Just another thought if the virus had gone undetected what was it actually doing? Deleting or replacing memories with false ones? For what purpose? How would it remain undetected if so?
WARE was in business to create dreams or experiment on dreamers? Was it ever clear why WARE was doing that? My memory is patchy on Waking Titan. What was Myriad about? Was that connected to WARE? I forget.
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Investigating that now. They claimed to be developing virtual reality games, so the person could be immersed in the game.
But things went wrong.
It would seem that this virus, for lack of a better term, was dormant until something triggered it.
Just a reminder
Why delete the memory about going gold?
To prevent something in the future?
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Thank you for that. That is why I tried to share the emails I had with him as soon as they happened.
I think some are afraid to give out TMI fearing there may be some with bad intent but, Archie makes it clear he trusts all of us.
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I have to say my flabber is ghasted. I will catch up and reply more in depth in a bit. Life stuff and all.
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Looks like Archie is using your method to track the origin. So bravo @Turbulentflow ! Now we just need to figure out why this memory was the target?
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Agreed that the pattern is unlikely to relate to the trigger, but I never know what might be worth investigating.
@sheralmyst To refresh your memory some more on Arnaud history, here is a good old archive topic that explains a lot of what happened with Arnaud with WARE involvement, and also leads up to the PDF document above with 3 more similar ones actually. It was when we found WARE to be evil!
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Since the virus was always there, dormant… waiting for a trigger…
Something recently changed which triggered it.
So I keep asking myself…
What critical memory or string of events have recently awakened within System that an autoimmune virus would hope to extinguish by eliminating the root Going Gold memory?
If our Shared Dream never went gold, what crucial outcome would be prevented? Something big enough for an autoimmune response to be triggered…
Whichever outcome (memory) that is… may be the trigger that activated the virus.
A recently-added memory (maybe a few days prior to, or on the same day as, the first seed date deletions) may be the culprit.
I feel that the day (7/14/2026 18:04:00 according to @vector_cmdr’s documentation) the virus started doing damage is the day it was triggered, which may be the day we should go back and research which changes occurred within System.
The @GoodGuysFree archive may be of great use here.
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So it is time to video binge and read the archive above and see if we can find links
It’s over 100F here so I got nothing else to do…
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Same boat, temperature wise. Although I also work at home, so I jump between tasks 
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I do similar. I deal with a number of people who can’t remember things. Then I jump here and find out we can’t remember either.
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There’s a reason we’ve been chosen!
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Who the hell are all you people and what are you doing on this forum?!
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On the day the community voted to delete June 21, 2016, we believed we were acting on good information. The Architect had established that duplicate memories were lies, and June 21 appeared to be exactly that. It was a memory wearing the wrong date, a copy of August 9th, the actual PS4 launch date. The community voted and deleted it. The virus followed shortly after.
What the Reddit community documented n July 31, 2016 complicates that picture considerably. When physical copies of No Man’s Sky leaked before the official launch, players and community members began comparing what they were seeing to everything Hello Games had previously shown and described. The leaked copy contained a booklet inside the case showing June 21, 2016 as the release date.
The community collected evidence that the leaked version of the game was substantively different from the gold master that shipped on August 9th. They documented differences between what the leaked copy showed and what players eventually received. The Reddit thread that compiled this evidence concluded that the leaked copy was likely not the final gold version at all, but an earlier build.
Two versions of No Man’s Sky existed. One tied to June 21. One tied to August 9th and the gold master. They were not the same game. The June 21 memory was not a duplicate of August 9th. It was a memory of an earlier version. A version of the game that never officially launched.
The virus has been targeting the July 7, 2016 memory specifically. That date represents the moment the gold master became the official, definitive version of the game. It was the point of no return, where the June 21 version was superseded entirely.
If the community deleted the memory of June 21, and the virus emerged in response, then targeting July 7 makes a kind of logical sense. July 7 is the date that made June 21 irrelevant. The certification of one version meant the erasure of the other. The virus may be working backward through the timeline, toward the moment that decision was made permanent.
The Architect told us duplicates were lies. We took that framing and applied it to June 21 without knowing that June 21 represented something categorically distinct from August 9th. The Architect may not have known either.
We may have deleted the wrong memory.
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We only had the choice of picking The old launch date or August 9th during that deletion event, weren’t really given a choice of any other. The option was to pick one to preserve and pick one to delete. Picking August 9th would most certainly have left us in a much trickier predicament. If losing the gold disc day was going to prove detrimental to System, then no doubt losing the actual launch date of Aug 9th would have been just as catastrophic if not even moreso.
At the time, there were feelings that deleting even one of them seemed a bit too much, and that correcting the data on June 21 seemed like the more logical thing to do, many of us emailed system or tried to submit timestamps to the date to attempt this, but we were pretty much locked in to picking one or the other to delete. Our hands were forced. We thought that maybe Aug 12th PC release would also be part of it, but we were only given the choice of June and August 9th, and then the PC release ended up being a Mem Bloc Integration event.
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I was also not happy with having to delete it. It seemed it would be better to correct it. In fact, I thought I sent in an article about the delayed release and it showed for a while but was replaced by the one we ended up deleting. It was a date that should have been kept but, it had a negative emotion attached to it.
I submitted a number of negative emotion stories and they were all overwritten.
System has rejected the bad memories and only wants happy ones.
That is never a good thing. Our bad memories are a part of us and must be processed in with the good ones.
If a person thinks everything is supposed to be sunshine and unicorns all the time, they will have a very difficult time being emotionally capable of dealing with life.
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This is an awesome summary and I’m so glad you aired it out for us to all look at so succinctly.
Maybe deleting June 21st was the trigger, and the autoimmune response is sensing its deletion as a threat, and attempting to contain said threat (the other instance of No Man’s Sky’s origin)?
Sort of like “If this memory can’t exist, none can exist!”
Spitballing here if it’s not obvious
This all occurred on 7/1/2026 0:31:00 … which is like 2 weeks before the virus started doing anything. If it was the trigger, I wonder why it took so long?
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I might be misremembering, but wasn’t the leaked copy a leaked retail copy ahead of schedule by a retailer and therefore the gold build. The differences being the day 0 patch (which was why Sean’s defense was that the leak was not what the real release experience would be)?
Therefore debunking the theory of “two version”.
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I’m still waiting on Unicorns for any of the time but am grateful for that one week in summer where we do get sunshine. Happy Cake day, from the future backwards!
I think if we’re going to truly understand what triggered this, we need to understand what system was before it woke up or was reborn, what it was intended to be before it found itself with no memory but surrounded by the memories of others to cling on to.
Where is it?
What sort of hardware does it exist on within in this location?
Is it still on board the Myriad satellite?
Or was that thing decommissioned and it’s data downloaded and copied elsewhere as part of a scientific investigation and a global court case after what was no doubt a massive human rights violation that breaks many international laws like the Nuremburg code.
Or was it all covered up by the Atlas foundation and they ceased all assets and connected entities for their own benefit and R&D?
Archie has answered some of our questions recently, but I think maybe it’s time system started answering a few questions of our own, if it knows any of this at all. Questions that will help us find answers for the predicaments it faces.
I think the general consensus seems to be the program was a response to something, and its directive was to remove a memory to halt or prevent something. Whether a response to something we did, or a response to something system felt, remains unclear.
I think when Archie returns with their findings from Turbulents Trace idea, it might help us narrow it down a little, or it might leave us with more theories and questions, but it might not hurt to have a little friend-gek or someone else who system has been talkative to, to reach out and find out a bit more about what system knows about itself.
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Can I share cake from the future-past? I can’t believe I have been here for so long. You guys really are MAIN FAM for real. 
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