When the Atlas was given it’s protocol, and the creator left (planet abandoned) the Atlas was fine, until a long time has passed and it realized it was alone. To where it’s outer sensor (not explained why Atlas needs an outer sensor) turned on, and it panicked more. In this panic, it wanted it’s Creator back (before the creator left, they allowed Atlas to create a full personality scan of them). The Atlas tried to recreate it, however the data was corrupted. It was *forgotten" and only now trying to be remembered. (There are few personal interpretations, world of glass being one, as the First Traveller was said to escape the world of glass) and thus Atlas created imperfect versions of it’s creator. The traveller.
Now, for destroying every simulation that reminded it of its own world. I don’t have an answer to.
Now thinking about it, if it’s job is to simulate predictions, why did it destroy the simulations where it was reminded of its own world? seems counterproductive.
The Atlas is trying to predict it’s own destruction. If a planet resembling its own planet is destroyed, it’s a simulation of that future event. If that’s true, then the Void Mother/Atlantid could be the simulated Atlas destroyed on Korvax Prime.
Remember, in the Epiloque lore, when the Atlas scanned its creator, it said, “I do as it asks, allowing it to scan me. The KORVA stutters as we do.” so the Korvax could be a simulated version of the race that made the Atlas, the Korva.
I always thought the KORVA was maybe the device used to scan the personality. It stuttering being a sense that it’s somewhat sentient and maybe a little taken aback by what it’s been asked to do. It might be why the Korvax are named as such, this might have been the Atlas only “friend” outside of itself, another machine built by its creator that worked with it. MASSIVE speculation on my part, like HUGE. '^ _ ^
I also took it’s little home world destroying tantrum as frustration of being unable to predict past its own death. Then I feel like it landed on the answer during this period, reduced the sim to a very simplistic one with three races plus the travellers, and then set about a prophecy for “the last traveller” while systematically destroying K-Prime and giving shape and form to the Aerons and all of their accumulated data.
My thinking theory on Atlas plan is, it’s accumulating all of this data, countless corrupt copies, in the world of glass. Then it’s going to open the floodgates for lack of a better metaphor; this sudden power surge will cause it’s own simulation to slow down and allow it to escape up a level somehow and safely away from the blackhole that is going to yeet out it’s power source. Generally the usual sci fi trope of “methods beyond our comprhension we can only explain away as Space Magic”.
It is fun to imagine as well, as that black hole gets closer to Atlas’ homeworld, time dialation will absolutely have some effect on it, which will also have an effect on the simulation we experience. Those 16 minutes, every second will get infinitely longer the closer you get to 16. For all we know we’ve been on the final second of the 16th minute this whole time
Did anyone watch DEVs over the lockdown? Alex Garland’s first mini series, written and directed by. #nospoilersThey basically build the Atlas <3
Hmmm and this could explain the new visuals when visiting the Atlas.(which are the same as when approaching a black hole in the game)I noticed the stretching effect was ramped up with Singularity…and let’s not forget what a singularity is
PHYSICS•MATHEMATICS
a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole.
Greg Buchanan has been recently tweeting:
June 22nd
June 26th
The latter is about his new book, however the part (Don’t trust them, they never stopped watching) is the same font as in the first post which clearly was about no man’s sky. And the chapter is 16.
I think its just coincidence. He’s a writer probably just trying to promote his work. “16” could have been a coincidence or he chose it on purpose to help bring attention to his works.
But then again, that font…why reuse it in an unrelated post? It would be very ARG-like to blur the boundary by having it brush with unrelated real world stuff.
Edit: If you haven’t seen it, its from Saturday Night Live. A funny skit where Ryan Gosling loses his mind over the font of Avatar being Papyrus. This reminds me of that, if we go down this route. Lol
We bombard his publishers email address until they give us the answers we demand. Remember, if they deny any involvement they’re lying. Keep pressing until the restraining orders come in, but don’t worry, those aren’t real either it’s all part of the ARG.
edit: I wonder if anyone has ever tried the “I thought it was an ARG” defence in court?
If this is a clue and if it is not just Greg’s idea of fun then it tells us that we should look outside of the game and game files. That was one thing that A&S was good at, directing users to the ARG. I, as someone that never visits common social sites, somehow found their ARG and eventually this forum. If HG wants to expand beyond the confines of the game (to maybe interest new players?) they are going to have to coax the social among us into spreading the word, and maybe telling us to word to spread.
