Tourist beacons in permit-locked systems and key locations (Cupid's Arrow, Maia, Merope) form a navigational chain with cryptographic clues and CMDR references embedded within them. Systematic exploration of these chains may lead to Raxxla or Dark Wheel contact protocols.
Original theorist: Edelgard von Rhein -- View original post
Systematic checking of permit-locked systems' Tourist Beacons, Installations, and Megaships for logs may reveal clues. Alioth has eleven Tourist Beacons added in 3.3, suggesting these locations are part of the search methodology.
Have there been many more Tourist Beacons added with 3.3? I decided to check my hunch that there might be a clue somewhere in a permit-locked system and have started systematically going through the permits I have (including Phekda, which started out permit-locked but had the restriction lifted after just over a year). I started in Alliance territory, purely because I had been doing some engineering there, and have so far surveyed Phekda and Alioth, visiting each Tourist Beacon, Installation and Megaship and checking for logs. Alioth now has *eleven* Tourist Beacons! Both systems have three Installations, none with any logs, and of the five Megaships I visited, none had anything more than flight plans that I could find (all were mobile and most changing place every week). It's going to ta...
Tourist beacons form a chain starting from Codex entry pointing to Cupid's Arrow, then to Maia and Merope 5C barnacle, with leads continuing to permit-locked systems. CMDR names mentioned in beacons may indicate reading the correct beacon in sequences.
You can't really expect to find Raxxla by just reading a bunch of tourist beacons and going where they point you. The Codex entry points at Cupid's Arrow, and the single tourist beacon there points at Maia AND a barnacle. Probably the original one on Merope 5C. Maia yields 2 tourist beacons, as does Merope (5C has the tourist beacons, by the way). One points you at a next system, but it's locked behind a permit. The obvious easy clues dry up, which is why you've tried to find the next link in Ancient Greek lore, rather than by following the tourist beacons. The only thing these tourist beacons have in common is that they mention CMDR names. Perhaps that's a way to tell whether you're reading the correct tourist beacon (vs an unrelated one), but I don't think you'll get any more easy dir...
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