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*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.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Alien-World-Complete-Illustrated-Guide/dp/0517305607</ref> Holdstock published a novella called ''[[Elite: The Dark Wheel]]'', which came packaged with the original [[Elite]] game, in 1984.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Wheel#Packaging_and_marketing</ref> 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.<ref name="TDW">[http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm ''The Dark Wheel'', Robert Holdstock]</ref><ref name="DrewTDW" /> | *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.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Alien-World-Complete-Illustrated-Guide/dp/0517305607</ref> Holdstock published a novella called ''[[Elite: The Dark Wheel]]'', which came packaged with the original [[Elite]] game, in 1984.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Wheel#Packaging_and_marketing</ref> 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.<ref name="TDW">[http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm ''The Dark Wheel'', Robert Holdstock]</ref><ref name="DrewTDW" /> | ||
*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 [[Permits|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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