MetaElite is a role playing environment designed for the "Elite: Dangerous" (ED) game. It allows the ED community to create interactive story telling for the community, closely integrated into your ED gameplay.

The MetaElite servers connect you to our communty-driven interactive story-telling platform. Its companion app, MetaLens, exposes that functionality to you, the player. This MetaLens application is run next to the ED game, overlaying with the game for immersion, providing a separate view for detail. It monitors the ED journal logs created during your ED gameplay, seeding the MetaElite environment, enabling community-driven campaigns, missions, their tasks, and its story-telling.

MetaLens for Windows can be downloaded using the following link. Once installed it will update automatically.

The installer is signed with a self-signed certificate using our private key. Windows should accept it, but may display a warning the first time you install. You can download the certificate to verify the installer yourself.

MetaLens for Linux is currently only supported through WINE/Proton, and support for getting that to work is available through the Linux channel of the MetaElite discord. Getting it to work under Mac has been discussed too.

We advise you to download your installers from here! Should you use an external link, verify that link (that is good practice in any case) as all official installers are hosted on https://cdn.raxxla.org!

Feel free to join us at our discord server. This is the place for feedback and discussion. A link to join is provided below.

This server is only intended for MetaElite feedback, to provide you with help, to listen to our users, and has a strong development focus. The server is strictly governed, and we will ban you if you do not behave decently.

MetaElite is first and foremost being developed as a companion application for the Distant Worlds 3 event. You find a link to the event's website below.

MetaElite is being developed by Othon von Salza (My Elite: Dangerous alter ego referring to Jodorowsky and Moebius). MetaElite saw the light of day around the time Fleet Carriers dropped. After Odyssey was released, I took a long break from the game and from MetaElite, until I picked it up again when organization started for the Distant Worlds 3 event in the beginning of 2025. Since then I have been greatly supported by Karnath that shields me from anything not being development or sysops (I am so happy with that!!), the many Distant Worlds 3 organizers, in particular Jarrus Tano and Andrew Gaspurr, supporting content creation and providing feedback, and of course Erimus Kamzel, the main organizer, for his support and belief in MetaElite and me.

MetaElite will have a life after Distant Worlds 3. It intends to be a community environment for creating campaigns, missions, storylines by everyone for everyone. Distant Worlds 3 is an essential step towards that goal.

Finally, if you like what we are doing, and want to support us and this project, there is a donation button top-right. Running the MetaElite servers costs quite a bit of money, and donations will allow us to spend more time on making MetaElite awesome. We will gladly mention you for your support, if you like that, and provide you with a digital badge/title in MetaElite for recognition.

For legal reasons, we have to state that mentions or titles/badges are not products/services we sell. It is all we can do to thank you, to credit you for your support. After all, MetaElite is completely free to use and has no commercial intentions.

Your security matters to us!

The installer, signed with our private key, comes with a corresponding self-signed certificate. Windows should accept it, but may display a warning the first time you install. Since we moved to transparent MSI installers, from EXE installers, such warnings seem no longer be thrown.
You can download the certificate: https://cdn.raxxla.org/install/raxxla.org.crt; to verify the installer yourself.

MetaElite (Launcher) installs MetaLens updates

Such installs do not go through the Windows installer process. They are installed in default locations provided by the Windows OS.
To guarantee that such installs cannot be tampered with, the archive containing MetaLens updates comes together with a signature file. That signature is generated by the same private key that is used to sign the ME (Launcher) installer. The corresponding public key to verify the signatures comes as part of ME (Launcher), as to guarantee it cannot be tampered with. For each MetaLens update, this signature file is verified against that MetaLens update to guarantee correctness of the update, before it is installed on your system.

What does this mean?

The MetaElite (Launcher) installer can be guaranteed to come from us, as can be verified with the certificate above. Anything which is packed within that installer cannot be altered by a third party, including the public key used for signature verification, nor the processes that govern MetaLens updates. That is, a signed installer cannot be forged without access to our private key. Secondly, concerning the MetaLens installs (dispatched through the launcher), we can provide you with the guarantee that MetaLens software cannot be tampered with by application of the shipped public key. That is, the launcher will not install software for which a signature does not exist and does not verify the MetaLens software.

MetaLens (ML), the MetaElite (ME) front-end application, runs on your computer, accessing the Elite: Dangerous (ED) logs for handling campaign/mission progress. It sends only that which is strictly necessary for progress to the ME back-end. It does so using HTTPS.

MetaLens will only transmit information, essential to mission/campaign progress

* ML considers only those events of the ED logs which are essential for verifying triggers of tasks of active campaigns/missions.
* ML prunes such ED log events of fields not essential for verifying triggers.
* The ME back-end doesn't store any of the pruned events that are transmitted by ML.
* The ME back-end logs such pruned events, but only limited in time and only for debugging purposes.
* ML does not send any other data to the back-end.

The MetaElite back-end handles your credentials and data with care

* The ME back-end requires your credentials (FID+AuthKey) for access: it stores your FID, Cmdr Name, and the AuthKey hash.
* It runs on linux servers (Alma Linux 9), dedicated to ME, that are frequently updated.
* It is configured from experience, exposing only essential ports for its operation.
* It executes only proven open-source services essential to ME, configured from experience.
* We operate our servers using best-effort practices towards security, reliability and availability.

The MetaElite back-end keeps a state of your progress

* It does not store events that lead up to that state, and prevents the possibility to track you through that state.
* Data can be stored when progressing triggers: to verify progress or collect data on the ED universe (e.g., survey missions).
* It is up to the mission creator to be sensible. Unnecessary strain on the back-end will be actively prevented.
* Missions are required to explicitly state if data is collected from events and to what end.

METAELITE IS NOT AN OFFICIAL TOOL FOR THE GAME ELITE: DANGEROUS AND IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH FRONTIER DEVELOPMENTS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED IS BASED ON PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT BE ENTIRELY ACCURATE. ELITE (c) 1984 DAVID BRABEN & IAN BELL. FRONTIER (c) 1993 DAVID BRABEN, FRONTIER: FIRST ENCOUNTERS (c) 1995 DAVID BRABEN AND ELITE: DANGEROUS (c) 2012, 2013 FRONTIER DEVELOPMENTS PLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 'ELITE', THE ELITE LOGO, THE ELITE: DANGEROUS LOGO, 'FRONTIER' AND THE FRONTIER LOGO ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF FRONTIER DEVELOPMENTS PLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL OTHER TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT ARE ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.

Disclaimer – No Warranty

The software provided by raxxla.org (Othon von Salza P.P.61), known as MetaElite (Launcher) and MetaLens, hereafter referred to as the “Application”, is delivered as-is on a best-effort basis. While every effort has been made to ensure its reliability and security, raxxla.org (Othon von Salza P.P.61) makes no guarantees or warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to: merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third-party rights, and suitability for any specific task or environment. By using the Application, you acknowledge and accept that: raxxla.org (Othon von Salza P.P.61) is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use, inability to use, or misuse of the Application, you are responsible for backing up your data and ensuring compatibility with your system, and the Application may be updated, modified, or discontinued at any time without notice. Use of the Application constitutes your acceptance of this disclaimer.

Disclaimer – Artificial Intelligence

MetaElite (ME) itself (MetaLens, ME Server, ME Editor, ME Database, ME CDN) doesn't use Generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI) in any way. It is an application, much like a browser, in which Campaigns, Missions, Tasks, and Campaign, NPC and Badge pictures are shown, for an integrated story-telling experience into the Elite Dangerous (ED) game, i.e., content that might have been produced through a variety of creative processes, including gen AI - a very important nuance!
ME plans to open the editor to the ED community so anyone can create campaigns, just like anyone can make websites for a browser. ME does not police, dictate or control how that content is made. Questions about specific content should be directed to its creators.

MetaElite is a role playing application designed for the Elite: Dangerous game. Copyright (c) 2020-2026 Othon von Salza (Pseudonym of P.P.61) - Raxxla.org. All rights reserved.

Reproduction of Materials

The materials provided within this application - including text, images, and other content - are protected by copyright. Any reproduction, redistribution, or use of these materials outside the application requires explicit written consent from the creators. This ensures the integrity and proper use of the content.

Streaming and Public Use

You are welcome to stream, showcase, or use the application in its entirety. However, extracting, copying, or reproducing individual elements - such as text and images - is strictly prohibited without prior written approval. Usage should reflect the complete application experience rather than isolated components.

License

The MetaElite software is subject, but not limited, to the license below where Othon von Salza (Pseudonym of P.P.61) acts as the Licensor.

Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 - International Public License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode