The Guardians have symbols that looks very much like language engraved into em. A new alphabet or a primitive form of the regular one? I can’t really tell.
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Definitely writing but not the one we know. There is another on some other things so not surprising. Fits that it would be an ancient perhaps forgotten language.
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I do wonder what lore they’re going to stick to those things. Because they will need to. You can’t just drop a bunch of techno-magical golems protecting the undead into a scifi game and just never mention it again…
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But that’s part of the fun of magical stone golems protecting bones for an eternity. You don’t explain it. 
And the Telamon logs already come with an explanation… Atlas is crazy yo, they do what they want 
But in all seriousness, I would not be opposed to exploring more of the strange mystery behind these guys suddenly existing.
Obviously they’re connected to the ruined civilizations we are also finding on the ruined planets so… Who were they? We know there were more races, millions even, when the atlas used to make accurate simulations and during its artist retreat when it dreamt up its own universes, before settling on the repetition of Korvax/Gek/Vykeen. We also know humans were present in one of the last true sims with Travellers, before the repurposing of Telamon.
The Void is bringing data back and restoring it from the world of glass so it could be just tied in with that and not really elaborated further. It’s more old data reborn, it’s set dressing for the wider stage. For now
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I was on an airless low gravity planet with no flora, no fauna, just dino bones everywhere. Did they hop around too much and inhaled all the air and everything died out? 
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OK … we need a volunteer to start collecting Stone Golem (“stoned characters”?) language characters. Who did that for other language characters?
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That effort was across multiple commuities. But we cracked the code right here. 
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The use of these characters implies forethought about a language. Maybe we learn more in future updates. (drool emoji)
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First thing to do is decide which way around is upright. It is difficult to tell with them being written on a curve and that one on the shoulder changes direction…the one on the chest is the only one I feel confident in saying is right side up and I would assume the top row on its left shoulder is right way up
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The pre-release version of No Man’s Sky included mysterious inscribed monoliths. In the event, they never made it into the published game.
The script looks oddly familiar.
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Oh wow good memory Poly, these were still shown very close up to release and I think they’re even in the comic book that was made for pre orders.
I was quite surprised on launch day to see them absent, the very earliest mention of them was that they thought you words. They seem to have been replaced by knowledge stones/monoliths/etc very close to release.
The characters are VERY similar, if not identical with a slightly different carved aesthetic.
I guess this does fit in with the void mothers worlds being a new representation of data that was lost or deleted too 
It’s great to see that despite all the games changes and visual makeovers, these old screens are still unmistakably No Mans Sky
I wouldn’t say no to monoliths and language stones on Ruined worlds getting this classic makeover
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It looks like they may be finally introducing an idea they’ve had on the back burner right from the get-go.
If the script represents an ancient, dead form of writing, that would fit in very nicely with a palaeontology / archaeology theme.
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The guardian script is very similar to the monolith script but with the addition of a block piece appearing on some of them and, like the alphabet we already know, there appears to be some that ‘float’. I find that second point interesting.
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Bear in mind that it’s probable neither the monolith text nor what we have of the guardian text represents the whole alphabet - characters that appear slightly different may actually be different letters.
Also, when studying genuine ancient texts, you find considerable differences between versions of the same letter. I don’t know how fathfully HG have reproduced this variance. Real life ancient sculptors often weren’t particularly accurate.
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It all depends on if they mean for it to mean anything. Perhaps they didn’t at first but, they saw what fun we have had with the alphabet we already have…
We need to see more of this new script.
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As best I remember it, the way to bring a golem to life is for the Rabbi to write a secret spell on a piece of paper, and put it in the golem’s mouth.
I suppose it could work just as well if you wrote it on the golem’s body.
(edit) Yep, more or less. See here:
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