Raxxla as Design Concept vs. Discoverable Object

So, confirmed we have a NPC "Cmdr Rob Holdstock" and a real player "Cmdr Holdstock" ingame. What else ?[haha] Well.. as " we don't know what it is, though", seems that Raxxla is no longer " a planet with a portal which leads to.." nor a "certain celestial body"... Typical FD inconsistencies... We are looking for something we don't know "what" nor "where" it is and "the tiny part a little bit obvious" seems no longer to be relevant. And "there will be no clues". Seems the "Raxxla concept" has "evolved" since the original novel and 2.4 (and MB exit). For better?

Well, yes. Because it seems DB is aware of the fact that part of the player community is actively looking for Raxxla. He just gave us a clue or "no-clue" in the kind of "you are on the wrong way if you think ED Raxxla is RH's Raxxla". Click to expand... Does that mean it is not a great big eye floating in the sky? Isn’t that a clue? I thought we weren’t going to get any clues?

I don’t think there is much to find in the lore about Raxxla. Several of the authority have confirmed that they know nothing about it. We have the description in TDW(which is considered a ledgend, not lore) and we have the missions listed in OP. The year 2814 was leaked by Salomé as the time of discovery, but I don’t think Drew got any more info at all.

I wanted to address the comment from David Braben about "But you don't know what it is" concerning Raxxla. A lot of people seem to be attributing it to the fact that Raxxla is not a planet and that we don't even know what we are looking for and that the CEO of FDev has hinted that we don't even know what Raxxla is. I have a different take on it. He's responding to Ed's comment. It goes something like this: Someone in chat asks if Raxxla exists. Braben laughs and says it is a silly question and that, of course, it exists. And that's the end of his answer. Ed then goes on to say that he "actually, probably" could have predicted the four questions that were going to come up on the stream to which Braben responds, "Yeah, but you don't know what it is, though." to which Ed responds "It's true, ...

I did watch the DBOBE chat and agree that when a question comes up about the existence of Raxxla in-game he says “silly question, yes of course”, then Ed says something like he could have forecast the four most popular questions in advance (i.e. Raxxla topic is at least one of them) and DB responds “yes, but you don’t know what it is”. So, nothing much there, and confirmed Ed is unaware of the details of Raxxla (as expected, probably a close secret within FD) except “what it is” rather than “where it is”. So I interpret that as meaning it is not just a run-of-the-mill planet, but something special (as we would expect). of course that won’t stop some people being disappointed when it is found. As we saw with the FRift storyline, expectations can run much larger than the solution, that’s h...

I wanted to address the comment from David Braben about "But you don't know what it is" concerning Raxxla. A lot of people seem to be attributing it to the fact that Raxxla is not a planet and that we don't even know what we are looking for and that the CEO of FDev has hinted that we don't even know what Raxxla is. I have a different take on it. He's responding to Ed's comment. It goes something like this: Someone in chat asks if Raxxla exists. Braben laughs and says it is a silly question and that, of course, it exists. And that's the end of his answer. Ed then goes on to say that he "actually, probably" could have predicted the four questions that were going to come up on the stream to which Braben responds, "Yeah, but you don't know what it is, though." to which Ed responds "It's true, ...

I've had this idea on the backburner for a while now because I assume it's already been suggested, and because I'm not familiar with the 1984 Elite at all, but is it possible that Raxxla is hidden in the 1984 Elite that's free in the Frontier online store? Or, at least hints in that version of Elite that could help us find Raxxla in Elite: Dangerous? I never explicitly recall reading that Raxxla is in Elite: Dangerous specifically, just that it exists and only a select few know where it is. Thoughts? Opinions? Has this route been explored before? Click to expand... I understand this has already been disproved on the basis that Raxxla was not actually in the original Elite ; apparently the name is incompatible with the procedural coding mechanism they used, and the code was extensively a...

RIP Guru, it seems the fruitless results of his efforts have broken his psyche completely. you confused the hell out of us the whole time. As far as the main topic goes; someone said something in a twitch stream that really made me think the other day. The idea that Frontier paid developers upwards of hundreds of thousands to work on content people might never see is absolutely bonkers. It is more than likely that Raxxla will be added as some sort of future content, or it's something so small and unfinished that it wouldn't really be a huge deal to actually find it. At first I disagreed, because Raxxla was a big mystery in the original Elite back when the game was tiny and barely had anything, but I think that's just what it was. A whisper. A mention. An idea that isn't even fully formed...

I think the more correct question to ask DB is "Is Raxxla interactable?" Because if it really is this whole "It's inside all of us" or "It's a journey, called 'Raxxla'" then that more metaphorical and wishy washy stuff wouldn't be classified as interactable