get the same info if u spend more than a day looking lol these facts are all true

[@TRG29338]

@@petezzzz this needs to be E:D's designated copypasta

[@xsneakatokex8783]

Lol I like what youre saying, I really do. Sounds worth it, but the only problem is that it has already been confirmed to be localized in the Milky Way Galaxy. I dont see why they would need to add more outside the galaxy when its all possible in the current one.