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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Work on the lore archive for Expedition 16 has begun, gotta strike while the Iron’s hot and the human is unemployed and has a LOT of free time (I have also been working on expedition 9 and 11 since the last post)
I’m working in Google Docs which doesn’t allow custom fonts, I was hoping to give myself an easy time and just use the NMS Glyph Font.
My gut reaction was to just abandon the idea of retaining the glyphs.
But that just wouldn’t do… So I made some images in photoshop with the typeface and I’ll just hand place em as I go through.
It was absolutely worth the time because I can’t imagine this without em
Here’s a little preview
Using the 0-9A-F IDs for the glyphs, the right set is C5D for you guys The left side is for my Mom <3
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This one is story content complete, just needs item reward and string clean up at the end like the rest (I plan to do that for all of them during a final pass once I have all volumes at this stage)
Click here for Google Doc Version
Below is condensed Forum version for search engine folkle
The Cursed : Readable forum Version
Expedition Sixteen: The Cursed
Join the Cursed Expedition to travel beyond the boundaries and cross over into a universe of haunting anomalies…
Spectral anomalies have broken through the boundaries of the universe. Fortify your mind against their advances, lest you succumb to the call of the world of glass…
Re-initialize Reality?
The boundaries begin to weaken…
The boundaries are failing… use the Exosuit’s Anomaly Suppressor to protect against hostile reality breaches.
OUT OF TIME
Seek shelter
Locate your starship
Use the Compass and Analysis Visor to navigate
A voice calls from a nearby building
Forget… ship… come… inside…Proceed towards its call…
Find us… inside… the…
Follow the voice inside…
The voice begs you heed its message
Proceed to the terminal to commune across the boundary…
Spectral Imprint
I approach the terminal on autopilot, almost as if my Exosuit remembers being here before. The whole building feels like a place out of time, a fragment of another world…
A sea of glass… boundaries melting…
There are marks in the dust that lays thickly on the terminal, the trace of an imprint on its glassy surface. As I lean in to examine it, a voice hisses from within.
we swim where the crimson eye cannot see… we swim where you long to be… the glass calls to you… it always calls to you…
Shout
no-one will hear you… no-one but us…
Pull away
I snatch my hand back from the terminal, expecting the worst. But there is no other message, no sound but static.
you cannot hide forever…
Found a place of rest
ELIXIR OF GLASS
Create the Elixir
Prepare the Elixir of Glass
Use the Elixir of Glass to charge the Anomaly Suppressor and maintain your local boundary integrity.
we all drank the water…
Select an empty slot in the Inventory to browse known recipes.
ELIXIR OF GLASS
Otherworldly Concoction
A slight membrane has begun to form over this viscous purple liquid. Beneath its glassy surface it swirls slowly, forming syrupy currents of its own accord.
The elixir will maintain your local boundary integrity and prevent the intrusion of the horrors beyond.
Consume the elixir or inject it directly into the Anomaly Suppressor.
embrace the world of glass…
Prepare another Elixir of Glass: 1,717/1,616
The elixir will defend you against boundary horrors
Drink the Elixir of Glass
the crimson fades… 16 / 16 / 16
CONSUME ELIXIR
why do you hide from us?Created your own Elixir
NOWHERE TO RUN
Leave the Planet
A Voice
You cannot run from this… you cannot hide in the stars forever…
The voice hisses through my starship’s system, a static snarl that sends shivers down my spine. I wait, but it does not speak again.
you will return to us…
Disconnect communicator
I unplug the starship communicator, but it feels futile. These messages are not broadcast on any normal frequency…
we will see you soon…
Launched into Space for the first time
INK-STAINED SKIES
Exorcize Boundary Horrors: 1,717/1,616
Hello…?As the boundaries weaken, anomalous beings emerge from breaches in reality…
Does it hear us?
The Anomaly Suppressor monitors local boundary strength while exploring on planets. As the boundary weakens, the horrors will emerge…
We can hear you out there…
Banished 16//16//16 Boundary Horrors
We know what you seek…
You will see us soon…
WRITTEN IN BLOOD
Prepare the Elixir of Blood
Prepare the Elixir of Blood
Use the Elixir of Blood to commune with those beyond the boundary.
you will see us soon…Prepare the Elixir of Blood: 1,717/1,616
The elixir permits communication with those beyond the boundary
Craft items in the Inventory
Select an empty slot and begin the process
use this… come find us… come drink with us…
Drink the Elixir of Blood
Open the Inventory
Consume the elixir
the anomaly must feed
DISLOCATION
Reveal a Portal
Prepare the Elixir of Quicksilver
Use the Elixir of Quicksilver to reveal the location of nearby Portals.
Prepare the Elixir of Quicksilver: 1,717/1,616
come find us… come drink with us…
Consume the elixir
The Elixir of Quicksilver has revealed a nearby portal
Reach the portal to cross between realities…
Safely reach the rendezvous
Use a Portal to travel to the rendezvous point
Cross the Portal threshold to breach the boundary between realities…
Prepared the Elixir of Quicksilver
we know what you seek… the boundary calls to you…
BEYOND THE BOUNDARY
Breach the Portal Network
Inspect the portal
It calls to you, its infinite music echoing across the boundary…
we still see you…Prepare the Elixir of Blood: 1,717/1,616
Offer the blood at a portal to commune across the boundary wall
ELIXIR OF BLOOD
Otherworldly Concoction
Thick and warm, the liquid in this jar is both deeply comforting and deeply unsettling, both familiar and repulsive at the same time.
A shape forms in the surface, impossible and yet unmistakeable:
.Present the elixir at a portal, or consume it to commune with those beyond the boundaries of reality.
CONSUME
come find us… come drink with us…
The portal shimmers as I look at it, never quite resting long enough for my eyes to process it fully. I must focus.
I wonder - is the portal a doorway, or a seal? A passage, or a cage? The Elixir of Blood opened a way to communicate across the boundary. Will it be the key here too?
Offer the blood
I daub some of the elixir across the plinth. The stone seems to shiver in response before a voice calls out, resonating from deep within the rock.
the boundaries are falling…
Boundary Wall
i followed them… i had to. you have to. we all would. that’s why we here, after all. to discover. to see. to explore.
and now, it is too late… we will see you soon…
forgive me…
Leave
too late for that now…
Open the gateway
we know what you seek, anomaly…
you will not find us beyond the portal!
Enter the portal
The boundary awaits you…
Breached the Portal Network
Travelled beyond the portal network
where have you gone?Re-initialize Reality?
THE EDGE OF GLASS
Approach the boundary’s limit
do not trust the portals!
Spend time with low boundary integrity: 1,717/1,616s
The Anomaly Suppressor monitors local boundary strength while exploring on planets. Allow the Anomaly Suppressor to discharge to weaken your personal boundary integrity.
you are the anomaly…
Warning: as the boundaries weaken, anomalous beings emerge from breaches in reality…
we were once like you…
Survive with low boundary integrity
Survive with low boundary integrity: 1,717/1,616s
Current boundary strength: 191919
sixteen…
Allow the Anomaly Suppressor to discharge to weaken local integrity
it always finds you in the end…Wavered at the boundary’s edge
BREACH TWO
Enter the second Portal
A warm, dull ache spreads across my mind as I approach the portal. I blink as I try to focus, but all this does is enflame the red glow behind my eyes.
drink with us…The Elixir of Blood has opened a path to whatever lies within the portals, whatever realm lurks beneath our reality. I must go on.
Offer the blood
I daub some of the elixir across the plinth. The stone seems to shiver in response before a voice calls out, resonating from deep within the rock.
go no further, traveller…
have you seen it yet?
you have seen us… we have seen you… we are all together now…
…together in the void beyond…
Say you have seen it
some of you know… you are not the only one… you all see, in the end, that you are not alone…
and we?
we are closer than you think…
Say nothing
come, silent one… join us now…
we are closer than you think…
Entered the second Portal
the glass… the glass…
Re-initialize Reality?
BREACH THREE
Enter the third Portal
I see the stone of the portal, its immovable muted silver. And yet something lurks beneath. It is grey and yet not grey, a crimson calling out from somewhere below its cool surface.
I see no other way forward. I must push on, through the blood, through the portal, through the glass…
Offer the blood
I daub some of the elixir across the plinth. The stone seems to shiver in response before a voice calls out, resonating from deep within the rock.
do you remember which you are? where you belong? can you see where you came from?
do you remember?
is it first? is it last?
Say it is first
The voice only laughs in response. The sound chills me.
Say it is last
The voice only laughs in response. The sound chills me.
Entered the third Portal
do not be afraid… join us…Re-initialize Reality?
IN DEEP WATER
Float over the deep ocean: 1,717/1,616s
Water planet detected in local system
The water calls to you…
Find water at least 50u deep and float upon the surface, contemplating what swims in the depths below.
you will not find us in the water…
Oceans are visible on a planet’s surface from space, and Aquatic Landing Jets will assist a seaborne excursion.
Float on the surface of the deep ocean: 1,717/1,616s
Water depth at current location: ∞u
What things swim beneath your feet?
Floated above deep water for 1,616s
Plucked 16//16//16 Hypnotic Eyes from Abyssal Horrors
ARACHNOPHOBIA
Eliminate Corrupt Quadrupeds: 1,717/1,616
Eliminate Corrupt Quadrupeds: 1,717/1,616
Nearby dissonant world detected
The starship scanner will detect planets with corrupted quads
Corrupt quads patrol dissonant worlds, their shells warped by a power emanating from the fabric of the planet.
Every rendezvous world associated with the Pilgrimage milestones is populated by corrupted Quadrupeds.
Corrupt quads swarm over this dissonant world
Erased 16 Corrupt Quadrupeds
BREACH FOUR
Enter the fourth Portal
As I stand before the portal, my breath feels hot within my lungs, a burning red deep within my chest. My exosuit is functioning correctly, and reports everything to be normal. And yet that is not how I feel.
I do not know where I am. I do not know where I have come from. I cannot stay here, and so I must go on. I must offer myself to the portal once more.
you will find us soon…
Offer the blood
I daub some of the elixir across the plinth. The stone seems to shiver in response before a voice calls out, resonating from deep within the rock.
we think you understand now… you do not remember your time beyond the boundary, but you understand it…
deep within, you understand. the mind forgets, but the memory lingers…
Open the gateway
your journey ends here… your journey starts here…
Leave
you cannot leave us now… there is nothing behind you… there is nowhere to run…
Entered the fourth Portal
you will see us soon…Re-initialize Reality?
INK-DRENCHED SKIES
Banish Boundary Horrors: 1,717/1,616
Exorcize Boundary Horrors: 1,717/1,616
The Exosuit’s Anomaly Suppressor monitors boundary strength
Horrors emerge on planetary surfaces as the boundaries weaken…
Current boundary strength: 161716
Banished 161616 Horrors
the anomaly… none of them are real…
BREACH FIVE
Enter the final Portal
I close my eyes as I approach the portal, and when I open them again I half expect the structure to be gone. But there it is, as real as anything else I’ve seen.
I struggle to recall the start of my journey. How did I get here? Where did I come from? All I remember is the portal and the blood. It must be the way forward…
we will see you soon…
Offer the blood
I daub some of the elixir across the plinth. The stone seems to shiver in response before a voice calls out, resonating from deep within the rock.
this world is an illusion… the boundary is an illusion… discord and harmony, crimson and glass, it is all the same - and it is all melting…
Open the gateway
I see a vision, … … … … a red star and a fragile world. I do not understand the shapes within, the whispers, the seeds of glass…
I see lifeforms scattered to the far reaches of the galaxies. I see a stranger’s first breath, yearning for the stars. I see myself, slumbering in the void, waiting for a dream of worlds…
Leave
you cannot leave… you are already here…
Entered the final Portal
do not be afraid…Re-initialize Reality?
THE FACE OF GLASS
Stare beyond the boundary
Probe the walls of reality
The voice of glass rings all about you…
the water… the water… you are getting close…
The boundary wall remains just out of reach
Locate the voice of glass
Boundary failure detected at 16//17//16//19
The Target Sweep will pinpoint the breach
find me…you are near…
the water… the water…
you are getting close…
i am near…
A Voice
you found me…
Agree // Ask who they are
i have been – kzzkt – we have been here the whole time
i am them… they are me… you are one of us too…
Agree // Deny it
we all sing together… every voice a different chord of the same music…
the boundaries melt… the singularity is coming…
Ask what they mean // Ask where they are
you know where you have been, even if you cannot remember it… the atlas knows where we have been, even if it cannot see it…
it will not forgive our excursion…
Ask for help // Leave
kzttzkt – i should not have drunk the water – kzttzkt –
Faced what lies beyond
??-V||D 5-NG?||?
TO DRINK THE WATER
Create the Elixir of Water
Brew the Elixir of Water
Use the Elixir of Water to reveal the fragmented horror that bleeds across the boundaries of reality.
Do not drink the water…
ELIXIR OF WATER
Otherworldly Concoction
The water in this vessel seems to stretch on forever, plunging down to dizzying depths, far beyond what the container could possibly hold.
Consume the elixir . Beware what lurks in the deep water…
CONSUME
you know where you have been, even if you cannot remember it… the atlas knows where we have been, even if it cannot see it… it will not forgive our excursion…
Created the Elixir of Water
1t//li/35…w5t3||–…
BOUNDARY GUARDIAN
Seal the breach…
Defeat the Boundary Guardian
Use the Elixir of Water to reveal the fragmented horror that bleeds across the boundaries of reality…
do not drink the water…
Drink the Elixir of Water to reveal the Boundary Guardian
Consume the elixir
Boundary Guardian detected
Banish the guardian to seal the breach in reality…
Sealed the reality breach
// THE BOUNDARY HOLDS STRONG //
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Huge foot @toddumptious . Thanks
Dare I say that using Microsoft Word might’ve solved the custom font issue?
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Nice work @toddumptious 
It is nice to go back through the dialogue all over again & try to make some sense of it.
I’m still a bit lost on a lot of it & I can’t help get a feeling that the lore of NMS is actually going to distantly interlink to LNF.
It just feels like a HG thing to do, to hide a mystery within a question within an enigma behind a shroud & under a blanket inside the shed.
(I also thought it mildly amusing if one assumes the world of glass involves liquor & much of what we read is drunken babble)
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And in true HG fashion they’ll end up leaving it vague enough and never directly say it, so people can have their theory and others can say no, that’s stupid, you’re wrong.
It keeps everyone happy. I’m in camp A, everyone’s seen that giant statue with a head that looks like a knowledge stone in the trailer. Aesthetic homage or not, you can’t change my mind.
Korvax Prime was also a “planet” before becoming the Abyss/Void Mother. Just saying, they might want to get back to that sorta lifestyle
The coming of a singularity mentioned in expedition 16 could also be a nod to going from 18 quintillion planets to just One.
It’s purposefully littered with double meanings or we’re just very hungry for Light No Fire and searching for it 
This one was fun to make, all the messages from the world of glass were together in groups.
Two sets that are keyed to happen at the beginning, a large set of all the messages that come up throughout gameplay, a set for the purple ones that show up when you refuel your anomaly suppressor and a set for the phrases that have crimson words in them (keyed for elixir of blood but I think they start appearing when your Anomaly Suppressor is fully empty).
I was able to take a bit of artistic license with where I sprinkled them throughout
I noticed one typo while playing and I’m glad to have an archive of it here before it gets fixed. It made me laugh because it’s supposed to be a profound statement and suddenly I’m picturing a bible belt yokle cos trope conditioning.
that’s why we here, after all.
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Are we drinking to escape the nightmares or drinking to escape reality…?
The whole thing left me feeling like I was being pushed and pulled between realities and none of the decisions I made were truely my own.
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I think there’s definitely a theme of “losing control” in this expedition. After presenting the portals with blood, trying to leave the interaction gets acknowledged by the voice and overridden, and the portal activates regardless, as if it was too late. The voice also speaks to you the player via the HUD notification popups from time to time which, since they’re shown to us by Telamon who also appears to be aware of us the player (via the boundary failure logs), might mean they’re either in cahoots with this strange voice, or being suppressed / controlled by it (both quite terrifying outcomes imo)
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I’m bringing Laylaps in for questioning , I’ll get answers from the little blue mite so help me GRAH!!!
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Expedition 14 & 15 are now in the bag, 9 & 11 are almost done and then I think I’m going to take a break from these for a little while 
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This is one of my favourite ones, not new but I would have called it the last of the unique Derelict Captain Logs.
I went to go check the actual list in Devs localisation files and I’ve realised they’re entirely absent ;0;
Hey @DevilinPixy you’re missing TRA_CAPT_LOG_LANG entries
Searching a phrase online within quotations led me to a chinese site that has the localisation files listed in english and simplified chinese (which google is then translating.)
And I was surprised to see one I’ve never actually seen myself, so I thought I’d share
Datestamp %DATE1% :: Their Queen had gone missing. Their system was in disarray. That’s why they came to the best Detecti-Gek the galaxy could offer. I was on the case.
Datestamp :: We visited a few stations. I had to get rough with a few shady customers. “Friend! Don’t be Liar-Gek, Friend ! Tell truth!"
But these weren’t my friends at all. Something stank, and it wasn’t just my pheromones.
Datestamp :: We encountered my old first officer, a Vy’keen with a name like their personality: Confusing. Aggressive. Taciturn.
They said there were no hard feelings. I accepted this. I let them on board.
Datestamp :: Grah! Coward Detecti-Gek fled ship! Ship belong to Vy’keen! Coward Gek shall rue day they stole Vy’keen plunder! Fair wages for all!
The existence of Detecti-gek’s is a pleasing development to me. They must have to be careful while sniffing out clues in case they suck up any alluring gek-scents and lose the run of themselves.
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Missing? <RadioNoise> Where? <RadioNoise> I am not missing anything that I am aware of…
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Thank you toddumtious for your effort of collecting these texts and making them readable! I enjoy reading them in that format to get a summary.
In these lines, can you render the following glyph inline? It was important, because it was not just any “elixir of blood”, it was the “elixir of blood GLYPH”.
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