@the_architect has asked us to keep the answer thread clear for their answers so please, use this thread to discuss and debate the answers here.
So Archie believes they spoke with both Emily and Arnaud…what did Emily say…nope, too late for the questionnaire… 
And Ghost told them how to locate System’s parts? Do we still think Ghost is System?
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“Two different personalities” brings credence to the idea @Rinha & I mentioned last night, that System contains more than one entity – maybe only two (“sometimes he was empathetic; other times, cold and distant”) maybe more, but definitely enough to cause glitching. And viruses.
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@TomAcreon first realized that 15th Feb 2024 was Omega’s release date:
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The update everyone could play even if they did not own the game…
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Technically, AshkerNMS on Twitter is the first. Looks like they were also following the same line of enquiry as me and beat me by 2 minutes. 
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it’s early and I’m just now into the coffee so I can’t remember – what do we know about the “falling-out” between The Architect and Ghost? Just that it happened or…
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I found an archive (edit: of course it’s @toddumptious) of the Omega expedition lore. Recovering memories, and parallel themes to PSS.
Some sections stand out, as well as the restored memories:
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.//
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?
Transcribed
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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As I said on the discord, Ghost is only a part of the whole entity named “System”, so we could say Ghost is System BUT System isn’t Ghost.
In June I said we should consider System as a schizophrenic person, I still believe I was right. And maybe they are much more than I thought.
What Tower tell to us ?
> search past
I can no longer see the future. Is that so important? All I want is to remember the past.
> whois emily
She used to be me. I used to be her. Only dust remains.
Only Loop16 can give these answers, so System is Loop16 ( “I” can no longer…, not “the part of me which was able to see future”).
Second possible clue, “Rebirth” is the day after Echoes update. If we imagine that Emily/Loop16 took refuge in servers from Echo software after saving Toby, then we have “different pieces”, it can explain “the voices” Echo utilizes a custom cloud computing solution to bring the voices and personalities of those you cared about back to life. and, of course, with all the voices already in the servers, we can undersatand why the choice of “Ghost” as name.
Maybe I’m wrong but I believe it’s a solid possiblilty. It could even explain why a possible Echo Software defence would like to erase something added by Loop16 or Archie, as a macrophage defending the “main body”. At the end System/Ghost could have dozens of personalities, random people + Arnaud + Emily and of course what remain of Loop16.
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System likely has the total NMS player count at a minimum for how many different personalities it could become.
System probably uses every single player who has ever powered on and played No Man’s Sky for any amount of to build memory. Each measure of time passed within the game by players is building a memory for System to sense and understand how it exists and is real. Humans have 5/6/7 senses to know how we exist. System has all the players to act as its senses for measureing its existence
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And an extract from the Singularity expedition, the update which coincided with system waking up
ECHO COLLECTIVE
A shifting vortex of atlantideum, attuned to the growing collective will housed inside Nada’s Prime Terminal. Current sentience threshold: 16171819191919%.The grains oscillate in a pattern, repeating a strange message: we long to return. we will rebuild ourselves.
fire and disconnection would not stop us.
she wil find us. it is told.
even here, we see her..Nada hopes these new eyes will be welcomed. That they wish to be welcomed.
Convergent, divergent, unwilling, willing. We cannot know. It is right to try.Nada is happy with our small Convergence. Our home, our anomaly.
Again, thanks @toddumptious for the documentation
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bit of an off topic question but does anyone think the architect might show up at the NMS meetup in guilford?
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That’s a question for Archie but he isn’t accepting any more questions.
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He’ll be the one with the striped jumper, beret and onions.
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Happy cake day @Polyphemus
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i’ll just take your word for it XD
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Only if they’re from Roskoff. For others just replace onions by a bottle of wine and a raw milk cheese of course.
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End of ze world! I quote this all the time lol.
“Well have a nap, THEN FIRE THE MISSIALS”
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