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The Dark Wheel was a semi-legendary space unit, star-riders who made it their business to seek the truth behind the plethora of myths and romantic stories that filtered back from all corners of the Universe: fabulous cities, parallel worlds, time travellers, even planets that appeared to be the old 'heaven' of Earth legend.
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The Dark Wheel is a mythical, secretive organization comprised of exceptional adventurers, explorers, investigators, and treasure-hunters that is said to have existed since the advent of interstellar space travel. Among their many arcane goals, they are thought to be primarily dedicated to finding Raxxla. A minor faction that calls itself "The Dark...
The Dark Wheel is believed to have existed since the earliest days of interstellar space travel, which would place its founding sometime in the 22nd century, when humanity established its first colony outside of Sol on the planet Taylor Colony in Tau Ceti.
Self-professed "people's journalist" and Dark Wheel expert Lyta Crane has created an extensive archive of information related to the Dark Wheel, and claims that the group was founded in and operated out of a disused starport orbiting the eighth moon of an unnamed gas giant. The station was a toroid design that was kept on minimal power to avoid detection, hence the name "Dark Wheel". Crane believes that this station is still being used by the Dark Wheel to this day, and that it contains records and artefacts that new members can examine to verify that they have joined the genuine Dark Wheel. However, Crane has her share of critics who have accused her of forging evidence for personal profit, and the Dark Wheel's station, if it exists, has never been located.
•The Dark Wheel was first featured in the 1980 book The Alien World: A Complete Illustrated Guide written by Steven Eisler, under the pen name of Robert Holdstock. Holdstock published a novella called Elite: The Dark Wheel, which came packaged with the original Elite game, in 1984. In that novella, which is outside the canon of Elite Dangerous, the only identified member of the Dark Wheel was Jason Ryder, an Elite-ranked combateer and the father of Alex Ryder. Jason had told his friend Rafe Zetter that he had found solid evidence of Raxxla's existence, but he was assassinated before he could pursue this new lead. Alex later avenged his father by destroying the assassin, after which Rafe told him about Raxxla and the assassin's possible links to a corrupt group of Elite pilots who had supposedly found Raxxla and were intent on monopolizing it. At this point, Alex had achieved the rank of Deadly and resolved to become an Elite, join the Dark Wheel, and find Raxxla himself.
•In 2020 and 2021, The Dark Wheel minor faction was at the center of a Background Simulation manipulation experiment, where players collaborated to expand the faction from Shinrarta Dezhra all the way to Sol, the goal being to provoke a response either from the Background Simulation or Frontier Developments. The operation went smoothly, in spite of numerous player factions being uncooperative, but came to a sudden end when it was discovered that player factions cannot expand into Sol, suspected to be either being due to Sol being a permit-locked system, or Frontier placing a hardcoded lock on Sol itself to prevent player factions from expanding into the system and breaking the in-universe lore.
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Elite: The Dark Wheel is a 48 page novella by the well-known fantasy author Robert Holdstock. It came packaged with the original Elite game in 1984. Incidentally, it was the first novella in history to be included for distribution with a video game.
Jan 1, 2001 · The Dark Wheel is the original Elite novella which was first published as part of the Acornsoft Elite package in 1984. Written by well-known fantasy author Robert Holdstock it describes the quest of Alex Ryder, a newly-qualified pilot, to exact revenge for his father's death at the hands of a paid assassin.
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The Dark Wheel, a novella set in the elite universe and distributed with the original boxed elite game, expands upon the universe Robert Holdstock outlines in the Elite manual and introduces many new concepts.
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Raxxla and the Dark Wheel - Elite Dangerous Lore Summary and definitive guide for new and returning players. Video. Folks, My latest lore video is live, this time we delve into the greatest mysteries of the Elite Dangerous Universe, the legend of the Dark Wheel and the myth of Raxxla. Hope you enjoy. Cheers, Drew. https://youtu.be/VpGyG21B95Y.
