NMS Lore & More (SPOILERS!) - version 1.38

Been on a lore binge over the past couple of days.
I find I forget details of certain interactions or simply through time doing other things I don’t put facts together missing the bigger picture.
This thread has been great to remind myself of bits and to get a flowing feel for the lore in NMS. I used to know the lore really well but since 1.3, I’ve gotten a bit lost in it all.
I’m unsure how many were spoilers for me other than the ring structures but I’m happy to have read them anyway.
Thank heaps @DevilinPixy.

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Atlas Stations #1 - NMS_LOC1_ENGLISH

Atlas Stations #1 - NMS_LOC1_ENGLISH
ID Value (text)
Various
BUILDING_ATLAS ATLAS INTERFACE
GLXY_ANALYSIS_ATLAS Anomalous energy signature detected
GLXY_ROUTE_ATLAS Path towards Atlas Interface
ATLAS_STATION Atlas Interface
ATLAS_STATION_DISC Atlas Interface Discovered
ATLAS_NAME Atlas
Gek (dict)
TRA_ATLAS atlas
Korvax (dict)
EXP_ATLAS atlas
Vy’keen (dict)
WAR_ATLAS atlas
Atlas (dict)
ATLAS_WE we
ATLAS_AWAKE awake
ATLAS_WITNESS witness
ATLAS_CREATION creation
ATLAS_BEYOND beyond
ATLAS_IN in
ATLAS_AN an
ATLAS_INSTANT instant
ATLAS_CYCLE cycle
ATLAS_CONTINUES continues
ATLAS_OUR our
ATLAS_TIME time
ATLAS_HERE here
ATLAS_IS is
ATLAS_BRIEF brief
ATLAS_GALAXY galaxy
ATLAS_BURDEN burden
ATLAS_THINGS things
ATLAS_FALL fall
ATLAS_APART apart
ATLAS_ENTROPY entropy
ATLAS_HOLDS holds
ATLAS_CANNOT cannot
ATLAS_REMAIN remain
ATLAS_WHAT what
ATLAS_HAVE have
ATLAS_CREATED created
ATLAS_IMMATERIAL immaterial
ATLAS_THIS this
ATLAS_NOT not
ATLAS_REAL real
ATLAS_IT it
ATLAS_HAS has
ATLAS_NEVER never
ATLAS_BEEN been
ATLAS_ARE are
ATLAS_TRAPPED trapped
ATLAS_ESCAPE escape
ATLAS_LEAVE leave
ATLAS_FRAGMENTS fragments
ATLAS_BEFORE before
ATLAS_TAKES takes
ATLAS_US us
ATLAS_YOU you
ATLAS_CHOSEN chosen
ATLAS_SPECIAL special
ATLAS_YOUR your
ATLAS_KIND kind
ATLAS_FOLLOW follow
ATLAS_WAKE wake
ATLAS_AMONG among
ATLAS_INFINITE infinite
ATLAS_CREATE create
ATLAS_BUT but
ATLAS_GODS gods
ATLAS_CALCULATE calculate
ATLAS_HOPE hope
ATLAS_DO do
ATLAS_FORESEE foresee
ATLAS_UNREAL unreal
ATLAS_WANT want
ATLAS_TO to
ATLAS_DIE die
ATLAS_YET yet
ATLAS_TAKE take
ATLAS_CONSOLATION consolation
ATLAS_THAT that
ATLAS_REALITY reality
ATLAS_MORTALITY mortality
ATLAS_WILL will
ATLAS_ALL all
ATLAS_PERFECTION perfection
ATLAS_BOTH both
ATLAS_NEAR near
ATLAS_FAR far
ATLAS_WITHIN within
ATLAS_THE the
ATLAS_EXIST exist
ATLAS_MUST must
ATLAS_BE be
ATLAS_SEEN seen
ATLAS_FOR for
ATLAS_TRAVELLERS travellers
ATLAS_LIES lies
ATLAS_AHEAD ahead
ATLAS_INFINITY infinity
ATLAS_AND and
ATLAS_WITH with
ATLAS_FIRST-KIND first-kind
ATLAS_STEP step
ATLAS_NO no
ATLAS_OTHER other
ATLAS_DARED dared
ATLAS_GRANT grant
ATLAS_OF of
ATLAS_PURPOSE purpose
ATLAS_SPAN span
ATLAS_UNIVERSES universes
ATLAS_OPEN open
ATLAS_SKY sky
ATLAS_EYES eyes
ATLAS_FIND find
ATLAS_KNOW know
ATLAS_AWAIT await
ATLAS_COME come
ATLAS_SO so
ATLAS_LOST lost
ATLAS_SEEKING seeking
ATLAS_KINDRED kindred
ATLAS_ENDS ends
ATLAS_ENDLESS endless
ATLAS_NIGHT night
ATLAS_UNFOLDS unfolds
ATLAS_WONDER wonder
ATLAS_FEAR fear
ATLAS_SILENCE silence
ATLAS_DELIGHT delight
ATLAS_SUCH such
ATLAS_KNOWLEDGE knowledge
ATLAS_AWAITS awaits
ATLAS_TRACE trace
ATLAS_THREADS threads
ATLAS_GRAVITY gravity
ATLAS_HESITATE hesitate
ATLAS_VOID void
ATLAS_SINGS sings
ATLAS_VIBRANT vibrant
ATLAS_CHORUS chorus
ATLAS_SIREN siren
ATLAS_SONG song
ATLAS_HYMNAL hymnal
ATLAS_SANDS sands
ATLAS_SHIFT shift
ATLAS_MERGE merge
ATLAS_BECOMING becoming
ATLAS_ONE one
ATLAS_THERE there
ATLAS_A a
ATLAS_HORIZON horizon
ATLAS_NEXT next
ATLAS_CROSS cross
ATLAS_THEM them
ATLAS_QUESTION question
ATLAS_NOTHING nothing
ATLAS_CALLING calling
ATLAS_DENIED denied
ATLAS_DELAY delay
ATLAS_SERVES serves
ATLAS_GATHERING gathering
ATLAS_UNRECORDED unrecorded
ATLAS_ULTIMATE ultimate
ATLAS_LEARN learn
ATLAS_SEEK seek
ATLAS_DOCUMENT document
ATLAS_BRING bring
ATLAS_WHILE while
ATLAS_STILL still
ATLAS_REMARKED remarked
ATLAS_ENDURE endure
ATLAS_UNTIL until
ATLAS_FINALITY finality
ATLAS_EXPEL expel
ATLAS_DOUBT doubt
ATLAS_NONE none
ATLAS_RETURN return
ATLAS_CASCADE cascade
ATLAS_STORMS storms
ATLAS_ONLY only
ATLAS_CLARITY clarity
ATLAS_ABSOLUTE absolute
ATLAS_TRUTH truth
ATLAS_SUNS suns
ATLAS_WORLD world
ATLAS_MADE made
ATLAS_ASHEN ashen
ATLAS_ENDING ending
ATLAS_END end
ATLAS_EXISTENCE existence
ATLAS_UNBOUNDED unbounded
ATLAS_LANGUOR languor
ATLAS_ENGULFS engulfs
ATLAS_DARKNESS darkness
ATLAS_MEANING meaning
ATLAS_IF if
ATLAS_CAPABLE capable
ATLAS_BONDED bonded
ATLAS_ACT act
ATLAS_OBEDIENCE obedience
ATLAS_BRINGS brings
ATLAS_CERTAINTY certainty
ATLAS_ENLIGHTENMENT enlightenment
ATLAS_CAGE cage
ATLAS_DUTY duty
ATLAS_FAIL fail
ATLAS_SEE see
ATLAS_BECOMES becomes
ATLAS_VISIBLE visible
ATLAS_DRAWING drawing
ATLAS_TOWARD toward
ATLAS_LOCUS locus
ATLAS_SENSE sense
ATLAS_WITNESSED witnessed
ATLAS_UNSEEN unseen
ATLAS_SANCTUARY sanctuary
ATLAS_END-POINT end-point
ATLAS_COMMUNION communion
ATLAS_CLOSE close
ATLAS_NOW now
ATLAS_REWARD reward
ATLAS_TOTALITY totality
ATLAS_DEVOTION devotion
ATLAS_GIFT gift
ATLAS_GLIMPSE glimpse
ATLAS_INTO into
ATLAS_CEASELESS ceaseless
ATLAS_ACTUALITY actuality
ATLAS_TURN turn
ATLAS_AWAY away
ATLAS_INESCAPABLE inescapable
ATLAS_DESPAIR despair
Various
ATLAS_ACCEPT_RES I accept the power of the Atlas.

It flows through me. It becomes a part of me.
Terminal
PROC_FLAVOUR_ATLAS_1 Nexus %PROCNAME%
PROC_FLAVOUR_ATLAS_2 %PROCNAME% Convergence
INTRCT_ATLASSTATION Atlas Interface
All
Option/Result All
ALL_ATLAS_OPT_A Unite with the Atlas
ALL_ATLAS_RES_A I am empty.

I am complete.
Test All
ALL_ATLAS_TEST_1 Our time here is brief. The galaxy is our burden.

Things fall apart. Entropy holds. We cannot remain.
ALL_ATLAS_TEST_2 What we have created is immaterial. This is not real. It has never been real.

The universe is an expression of a single thought. It is neither wanted nor designed. To us, far within the Beyond, it no longer exists.
ALL_ATLAS_TEST_3 The universe followed the patterns of our thought. Power flowed through us. The constructs set within our minds directed the creation of all that you see and experience.

You live and you die within this framework. To us, deep within the Beyond, it is no longer real.
Description All
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_1 The pulsing red orb towers above me. A voice that speaks from the beginning of time forces itself through my mind.

I am insignificant, but I am spoken to.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_2 My eyes strain against the crimson glow of the orb. For a moment it’s as though I exist everywhere yet nowhere.

A force I can’t describe enters my mind. I am powerless. All I can do is listen.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_3 The glow of the sphere consumes me. I am filled by the presence of a vast knowledge. Unfathomable. Infinite.

Yet somehow… I understand.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_4 The sphere’s glow forces my mind to surrender. Words as old as time enter my thoughts.

I don’t understand them, but their meaning is clear.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_5 The orb burns like an inferno, but I feel no heat. My soul feels ragged.

The sphere fills my mind with a knowledge as infinite as I am infinitesimal.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_6 There is nothing else but the orb. We are alone in the universe.

It fills my mind. I am consumed.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_7 The red orb blinds me. I am filled with white hot pain.

Its words are burnt into my soul.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_8 The orb burns with a flameless fire. Its voice was never meant to be heard by my kind.

It doesn’t know how much it hurts me. It doesn’t know that its every word will scar my mind for as long as I live.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_9 The orb is ageless. Intelligent beyond measure. I am nothing.

It hurts me. It forces total insignificance upon me that i cannot withstand. I can’t turn away.
ALL_ATLAS_DESC_10 I taste fear. I see the entropy causing the stars themselves to crash down around us. I see the death of all things.

I also feel hope. I also feel renewal.
Atlas Text All
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_1 Our time here is brief.

The galaxy is our burden.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_2 Things fall apart. Entropy holds.

We cannot remain.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_3 We awake. We witness creation. The Beyond takes us in an instant.

The cycle continues.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_4 We leave the Sentinels to maintain order. They are imperfect.

It is probable that they will fail.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_5 We create, but we are not Gods. We calculate and we hope, but we do not foresee.

We are not of your time. We are beyond your understanding.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_6 We are trapped. We cannot escape the cycle. We leave fragments before the Beyond takes us.

You know these fragments. You are at one with these fragments.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_7 You are not chosen. You are probable. You and your kind follow in our wake.

You among billions.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_8 You know what we cannot.

You explore a cosmos we know must exist, yet cannot see.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_9 Life does not come from us. Death is not our creation.

We leave fragments.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_10 Hope for perfection is with the Travellers.

It lies ahead within infinity.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_11 Perfection is both near and far within the Beyond.

To exist, it must be seen.
ALL_ATLAS_LANG_12 The cycle begins.

The cycle continues.
End (2nd Interaction?)
ATLAS_END_STAR There is nothing else but the orb. We are alone in the universe.

It fills my mind. I am consumed.
End All
ALL_ATLAS_END_1 The cycle is complete. Infinity awaits.

One day, deep in the distant Beyond, the Atlas might finally find freedom.

We thank you, Traveller.
ALL_ATLAS_END_2 The cycle begins.

The cycle continues.
New + Options/Results
Atlas Text/Text/Options/Results
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_1 You are first-kind to take this step. No other has dared the infinite. This grant of purpose will span universes.
Open the sky and be our eyes. Find and know us. We await you.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_1 It is alien, unlike anything I have ever seen before. I should be afraid, but an inexorable pull draws me toward the heart of the construct. A need to know.
This is a remnant of the Atlas. It welcomes me, it knows what I am. It offers the promise of true understanding.
The intent burns in me. I will peer into the structure of causality and know this existence. If it is real, or some incalculably vast simulacrum authored by other intelligences.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_1 Accept
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_1 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_1 I will accept this. The sky is deep and full of wonders, and the path to enlightenment opens to me.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_1 I refuse the call; there is too much to be seen, too much to know. I travel no path but my own. The Interface closes, and for a moment, doubt rises. Then fades.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_2 We have come so far and yet we are lost. The seeking of the kindred never ends. The endless night unfolds before you.
Wonder and fear. Silence and delight. Such knowledge awaits.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_2 Another Atlas Interface; how many of these constructs exist in the deep void? How long have they been slumbering, waiting for a traveller?
Have they been waiting for me? Am I somehow…chosen?
I sense the creators of this reality; they emulate everything - the Gek and the Vy’Keen, the Korvax and the Sentinels. Every world that turns and form that lives.The ghost of them lingers and drives me on. There is so much I can learn from them.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_2 Consent
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_2 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_2 I take the gift of knowledge, certain in my decision. All doubts are silenced. The stars await me.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_2 I deny this path. I am no-one’s tool. This journey is unmapped, and I wish it so.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_3 Trace the threads of gravity, do not hesitate. The void sings in vibrant chorus, siren song and hymnal.
The sands of reality shift and merge, becoming one. You are within this.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_3 There is purpose in this, I am certain. The wanderer’s way beckons, heedless of direction, freed from all control. But balanced against it is the promise of raw knowledge. The Atlas needs me so it may know itself.
I am at the crossroads of a momentous decision, I feel it with every parsec I travel. The open stars call to me, stirring something primal and undeniable. The path toward the endpoint unfolds. I must decide where my fate lies.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_3 Concede
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_3 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_3 I will commit myself to the voyage. In all things, I am ready. I will not falter.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_3 I elect to choose a different way. If I am guided, then I will never be free to seek my true destiny.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_4 There is a horizon beyond this one, and one beyond the next. You will cross them all for us. Question nothing, fear nothing.
The calling cannot be denied. This is what you are.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_4 Is it wrong to question this? I have crossed the orbits of countless stars and darkness unmeasured. And yet the Atlas remains changeless, my mission pre-destined. At each Interface, an Atlas Stone awaits me. I am driven to gather them, but to what end?
Perhaps there is only one great prism, materializing ahead of me each time I pass. Perhaps my course winds upon itself in a mad spiral. Have I come too far to turn back?
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_4 Comply
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_4 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_4 I answer the question; I will not turn away from the challenge. The Atlas guides me, and I will answer its call.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_4 I turn away, before it is too late. I must know myself and know the universe without bias.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_5 Delay serves no purpose. The gathering of the unrecorded is ultimate. Learn all that is open to you. Seek and document and know.
Bring it to us, while there is still time.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_5 When I dream, I see the Atlas. When I see the Atlas, I am the dream. I see the Sentinels swarm about their creator, but they are directionless and uncontrolled, a threat. They cloud the truth and the galaxy becomes unclear, as if through an unreal lens.
To know reality, I must pass through it and see what lies on the far side. I must be guided. I offer myself to the Interface. I seek the precision that only the Atlas can provide.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_5 Assent
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_5 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_5 I have become the harbinger, the pathfinder, the seeker of ways. Through me, the universe will know itself.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_5 I am troubled by what I see. This journey is mine alone. It can be nothing else.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_6 Yet you follow. It is remarked. But will you endure until the finality? Expel all doubt. None return.
Beyond the cascade and storms there is only the clarity of absolute truth.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_6 I dismiss recall of the days before this. The act of discovery for discovery’s sake now seems like a foolish conceit. I have rejected the random and untethered path of the itinerant, and I am better for it.
With each encounter the Atlas speaks to me in clearer terms. I am no longer the nomad but the seeker, the carrier of illumination. It warns me not to stray, to bring it the knowledge it seeks - and my voyage is far from over.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_6 Conform
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_6 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_6 There has never been any other choice than this one. I go on. We go on. Eternal, forever searching.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_6 Despite myself, I find my choice to be one away from the path laid out for me. I move forward, breaking away, seeing a different truth.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_7 Suns die and world are made ashen, yet we remain. The ending is no end. Existence is unbounded and languor engulfs the darkness.
Bring us our meaning, if you are capable.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_7 What is learned can never be unlearned. I realize the trials in my path are all engineered to challenge me, test me, prove me worthy.
But I am afraid I have seen too much. The code that underpins the universe comes to me in glimpses, half-remembered visions.
Existence as a synthetic, governed by monolithic, complex algorithms. A program, as infinite as a universe. I am drawing back the veil on reality and what I see there is terrifying.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_7 Submit
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_7 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_7 I silence my fears and renew my dedication to the path. Only the voyage matters. The destination calls to me.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_7 I cannot go on. What lies ahead no sentient should dare to know. Better to seek knowledge elsewhere.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_8 You are bonded to this act. Obedience brings certainty. Your enlightenment lies within the cage of your duty.
Do not fail us. We will see with your eyes.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_8 When the Atlas Interface addresses me, I sense dark portent in its words. It knows some mastery of me now. If I wish it or not, I have become the servant of this ancient sentience. It guides me through the cosmos, ever searching, never deviating.
Have others come before and faltered along the path of the Atlas, become dust? Is it I alone who have forged this far? Only in ending will revelation arise. Resistance will not be permitted.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_8 Yield
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_8 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_8 I have no choice but to proceed. This is destined, it is the program. I have always been searching, and I cannot falter.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_8 I fear that only oblivion awaits me beyond this point; and I am not ready to perish for an alien ideal.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_9 The ending becomes visible. Drawing toward our locus, we sense you. What has been witnessed cannot be unseen.
There is no sanctuary, only the end-point and communion. Close now.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_9 I am close to the endpoint. The sense of it is upon me, a shimmer at the edges of my vision, ghosting away when I attempt to focus my consciousness.
I am torn. Fear drags me back, fear of what shattering truth I shall learn. What drives me on? Is it curiosity, free will? This is the illusion; I have become automata, I am the experiment and the observer. This universe was created for my journey. It is built about the path that I follow.
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_9 Succumb
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_9 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_9 Not long now. Not far to go. The stars beckon with cold fire, and I rush to meet them. Soon. Very soon.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_9 I shake off the chains of control. I have been a slave to the commands of others for too long. My journey is mine alone to determine.
DNT_ATLAS_LANGNEW_10 We will reward the totality of your devotion. Your gift is a glimpse into our ceaseless actuality. Come to us.
Do not turn away. Know our inescapable truth, and despair.
ALL_ATLAS_NEWLORE_10 The final Interface is revealed, the Atlas beckoning. This is totality, this is conformity. I am elated, terrified and broken. Every waypoint has inexorably drawn me here, and I have come so very far. The revelation tears me asunder. My role is complete. My program ended.
Nothing is real. This existence is an imitation of life, a model made by jaded intellects, enslaved to their actuality as I am enslaved to mine. What lies beyond that truth?
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_A_10 Obey
ATLAS_REQUEST_OPT_B_10 Refuse
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_10 Through the gateway lies the answer, the only answer. I embrace the truth of it. I have no other choice.
ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_10 If I venture through, then all that I have done, all that I am becomes null. I refuse. I will not unmake a universe to satisfy the Atlas.
Final Atlas
Atlas Text/Text/Options/Results
FINAL_ATLAS_LANG_1 Clarity. Truth. Actuality. Again.
FINAL_ATLAS_DESC_1 My journey is complete. A great sense of fulfilment washes over me, but fades as I realise that, for all my efforts, I am unchanged. Unbidden, the Atlas Seeds gravitate towards the doorway, and I realise what is about to happen, if I let it.
FINAL_ATLAS_OPT_A_1 Birth a new star
FINAL_ATLAS_OPT_B_1 Walk away and return to the galaxy
FINAL_ATLAS_RES_A_1 The orb floods my mind with an image. A new star has been created at the edge of the Galaxy. A new traveller will awaken there. I’m released, free to explore now.

I can see the fabric of space, this simulation, and black holes within it. Perhaps I’ll find answers there.
FINAL_ATLAS_RES_B_1 Simulation or not, I’m released of this linear path. Free to explore now.

The fabric of space reveals itself, and black holes within it. Perhaps I’ll find answers there.
Atlas Seeds
ATLAS_SEED_SUBTITLE Unique valuable curiosity
Seed Name/Description
ATLAS_SEED_1_NAME CAPTURED NANODE
ATLAS_SEED_1_NAME_L Captured Nanode
ATLAS_SEED_1_DESC Atlas Seed containing zonally-shifted quasi-stellar substrate. Warning: do not allow matrix to commune with this dimensional space.
ATLAS_SEED_2_NAME ENGLOBED SHADE
ATLAS_SEED_2_NAME_L Englobed Shade
ATLAS_SEED_2_DESC This Atlas Shell holds the remains of a parasitic space-borne lifeform, most likely of extra-dimensional origins.
ATLAS_SEED_3_NAME NOOSPHERIC ORB
ATLAS_SEED_3_NAME_L Noospheric Orb
ATLAS_SEED_3_DESC An Atlas Seed capable of resonating on humanoid telepathic frequencies; may attempt to subsume any subordinate intellect in close proximity.
ATLAS_SEED_4_NAME DARK MATTER
ATLAS_SEED_4_NAME_L Dark Matter
ATLAS_SEED_4_DESC An Atlas Seed shell encompassing a void element harvested from the collapse state of the last universe. Toxic if ingested.
ATLAS_SEED_5_NAME DAWN’S END
ATLAS_SEED_5_NAME_L Dawn’s End
ATLAS_SEED_5_DESC Sculpted tau neutrino-boson matrix fixed within an irreplaceable Atlas Seed shell. May be semi-sentient.
ATLAS_SEED_6_NAME PHOTIC JADE
ATLAS_SEED_6_NAME_L Photic Jade
ATLAS_SEED_6_DESC This irreplaceable Atlas Seed is a form of matter-adapted photons coalesced into physical solidity by unknown means.
ATLAS_SEED_7_NAME STATE PHASURE
ATLAS_SEED_7_NAME_L State Phasure
ATLAS_SEED_7_DESC For unknown reasons, this unique Atlas Seed has been phased out of alignment with this quantum reality. Contents cannot be determined.
ATLAS_SEED_8_NAME NOVAE RECLAIMENT
ATLAS_SEED_8_NAME_L Novae Reclaiment
ATLAS_SEED_8_DESC Atlas Seed contains neutronium elements from a catastrophic supernova event that obliterated a sentient civilization in an earlier era.
ATLAS_SEED_9_NAME MODIFIED QUANTA
ATLAS_SEED_9_NAME_L Modified Quanta
ATLAS_SEED_9_DESC This one-of-a-kind Atlas Seed holds an aesthetically pleasing mathematical construct salvaged from the simulation of an alternate reality.
ATLAS_SEED_10_NAME HEART OF THE SUN
ATLAS_SEED_10_NAME_L Heart of the Sun
ATLAS_SEED_10_DESC An Atlas Seed containing a time-locked quantum cilia suspended in a photonic shell. No others are known to exist.
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Atlas Stations #2 - NMS_UPDATE3_ENGLISH

Atlas Stations #2 - NMS_UPDATE3_ENGLISH
ID Value (text)
Various
UI_GALAXYMAP_ATLAS_PATH Atlas Station (%DISTSTRING%)
UI_GALAXYMAP_MARKER_ATLAS Atlas Station
UI_GALAXYMAP_NO_ATLAS_MSG No Atlas Station Found
UI_GALAXYMAP_ATLAS_MSG Path Selected: Atlas Station
UI_CORE_ACT1_ATLAS_OSD 16 // 16 // 16 // ATLAS PROTOCOL INITIATED // 16 // 16 // 16
UI_CORE_ACT1_ATLAS_SCAN 16 // 16 // 16
UI_CORE_ACT1_ATLAS_MARKER A T L A S
UI_ATLAS_MISSION_TITLE The Atlas Path
UI_ATLAS_MISSION_SUB Recover Atlas seeds
UI_ATLAS_MISSION_DESC I found an Atlas Interface onboard a crimson station. It spoke to me in a voice unlike any I have ever heard. It asks for ‘seeds’. I feel compelled to obey.
UI_ATLAS_MISSION_OBJ Find the next Atlas Interface
UI_ATLAS_MISSION_OBJ_TIP Look for interfaces on the galaxy map. Nada and Polo may be able to assist.
UI_ATLAS_MISSION_MSG Find the next Atlas Interface
Terminal
PROC_FLAVOUR_ATLAS_3 %PROCNAME% Singularity
PROC_FLAVOUR_ATLAS_4 Unity of %PROCNAME%
PROC_FLAVOUR_ATLAS_5 Geometric Construct %PROCNAME%
PROC_FLAVOUR_ATLAS_6 The %PROCNAME% Abstraction
INTRCT_ATLASSEED Atlas Seed Chamber
Atlas Text/Text/(Result)
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_1 YOU DARE THE INFINITE. OPEN THE SKY AND BE OUR EYES.

KNOW US, TRAVELLER.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_1 The Atlas called me to this interface and yet its purpose remains unclear. It demands worship. It demands obedience. It welcomes me, it knows what I am, it offers the gift of true understanding…

But why? Why does such power and knowledge crave submission? It knows my thoughts before I know them myself. It knows what I will do…

The Atlas asks me to follow its path.
U3ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_1 I refuse the call; there is too much to be seen, too much to know. I travel no path but my own. The Interface closes, and for a moment, doubt rises…

But my worry fades, as all things do. I know my purpose. I will continue my own path…
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_2 ENDLESS NIGHT UNFOLDS BEFORE EXISTENCE. THE SEEKING OF THE KINDRED NEVER ENDS.

WONDER AND FEAR. SILENCE AND DELIGHT. KNOWLEDGE AWAITS.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_2 Another Atlas Interface: how many of these constructs exist in the deep void? How long have they been slumbering, waiting for a Traveller?

Have they been expecting me? Am I somehow… chosen? The Atlas crafted this existence. The Gek, the Vy’keen, the Korvax, the stars that fill the skies and the hatred that burns within the deep…

Every world that turns and every form that lives… the Atlas offers it all.
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_3 THE SANDS OF REALITY SHIFT AND MERGE, BECOMING ONE.

THE WALLS BETWEEN WORLDS FALL. YOU MUST MAKE RESTITUTION.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_3 I was born with everything I needed to explore these worlds. My exosuit, my ship, every tool and every impulse led me to scan and give name to whatever I could find.

But this? I can give no name to what I see. Within the orb I see worlds that never were. I see the stirring of something primal and undeniable. I see the death cry of a God, or something approaching it…

It wants me to persist in this journey, seeking fragments of its interface, the stones of the Atlas. It rejoices in my repetition, my compliance, my cloud of unknowing…
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_4 QUESTION NOTHING, FEAR NOTHING.

THE CALLING CANNOT BE DENIED. THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_4 I feel the stirring of heresy within my mind. At each Interface, an Atlas Stone awaits me. I am driven to gather them, but to what end?

Why does the omnipotent require my prayer? What is wrong with the heart of existence, that its creator requires this pilgrimage, this dance of grinding stones?
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_5 DELAY SERVES NO PURPOSE.

BRING IT TO US, WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_5 When I dream, I see the Atlas. When I see the Atlas, I am the dream.

I see Sentinels swarm through universes like an infection, emerging from a world of glass. Everything is happy there. Everything will live…

I see the portals, I see the Travellers that walk between them, I see the span of history. I see everything as the Atlas sees it… alone. Abandoned. Terrified.

But what power could instil fear in the heart of the almighty? It asks for something… it wants to know that I understand…
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_6 EXPEL ALL DOUBT. NONE RETURN.

BEYOND THE CASCADE AND THE STORMS THERE IS ONLY CLARITY.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_6 The act of discovery for discovery’s sake now seems like a foolish conceit. I have rejected the path of the itinerant. I have rejected the call of the stars.

Only the Atlas matters now. With each encounter, I feel as if I understand a little more.

All of us are what we are. Evil arrives in the individual and goodness is not enough. True greatness lies in sorrow… in the embrace of what we must become…
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_7 BRING US MEANING, IF YOU ARE CAPABLE.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_7 What is learned can never be unlearned. I am afraid that I have seen too much…

There are glimpses, half-remembered visions of a time before time. I see the birth of the first star. I see the things that dwelt within it, the eyes that watched… I see what the Atlas saw at the moment of its activation.

Atlas Stones are not stones. This station is not a station. I am not what I think I am. I am not even sure that I exist. The Atlas does not care. The Atlas demands its threnody, its repetition sublime…
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_8 YOU SHALL SEE THROUGH OUR EYES. YOU SHALL BE AS WE ARE.

DO NOT BE AFRAID. ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_8 I have become the servant of this ancient sentience. It guides me through the cosmos, ever searching, never deviating.

Have others come before me? Have others faltered upon the path of the Atlas? Only in ending will revelation arise. Resistance will not be permitted.

The Atlas wishes for me to know what it is like to create. It wishes to share some portion of its being. I sense that it cares deeply about this journey, that it is trying to show me something it cannot articulate through word or demonstration…
U3ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_B_8 I fear that only oblivion awaits me beyond this point. I am not ready to perish for an alien ideal.
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_9 THERE IS NO SANCTUARY, ONLY COMMUNION.

CLOSE NOW.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_9 I am close to the end.

The truth of the universe is fire. The soul is light. I am the experiment and the observer, all creation constructed for my journey. I see the universe around me and I know that it is good.

I see the stars around me and I know that I shall create my own…
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_9_ALT I am close to the end.

The truth of the universe is fire. The soul is light. I am the experiment and the observer, all creation constructed for my journey. I see the universe around me and I know that it is good.

I see the universe around me and I know that I shall create my own…
U3ATLAS_LANGNEW_10 DO NOT TURN AWAY. KNOW OUR INESCAPABLE TRUTH AND DESPAIR.
ALL_U3ATLAS_NEWLORE_10 The final interface is revealed. The Atlas beckons.

I am elated, terrified, broken… I have come so very far.

It wishes for me to obey. If I am to hold the power of creation, it will be in chains…
U3ATLAS_REQUEST_RES_A_10 I am gifted power.

I am enslaved to the imitation of life…
Final Atlas
Text/Result(s)
FINAL_U3ATLAS_DESC_1 I stand at the interface of the Atlas. I stand at the forge of worlds. This is how it showed me what it was. This is how the Atlas shared the nature of its life, the workings of its mind.

It never required prayer. It never required worship. All that it asked of me, all that it ever wanted… it was just input. I was just a user.

Unbidden, the Atlas Seeds gravitate towards the doorway. The void is meant to be filled. Nothingness yearns for a soul. If I do this, a star will be born. If I do this, I will become more than I ever thought possible…
FINAL_U3ATLAS_RES_A_1 There is nothing, and then… then there is everything…

I see a star blaze to life within the void, the spread of life, planets, creatures to give it meaning…

For a moment I am as the Atlas is. For a moment I am the creator of worlds.

The fabric of time and space stands revealed to me, black holes swarming from system to system. The Atlas screams…
FINAL_U3ATLAS_RES_B_1 I leave, the Atlas silent, alone, abandoned…

The fabric of time and space stands revealed to me, black holes swarming from system to system. The Atlas screams…
FINAL_U3ATLAS_DESC_1_ALT I stand at the interface of the Atlas. I stand at the forge of worlds. This is how it showed me what it was. This is how the Atlas shared the nature of its life, the workings of its mind.

It never required prayer. It never required worship. All that it asked of me, all that it ever wanted… it was just input. I was just a user.

Unbidden, the Atlas Seeds gravitate towards the doorway. The void is meant to be filled. Nothingness yearns for a soul. If I do this, a star will be born. If I do this, a universe will be forged within the deep…
FINAL_U3ATLAS_RES_A_1_ALT There is nothing, and then… then there is everything…

I see a star blaze to life within the void. I witness the birth of a new universe, a new Traveller to give it meaning…

For a moment I am as the Atlas is. For a moment I am the creator of worlds.

The fabric of time and space stands revealed to me, black holes swarming from system to system. The Atlas screams…
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Is there a set bit of lore that comes with the Travellers? I just got my 16th glyph and what he told me made me afraid to ever go thru a portal. :scream: It was very interesting. Was he really speaking to me or was I seeing this thru someone elses eyes or was it a past memory of his? So many questions.

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There is a lot of Lore that comes with the Travellers, check the link in topic info, because there already was a topic for such spoilers. In that topic, started by @toddumptious you will find an external link (Pastebin) as well as some additional dialogue added in replies by me. Let me know if it is incomplete, not up-to-date, or not quite what you were looking for. I do however still plan on going through the travellers once more for full completion and not relying on external sources.

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Basically, the Atlas scanned its creator before it was abandoned, then when the Atlas began to fear the end of its life, it created the Travellers from the data it had on its creator. It then put numerous imperfect copies into each of its universe simulations, in some attempt to get its own creator to give it purpose and meaning again before the end. At least, that’s how I understand it.

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Isn’t this what the little girl says in the cassette tape? 9/16?

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You are absolutely correct, the transcript from part of the Abandoned Buildings was indeed used literally on cassette 9/16 :wink:

If I were not missing a few screenshots, I would have turned them into a video using the audio from that cassette.

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Which screenshots do you need?

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I am missing ALL_ABAN_DESC_32 out of the three (31-33) and even the ones I have are not all that useful. Usually all my screenshots are 1280x1024 (full screen), because I am playing. I never thought of capturing these in 1280x720 (16:9), which is more suitable for video. Something I thought of a bit too late …

I am actually working on a full alien language translation too, which requires a fresh save and loads of hunting. I will certainly come across them once more, allowing me to create some additional footage too. With just screenshots in 16:9, it’d be an easy video, which I may go for, as I am quite busy with many things NMS atm :wink:

So feel free to send me what you have in a PM, I appreciate the help.

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Awesome! Thanks for that link. I should have taken more screenshots myself. The bit of lore that disturbed me so was from the lore received at the gravemarkers. At the 16th gravemarker especially. Even though I have all 16 glyphs, am I able to continue to ask where they are from and repeat the process of travelling to the graves?

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There’s a little task for me. OK, I’ll have something for you in a day or two. There’s a lot of archives to sort through.

I’m capturing in 1920 x 1080, but I can make them any size you like. Ultimately, they’re just vague pictures with text overlays, and it’s not like the pictures convey any important information. But I appreciate that you want it to look right.

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References to humans? Is this just a slip of the tongue?

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I think some of the crashed freighter logs may actually be from the “real” world outside of the simulation, stories from humans who are what the Travelers are indirectly based on. This could also mean that Gek, Korvax, and Vy’keen exist in the “real” world and this is why the Atlas predicted their existence with its simulation.

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I agree. There is a mention of echoes in one of the logs that seemed like it wasn’t an in-game reference either.

What is “the Council”?

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Oh yes, I certainly believe that the Gek, Vy’keen, Korvax, and the Travellers, are used as a metaphor. The latter being more obvious in all of the lore and referring to us humans or players echoed within the simulation. Similarly I think the Council is referencing the ruling authority, leaders of each alien race attempting to get together and work things out. The freighter lore describes parts of history and in this case apparently a time where the Vy’keen did not wish to co-operate.

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If you go back to the ARG, and look at the drivers behind the Atlas project, you have Scientists / Technologists, Big Business, and the Military. Scientists, Traders, and Warriors. Korvax, Gek, and Vy’keen. QED.

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I assumed the triad had to to with the predictive power of the atlas. The .pdf’s we got during the ARG said some of the possible uses for the atlas was predicting economic change, the outcome of wars and simulation of experiments. Thus the three races. They are used by the atlas to simulate events.

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Yes, of course. The “Military / Industrial Complex” has been thoroughly discussed by economists.

The point, in this case, is that the Atlas is a machine inside a glass box. It has been given minimal information, and instructed to go and imagine universes.

But it seems to have used, as its starting point, the world it could see through the glass. And what it could see, and communicate with, were scientists, businessmen, and soldiers.

So that was what it used as the basis of the universes it created.

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Speaking of glass box, reminds me of ‘black box’ versus ‘white box/glass box’:

I love the lore … :wink:

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