# Do Rare Planets Have Portals? **URL:** \ **Category:** Atlas Rises v1.3\ **Created:** [September 8, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146 "2017-09-08T17:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polyphemus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/polyphemus/32/1884_2.png) [@Polyphemus](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Polyphemus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/1 "2017-09-08T17:42:55Z")
I’ve found five rare planets so far. None of them seem to have any buildings of any kind. I’ve tried to use monoliths to find portals, but when I scan for a monolith, it’s always pointed me to a another planet. So far, I haven’t found a portal on one. Do they exist? And while I’m on the subject, have we decided on a name for those whirlygig structures you find on them? ---
**Author:** ![LordMarkov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/lordmarkov/32/3134_2.png) [@LordMarkov](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/LordMarkov)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/2 "2017-09-08T18:23:24Z")
I have had the same experience when scanning for monoliths to look for portals: I am pointed to another planet in the system. There are habitable bases on the rare planet types, however. On a side note, I have personally called those “whirlygig” planets mechanospheres and sentinel junkyards. ---
**Author:** ![zsigmond](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/zsigmond/32/7551_2.png) [@zsigmond](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/zsigmond)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/3 "2017-09-08T18:25:51Z")
no monoliths or portals on rare “dead” planets, you can force a base by using the signal booster. ---
**Author:** ![Polyphemus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/polyphemus/32/1884_2.png) [@Polyphemus](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Polyphemus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/4 "2017-09-08T21:15:52Z")
OK, Thanks. If they don’t exist, I can stop looking for them. ---
**Author:** ![ekult](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/ekult/32/4979_2.png) [@ekult](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/ekult)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/5 "2017-09-09T00:24:50Z")
They often have bases, and I have found portals on the bubble planets, but not the broken shard ones yet. I call the whirly circles ‘Iterations’, but I doubt that will catch on. ---
**Author:** ![zsigmond](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/zsigmond/32/7551_2.png) [@zsigmond](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/zsigmond)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/6 "2017-09-09T00:57:44Z")
have you gone through all the 'Iterations"? ---
**Author:** ![Polyphemus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/polyphemus/32/1884_2.png) [@Polyphemus](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Polyphemus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/7 "2017-09-09T00:59:54Z")
The only rare planets I’ve found so far have been dead. Even the bubble planet I found had no flora, fauna, or buildings (other than the “iterations”). So it’s interesting to hear that there’s another kind, with life, and bases. And even more interesting to find that some of the _do_ have portals. But what are the iterations? I’ve seen some people say they’re sentinels - which is clearly wrong (or, at least, not all of them are). They don’t all seem to be the voice of the same person / thing. I thought at one point that they were just discarded Atlas subroutines, but the more of them I’ve seen, the more I think that’s wrong, too. Some of the lore suggests that they’re a separate AI, existing within the Atlas, but not actually part of it - that their function is to observe the traveller, and they achieve this by being the exosuit’s AI. As the suit AI, they’re limited in what they can say, but they see everything. And it seems clear that the Atlas really doesn’t like them. That seems to be why they’ve been banished to lonely, abandoned worlds - the Atlas can’t destroy them - but it can cut them off. On the other hand, all of the above may be rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![ekult](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/ekult/32/4979_2.png) [@ekult](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/ekult)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/8 "2017-09-09T01:02:15Z")
> [@Polyphemus](#): > > But what are the iterations? The Iteration _kzzkt_ are clearly _kzzzkt_ , so I hope that explains it I actually thought the big circles were what was causing all the bubbles ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/a/a14dd9fa3f3fc9df55164e4b0fdb5c6b60c12d75.jpg) but then the text made it seem like all the sentinels were organized and spawning through them ---
**Author:** ![Xion4012](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/xion4012/32/4412_2.png) [@Xion4012](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Xion4012)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/9 "2017-09-09T01:43:37Z")
Did some research, this looked relevant. Iterations sound a lot like travellers: Iteration is the act of repeating a process, either to generate an unbounded sequence of outcomes, or with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target or result. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration”, and the results of one iteration are used as the starting point for the next iteration. In the context of mathematics or computer science, iteration (along with the related technique of recursion) is a standard building block of algorithms. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration) ---
**Author:** ![Polyphemus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/polyphemus/32/1884_2.png) [@Polyphemus](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Polyphemus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/10 "2017-09-09T02:01:32Z")
The Atlas keeps running the same program, over and over again. Each run is an iteration. Each time, it gets the same result. Each time, it abandons the attempt, and starts again. But the “iterations” (i.e. the structures you find on the rare planets) are something different. They’re not part of the Atlas - at least, not all of them are. They’re something put there by the Atlas’s creators. ![Iteration 1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/e/e79c5f90e4df2fbac0c62d11d26a40e32b2d7c4a.jpg) ![Iteration 2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/8/8f41b1e2a7bbf0e8fe23c07856fcb4dfef079ab1.jpg) As I said, the Atlas really doesn’t like them. It can’t destroy them, so it’s found a way to banish them. ---
**Author:** ![zsigmond](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/zsigmond/32/7551_2.png) [@zsigmond](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/zsigmond)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/11 "2017-09-09T03:22:58Z")
does each dead world have different “iterations”? ---
**Author:** ![Xion4012](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/xion4012/32/4412_2.png) [@Xion4012](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/Xion4012)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/12 "2017-09-09T06:54:42Z")
I think it’s related to Emily. And you left the beginning part of that one out, which was my clue. ![No Man's Sky_20170909004315](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/2/2eed162d6151601c2f122118b6d0f8a0e4f23f97.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![toddumptious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/toddumptious/32/58816_2.png) [@toddumptious](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/toddumptious)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/13 "2017-09-09T10:39:26Z")
I don’t think any of them have life, they all appear as dead or lifeless planets etc. However as @ekult mentioned, they do have habitable bases. My pre-1.3 home planet turned in to one of the new hexagonal rare types with the lightning trees, I thought maybe I had glitched the game by earning a base on a rare because my old world just happened to turn in to one and I knew they had no buildings, but it turns out they are all habitable in terms of players home bases, but not good for much else. Not really a good spot for a base either as resources tend to be low and rare and any quests given by specialists will send you to another planet. My pre 1.3 system was a single planet with a moon, thank Christ the Atlas! After 1.3 the new specialist missions would have sent me to another system every time had that moon not been there. ---
**Author:** ![ekult](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/ekult/32/4979_2.png) [@ekult](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/ekult)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/14 "2017-09-09T10:53:38Z")
just to confirm bubble planets can have portals, here is an address for one ![BUBBLE_PORTAL](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/6/6ba84e804b1ad68d4cf9a6e4a8ca9695a5846a9b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ekult](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/ekult/32/4979_2.png) [@ekult](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/ekult)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/15 "2017-09-11T08:10:04Z")
just to confirm cyber planets can have portals, here is an address for one ![CYBER_PLANET](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/6/6fde92f78488eada4fe848c2d0ecce177697447b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ekult](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/ekult/32/4979_2.png) [@ekult](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/ekult)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/16 "2017-09-11T09:05:08Z")
just to confirm cluster planets can have portals, here is an address for one ![CLUSTER_PLANET](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/etarc/original/2X/4/414aeec321caa7a6938edc84601732f32d9979e4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kerdorin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/kerdorin/32/3136_2.png) [@kerdorin](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/kerdorin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/17 "2017-09-11T10:29:01Z")
What system @ekult ? ---
**Author:** ![ekult](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/ekult/32/4979_2.png) [@ekult](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/ekult)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/18 "2017-09-11T10:32:12Z")
> [@kerdorin](#): > > What system @ekult ? you mean galaxy? euclid ---
**Author:** ![kerdorin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/kerdorin/32/3136_2.png) [@kerdorin](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/kerdorin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/19 "2017-09-11T10:45:22Z")
Oups yes, galaxy, thanks. I can’t visit then. Edit: but i’ll try in Hilbert, just to see if it’s rare planet too. ---
**Author:** ![DevilinPixy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.atlas-65.com/devilinpixy/32/74073_2.png) [@DevilinPixy](https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/DevilinPixy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/do-rare-planets-have-portals/3146/20 "2025-08-21T14:48:30Z")