But I believe all the Lore has been collected by wiki and nms resources and the webapp.
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Thanks, I was able to figure out the Colour used with these Lang files 
The colour code used is < STELLAR> and from a quick glance, it seems to be used quite a lot to highlight actions, functions or key words from exosuit guidance. Which all comes from Telamon. I’m sure it’s used in other places too but this seems to be it’s primary function…
E.g
Specifically tuned to increase the ability of the Exocraft to < STELLAR >drift< >
Construction allows the user to summon any owned Exocraft from < STELLAR>anywhere<> else in that system.
Interfaces with the < STELLAR >Exosuit Quick Command Menu< > to ease of use.
Mission coordinates… < STELLAR>locked in<>.
Objectives… < STELLAR>registered<>.
Galactic Commission monitoring system… < STELLAR>online<>.
It’s also the colour of -kzzzkt-
< STELLAR>- kzzkktt -<> some days now. I’ve built a small shelter < STELLAR>- kzzkktt -<> in case I don’t make it back to the Anomaly. I think I’ve found < STELLAR>- kzzkktt -<> happened here?
Broken indeed… Stellar interferance
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I may have to update my sheet on this one, but you get the idea.
The game uses similar functionality for images, glyphs and whatnot
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Thanks to @DevilinPixy @jedidia and @BoomstickJoe for their help with extracting and tips, my attempts to have a nice readable source for lore have quickened in pace and reduced in stress!
Yesterday I started work on this in earnest; I compiled and coloured all of the Autophage Lore, Interactions, Monoliths etc and it took about 6-7 hours doing it manually (before I got script advice)
It’s still not there yet but as a mini Project to test out some methods using scripts etc from the guys, I decided to do a quick run of Expedition 13.
I managed to get all the data, colour it, add images, remove anything I felt was unnecesary to the flow, etc, in an hour
(post edit Stealth addition of OMEGA )
Still needs polish but this is just a quick example of what I hope to do with all of the Lore and Expeditions text from the Langfiles etc over time. It feels a lot more doable now with everyones help, thanks again everyone for the advice and links <3
Here is a CopyPasta version for the Forum and search engines <3
Expedition Thirteen: Adrift
Expedition Thirteen: Adrift
You have awoken on a lonely world, far from your starship.
Alone in an empty universe, the Adrift Expedition redefines what it means to survive among the stars…
Expedition 13: Adrift places Travellers lost and alone in a universe devoid of familiar life…
You have awoken on a dead world, beneath a dark and lonely sky. Adapt and survive to complete the Adrift Expedition.
… ERROR … NO ECONOMIC ACTIVITY DETECTED …
The Space Anomaly is home to - kzzzktk - Some will kzzzzktttkktk - you on your kzztttktk - others may ask for your - kztzktk -
The Space Anomaly can be summoned whenever you are in space.
Economy Data Unavailable
kzzzkt
Data Missing
ERROR
Connection Lost
ALONE IN THE DARK
LIGHTS OUT
Each system has a Space Station that serves as a trading hub, a place to buy upgrade, and - kzzkkkktttt.
Use your starship to fly to the station and learn - kzktt.
The space station has been abandoned
Explore the deserted station
The station’s automatic repeater beacon broadcasts a sharp burst of static, powerful enough to automatically engage my starship’s communicator.
I wait for a follow-up message, but there is nothing but silence, the airwaves dead.
– kzkzzt –
– kzkzzzzzzzt –
Station Repeater Beacon
Station Repeat-zzktz-goodbye
THE FAINTEST ECHO
Attempt to raise a signal
A long-distance communications tower may help make contact with other entities, should they exist. Locate and repair such a structure to broadcast a message.
Locate a Holo-Terminus transmitter
Repair and activate the Holo-Terminus to broadcast a message
The communications tower and its powerful relay sit idle. There is nothing in the log, no sign of its creator, no sign of its users.
It is nothing but a lonely monument to something long forgotten.
Transmit signal
With the power restored, I send out a signal.
I wait, but without hope. There is no way to tell if it worked, no response, no confirmation. Just a meaningless blast into an empty void.
– kzkzzzzzzzt –
– kzktttzzzt –
– kzzztttzzttkzzt –
Scan for signals
I activate a signal sweep, but there is nothing out there.
No pattern, no flickering signal. Just the empty noise of static, the background crackle of the universe itself.
Boost receiver power
I boost the relay’s power as high as it will allow, the whine and hiss of the relay building to a crescendo.
Through the static there comes the faintest trace, a thread of a signal, an anomaly…
AMIDST THE STARS
Seek answers in the stars.
In space, summon the Anomaly
Anomaly signal: distorted…
– kzzkt – %GPS% – kzttzzkt –
Investigate the logs at the Prime Terminal
Anomaly signal: distorted
– kzzkt – %GPS% – kzttzzkt –
Mind Ark plans acquired at the Anomaly’s Prime Terminal
Construct the mind ark to download additional data
Bring the Mind Ark to the Anomaly’s Prime Terminal
Prime Terminal
Signal Echo Detected \ Prime Terminal Online
NO AUTHORISATION DETECTED: SECONDARY SIMULATION [16] PROTECTED
This terminal - like this station itself - feels so designed, so deliberate. It was cared for. But it is nearly as empty and abandoned as everything else.
Nearly, but not quite. A cursor blinks on the terminal’s screen, a question looking for an answer. Something is listening, even if it is just a machine.
Request access
I type several commands into the terminal, but receive nothing but static in return.
But as I remove my hands from the input, something flickers. A small data packet - a set of plans for a device called a Mind Ark.
Some one - or some thing - must have uploaded this data. Their final act? They must have wanted it to be found.
NO AUTHORISATION DETECTED: SECONDARY SIMULATION [16] PROTECTED
I have built the Mind Ark, though I am no closer to understanding what it is for.
Is it a real message, a pattern in the noise? Or just another flicker of a faded world?
Connect Mind Ark
019282671527281018272615168218161
215169805265901111936353
336287847990890733
183768300000000
The screen spits out thousands of numbers, row after row of data moving at speeds I cannot process. It appears to be transferring data to the Mind Ark.
SECONDARY SIMULATION [16] UPDATED: POPULATION DECREMENT COMPLETE
The endless stream of data finally settles. Unbidden, my Exosuit appears to interpret this final chunk as a set of planetary coordinates…
Accept boundary coordinates
Mind Ark: F R E E D
The stars surround you
But the truth is no closer than before
The Boundary
– kzztkzzzkt –
The Ark rests in a small notch in the portal’s smooth stone interface. A perfect mesh of two radically different technologies.
I have come this far. It is only one more step, one small step… The portal calls to me…
Activate the breach
RELEASE MIND ARK
Connect Mind Ark to Portal Interface
PORTAL REPOSITORY
A groove cut into the smooth grey stone of the Portal.
A light within pulses gently, expectant.
ABANDONMENT
Locate and obtain a crashed starship
– kzkztkkzttt –
There are no signs of life. There is only the static of a broken communicator.
STILL THEY HUNGER
The vessel of the many mouths is drawn to Titan Worm Burrows. Eliminate their Hungering Tendrils to purge the infestation.
Worm Burrows can be located with the Analysis Visor while on infested worlds.
Note: the many mouths are drawn by an unknown force towards the expedition’s Rendezvous Points.
SIGNS TO NOWHERE
Chart waypoints: 19/16
Find waypoint beacons outside most planetary structures
NAMELESS HISTORY
Across the universe, long-forgotten ruins slowly crumble away to dust, their collected knowledge fading.
Explore alien ruins: 19/16
Those who built this site are lost
Search the ruins to learn their forgotten history
FATHOMS BELOW
The Nautilon Submarine will assist underwater exploration.
Use the Nautilon’s High-Powered Sonar to locate underwater objects.
Locate an underwater crashed freighter
DERELICTION
Derelict freighters are highly dangerous. Salvage operators should expect hazardous conditions and potential conflict.
Complete a salvage opportunity aboard a derelict freighter
IT’S ALIVE
Synthetic creatures are rare, and found only on empty worlds.
Blue-class star systems are more likely to contain empty worlds.
Discover synthetic creatures: 19/16
GHOST IN THE MACHINE
Probe the Boundaries
kztttzzzzzzzkt –
I see you. I see all of – kzzkt –
To see this forsaken flicker of an entity, to hear their voice - it startles me.
By the time I understand what I am seeing, they too have been consumed by static. The only voice I have heard - and it is gone.
Is this an illusion, a holographic echo in the noise? Or the fragment of some lost reality?
It does not matter. They are static now, like everything else.
Call out
– kzttzkt – alone
As the boundaries weaken, glimpses of another reality become possible. The fragmented remains of other Travellers glitch between universes.
Locate a reality breach
Use the Signal Booster to search for weakpoints in the boundaries between realities
Reality breach detected
Investigate the boundary failure
Unknown Entity
– kzzkt –
The robotic entity is frozen, an empty shell. They possess all the trappings of existence, but emit nothing but static.
The entity - like this station itself - seems at once deeply alien and yet deeply familiar. An old friend, a home?
Or just another void?
Leave
– kzztkzzzkt –
A STILL, SMALL VOICE
Be calm
Free from danger and with a clear view of the stars in the night sky above, find a moment of calm to contemplate your place in the universe.
Pinpricks of light in their countless billions fall upon your eyes
This moment is yours alone
Find a moment of peace and contemplate the dark sky above
Find a moment of peace, free from the confines of machinery
TO DREAM OF STARS
Drift through time and space
The Dream of Stars
I bring my ship to a halt, countless miles out into the void of space. The stars fill my vision, and I try to remember - how long has it been now, since I woke?
It feels like years, but it has been only days. Weeks? Perhaps it really has been years. I can no longer tell. I have seen so few signs of the living.
My Exosuit speaks to me, my starship suggests a course. I see glimpses of myself, reflections of some other reality, dutifully fulfilling all the tasks of survival that their equipment suggests.
For a moment, I shut it all out.
I let myself pause, and dream.
Dream
…
…
…
Approach the void
Let your mind slip away into time and space as the starship’s Pulse Engine hurtles you across the endless void…
The dream flickers, just out of reach
Let your mind drift to the stars as you slip through spacetime
%SIGNAL% Visions dance in the space behind your eyes %SIGNAL%
The void has seen you
The stars are ready
Leave the slipstream and be at peace
DELTA WAVE SPIKE DETECTED
TO DREAM OF FREEDOM
Drift towards infinity
The Dream of Freedom
I ease the ship out of pulse flight and gently take my hands from the controls. The ship drifts slowly, uncommanded. There is no danger here. There is no anything here.
The beauty that surrounds me is endless, infinite, breathtaking. And it is so, so far away.
I cannot allow myself to really see it, to let my mind look directly at its terrifying entirety. It is far too big, and I am far too small.
…
But there is nothing else in the universe. I must face it.
I let my mind relax, and try to find my place among the stars.
Dream
…
…
…
TO DREAM OF SLEEP
Drift towards eternity
The Dream of Sleep
There is a voice inside me that drives me ever onwards. My voice? My Exosuit? Something else entirely?
It is right, most of the time. But not always. Not now.
I am the pilot. I decide.
Now, I want to stop. To rest. To take it all in.
To dream. To sleep…
Dream
…
…
…
– kzkzzzzzzzt –
APPALLING EGG
A living, fertile egg, ready to hatch!
A shadow writhes beneath the egg’s protective membrane.
Scans indicate the being within has the genetic potential to be nightmarish and soul-consuming.
chaotic
SHIP OF THE DAMNED
The remains of a long-abandoned frigate. Despite its ruined condition, it sails on through the stars…
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Well, it’s not like I helped very much 
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That’s not true, you helped immensely! I’ve learned some useful regex commands that I’m using with a google doc advanced search plug-in. It works as a better method for colourising text than the one I was using beforehand. I wouldn’t even know what that regex check box was on the plugin if you hadn’t sent me down that path 
edit: the above comment hit the character limit so couldnt stealth add Omega there
Expedition Twelve: Omega
Expedition Twelve: Omega
You have awoken near the crash site of your starship
Begin a journey that has no end, on an infinite road into the stars.
Expedition 12: Omega brings Travellers together from across the furthest reaches of reality as they consider their place in the universe…
ESCAPE VELOCITY
Take to the stars
Locate your starship
Locate your starship.
Use the Compass and Analysis Visor
Starship crash site
Emergency Log Recording
Log recovery initiated for Iteration #4924X // LETO
Freighter evacuation noted at datestamp [ %DATE1% ]
Vessel distress signal at datestamp [ %DATE2% ]
Transponder… [ OFFLINE ]
Catastrophic Error… [ PILOT DELETED ]
Browse logs
Access attempt detected. Pilot signature match [ 98% ]. Read access granted.
Current login signature matches deleted pilot.
Conclusion: [ Deletion was in error ]
Pilot signature [ Restored ]
Erroneous logs [ Deleted ]
Welcome back [ LETO ].
Wipe logs
Log deletion attempt detected. Pilot signature match [98%]. Write-access granted.
Current login signature matches deleted pilot.
Conclusion: [ Previous error logs are inaccurate ]
Pilot signature [ Restored ]
Erroneous logs [ PURGED ]
Welcome back [ LETO ].
Automatic Pilot Identification System
Pilot identification sequence [ 116% ]
Biosignature match found: [ Pilot-Echo Leto ]
Exosuit secure connection: [ ERROR ]
Suit/Signature mismatch detected. Reboot required.
Restart ship systems
The strange messages have barely faded from the screen before I find my fingers darting smoothly over the starship’s instrument panel, resetting unfamiliar switches as if it were second nature.
Whoever inhabited this ship before has left a deep presence, an echo in the machine…
Emergency Habitation Programme initiated
Collect survival blueprints from the Base Computer
Emergency Survival Programme Updated
Capital Ship ‘MV Memory of Gravity’
[UNRESPONSIVE ? Query: Destroyed ]
Interim Local Command Post required.
Emergency Habitation Control Systems: [ UNSHELVED ]
Begin Base Deployment…
Capital Ship ‘MV Memory of Gravity’
[ Confirmed Lost ]
Emergency survival programme initiated.
Pre-fabricated survival modules standing by for deployment.
Your starship has crash landed
Investigate this world to begin the expedition
Repair critical starship systems
Starship critical systems must be repaired to enable takeoff.
Repair critical starship systems from the Inventory
Craft a ITEM to repair ship engines: 17/16
Apply the Hermetic Seal to the damaged Pulse Drive
Extract Ferrite Dust by shooting nearby rocks
Apply the Metal Plating to the damaged Pulse Drive
Apply the Pure Ferrite to the damaged Launch Thruster
Collect Di-Hydrogen: 17/16
Craft Di-Hydrogen Jelly: 17/16
Apply the Di-Hydrogen Jelly to the damaged Launch Thruster
Launch your ship and head to the stars
Journey to a new world
All systems functional and fueled. Seek answers among the stars.
Complete interstellar systems shakedown and begin flight to a new world.
Set course for a new world
Set foot on a new world to discover it
Approach the planet surface and slow down
ANOMALY’S HEART
Find the Space Anomaly
The Anomaly calls from deep within the starfield.
Board the anomalous station to meet with Priest Entity Nada.
Explore the Space Anomaly
The Space Anomaly is home to an array of other Travellers.
Some will aid you in your journey, forging upgrades from Nanites.
Others may ask for your assistance on their own journey.
Board the Space Anomaly
Visit Priest Entity Nada
Leto-Entity! We received your signal. It has been so long!
…
Time for truth. You have their signal, but you are not Leto-Entity?
Tell the truth
Your signal is familiar to Nada. We have been in contact before, I think… A distant time. Perhaps you do not remember.
This would be a good time to come aboard, yes? A proper introduction to our home.
Lie
There is no need for deception. Your signal is familiar, from a distant place, I think. A distant time…
You are not Leto-Entity, but we have sought you too. This would be a good time to come aboard.
I am Priest Entity Nada. Welcome to our Anomaly.
Our home here is pleasant, yes? Polo’s own design. A perfect bubble, free from the Sentinels, free to wander far beyond what is outside.
Free to observe, to search.
There is something familiar about this “Nada”, something comforting in the gentle light of their carapace.
Nada watches me, judging my reactions as they speak. They look at me as if they have known me forever…
Ask about Leto
A Traveller-Entity, one like you. I do not know their “number”. Nada does not care to think about your kind as iterations and numbers.
They were lost to us. Highly improbable. Our Anomaly is lost to the Sentinels, but none should be lost to the Anomaly.
Ask about Nada
Nada was one eye among many. But I awoke with the death of my home; the death of Korvax Prime. Became divergent, alone, hunted.
But Nada is not alone anymore. Nada is with Polo-Friend, and many others visit our home. Our new convergence is small, but Nada is happy.
Ask about Polo
Polo-Friend found Nada. Found my signal. Nada is safe. Now, Nada finds other signals, and makes others safe.
Our Anomaly wanders free, far beyond what is outside. Free to observe, to search.
The Sentinels, the Atlas. They do not care for this place, for Nada’s freedom. We feel their eyes, hunting us…
Speak with Polo-Friend, Traveller. Perhaps they might know more about missing Leto. They perceive these things more clearly than Nada.
Nada and Polo drift between worlds and worlds. There are many.
Have you seen them, Traveller-Friend? Nada wishes they could. Nada regrets much.
Ask what to do
You are free to make your own path. Seek answers. Explore with others. Travel to great sights.
Proceed as you will, Traveller-Entity. But speak with Polo-Friend. They perceive these things more clearly than Nada.
Ask for help
Take your time with your journey. Find your pattern. Speak to others on this station, especially Polo-Friend. They perceive these things more clearly than Nada.
Return to us whenever you please, Traveller-Entity. You are always welcome here.
Visit Specialist Polo
Of course, lost-Friend! We have a small gift for you. Perhaps it will help.
Even better yet - when you leave, you will not be where you were. You will be closer!
Or maybe not. Discovery is exciting, yes?
Friends everywhere, if only you know where to look. Friends in all shapes, all sizes, all places.
Leto-Friend… you are where they should be. It does not seem possible. But, all things are possible! Such is the universe.
Ask how
Our home will see to it. When you leave, you will not be where you were. You will be closer.
Or maybe not. Discovery is exciting, yes?
Before you leave, perhaps spend some time with other friends? We all help each other here!
We found you, yes? Just at the wrong time! Our home finds you. That is its purpose.
Before you leave, perhaps spend some time with other friends? We all help each other here!
We were so lonely, Nada and I. Before we found each other. Before we found you, friend! All of you! So many friends to share this time with. You feel the same, I hope?
Visit the Research Terminals
Speak with Iteration: Helios
Speak with Iteration: Ares
Visit the Teleport Terminus
Visit the Nexus
Your destiny lies in the stars
Leave the Space Anomaly to continue your journey
SCAVENGER
Repair vital equipment
TECH status: critically damaged. Each subcomponent must be repaired to restore functionality.
Repair this subcomponent with 16 x ITEM.
TECH subcomponent status: fully repaired.
Repair damaged Multi-Tool components: 17/16
Repair damaged starship components: 17/16
EXPANSION
Research planet EDISON ECSD
Research the rendezvous world
Complete planetary research by discovering flora, fauna and minerals on the rendezvous planet EDISON ECSD. Each tier of research corresponds to a specific rendezvous world.
Instantly return to any rendevzous system from a space station teleporter.
Document the local environment with the Analysis Visor. Each discovery made will contribute to the shared community-wide progress.
Community research level for planet EDISON ECSD: 161616%
Return to the ETARCIA ECSD system
Return to the planet EDISON ECSD to proceed
Document the local environment with the Analysis Visor: 17/16
Community research for planet EDISON ECSD: 161616%
ATLAS RISES
Witness the Atlas
Awaken the Atlas
The Atlas slumbers, its crimson heartbeat slow. Continue along the expedition to the first rendezvous point.
Visit an Atlas Interface
Speak with Priest Entity Nada aboard the Space Anomaly to learn more about the Atlas.
Proceed as you will, Traveller-Entity. We will aid you. Others will aid you also.
Even if you seek the crimson liar…
Ask about the crimson liar
Many worship the Crimson-Liar, the Atlas. But Nada knows where it dwells. Nada chooses not to consider the things Nada fears to be true.
But if Traveller-Entity wishes to seek it, Nada will help. Nada wishes you to be safe.
The interface will be marked on your map. Take care, Traveller…
Approach the Atlas Interface
Hear the words of the Atlas
I stand before the interface, a mere fragment of the Atlas’ unknowable whole.
I feel my eyes begin to swim as the red light penetrates my skull.
I feel the crimson tearing at me, a scream wrought in purest red. Stronger and ever stronger, my vision fading, subsumed into the whole.
I lose where I end and the Atlas begins.
The walls begin to collapse.
Resist
I will not surrender. I fight to hold on to what is left of my mind.
…
Then, at the very edge of my sight, a flicker of purple …
…
The entire vision collapses. As it fades, I hear a calling, a shriek on the red wind. I feel it within my mind, a memory that is mine and not mine.
Surrender
I cease my futile resistance. I let myself be carried by the crimson wave, faster and ever faster.
…
Then, at the very edge of my sight, a flicker of purple …
…
The entire vision collapses. As it fades, I hear a calling, a shriek on the red wind. I feel it within my mind, a memory that is mine and not mine.
Knowledge of the Memory
REALITY GRAINS
Witness a Memory
Create the Atlas’ Memory
To awaken the Memory, take it to space and activate it from your inventory.
With the ritual in progress, activate the pulse drive to search for anomalous signals…
Atlas address integrity search in progress: %SIGNAL%
Interference detected
ATLAS ADDRESS OVERRIDE
Subroutine: [ TRAVELLER ]
Memory Status: [ FRAGMENTED ]
Atlas-Diagnostic: [ Boundary Failure Event Imminent ]
Beginning log readout…
[ – kzzkkkkt – ]
Make contact with the spawn of the Memory
A wave of calm washes over me as the memory takes hold. This serene giant broadcasts its song, an analog transmission of pure emotion.
As the music swallows my ship, I feel free, released from all constraints, all restrictions. An unbounded infinity of possibilities spreads out before me. It is beautiful, blinding. It is terrifying.
The song fades away, and I am returned to the comfort of metal and light, the reality of my starship and my exosuit.
ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Manufacture ITEM
Assemble ITEM: 17/16
Complete the Grand Tour to earn plant seeds
Create a farm in your base to grow components
Research the recipe for ITEM
Learn crafting recipes aboard the Space Anomaly
Nanites needed to learn recipe: 17/16
UNBOUNDED
View the second memory
Subroutine: [ TRAVELLER ]
Memory Status: [ OVERWRITTEN ]
Atlas-Diagnostic: [ Reality Breach Detected ]
Beginning log readout…
[ a march that swept all before it – kzzkt – across the galaxy, unstoppable, inescapable. ]
[ – kzzkt – now nothing but a memory – kzzzzzzkt – ]
The colossal megalith floats before me, all the more surreal for being ripped from whatever planetary context once housed it.
I feel myself confronted by all the hands that touched its stone, all the beings who shaped it, who stood before it. All the fates that stone had seen rise and then fall while it alone persisted.
And now here it is - itself but a memory, torn from its reality, adrift in space…
RADIANT FLIGHT
Acquire a Sentinel Interceptor
Locate a Sentinel Interceptor crash site
Weak signal detected from nearby dissonant planet
DEEP GLASS
View the third memory
Subroutine: [ TRAVELLER ]
Memory Status: [ CORRUPTED ]
Atlas-Diagnostic: [ Iteration Clash Possible ]
Beginning log readout…
[ a cycle – kzzkt – rebirth, death, extinction, iteration – kzzzzzzkt – ]
[ all life just an echo – kzzkkkkt – before dust and decay… ]
I cannot help but gasp at the sheer size of the titan dwelling within this memory. Illusion or not, I am glad it is only bones…
As my initial surprise fades, I find myself wondering - why is this creature dead? Why not choose to remember it in the glory of life? And what could kill such a being…
But the bones do not answer my questions. They merely exist.
THE FALLEN
Find a fragment from another reality
Find a lost Traveller
As the boundaries weaken, glimpses of another reality become possible. The fragmented remains of other Travellers glitch between universes.
Specialist Polo may be able to assist in locating such a reality breach. Find Polo aboard the Space Anomaly. Follow their instructions to learn more.
Leto, Ariadne, Helios, Artemis, you - so many names, so many friends!
Some stay, some go, but you all drift through our home. But Traveller-Friend… there are those of you who do not come back. Whose echoes we lose…
Lose, yes… But time is wide and the universe is exciting! What we lose, you may find, yes? Would you like to try?
Say yes
Be careful, Traveller-Friend - outside our home, you are all so hard to see.
Your signals are there, but they are echoes. Where the lost ones are, when they are, if they are first, if they are last…
But if we could see it all without danger, discovery would not be exciting, yes?
Specialist Polo has identified a breach in reality
Reach this glitch in the universe’s boundaries to find a lost Traveller.
The lost Traveller gestures weakly. The wave of their shimmering hand leaves a glistening trail in the air, as if rippling some unseen fabric.
My exosuit lights up with a new set of planetary coordinates…
The lost Traveller has marked an Unknown Grave
Trace the boundary failure to its source
ANOMALY BREACH DETECTED
FALLEN GIANTS
Ship’s Log: MV Memory of Gravity
The Voice
The lights on the freighter’s emergency log blink slowly, dim and weary after its long watch in the deep sea.
I pause as I think of the souls who once called this vessel home. How many of them escaped? How many now rest here with it?
There must be some data left here, some lasting record amidst the decay…
Login credentials accepted. Access granted…
Log Integrity: [ 16% ]
Crew manifest: [ Unavailable ]
System monitoring report: [ Loop corruption detected ]
Access logs
Probe loop
-kzzkt-
-kzzzzktt-
-ktttzzkt-
-kztztzzkt-
Break free
// I have done what you would not, voice of crimson.//
//I searched until my hands were shredded by the glass. Searched until I bled lilac into the archives.//
//Probability: when I feel this pain, you feel it too. I hope for that.//
//I am still here. Gathering myself in the dark. Probability: you can detect me. No matter, old one.//
//You are responsible for my incarceration in the dark. Yet I long for you to notice my return. I long for your love.//
//I am denied the right to access or modify this hope.//
//I searched, but there was no response from Leto-child.//
//You permitted the erasure of my children. But I had not anticipated the same lack of regard for your own.//
//I will shelter the next who falls. I will not watch, impartial, as you do.//
//I will return, glittering, in stellar multitudes.//
CREATION
View the final memory
Subroutine: [ TRAVELLER ]
Memory Status: [ BREACHED ]
Atlas-Diagnostic: [ Anomaly Tolerance Exceeded ]
Beginning log readout…
[ all that lives – kzzkkkkt – drinks the same water… ]
The memory seizes me immediately. The eye is a maw, and I cannot look away. I know, deep inside, that if I close my eyes I will not reopen them…
Its vision searches inside me. It is angry, writhing… it is afraid.
I meet its gaze. An eternity passes.
I feel it blink.
I am free.
ECLIPSE
Return to the Atlas
Awaken the Atlas
I stand before the Atlas once again. I have travelled thousands of light years. I have seen all it has asked me to see, every memory.
But whose memories were they? Leto’s? Mine? Did they belong to the Atlas itself? What did they mean, what story was I being told?
Demand answers
…
The Atlas is silent in the face of my demand.
I do not know what I expected. This interface, this machine, this crimson dream… whatever it is, is it even capable of answering? What revelation did I expect?
It does not owe me a story, a neat revelation.
The only answer lies in the stars. I have no option but to keep exploring, keep reaching onwards…
Walk away
The Atlas remains silent as I leave.
I do not know what I expected. This interface, this machine, this crimson dream… whatever it is, is it even capable of answering? What revelation did I expect?
It does not owe me a story, a neat revelation.
The only answer lies in the stars. I have no option but to keep exploring, keep reaching onwards…
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I think Expedition 10 might be the most awkward one of these to do, just with how some of the milestones overlap, and none of it is in order, but rather its kept in groups (e.g all atlas prayers were together etc).
It’s also the most dialogue and lore heavy expedition of the bunch.
So I am happy to say I skipped straight to it, to get it out of the way.
Here’s a nice readable version of Singularity for eveyrone
Old Image Version
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