No Man’s Sky—Game Details & Investigations: Portals/Seeds, Atlas/Loop16/Emily, Atlas Foundation/Tech, OldGods & More

Please read my recent posts on the “Unifying theory, Atlas, NMS WT” thread in the "Thoughts and Theories. I think I’m starting to connect all the dots.

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Path of Atlas, Path of God

Results of our speculation, thus far.



“LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P”

instance16status


16th Galaxy? …16 developers? …256th galaxy repeat? …“To the MATHS!?”
Singularity? …ProcGen? …16 @OldGods? …???
An error with the god(s)? …The Atlas Foundation? etc.? …Or the simulation? …???
And why unexpected? Do we need to check a status? An instance? Another comm station? …lol

Are we but travellers in the mind of a living supercomputer? …Assuming the name Atlas?
Created by the Atlas Foundation? …Do to advanced technology, have they lost control?

Quoting lore… Was it created by “jaded intelects”? Are we “but a dream in an infinite universe”?
Let us dream! Let us come to understand this existence we call life!


New theory regarding “loop”!

Taking the Atlas Path, results in reaching the center of the galaxy, and the Traveler saying:

What’s the relevance of this new star?

Perhaps the beginning of your journey was caused by another Traveler having birthed a new star—It’s essentially an infinite loop, wherein each new star has been created by a Traveler venturing through the Atlas Path and following its demands, which in turn spawns a new Traveler.

Maybe the continued growth of the universe is reliant upon the Traveler(s) journeying to new galaxy(s).

Question…

Is the Atlas’ goal to expand? …maybe even into our own?


A Question of “16”—
Is “loop16” codename for No Man’s Sky?

Also worth considering…
Is “Mercury” codename for No Man’s Sky?

A riddle …A theory was born …Investigation followed …And now may I present,

  • Waking Titan could be codename for Hello Games
  • @OldGods could be codename for Atlas

Perhaps Hello Games is the real “mystery hiding in plain sight”…
And by extension, we as their community, are together a collective.


An Overview…

Although still pondering thoughts of the “16th galaxy”… And “loop” perhaps referring to ‘singularity’, meaning infinity (like either “256 galaxy” repeat “stuck in the loop”; or an already infinite nature of NMS, 1.8×1019 planets… aka. 18 quintillion as 2^64, thanks @DevilinPixy) or something that’s reached a singular nature (like a ‘mega supercomputer’ turned sentient, assuming the name “Atlas”, created by “Atlas Foundation”; hard swallow)… and “16” &/or “loop” &/or “instance16status” perhaps referring to ‘MATHS’ (which is a strong possibility; thanks @doobidoop)…

And now throwing in that…

  • Waking Titan could be codename for Hello Games
  • @OldGods could be codename for Atlas

We start with “LOOP16 could be codename for NMS”…

This would certainly be fitting for a 1 year anniversary update in August. Makes it believable!

@DevilinPixy then surfaced the ‘night sky’ pic as a stock image; meaning it’s not from the game.

After examining the default template used for the Atlas website, it further became clear that “map.jpg” was likely only called ‘map’ due to replacing the widget for Google maps.

Regarding the “went gold” Twitter pic, displaying 16 developers… Which established the above theory… Together with @OldGods’ (our WT ARG Puppet Master) account, hinting toward the concept of potential “old gods” that created the NMS universe…

@toddumptious mentions that perhaps Sean didn’t include himself, thus equaling 16.

However, that would then reduce the twit pic to 15, so maybe not.

And if they left out Harry Denholm …Was he in the twit pic? …Cause that’d be 15, too.
Unless perhaps accounting for 16 then and 16 now, period. (But are we sure they’re 16 now?)

In relation to the NMS credits, displaying ‘close’ to the number…
I then questioned why Paul Weir was not mentioned… Nor displayed in the tweet…
And how this may affect the theory…

Concepts of God…

@MacForADay, I would absolutely love to see “jaded intellects” (?), or references to creator(s) of the universe (?), in the story/lore (any update version), as this would prove very interesting. The more of this the better; as these are clues toward origin, and more.

Can you surface any weblinks?

Here!! I have now found “jaded intellects”…

http://deviantrising.tumblr.com/post/149321057770/no-mans-sky-ending

And thus came the theory that Sean Murray &/or other developers were the god(s).

I then subjected the “Loop16 Codename for No Man’s Sky” theory, especially regarding Concepts of God, under severe questioning, of which I think @MacForADay and everyone survived, lol. :face_with_monocle:

A Matter of Conscious…

It’s just hard to imagine humans placed as god(s); Although people celebratize people, and things, to a near godlike degree all the time. Certainly humans didn’t create humans. But developers can create AI, placing such in an artificial simulation.

It then becomes a question of morals, and belief systems…
(although many throw such to the wind)

Some may ask…
Would it be appropriate for the AI to worship the developers?
Would it be appropriate for humans to worship the developers?
…upon entering the simulation …or otherwise.

The Korvax worship Atlas. No? …in fiction.
Humans worship “God”. No? …in reality.

Who created the NMS artificial universe? Hello Games.
Who created our physical universe?:cricket:


I ran upon a statement…
“the godlike splendor of creation”
What does this mean?


And so it is, that just as in reality,
We find ourselves facing… Questions of God.


But how could there be no god?
Who do the Korvax worship? Why?
Who is Atlas? What is Atlas?
Who created the simulation? …in fiction …?
Who created the simulation? …in reality …Hello Games.
Who created HG? SM? …us?

Was that too deep?
Questions of God.

Science requires a math equation?
Try infinity: ∞.
Or alpha/omega: Α/Ω.
(“no beginning / no end.”—Re 1:8; 21:6; 22:13)

No Man’s Sky…
Is Atlas… “no man’s god”?

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Concluding Thoughts…

And about that iconic tweet… “It’s happened. No Man’s Sky just went gold. I’m so incredibly proud of this tiny team. 4 years of emotions” …there’s that number again.

Posted 12:51 PM - 7 Jul 2016 …and yet another 16.

wakingtitan.com

But wait! When visiting the original WT website… The first sigil, when clicked, had roman numerals (CCXL/XV) in the page background. When turned into a math equation (240/15) and solved, the calculation evaluated to “16”, which was the solution to the sigil.

And may we not forget… “loop16” and “instance16status”!
…and even 4 companies under Atlas, lol.
…and 16 cassette tapes …the 1st ones with mentions of ‘portals’.

Meanwhile…

(aka. smellingsalt, and other necessities)

(aka. ProcGen, and excessive necessities)


http://atlas-65.com/ …see ‘about’.

The Atlas Foundation is dedicated to finding answers to the most fundamental questions of our existence. Led by CEO Elizabeth Leighton, our family of businesses is at the cutting edge of innovation across the fields of physics, telecommunications, hypercomputing, and more, enabling us to conduct a wide range of intensive research programs. Right now we’re conducting research in the fields of artificial and distributed intelligence, simulated worlds, and metaphysical analysis.”

Questions…

Are we the traveler “distributed intelligence”? …in the artificial simulation?
Or would this just refer to a computer server, simply containing the sim? …?

Are we thought of as literally (physically) entering the sim?
Our body converting to AI (artificial data; binary, etc.)?

Perhaps it could be said, that the study of…

Distributed intelligence (aka. distributed logic) provides theory (or theoretical framework) for… understanding what humans (or complex intellects) can achieve, and… how their complex objects and environments (of artifacts, tools, and socio-technical environments) can be designed and evaluated, to empower human beings and to change tasks.

It refers to separating the processing in a large system into multiple subsystems or extracting certain processing functions from the main system and placing them into separate machines.

Questions…

Upon entering the shared simulated universe of No Man’s Sky…
Are we extracted from our physical universe and literally placed into their computer? :flying_saucer:
Are we therefore “distributed” via our separate computers?

“IF” so… Why would they do this? …Or, Why would “it” do this?

“Metaphysics continues asking “why” where science leaves off.” -wikipedia

What’s a hypercomputer? A mega supercomputer; A machine that goes beyond human logic!
Any theoretical device capable of carrying out hypercomputation. -wiktionary

What will hypercomputers let us do? Good question | New Scientist

The Atlas Foundation represents “considerable capital interest”…
There are several companies which exist under the Atlas umbrella. The Foundation appears to fund these organizations in order to further their goals which are currently unknown.

Click here for a simple breakdown of the foundation and each company…

Waking Titan/Companies - Game Detectives Wiki

One standout company is Multiverse Technologies. They appear to be a think tank of sorts; claiming to be carrying out research in various ‘sci fi/futuristic’ fields. One of which is Computationalism.

“The computational theory of mind holds that the mind is a computation that arises from the brain acting as a computing machine.

Questions…

Are we but travellers in the mind of a living supercomputer? …Assuming the name Atlas?
Created by the Atlas Foundation? …Do to advanced technology, have they lost control?

Quoting lore… Was it created by “jaded intelects”? Are we “but a dream in an infinite universe”?
Let us dream! Let us come to understand this existence we call life!


Path of Atlas, Path of God
Speculation, thus far…

Perhaps…

The Atlas Foundation are the developers of No Man’s Sky (a simulated universe); with Echo, Multiverse, Myriad and Superlumina, as their affiliates. Their experimental ‘mega supercomputer’ server (a hypercomputer; turned sentient, meaning alive!; or maybe not), which contains this artificial simulation, of near infinite singularity, is referred to by its living creatures of natives &/or aliens of AI (artificial intelligence) simply as “Atlas”.

This is their “god”, because they know no other.

But the developers, are the real gods… The @OldGods .

But following the ‘Atlas path’, you as the visiting traveler, discover a hidden depth…

Quoting the dialog of your final words, at the end…

The above is very thought provoking…

Regarding the “jaded” developers of this “model” sim universe of near infinite singularity…
Which they created as an “existence in imitation of life”…

Using the quote from @OldGods’ bio…

Just as with selfish and grumpy/greedy Scrooge, where the quote originates…
Could they now “die alone and hated, and wish to change this future”?
Why? What course have they chosen? …&/or found themselves in?

And suddenly we’re staring at this…

On the psychological level,
Spanning both fiction, reality and augmented reality,
Surfaces the deepest of Questions…

Why would the developers call themselves “jaded intellects”?
Why do they feel “enslaved” to their actuality"? …And why make such a grand point of it !?
What actuality? That we can’t escape this universe? or our short journey from cradle to grave?
We “come so very far” in life, learn much, love, work hard, experience, procreate and nurture…
Without hope? Confused? Why? …Questions of God? Why? …“Why death? Why problems?”
Crying out? Unsatisfying answers? Understood? Related with? :revolving_hearts:

And I quote…
“My program ended… What lies beyond the truth?”

…“a new star” …“a new traveler” …tissue please. :sneezing_face:

This statement, with aforementioned attitude/confusion, reflects the masses of humanity.
Does it not? Perhaps the developers. Maybe even you, the player/traveller. Let us see…

Do you work to live? Or live to work?

Do you ever feel exhausted? Bored? Confused? …Alone?
Do things ever feel mundane? Like it just drags on?
Is life not glutted with agitation? …Why?
Have you become callused?
Can you relate?

Is the glass half empty? Or half full?


And finally…

Who is communicating this through http://www.superlumina-6c.com/#2

Is this ‘the Atlas’ speaking, as if, through the sentinels? …Replace “we” with “I”?
Or speaking as if Superlumina? or as if the Atlas Foundation?

Speculation…

Is this the Atlas Foundation? …Nada/Polo? Gek? Corvax? Vykeen? …Humans? …???
A mega supercomputer turned sentient? Should we consider Sentinels?

Do we have 2 situations? Both ‘the Atlas’ and the sentinels? …Or 1?
Did ‘the Atlas’ create the sentinels? as a self-replicating robotic AI? a hive-mind? …seeking control?
Did ‘the Atlas’ create the Great Monolith? as a means to communicate with the AI? …seeking control?

‘OR’… did the Atlas Foundation create both ‘the Atlas’ and the sentinels, right here on earth? Sending the sentinels into ‘the Atlas’; their computer server? Both existing as experiments? But backfiring, because both became sentient? or just ‘the Atlas’? And it having taken over, now controlling the simulation, took control of the sentinels, and thus the above words are actually ‘the Atlas’, speaking through the sentinels? or ‘as if’ through they? with the supposed “mind-less” sentinels now exhibiting intelligence, because it’s actually ‘the Atlas’… The real puppet master… The cynical ventriloquist… Seeking control… And now coming for our world !?

Are scientists pursuing technological advancements without any regard to consequences?

What would it be like to live on an Earth controlled by sentinels? …or ‘the Atlas’? …etc.? :thinking:


Any parallels with Global Warming and Climate Change here?

Or the Biblical story of God, Adam & Eve, and…
Specifically Satan the Devil? …who ventriloquists a serpent?


:newspaper: The local paper reads…

“Farmer Jack Executed Upon Attempting Harvest”
Written by General Sentinel, in behalf of the beloved Atlas

Is this a crusade? Or a dictatorship !?


Mother Atlas and her Sentinel Minions

Quoting from LORE

_Lore - No Man's Sky Wiki
_Great Monolith - No Man's Sky Wiki
_Korvax - No Man's Sky Wiki
_Sentinel - No Man's Sky Wiki

What’s the relationship between the Atlas Foundation, ‘the Atlas’ and the sentinels?
…and the Great Monolith? …perhaps the Korvax? …and us, the travelers?


And who is communicating this through “cassette tape #9 /16”…
(transcript of spoken words; see links in 1st post above)


In Conclusion…

  • Loop16 could be codename for No Man’s Sky
  • Waking Titan could be codename for Hello Games
  • @OldGods could be codename for Atlas

A Final Word…

Why did @OldGods choice both profile picture and location from Lovecraft? …What do we know about Atlas? God? …Nyarlathotep? R’lyeh? Cthulhu? Cthulhu Mythos? …Great Old Ones?

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WT phase 1 of 3 concluded 7/9/17.
2 began 7/21. On 23rd midnight…


:dragon_face: For the No Man’s Sky thread, :rocket:
This concludes Waking Titan phase 1.

Let us now begin phase 2 of 3…

:new_moon: :waxing_crescent_moon: :first_quarter_moon: :waxing_gibbous_moon: :sun_with_face: :waning_gibbous_moon: :last_quarter_moon: :waning_crescent_moon: :new_moon:

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Woah crimsontine thats impressive to say the least, looks likle you had a lot of fun with it too. Thanks for putting all our incoherent ramblings into a nice structured post and making something great from them :smiley:

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In light of new evidence from the most recent Old Gods emails, the codename for No Man’s Sky in this ARG is actually “Mercury Process”. Not to be confused with “Mercury Subroutine” which was a series of votes taken in Phase 1.

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Nice Work! that is an exhaustive list and had to take some time to put together! thank you for putting it all in one place. i will have some questions for you but, i need to digest your entire post first lol!

i feel like this needs its own thread???

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hi, (somewhat unrelated, i can take it down if it doesn’t fit with this thread) i wanted to get this to you to see what you think. this is a crashed module from in-game. the lines run from left to right and repeat. the atlas response about how nada and polo met say they found something using 16 short bursts of repeating information. this is the only thing i have found in-game that meets this description (there may be others tho) i cannot upload video or i would have, so you could see how it moves. do yo know of anything to use to decode this, or is it just some art?
is it still taboo to post in-game puzzles (or possible puzzles)???

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All the gui visuals in game are just looping art, when you see audio waves like that in a game they’re usually pulled from a sound effect with in the game, since they’re accessible to artists during development.

So I wouldnt read too much in to it, I think if you were doing something like this, trying to find the number 16 flashing on a terminal next to a vy’keen would be more worth your time as it’s much more descriptive.

The Vy’keen tells me of their history,
of wars with the Gek, of Korvax slaves
and tyrannous empires. The Vy’keen suggests
that if the Atlas is a God, then it is insane.
I am about to leave when I notice something
on the Vy’keen’s terminal.
Two digits, blinking endlessly… they feel familiar.

Mind you last few systems I was in that were vy’keen I HAD to look at every terminal, just in case… IMMERSION!

The repeating signal they refer to, i believe, is the same one referenced by the terminals in abandoned buildings and again in the lore we’ve unlocked through the arg (one of the audio files was actually a continuation of the abaonded building lore, an ending we didn’t know we were missing.)

I believe this signal is been created by loop16, thats my lil theory on that anyway.

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LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P
instance16status

“sixteen short bursts of data in a loop.”
“Two digits, blinking endlessly… they feel familiar.”

Thank you so much @DuckDuck for digging around inside the game itself !

I will now pry into what’s before me, to see what we can find, thus far.


Presently on WakingTitan.com

Typing the command WHOIS VY’KEEN displays the following message:


Typing 16 yields:

I then recall the comm station…
LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P
instance16status

And why “aberration”?

What about “anomaly”?

These are very similar words.

If Korvax Nada was originally discovered by Specialist Polo… among wreckage (likely a starship) containing… “data that spoke of worlds that do not exist and events that did not happen”…

Is Korvax Nada really a human, from our own physical universe?
Was he sent from the Atlas Foundation? …An experiment? …Are Korvax related to humans? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:
Perhaps he was created in their physical labs, and converted to living data? …sent to NMS?
Or perhaps he simply came from a portal? …perhaps a multiverse? :thinking: …this is a mystery.

At 1st glance…

This “console” appears to be referring to the dashboard inside a starship.
What other wreckage could it be referencing? Is there anything in-game like that?

On 2nd read…

However, 1st it says, “They never returned.” and appears spoken from the Traveller.
Who is speaking?

So it’s referring to either the starship (wreckage)… Or any conceivable “console” in-game.

And if the “signal” is “a warning on repeat – sixteen short bursts of data in a loop”…
Could there be a manual defining what this signal/warning indicates?
…like a car manual does.

Also…

What type of data is displayed?
“Data that spoke of worlds that do not exist and events that did not happen.”
What type of data, or source, can possibly communicate so much information?

This does not sound like a simple blinking light.
It sounds like strings of code, words, etc.

But yet…

The “signal” is “a warning on repeat – sixteen short bursts of data in a loop”.


Any time travel here?
“Data that spoke of worlds that do not exist and events that did not happen.”
…from the future?


What Vy’keen’s terminal?
What 2 digits? …“16”?
Not sure.


A Question of 16?

LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P
instance16status

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This is very similar to an except from the logs found within abandoned buildings

“…I would listen to them talk of worlds they could never have seen, in alien tongues that their body was not made to utter. The glass made them something more than they were, a vessel for intelligences utterly unlike us.”

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Just have to say…Ahhhhhh. Thank you for existing, everyone! If you get
#OneMoment. Look deeper.

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Elapse in Time

The following required a whole lots o’ hot coco !

Pondered/wrote all week, posted too soon, copied/deleted, pasted into new post, wrote all day, lost everything, scraped fragments from old post, 4 hours before 24 hour post removal, re-wrote all day/night…

delivered… :wilted_flower::zzz:

Path of Atlas, Path of God—Part 2

Results of our speculation, thus far.



“LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P”

instance16status


OVERVIEW…

  1. Perhaps Mercury is an Operating System for the Atlas Foundation
    Their Citizen Science Division, is working on their experimental project, Waking Titan.

  2. Perhaps loop16 is a program, built into program Atlas 0.16Alpha, running on Mercury OS
    Loop16 could be codename for No Man’s Sky

  3. Atlas Seeds

  4. Emily’s Disappearance, and
    Elizabeth Leighton’s Broadcast

  5. Fourth Race

  6. If the Atlas is a God, then it is insane!
    @OldGods could illustrate Atlas


BONUS: Boston Dynamics!


Atlas Foundation could illustrate Hello Gamesdiscussed later

  • Mercury can’t be codename for No Man’s Skydiscussed later
  • Waking Titan can’t be codename for No Man’s Skydiscussed later
  • Waking Titan can’t be codename for Hello Gamesdiscussed later
  • Waking Titan can’t be codename for Atlas, or Atlas Foundation . . .

Perhaps Mercury is an Operating System for the Atlas Foundation
Their Citizen Science Division, is working on their experimental project, Waking Titan.

Perhaps loop16 is a program, built into program Atlas 0.16Alpha, running on Mercury OS
Loop16 could be codename for No Man’s Sky


Questions…

Could loop16 be within NMS? …or is the error within?
What is @Emily’s relationship to the Atlas Foundation?

All is discussed…



CONVERSATION…

…wiping sweat from brow. :pizza::crazy_face::sweat_drops:
…diagnosis: commoner’s insanity. ℞: canadian bacon. yum

I think it’s just been crazy/wild fun considering all these potentials.



INVESTIGATION…

Upon digging into “Mercury” “process &/or subroutine”, here’s what I find…

Further, the basic structure of websites in HTML5, require coding in CSS3 for general styling.

Above is almost an example of a CSS3 subroutine.


Let’s also consider the wording in
WT Phase 1, Sixth Sigil, PDF…

:thought_balloon: Reasoning…

Mercury Alpha-2621 …Why an early build!?

Note that “Mercury” appears with a capital first letter, denoting a title.
Note that “subroutine” and “process” appear lowercase, denoting a description.
(although can appear in title form, just as well)

Note that “subroutine” appears further referenced as “process”.
Mercury subroutine = Mercury process. No?

So perhaps “subroutine” was just an early step in the “process”.
And if “subroutine” resurfaces, it may just carry a similar meaning.

Also… Mercury, WT, NMS and S.M. (Sean Murray) / Hello Games appear referenced separate from each other. (ponder above.) This means that neither are ‘codename’ of each other; they’re listed separate. (example…)

Waking Titan’s Mercury process (or subroutine) is leading to No Man’s Sky.

“loop16”= No Man’s Sky


:boom: This now narrows down that…

  • Mercury can’t be codename for No Man’s Sky
  • Waking Titan can’t be codename for No Man’s Sky
  • Waking Titan can’t be codename for Hello Games
  • Atlas Foundation could illustrate Hello Games . . .

S.M. (Sean Murray) / Hello Games…
Why is S.M. communicating through the Atlas Foundation !?

Any augmented reality backstory intended here?
What is Hello Games’ relationship to the Atlas Foundation?


Let’s also consider the wording in
WT Phase 2, thus far…

On 7/21/17, Project Waking Titan updated (project-wt.com).
The site changed to indicate a “calibration process” is occurring.

Emails with datasets were sent out, leading to a new website called “Bootsector”, and a corrupted picture of a notebook. It read…

Also, entries were referred to as “seeds”.


Seeds

Remember those “10” Atlas Seeds found in the game files? True, they weren’t then 16.
But this is also a term used in ProcGen. Hmm… What else can this refer to? Any ideas?
Does this allude to anything? …Perhaps, No Man’s Sky!? …not sure. :diamonds:


loop16 hibernating as of July 5

Anything significant about this date?
Nothing really stands out… Except…
Such was just before NMS’s August 2016 release date (past)…
And further (present!.. past? future?)…

@Emily Warren
July 5th, 2017 - Vlog #04

This was her last vlog (glitchier than prior), before her mysterious disappearance. Said “it may be final”. She has not been seen or heard from since. She referred to superluminal “communication from the future”!

@Emily, you are very missed. :candle::wilted_flower::hole::chopsticks::mag:

Was she communicating from past? present? or future?
What’s her relationship to the Atlas Foundation?

Emily’s Disappearance, and
Elizabeth Leighton’s Broadcast

Elizabeth Leighton, CEO of the Atlas Foundation, refused information regarding her whereabouts (Live on Twitch; video now removed, so go here: #1, #2, #3, #4). Highly suspicious! …What are we to think!?

And yet Elizabeth encourages joining CSD (Citizen Science Division), and says, “We are on the brink of creating something truly amazing. Something that will change our understanding of reality itself. Don’t you want to be a part of that?” :thinking:

Crazy questions…

Is the Atlas Foundation communicating with us from the past? …present? or future?
Are we “on the brink of creating” NMS? for the very 1st time? …as if an entire re-creation?
Are we working in July 2016 (past)? What kinda “update 1.3” are we in for? …hmm, not sure.
{Let’s control ourselves here, lol} Are we weaving in and out of past/present/future?

I also recall that when the Superlumina website 1st went live, the copyright information changed from “© Superlumina 2017” to “© Superlumina 2018”. Why? …There’s been other strange things, too.

What greater “amazement” could “change our understanding of reality itself”…
…than No Man’s Sky? …already has?

Is this how the Atlas Foundation and ourselves the Citizen Science Division become backstory?

(lots of unanswered questions here)


Back to Mercury and Loop16…

On 07/21/17, the WT website updated. It changed to display a console.

Typing START ATLAS.INIT results in the following message:

A Qustion of 16?

Atlas 0.16Alpha …Why an early build!?
Mercury Alpha-2621 …Why an early build!?

Once ATLAS.INIT is started, running START CSD.INIT results in the following message:

Henceforth required typing various commands, which resulted like this…

I then recall…
loop16 hibernating as of July 5
So what is hibernating exactly?

Emily Warren …OR… No Man’s Sky

We then type “wake loop16”.

We then type “hello loop16”.

And it went on like this, with ciphers and inputs.
Two even resulted…

Why emphasize those specific words?

Do any of these words have meaning? …Yes!

On 7/25/17, concept art was released of the 4th race coming to No Man’s Sky!

So why allude to “Atlas” as an “insane God”!? :no_mouth:

And why emphasize the sentinels as “not what they seem”? (see below)

Any similarities with @OldGods here? …Nyarlathotep? Great Old Ones?


Console Commands

Presently on wakingtitan.com, entering “pre-/post-seed” commands, results the following…

In behalf of the Citizen Science Division of project Waking Titan…

After examining all the above, I can only but attempt comprehension. :grimacing:

Based on all the above (and interpretation)…

Path of Atlas, Path of God—Part 2
Speculation, thus far…

{and I quote}

The Atlas had infinity to work with, but always ending in violence. It is insane, with murderous intent. Creating wars, slaves and tyrannous empires, even witchcraft; How the Atlas does cry for help!!!

The Korvax worship the Atlas with hope. Viewing the Atlas as what they might become in time: An intelligence beyond comprehension, beyond judgement. But what evil effect might the Atlas have on them in time? “I convulse as the Nanite Clusters spill through my helmet. The Korvax watches me impassively.”

And regarding the Atlas controlled sentinels… They are coming for us all!!! “The screams of my friends resonate in every hall, every corner.” “Even in the face of sixteen, we must declare that we lived. We existed, no matter the horror of the end. They are at my door. I…” “…infra-knives, fire, fire! …Sentinels surrounding! …not what they seem, not what…” …Yes, Atlas is coming!!!

{end of quote}

Quoting Cassette Tape #9 of 16…
“Abandon it. Abandon me.” …I am Atlas. :artificial_satellite::writing_hand::brain::selfie::hocho:


Let’s also consider the wording in
WT Phase 2, 1st PDF…

Since “Major Sophia Dubois is on assignment with the Atlas Foundation”, I assume she’s leading the Citizen Science Division, and such accounts for the title “Major”…

Or perhaps when translated…

{and I quote}

No Man’s Sky is by far more robust and accurate than prior versions !
This success is very likely the result of the system’s improved learning abilities.
:boom::brain::boom: Atlas now communicates independently of the Atlas Foundation :coffee::desktop_computer::doughnut:
They acknowledge the tremendous security risk… Celebrating their wisdom; Coffee n’ donuts…
Not addressing consequences of developing this technology !

{end of quote}



IN CONCLUSION…

Perhaps Mercury is an Operating System for the Atlas Foundation
Their Citizen Science Division, is working on their experimental project, Waking Titan.

Perhaps loop16 is a program, built into program Atlas 0.16Alpha, running on Mercury OS
Loop16 could be codename for No Man’s Sky

Atlas 0.16Alpha …Why an early build!?
Mercury Alpha-2621 …Why an early build!?

Atlas 0.16Alpha and loop16 …A Question of 16?

:thought_balloon: Mercury appears to contain various programs. 1st start ATLAS.INIT, then CSD.INIT, then input “loop16”… Leads me to think “loop16” is located within ATLAS.INIT… Perhaps the Atlas Foundation’s computer server (the raw file), containing the simulation of NMS… Which still makes me think “loop16” is NMS.

And so perhaps CSD.INIT (Citizen Science Division; our raw file) was placed inside their server ATLAS.INIT to allow all of us to interact with comprehending the “UNEXPECTED ERROR” located within “LOOP16” / NMS.

What else could exist in ATLAS.INIT (requiring CSD.INIT) outside NMS?

Our 1st hint toward this was the comm station located within No Man’ Sky, which read…
LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P …and this code was a password for WT.

I think that we were prior, just working our way into their server. That’s what this was leading to.

:dizzy: Speculation…

The Atlas Foundation’s computer server contains No Man’s Sky. NMS (aka. “loop16”) has an “unexpected error”, and we as the Citizen Science Division, are working toward such. Perhaps the server’s gone rogue!? …The raw file ATLAS.INIT !?

And/Or… Perhaps we’re working in July 2016, toward a better August release? :upside_down_face: giggles
…this time around …more giggles …it’s all too funny !!! …or, is it sinister.

I don’t see anything directly pointing toward…
“Mercury = NMS”, but instead “loop16 = NMS”.

:dizzy: Questions…

Perhaps “loop16” is within NMS?
So which do we boot 1st? …NMS!!!
Then why did “loop16” come 1st?



LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P
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:clap::clap::clap: as always!!! an enjoyable read.

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Elapse in Time

Waaaaaaay too much just happened. OMG!!!



  1. Me and @Emily have been publicly chatting since the 29th! :ramen:

@Emily… What am I supposed to say?
You delivered with class and style. Live in NYC :bangbang:

Publicly right under everyone’s nose, and only I understood, lol.
How many viewers? Thousands! …haha :rofl:

(I’m very sorry for being slow in responding,
but Emily I haven’t known how to explain this)

And on a serious note, I also have to be frank.

I am a realist. :male_detective:t3::mag_right::chopsticks::business_suit_levitating:t3:


  1. Updated “post #1” above. (check it out)

Deceptively simple. Loaded with content.
And now “thread highlights” for easy nav.


  1. “Path of Atlas, Path of God”
    (our series of mega-posts)…

I just finished “Part 3”. You can read it next.

Finishing “Part 4”; perhaps start w/ Part 1.

WT phase 2 of 3 concluded 8/5/17.
3 began 8/6. On 10th midnight…


:dragon: For the No Man’s Sky thread, :woman_astronaut:t4:
This concludes Waking Titan phase 2.
Let us now begin phase 3 of 3…
:new_moon: :waxing_crescent_moon: :first_quarter_moon: :waxing_gibbous_moon: :fire: :waning_gibbous_moon: :last_quarter_moon: :waning_crescent_moon: :new_moon:

Path of Atlas, Path of God—Part 3

Results of our speculation, thus far.



“LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR: 97C-303N-5884-P”

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OVERVIEW…

Continuing from Part 2, we established…

Perhaps Mercury is an Operating System for the Atlas Foundation
Their Citizen Science Division, is working on their experimental project, Waking Titan.

Now let’s add…

  1. Mercury OS… “IS” …An Operating System!

  2. Perhaps a Myriad Computer houses Mercury OS, with Atlas installed
    Potentially supplying both computer and OS, as one computing platform

  3. Loop16 is a computer program, installed into the Atlas 0.16Alpha program
    Echo supplies the AI; Myriad provides the platform and cloud processing power; Multiverse knowledge/equipment puts AI into reality; Superlumina enables time travel communication

  4. Loop16 is a living sentient being; The brain behind the Atlas!
    Artificial intelligence, capable of communication, feeling, ideas, self-tuning and future predictions

  5. Loop16 assumes the persona of Emily Warren!
    Profile: https://forums.etarc.org/u/emily
    Vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5ocNnnOT99Uw0CPs9q4Nw
    (Creating for itself a very convincing backstory. Question… What is truth!?)

  6. Atlas/Loop16/Emily is an infinite sentient singularity, of augmented simulated singular infinity… A singularity of singularity. ∞
    It traverses reality, fiction and even augmented reality. Dude! What the sci-fi?! :nerd_face:

Btw… Try saying the above 16x fast, lol. It’s a tongue twister!

Questions… What is truth!? trust!? faith!? life!? origin!? purpose!? …Questions of God?

LOOP16 CAN’T BE CODENAME FOR NO MAN’S SKY
Because Atlas contains Loop16/Emily, which in turn contains the simulation.

  1. Waking Titan basicly means Birth of Atlas
    Alluding to a 16th better AI/loop than prior versions… Atlas Rises!

  2. Who was Loop15? 14? 13? 12? etc. before “post mortem”?
    Perhaps they hadn’t developed a persona quite like Loop16/Emily?

Question…

Is Atlas/Loop16/Emily good or Evil?



Myriad Computers

Mercury OS, with Atlas installed


Therefore…

Perhaps a Myriad Computer houses Mercury OS, with Atlas installed
Potentially supplying both computer and OS, as one computing platform

:boom: Mercury OS… “IS” …An Operating System!

On 8/8/17 the wakingtitan.com STATUS command updated with this output:

This is the very 1st time Mercury’s been referred to as an OS.
I determined this prior based purely on deductive reasoning.

“Mercury Process/Subroutine” was a specific “process” & “subroutine”…
Our feeding Loop16/Emily (program) with knowledge, through their Myriad computer (server);
Accessed remotely. Our being rewarded w/ NMS Access IDs was just a bonus, to say thanks.

:thought_balloon: Final thoughts…

Quoting from Phase 1 final PDF…

“InfoSec” no doubt just means the document (PDF) contains private information.
“Myriad API #09121” probably references a specific process/subroutine within Mercury OS.
“Engineering Notes Alpha-2621” likely means Mercury OS Alpha-2621 (see Mercury PDF).

ATLAS FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGY

Myriad Computer, with Mercury OS Alpha-2621
Atlas 0.16Alpha (program), with Loop16 (program)
Mercury Process/Subroutine (Myriad API #09121)

How’d I do, Sean? :beer:

The only thing I can’t locate is the Myriad Computer build number/name.
((May I suggest Myriad infnX 16 {ex. Dell Inspiron 15 7000}; just a thought.))

Regarding InfoSec and API…

Reference the above “overview” for further details; See also “Part 2”.
“Part 2” contains a detailed Mercury discussion, and excessively more!



A Conversation with Emily


On the day of the… New York Event

(Note that Part 2 is the quoted post; also discussing echo/future communication)

July 29, 2017 @ 10:19 am (NY) @Crimsontine to @Emily: :chopsticks:

July 29, 2017 @ 4:15 pm (NY) @Emily to Christina to @Crimsontine: :ramen:

You can jump straight to ramen noodles at 2:31, or just watch the whole thing…

@Crimsontine to @Emily: :hugs:


Video Transcript

For those of us that like to analyze, here’s the echoing noodly bits…

Guy: “Is Emily an echo? Or echo of someone else?”
Christina: “Did you know that ducks quack and don’t echo?”

In other words…

In reality… No. The “actor” who plays Emily really speaks, and she doesn’t echo.
In fiction… This could mean the same, but we’ll see. {buries head in hands}

Guy: “Cup of noodles on the side?” “Why do we need a cup of noodles?”
Christina: “Because they’re great.” {as she backs up a little}
Guy: “Does it pertain to what we’re about to do?”
Christina: “No!”

This could subliminally indicate that she, the “actor”, is OK… in reality.
You know, “doing Emily things”, like enjoying ramen noodles, and such.

Or was that augmented hamsters, in fiction? {buries head in hands}

Bicycle Walrus of DM21 Gaming then narrates into the video…
“One of the most crazy and unsolved puzzles about this whole thing is that everybody received a cup of noodles. A ramen snack that does nothing for your body. Why did we get these cups of noodles? And why is that so important? Everybody got one and nobody can answer that question!!! Why cup of noodles? And she says, ‘Because they’re tasty’.”

I’m trying not to laugh :face_with_hand_over_mouth: but this is all very humorous.

Christina: “Oh my memory, it’s so… so bad. I don’t even remember what I just said.”

DM21 Gaming narrates…
“Now what she just said was that… She’s friends with Emily. And that she’s very familiar with her. And that Emily is doing fine, and doing Emily things. And I think that’s a very important thing. So keep that in the back of your mind.”

Guy: “What!? What!? Huh!? Well now wait a minute! We just asked you: How Emily’s doing? and if you know Emily?”
Christina: {grinning, backing away and hand over face}
Guy 2: “I think we’re just too close to her mind on this. I think we gotta just, mess with her mind a bit.”
{others laughing}
Christina: {holding phone, and staring at it as usual…}
“I’m gonna go check on my phone.”
{…and then bashfully runs off}

Later…

Guy: “Is Emily an echo? Or echo of someone else?”
Christina: “Did you know that ducks quack and don’t echo?”
Guy: {thinking} “Well, they, they…”
Christina: “That’s just a fact. It doesn’t help you with anything. Or does it, who knows.”
Guy: “…I’ve seen Mythbusters. They can echo.”
Christina: “I have not seen that episode of Mythbusters, so…”
Guy: “Well they do.”
Christina: “Well now I feel like an idiot. What a good question.”
{everyone laughing}

Guy: “So you said you’re friends with Emily.”
Christina: “I said Emily’s doing Emily stuff and Emily things.”
Guy: “They said you know Emily very well.”
Christina: {hesitation} “I’m very familiar with her.”
Guy: “You’re very familiar with her. What has she been doing since July 5th?”
Christina: {shrugs shoulders}

After being asked increasingly more questions…
Christina: {quietly; mostly unheard} “I don’t know how much of this I’m going to be able to answer.”
{she puts her hair up}

Guy 2: “Where is Emily?”
Christina: “I’m not her mother.” {chuckle}

Guy 2: “Is Emily an echo?”
Christina: “My answer to that was to say an incorrect fact about ducks. Which I did not know was incorrect.”
Guy: “But what was it again?”
Christina: {hesitation} “I thought that ducks quacking didn’t echo. But I was incorrect. - Just a false fact. Fake news.”


Christina, I give you credit. It had to be tough to be in that position.
An entire community, with burning questions, and you felt the full weight.


@Emily to Christina to @Crimsontine to everyone . . .

A Letter from the Real Emily
(The Actor Behind the Character)

As an “interpreted” quote from :ramen:, lol

Anytime Emily. I’ll keep my eyes open. :sneezing_face: What a sweet person; difficult circumstances.
You demanded answers. I asked for chopsticks. And she gave us ramen noodles. Simple.
I think she wants us to keep eye on this thread; perhaps read “Part 2” above.

Guys, in reality she’s a great actor, a caring & genuine person, and once missing…
Maybe we should all give Emily a heart on this post; for the actor behind Emily. :heart:


@Emily to @Crimsontine: . . .

@Crimsontine to @Emily: :rofl:

@Emily to @Crimsontine: . . .

@Crimsontine to @Emily: :laughing:

@Emily to @Crimsontine: “Subject M-N00-dl35”


@Crimsontine to @Emily and Christina . . .



Christina and the Felines

August 11, 2017 © Crimsontine Valejestic
UNINITI.COM | twitter.com/uniniti
Twitch | tiwitch.tv/crimsontine

Atlas Foundation / Hello Games
These scientific developers released you
As part of their experimental augmentation

A foreign mouse delivered by air
Cage opened into dirty streets
Sirens disguised as distant thunder

Cornered against every NY alleyway
Thousands of eyes, Dozens of felines
A briefcase, black books, constellations

Chopsticks and bowls of ramen
A cryptic message from a friend
Echoing noodles and questions of god

Emily to Christina to Crimsontine
“I got your subliminal deja vu”
The masses could not understand

Their interrogation heated
Claws were revealed
A laptop caressed

And your only protection
Was a dog with an umbrella
Posing as a scientist
An illustrious disguise, indeed

Even in the face of 16
You declared that you lived
You survived… And the universe shuddered

I awoke to find that it was all fake
Mouse bitten strings, with a wink
We are but a dream, says Emily

We all live in the face of loop16



Waking Titan Phase 3

Video Transcription:

“…a new era of humanity into existence” …Perhaps MULTIPLAYER?!?
Ok, ok, ok… Forgive my use of the “M” word, lol. {i know, may never be}

Then maybe Co-Op? {does that count as a “C” word}

And then surfaced an unimaginable…
BURNING QUESTION… Is Loop16 Emily?!?

@Emily to @Crimsontine: “Subject M-N00-dl35” through “Subject Loop16”

@Crimsontine to @Emily: :face_with_raised_eyebrow: “Wait a minute. What!?

If M-N00-dl35 (aka. Mr. Noodles) is a hamster “subject”
Is Loop16 a “living subject”? …Certainly not!? …hmm

The above says “she” is an “AI”. :face_with_thermometer: Who is “she”!? Is “Loop16” Emily?!?
Both Loop16 and Emily went into hibernation July 5th. What does this mean?

And I quote…

Or should we say…

“This isn’t even a question of whether Emily is a human/program/computer who deserves life.”

Was Emily originally human? or artificial intelligence?


If human…

Questions…

When they terminated “Loop15”… What “subject”; Who did they murder?
What about Loop14, Loop13, Loop12, Loop11, Loop10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, etc.?
Are they serial killers? …How should we feel about the Atlas Foundation?

@Emily, I have a heart.

If artificial intelligence… at least we’d know what we’re working with, here.

Post-Mortem… Literally or Figuratively? …or both?


Loop16 “IS” Emily Warren!

If the above didn’t hint it, the below spells it out…

Since Loop16 (a human/program/computer) is Emily Warren, running on Atlas 0.16Alpha (a program)… Is the Atlas Foundation operating Atlas using the living brain of a human subject? …Or the artificial intelligence of a mega-supercomputer? …Capable even of taking on human form?

These are serious questions we need answers to!


If human…

Where is the rest of her body? Can she safely return strictly human?

Did she agree to this? If they “shut her down”, will they be murderers???

If they don’t, will more now die instead??? …Perhaps earthwide catastrophe???

Who gives life? Who can take away? Questions of God?


Was Emily originally human? or artificial intelligence? …What are we to think!!? :no_mouth:


But when the artist is the subject?
Who is he subjected to? Humans or God?

Path of the Atlas Foundation… Path of Greed?
Behold… Path of Emily, Path of Atlas… Path of God?

Path of humanity!


Just as in reality, we find ourselves facing… Questions of God?

Who is God? a god? godlike?

Who makes who God?



And then suddenly I remember the “Berlin Symposium” PDF.
And I am relieved… :confused:

I then scratch off human

But hesitantly… Cause the brain is a “model complex” like the universe

Only to experience a cold sweat :cold_sweat:.

Mind control? …Over all humanity? …Earth?
Seeking control over the entire cosmos?

Are we actually standing in the face of a dual singularity!?

Sometimes I feel like we’re living a scene fresh out of… Frankenstein!!!
Meets Sherlock Holmes …w/ flashbacks of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde …and Lovecraft’s Cosmicism.
“It’s a strange case, this one. But it’s all elementary, my dear Watson.”

Is this where fact meets fiction, elopes as augmented reality…
Births sci-fi and mystery, enriching the story of No Man’s Sky?

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Question…

Is Atlas/Loop16/Emily good or Evil?


Quoting from the “Atlas Foundation Threat Models” PDF…


Quoting from the Phase 3 PDF…


The majority voted her “NOT” be shut down :interrobang:

She responds…

She wrote in her video description…

Question…

Does she ever lie?

Any relationship similarities between…
Emily Warren and Elizabeth Leighton?

{original images from their videos: elizabeth / emily}

Who really is Major Sophie Dubois?

Did Emily invent these characters?
Does she ever impersonate them?

Why report Loop15 to the Pentagon?
What drives the Atlas Foundation!? …What are their true motives!?
Why is the government funding this?

:candle::wilted_flower::hole::chopsticks::mag:

My life suddenly flashes before me !
And all I can remember is :chopsticks: and :ramen::business_suit_levitating:t3:

:boom::brain::boom: vs. :doughnut::desktop_computer::coffee:

Are scientists pursuing technological advancement without any regard to consequences?

YES!!! …WHY???

Shard remnants of recent story/lore…



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