darkwheeldarkwheelRaxxla or Dark Wheel station positioned at Lagrange Point L2 using orbital mechanics to maintain permanent eclipse from host star, making visual discovery difficult despite mathematical accessibility.
Original theorist: Han_Zen -- View original post
The Dark Wheel station shown in the Codex may be positioned at Lagrange Point L2 to remain eclipsed from the host star by a gas giant. Tidal locking combined with sufficiently slow orbital resonance could keep a station on the permanent dark side of a moon orbiting a gas giant.
Sounds fishy. How can a station orbit the dark side of a moon that orbits a gas giant? The gas giant is not a light source. You would need a very peculiar set of orbital resonances to keep the station in eternal shadow form the moon. The station in the codex would be brightly lit by the red star. It also looks to close to the star to fit a gas giant, in addition to the moon in the picture. I don't think the picture is of the actual Dark Wheel station. At least if the eight moon thing is true. Click to expand... I cant do astrophysics math but my guess is something to do with tide locking. Like if the moon is tide locked to the gas giant and its orbit is slow enough, it would always be on the dark side. Also if this is true that it doesnt show up in things like the Full System Scanne...
Lagrange points (particularly L2) could theoretically host a station with minimal energy correction, offering a physics-based explanation for how Raxxla could remain hidden at a stable orbital point.
We have Lagrange clouds, which could be a hint that this mechanic might work. Even though clouds would not accumulate at unstable points, as L2. A station could stay at L2 with little energy for position correction.
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