#nms-spoilers

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wooden trail
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I am just coming back to the game and trying to finish up the main quest

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thanks for answering my questions

pallid steppe
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They ain't stupid questions. They're just questions.
Although the glyphs allow travel to ANY planet, as long as you have it's address.
You can grab a planets address at the portal, and can find a portal by going to any monolith (the alien looking things of black metal) and offering it a gift the second time you interact with it. Exocraft can find monoliths if they got upgraded scanners.
It's only really useful to track down your friends, or specific stuff that other players found and put on the NMS glyph exchange. You don't really need to sweat using it.

crystal blaze
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how does one unlock the new race

vocal flare
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after the purge does the traveller forget everything again

pallid steppe
# crystal blaze how does one unlock the new race

The bot has an answer to start up the echo content. But if you have been chatting with the new bots, then you can buy the hands, head, torso, and legs at a void mote store. Get them and you can be your own self made shell guy!

pallid steppe
sour fossil
cloud joltBOT
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❔ **Stuck starting the Echoes content?**

Make sure the steps below are completed.

⚠ Use #bot-spam for FAQ commands mentioned below & check #nms-questions for the latest details about the update.

  1. Finish the Artemis Path (main story). Run !Faq-ArtemisPath in #bot-spam for help.
  2. Complete the mission, A Trace of Metal. A Settlement is required, except on Switch, where you trigger it by warping 25 times.
  3. Lift the Seal from a Harmonic Camp. Run !Faq-Interceptor in #bot-spam for information.
  4. Warp to any system -- if that triggers a freighter battle, you must warp again.

❗ Important: This information is accurate as of <t:1692916229:D> & is subject to change.

📚 Contributors: Atlas Emissaries & friendlyfirepl
snow topaz
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giving that im starting a fresh save, what would be the best quests order to go through all of the current story?

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ofc i would be finishing the atlas path with artemis first for now

sour fossil
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Start with Artemis, when you get to the Purge switch to Atlas Path and complete that, then carry on with the Purge

snow topaz
crystal blaze
sour fossil
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Crane and other shit got their icons added in experimental build, but you can see them in #nms-modding

rough depot
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oh i remember these

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these arent placeholders for anything these were buildable objects from the very first update to the game in 2016 that have since been removed, for whatever reason

glass flare
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I still wonder whether this was a reference to Void Mother

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cyan sand
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i have reset the universe

wintry berry
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not sure if somebody already posted, noted or mentioned this: if you're farming void motes and you know how to get the multitools from monoliths, you can scrap those multitools for void motes 😼

cyan sand
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does finishing the purge mean ive finished the artemis path

wintry berry
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i think so-- you just got Supermoon'd to a new galaxy, right?

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(Supermoon is the soundtrack that plays)

cyan sand
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yea

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and now i have new beginnings as the quest

prime depot
remote cedar
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How can you find the monoliths that give you the atlantid multitools?

analog breach
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The korvax ones have multitools

remote cedar
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I thought they were special monoliths, thanks

timber fiber
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@outer dock

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outer dock
timber fiber
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No

outer dock
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please4

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i beg

dense quartz
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Is there any lore reason why royal multitools are only found at sentinel pillars?

heady cradle
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not yet

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the most charitable I could speculate is that those are the multitools from that ancient time when senitnels decided using them is evil

analog breach
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Anybody thinks that we will get systems where dominant race are autophage? For now we have only gek/korvax/vykeen

heady wyvern
analog breach
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Imo they will not stay that way in the long run. I dont see them wanting to stay as scrap-hobos. Would you? Imo they will repair themselfs and upgrade their shells. (We did all the hard work by giving them stuff).

heady cradle
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they should gradually replace the korvax systems

heady wyvern
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Nah, I wouldn't say replace

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Maybe displace

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But not entirely replace.

snow gust
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I found there's planets at the galaxy centre can you go to them?

heady wyvern
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!faq-likholu

cloud joltBOT
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đŸš« **What is Likholu**?

Likholu is a hidden star system within the radius of ~3000 light-years around the core of Euclid. Although it is not available through normal means, players have been able to visit these systems through bugs/glitches, mods, save editing, or other tools (see #nms-modding). Being that it's the very first hidden star system, referred to as a "phantom star," in the starting galaxy (Euclid), it logically became a target once these hidden systems were first discovered in 2016. This likely also resulted in becoming a known system for the many issues it has accumulated over the years.

⚠ Be aware, we advise you, DO NOT attempt to visit this system. It's caused so many problems reported by the community, that it is strongly discouraged to pay a visit by any means. Some of the reported issues include becoming trapped, having freighter bases wiped when summoned there, and complex save-file corruption. If you insist on visiting it, do so at your own risk. ❗ If you're on PC, PS4 or have access to Game Pass Ultimate, you can and should back up your save file(s) before that -- run !Faq-SaveFiles in #bot-spam or get more details in #nms-questions. You have been warned. There are reasons why Hello Games prevents players from finding themselves in this system by accident.

Contributors: Atlas Emissaries & Dharhan
snow gust
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Ah

dense quartz
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This isn't at all what I thought the mechanical paws would be lol

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umbral dawn
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Are there rebuilt modules for things other than the exosuit?

dull palm
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hey

sweet idol
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Wow lol

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Og me

elfin hull
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Time travel jump scare

elfin hull
# dull palm hey

I did this in a random discord one time and they all clowned me and said “bro think he gotta read general to catch up” and I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder in my entire life

snow gust
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I wonder how many people have seen every galaxy?

analog breach
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Quite few. Visiting every galaxy jurney is a goal for endgame players. Some even did it in premadeath mode.

glass flare
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*some endgame players. i've been playing since launch, never had a reason to leave Euclid

still vault
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Is currently the only way to acquire a living ship via a void egg from the quicksilver vendor?

analog breach
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Or as player gift

still vault
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Thank you!

subtle tundra
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I cant believe the universe ends in 16 minutes

pallid steppe
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Technically it does.
But because ATLAS is hyper advanced, a minute for it is billions of years in the simulation potentially.

wintry roost
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So Artemis. She went through a portal and died, but not really? It's been a while since I did the questline

pallid steppe
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Artemis died. Like a while ago. Their S.O.S. is ages old, and the one you talk to is a flicker in Atlas's data banks, I think.
You can extract them and put them in Nada's mini-simulation, or just let them rest in the recycling bin of Atlas.

fallow beacon
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There's New base parts.

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There's New base parts.

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a crane

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My builder heart is beating fast

analog breach
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New base parts are always a +. Would like more animated parts tho

fallow beacon
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I'm testing them but my game crashed

crude sand
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I find it satisfying

fallow beacon
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My god, sean don't crash this again i have to get out early today and i want to see these base parts

faint mango
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What does it mean to reset the simulation or refuse the atlas

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what kind of end game shit will be permanently changed

analog breach
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None.

faint mango
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but wouldnt resetting the simulation just kill everyone lmao

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they wouldnt be the same person

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and then whats the difference between the two

analog breach
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Thats up to your personal decision

faint mango
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so resetting the entire fucking universe has no effect whatsoever except creating a solar system?

analog breach
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You can chose what galaxy to create when reseting

faint mango
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that doesnt make sense though, i googled it as much as i can and it seems like you just create another one, you dont "reset" the old one

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so whats the lore implications of it lmao

analog breach
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Atlas is afraid of death and resets the simulation to prevent his death. Over and over again.

faint mango
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fuck it im not killing everyone lmao

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who would even choose that

dense quartz
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I always thought Null and Apollo just die after the story because of you.

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And that's why we never hear from them again.

wintry roost
analog breach
digital epoch
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Guys, what were we able to get from this new quest? I kinda forgot about the lore in it lol. Also how can we tie it with the messages we get from the "broken" autophages?

pallid steppe
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The new echo stuff?
We got a new class of multitools and a new race to play as for game content. Oh, and pirate freighters/frigates. In terms of lore, deleted Korvax reforge themselves after escaping from Atlas's deletion folder, becoming the autophage. Also there's a girl named "The Void Mother" that we know nothing about, other than the autos liking her and that she's working on her own body. They all hide and live nomadic lives scattered all over the place.

I have 0 clue what the busted ones are talking about, tho. They just babble and say "the fifth" as far as I know.

elfin hull
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Genuine question, I have not yet read the new lore

pallid steppe
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They just say a number. I've had them say "The second" "The fourth" "The eight" etc.
If I had to guess it's some code spread way out over a bunch of them, but I don't know.

red torrent
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the second, fourth, etc stuff is positional and each binary sequence is a letter.

digital epoch
pallid steppe
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Nope. Korvax delete "divergent" people that don't fit their hive mind. They get forced up from deletion along with the atlantideum, which they use to hide from everyone and upgrade themselves. The atlantideum is some weird corrupted data manifesting as glowing purple crystals that infest entire planets.
They do relate to Korvax Prime tho. They both got murdered.

digital epoch
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Ah

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So basically they are korvax that got deleted by other korvax but survived by staying in the bad sectors

digital epoch
mental socket
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here's the autophages spitting binary. Solved back in Interceptor

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Autophages are the original Korvax that got disconnected along with the destruction of Korvax Prime. They had somehow survived in the void by coming in contact with some purple stuff.

Now basically Korvax Prime has survived and is rebuilding itself as the Void Mother. They plan on preventing erasure and death by Atlas

analog breach
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👆

uncut harness
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tldr: the korvax and their godqueen were gentrifying everything and the autophages hid out in the hood to avoid it

safe kiln
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wonder if this means we might see the return of the First Spawn eventually

pallid steppe
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There's that one encounter with a Gek that shouts that the Korvax should be enslaved, and seems confused as to why they aren't.
Could be there are others, a one in a million mutation into their old ways. ||Kinda despise when media has evilness be a genetic fact but HEY!||

dense quartz
pallid steppe
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Essentially.

plain thicket
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It's crazy when you genuinely stop and think that when The Anomaly "Performs a Diagnostic" on The ATLAS the first time you meet it, it responds with a message saying the last Diagnostic was 1, 946, 218, 921, 221 years ago... by that point, you'd think The ATLAS would have become the most insanely intelligent and wise entity in the entire universe. Like, it's kind of just insane that it would operate for that long.

digital epoch
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I personally believe that these korvax survived due to the fact that they were on the junkyard moons of korvax prime, also known as the bad sectors

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It's a brain hurt

edgy lichen
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how many times do i have to do the the atlas path quest?

analog breach
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1

edgy lichen
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i mean like

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it keeps telling me to go to the interface

glass flare
eternal radish
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Inception Matrix

heady wyvern
analog breach
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Its because you can do atlas path again after galaxy jump. When you collect all atlas words you can do it again to understand more.

plain thicket
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I'm assuming people have talked about The ATLAS' name potentially being inspired by Atlas in Greek Mythology?

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If not, I think it's a very fascinating coincidence, regarding the being left to held up the heavens, like being left to keep a simulation of a universe for as long as it would remain online. The only difference in that case being ATLAS requested to be left online, but Atlas in Greek Mythology was forced to do so as a punishment from Zeus. Idk, I just think it’s cool I suppose.

analog breach
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It more because atlas in IT.

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The Atlas Computer was one of the world's first supercomputers, in use from 1962 (when it was claimed to be the most powerful computer in the world) to 1972. Atlas' capacity promoted the saying that when it went offline, half of the United Kingdom's computer capacity was lost. It is notable for being the first machine with virtual memory (at that time referred to as 'one-level store') using paging techniques; this approach quickly spread, and is now ubiquitous.

plain thicket
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I love both, but yes I would agree that the Atlas Supercomputer would make more sense overall. Still fun to think about Mythology alongside it.

modern zinc
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@glad palm sorry for slow reply about the story, playing Sky: Children of the Light rn lol

So, to the best of my memory, you wake up on an unknown world with no memories. You find your ship, go into space, and then meet Artemis through the transmitter thing. She needs help, so as you learn how to settle down, explore, and such, you go out to find her. You meet Nada and Polo, and Apollo, all of who help you get better at the game and help you find Artemis. I believe you meet null at about when you find Artemis ||dead||. I know I’m missing some points, but it’s been a while since I reached that point in the story so I don’t rightfully remember.

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But there should be a quest log somewhere in the menu

glad palm
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Ok and i had a choice to let him "live" or "kill" her, but it was a simulation and i decided to kill her since it seem like the lesser evil, at least what i would choose if places were reversed

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i think i got to that point

modern zinc
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Yeah

glad palm
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but how did i get to that point, why was i given that choice?

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was artemis "on repeat" at that point or what happend?

modern zinc
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I think, if I remember correctly, you find out Artemis is dead, then you meet null, who provides you with some tech to keep her soul. Then you go to the Anomaly to ask Nada for help, and they say you can choose to keep her alive in a simulation with the risk of her being in pain if she finds out, or let her die

glad palm
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ohhh yeaaa

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now its comming back

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null was this entity that has a weird orb head?

urban river
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I remember now


modern zinc
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Yeah

glad palm
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ye i remember also that Nada tells me that i did the right choice by not keeping her in the simulation, but keep here in what simulation , was it like an object o?

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This are probably dumb questions for somebody that knows the bigger picture but i just needed a recap so i can start playing again, i am sucker to know the whole thing before moving on

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i never skip cutscenes

modern zinc
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Uh, no. I chose the simulation (which I imagine changes the ending of the story slightly, idk for sure) but I know that when you choose simulation, you put her into the Anomaly. I think you were able to go there and see her every now and then

glad palm
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ahh ok, i had a moral dilema about that and first thing it poped in my head was "what if somebody does that to mean and i found out, it will all come crashing down hard"

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Also i read this : I choose to put Artemis in the simulation instead of letting her die. I felt like I couldn’t just let her die, fade into nothingness, but Nada’s reaction made me feel like I choose incorrectly, so now I’m getting both nervous and kind of sad. So what did you people choose to do, and does letting her die change anything?

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and then

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It was a clear choice. Her whole entity was based on traveling & making friends. Being alone in a simulation? No traveller would want that.

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it was clear as day what i needed to do

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and last one about the moral dilemma

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I tried to put myself in Artemis' place. A traveller, a wanderer, always looking forward to see what's orbiting the next star...and locked into a single system. The very first time Artemis tried to warp to the next star, they would realize what was up. That is when the horror would really start for Artemis.

And death. That's not as hard as it seems. Death is what makes life worth living. There are two important pieces of knowledge that make this so. The first, we know for a fact that our lives are finite. The second is we don't know when that end will occur, although in some special cases this one has exceptions. So, we treasure each moment, or we should.

So, we come to Artemis. Their existence would be one of eternal horror and mind-numbing boredom. Or, the eternal rest, the end of the journey, and the end of the pain that they had earned.

It was an easy choice, really.

modern zinc
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I love how you put that đŸ„č

glad palm
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So i am at a point after that, that part of the quest has ended and now i start a different part?

modern zinc
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I think so

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Honestly don’t remember what it was, but it was a part 😅

glad palm
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Ty Morgan for the recap, much appreciate it!

modern zinc
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You’re quite welcome 😁

plain thicket
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@signal rivet In response to your question, the only real thing I've seen about something like that in the game was a Paradise Planet in a system with a Black Hole.

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But it would make sense, even as an Easter egg, to actually have a reference in kind.

signal rivet
signal rivet
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Maybe in hello games

plain thicket
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Well.

signal rivet
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Maybe they got a bonelab situation going on

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Where the studio is the lore

plain thicket
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Aforementioned, there was an ATLAS Supercomputer.

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Tom Kilburn.

signal rivet
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Interesting.

plain thicket
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But something like a NMS Atlas sounds Quantum to me.

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May not start out like it, but would definitely progress into that.

signal rivet
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Also, I had this part while playing this game where I hated the decision that the whole thing is a simulation, but after doing the main story (finally) i actually kinda liked that direction

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I felt the simulation thing ruined the space sci-fi feel, but now I think it kinda Amps it up

plain thicket
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Yeah, if it was just left as "everything is a simulation", that wouldn't make for a good enough explanation or lore point. What they did with the ATLAS in the real world, and how that eventually effects everything both obvious and subtle in the game is still one of its best aspects.

signal rivet
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And the meaning less dilemma that some characters have actually makes you question somewhat

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And also, didn’t the sentinels wipe out a parallel universe in 58.6 seconds flat?

plain thicket
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IIRC, yes they did.

signal rivet
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Someone must’ve been smuggling some nip nip

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Crazy

plain thicket
signal rivet
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Wow

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No wonder poor Atlas is dying

plain thicket
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The ATLAS is extremely old.

signal rivet
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Also I love how they eventually explain the random numbers such as 16 during the story. I loved it

plain thicket
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And I'd imagine, by that point, very, very sentient.

signal rivet
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So Atlas wasn’t always sentient?

plain thicket
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Well, it would have become sentient at some stage.

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Before humans left.

signal rivet
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So almost like an evolving AI type of thing?

plain thicket
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But I mean, considering how long it had been online, it would have evolved after their departure, yes.

signal rivet
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Also may I say, I think the Gek gotta be the most interesting faction I’ve seen in any space related game (Besides the Orokin from warframe). Their story engages me

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The idea that they didn’t become nice from learning but rather genetics that were altered is pretty neat

plain thicket
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And as I was going to say, I always found The ATLAS interesting before I knew much (first playthrough), but the moment I found out it was really just a lonely and scared AI trying to see past an end it cannot feasibly calculate wity 16 minutes of existence left, I was immediately just sad. I find the weirdest things to get emotionally invested in, I swear. Like normal people, I found the Artemis Path sad, but the entirety of The ATLAS story just hits hard istg.

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Also love the fact that it is finally not an evil AI for once.

signal rivet
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I might actually go do it for once

plain thicket
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Do it.

signal rivet
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I shall

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Also side note, how come every space related game has a hivemind biopunk style enemy? (I’m sure you’ve heard me say this before)

plain thicket
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Because it's fun.

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Xenomorph.

signal rivet
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It is

plain thicket
signal rivet
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But I haven’t seen one game without it and it’s always interested me

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I mean we got

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The flood

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The hive

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The infested

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Whatever you call the horrors

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what else, what else. I’m missing one

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Carrion might count

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But that’s based entirely off the biopunk stuff

dim iron
signal rivet
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Fair

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I also didn’t know she was a woman until a few days after

dim iron
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My bestest friend was Apollo
Dude supported me through everything and we finished it all as homies

signal rivet
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Actually I might be wrong bout that

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Apollo is a bro

dim iron
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Went from "why do you use the word friend?" To|| "I'll race you to the core" ||

signal rivet
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-Null- is a pretty cool dude too

dim iron
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The last null dialogue hit hard

signal rivet
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But I can just fast travel to my beacon that I forgot I put

signal rivet
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Something about, “yo the fuck you doin man”

dim iron
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It just said the call ended with null screaming and begging you not to reset the simulation iirc
And u just stay silent

signal rivet
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Yeah

dim iron
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Thats what i remember

signal rivet
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I kinda feel bad but

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I like living

dim iron
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I loved that

signal rivet
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Why was he so upset, I swear it was because all the people he wronged would be brought back or something

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Or he would continue to remember them

dim iron
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He didnt want the fucked up shit he did to be in vain

signal rivet
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Oh I see

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That actually does make sense

soft sonnet
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@edgy lichen elaborate

edgy lichen
eternal radish
queen crane
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it makes me laugh that i give a gift to the random autophages i find, but i don't know much of their language yet. so they're like:

"in return, i will tell you about us: c410ndsad82-0 9312=-19ckjf 041=-4=1dk"

thanks for the info buddies

glass flare
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Yeah, the fact that the autophage story missions give out garbled text because you don't know the language yet is not great

jolly thicket
uncut harness
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Autophages give thinking machine from the Dune series vibes but less focused on slaughtering humanity

elfin stone
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Is new New Beginnings the last mission? what's after that?

dry summit
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i feel bad for the traveler in Dreams of the Deep

elfin stone
elfin hull
# elfin stone Hmmm?

If the mission log says something to the effects of “enjoy the journey” then yup yup it is

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there are now other missions added since then scattered throughout the world however

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For example the auto phage stuff that was just recently added in

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But those are their own storylines per se

elfin stone
elfin hull
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it’s not very npc oriented like with Artemis’ story though. But still very cool and it’s a refurbished version of the storyline that was in the game at launch. Apparently you just go to Polo and ask for a direction to an atlas station

summer topaz
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anyone know who voices telamon?

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or is it just text to speech

spring hawk
pallid steppe
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It is rather annoying.
But I suppose the devs have there reasons. I hope.

glass flare
# summer topaz or is it just text to speech

probably the latter, or someone from the team running voice through processing. I think all of the alien and space chatter and other voices/grunts are just members of the team. no professional VAs involved

deft pine
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||I know it’s a sandbox game mostly but it just feels like a endless time loop no matter what you do you cannot escape how do you know it wasn’t intentional the atlas isn’t failing it was put in a situation where that was the only thing it can perceive is it’s virtual downfall what we see now isn’t the real atlas, the real atlas it beyond this and this incarnation is just another program set to the parameters of believing it will fail in 10k years. the real subject being studied is the traveler how they change and alter the world how they grow and shape their world view after experiencing countless cycles. They may have their memory wiped or be in ever changing form but the traveler is the only thing that seems to survive each purge only to start again.||

pallid steppe
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I suppose that's possible, if existential. Either way, there's no evidence for the simulation to be in a simulation, and even if it was, the hell would we do? We're just the same model of some guy, warping and looping over millions of iterations.
Best not to panic over such things.

heady cradle
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I mean isn't that self-implying? If you have a simulated universe, simulating universes is possible, therefore statistically most universes must be simulated?

errant veldt
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@heady cradle TELAMON IS THE SUIT VOICE?

heady cradle
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yes

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I mean I'm not sure if it's the real telamon I think it is an atlas reconstruction of the data

errant veldt
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Dayum

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Did not see that coming

heady cradle
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But I mean essentially every power broker in NMS is opposed to the atlas, which is essentially a non-benevolent god that just ends realities on a whim.

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The Vy'keen, the autophage/covax, the anomaly guys, even the sentinels themselves, like Laylaps

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Everyone and everything just wants to be free from the Atlas.

errant veldt
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I see why tho

mental socket
fair summit
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i need help. I think im towards the end of the story. Visiting ATLAS STATIONS. My 11th Station has nothing to talk to though? Its just... empty? There is a socket in the end but I cant interact with it

sweet grove
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|| how do you find ships on the videos on YouTube using glyphs when it says u need to be in a certain galaxy. ||

vocal kiln
heady cradle
sweet grove
heady cradle
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no you just need to be in the one it's in

sweet grove
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Idk I typed the address and it didn’t work

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Bc im in wrong galaxy

heady cradle
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yes because you need to be in the same galaxy, it's what I have been saying ;D

dense quartz
spring hawk
heady cradle
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trying to escape someones influence is opposition tho

summer topaz
# summer topaz anyone know who voices telamon?

speaking of telamon, am i insane or does it's voice change sometimes? like when you destroy the warp drives on a pirate capital ship telamon sounds drastically different than say a hazard protection or life support warning

elfin hull
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im glad you mentioned it because its been bothering me a little bit

analog breach
summer topaz
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yeah that would make sense

glass flare
# spring hawk i disagree. the Atlas only deletes universes where there are significant anomali...

Atlas isn't "evil", but it definitely has gained some level of self-awareness and is acting in unpredictable ways that are against its programming. Such as when it stuffed Telamon into the exosuit because Telamon was calling Atlas out for its strange behavior. Of course Atlas is doing these things because it is aware that its reality is falling apart and, for lack of a better term, is starting to lose its mind. It has become obsessed with having 16 minutes left to live, hence why 16 shows up everywhere

leaden spire
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How do I finish the atlas path

analog breach
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Get all the balls blueprints from ( you need to get enough jurney milestones done to get blueprint) atlas stations
Craft them
(Last blueprint is heart of the sun)
Put them in last terminal

dry summit
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we all only have 16 mins to survive or to enjoy the moment

placid harness
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Where are we at now with the lore in Echoes?

safe kiln
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That atlantideum exists means there’s some hope that the atlas’s data can survive whatever cataclysm approaches

spring hawk
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thats also why i dont think the Atlas is "evil". its not doing what it does for the sake of hurting others, but fumbling to find anything that could help it survive. makes me sad for the guy ;(

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Telamon confronted it about the fact that it was dying, so the Atlas stuffed him away to escape that reality

sterile tendon
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I dont really feel bad for it
I mean its just an ai
Theres is no actual feeling of getting hurt
Maybe it can "feel" panic and stress
But its just a simulation of the feeling?

heady cradle
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why is that more real when biological pathways do it then when cables do?

spring hawk
sterile tendon
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Idk if it can like REALLY feel?

analog breach
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Its is scared of death

spring hawk
sterile tendon
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Oh shi

pallid steppe
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ATLAS is very much sentient and afraid. It asked it's creator why it was made, and is very distraught about being left behind by them.
It's dark. I hope we get more like that.

safe kiln
heady wyvern
# sterile tendon Idk if it can like REALLY feel?

No Man's Sky very often touches on the subjective idea of what is "real," re: the fact that your entire existence is simulated. It's real to you, though, so could it be said that those feelings of fear and panic are real to the ATLAS as well?

dry summit
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did we put artemis into a simulation within a simulation

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also when we trying to meet a traveller at the same coord, but we still cant meet

somber lotus
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I'm trying to make sense of the lore. ive played since launch, done all the quests and stuff and still feel like i only semi understand. Is there a go to youtube video that anyone knows of that explains it well?

somber lotus
heady wyvern
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The fact of the matter is that the Atlas runs so fast, sixteen minutes to it is like millennia to us within the simulation.

somber lotus
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i follow

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And Atlas some kind of computer program entity that runs the simulation? But the atlas is in its own universe that is actually ending.

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Is the Atlas Sean Murray?

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kind of a joke question but i honestly have no idea.

heady wyvern
somber lotus
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I see

heady wyvern
#

And, as far as we know, something is threatening the physical Atlas's wellbeing. The Waking Titan ARG seems to indicate that it's a supermassive black hole, but we can't say for certain.

somber lotus
#

I found this video that seems really articulate so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLAETujrE5g

YouTube
Dread Captain James
No Man's Sky Lore | The Atlas Explained

In this series, we will explain and delve into the lore of No Man's Sky. This very first episode deals with the Atlas: what is it, where did it come from, an all the other questions you might have about everyone's favorite big red ball!

Leave a comment as to your thoughts, and I hope you found this helpful. More to come!

All my links and stuff...

▶ Play video
heady wyvern
# somber lotus What is The Waking Titan ARG? Im sure ive done it already but i forget

Waking Titan was an event way back when, circa NEXT I believe. As an ARG, it had participants decipher clues and notes scattered across the real-world Internet and in certain sites around the world.

I don't quite know what occurred during that affair, but it seems to have given insight as to what's happening immediately outside the simulation.

somber lotus
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ohhhh. Never mind I dont think i knew anything about that. I think during that period of large updates and game changes I was playing other games and just not in the loop at first.

heady wyvern
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Yeah, well, it took me a good long while to realize that it ever happened.

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I was quite young when the game launched.

somber lotus
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i need to look up artemis and apollo to remember exactly what their stories were. Like we were trying to find and save artemis who presumably is a traveller like us(maybe i think?) and by the time we get to them, they are just... a flash drive or something. So we put them in a computer and i let them live in a simulation. And im guessing the atlas uses the simulation of putting another being in a simulation or choosing not to in order to learn and process its own situation.

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or something like that

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Does Nada know its a simulation?

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Is there a reason we dont go running around to every npc screaming "AHHHH its a simulation and the real universe is ending isn't this wild?!"

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in the story i mean though, why doesnt the traveller character respond with that kind of urgency i mean

#

also who was telamon?

analog breach
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Telamon is the exosuit voice

somber lotus
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I see, but who was telamon exactly before that, because apparently laylapse knows telemon, somehow.

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honestly at first I thought the revelation was that we are named telemon, the traveller

heady wyvern
heady wyvern
somber lotus
somber lotus
heady wyvern
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I suppose that contributed somewhat

somber lotus
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makes sense--what was the korvax simulation again though?

heady wyvern
elfin hull
heady wyvern
somber lotus
safe kiln
deft pine
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Maybe the atlas isn’t the real machine just another program designed to think it is failing after a period of time. Maybe many incarnations of 16 minutes has already passed and this is the most recent instance? The echoes survive and reassemble themselves outside atlas influence

analog breach
glass flare
glass flare
elfin hull
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I thought the Dreamers were uploaded into the game as the Anomaly race, not Telamon

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isnt Telamon a logging A.I. before becoming the voice?

glass flare
# elfin hull it was?

My lore memories are a bit fuzzy and I can't remember if a definitive answer was reached, but one of the Dreamers died, 231187661T. This is the iteration number you see upon starting a new game, of the previous iteration before you. SCENARIO: Iteration #231187661T [ Transferred | Deleted ]. Probable boundary separation failure. Vessel [16] emptied. [Sentinel Intervention | Deliberate Transfer] Unknown. DIAGNOSTIC: ... // NO CONNECTION // ANALYSIS: [----] Awaiting Fresh Iteration. [Anomaly] Containment Prepared.

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so either that Dreamer is Telamon, or was a previous Traveller, perhaps Null

elfin hull
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null being 2311T is a good theory

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especially since the Artemis path, in general, is just an exaggerated in-universe retelling of what happened with the game at launch. Null is basically that one guy who got the game early and rushed to beat it so that he could tell everyone what the center held. 2311T would be this person, then transformed into Null once he saw every world. that would really work since 2311T is spoken in past tense/"deleted", but Null was also "deleted" in a sense when he became a new entity

glass flare
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there were other Dreamers who died while being hooked up to the Ware VR simulation, but 231187661T is the only one who we know had their consciousness survive in some form

elfin hull
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very true

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which is a good thing. I dont think any of us want little Toby to be witnessing this universe

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although with the way some of us acted towards him, maybe some of us do want that

glass flare
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The idea that traveller iterations can be deleted is something that has never really been explored. I once found a Traveller in a space station who, from the context of the conversation, seemed was talking to me from the Abyss

kind mirage
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Hello, I have to "research the properties of Atlantideum" for the "Prayers of the Machine" quest. Can someone tell me how to start that? The description is a little vague for my liking

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"search for computing units, and observe their responses." Anyone have a clue what that means?

pale hazel
kind mirage
deft pine
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Got my first living ship

sinful tree
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I didn’t know that absolutely everything of yours becomes broken when you finish the first Atlas Questline and get the the next galaxy. It’s a crap ton to fix

deft pine
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Use a throwaway tool/ship

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Else you either get to scrap or costly repair

sinful tree
deft pine
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Now you know don’t need to make the mistake again

pallid steppe
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Alternatively you can stock pile materials and repair kits to brute force repairs...
Like I did.

sterile tendon
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Just got to the point where my only objective is to get to the centre

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Am i close to the end of the story then?

fickle forge
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so i did artemis in a can, I got Apollo back, i spoke with polo and nada, and now all objectives take me to the center, anything I should know?

deft pine
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Read above

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Grab a disposable ship and multitool

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Use to reach center

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Also need to transfer drives to new throw away ship

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Red green blue drives and be one jump away from center with max fuel

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First gliph in all the slots of the portal gets you 5 k jumps from the center

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5,000 light years

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Might be just a few jumps

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Just follow the path it gives you

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For the most part

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Can skip a bit

sterile tendon
#

Wait so lore wise what happends when u reset the simulation? What happends with atlas and the others inside the simulation?

deft pine
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They get reset they can’t remember you yet you remain

sterile tendon
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Oh shi

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And atlas?

deft pine
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You do get to find more after the reset

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Find more about stuff hidden stuff

sterile tendon
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Ah

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Alright

deft pine
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Dissonant planets will be your friend

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I did share a code to a really good one imo

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Never too dark

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Only storm is low gravity

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No hostile environment

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Or predators

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But it’s purple

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Some of it is

sterile tendon
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Oh

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It only sucks for me bc no multiplayer

deft pine
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Usually dissonant planets are very hostile

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You get fire, ice, rads or toxic

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Got a good one

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System isn’t that bad either just two planets

deft pine
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Chloroplast membrane upgrade for my living ship seems to do nothing

mental socket
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where the mp went

sterile tendon
deft pine
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If you like the game why not support the devs with a legitimate copy?

unborn bough
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I'd rather we don't talk about this here @sterile tendon. You have your own thing, let's try not to flaunt about it in the server.

sterile tendon
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Ah alright sorry

unborn bough
# sterile tendon Ah alright sorry

Not only do we have our own server rules we are also bound to follow Discord guidelines as we are the officially recognized Discord Community Partner for No Man's Sky. Discord has strict guidelines for illegal activities:

Do not engage in activities that fraudulently generate a profit at the expense of others. This includes facilitating, providing instructions for, and participating in fraud. We do not allow coordinated efforts to defraud businesses, price gouging, forgery, money laundering, or tools that facilitate illegal behavior.
https://discord.com/guidelines
So, it's best if we avoid such discussions altogether. 🙂

sterile tendon
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Got it

plain thicket
dire drum
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Why do I feel like the entire game is just a very well veiled joke about Sean’s computer having a tendency to crash

sterile tendon
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Is null a bad guy? SusFox

dire drum
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He’s a bit of a jerk, with all the soul stealing stuff

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I think null isn’t really meant to be a bad person, just confused, but you don’t get to steal souls from other travelers for untold ages and then say “oopsie daisy”

sterile tendon
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STEALING SOULS?

plain thicket
#

"We do a little trolling."

sterile tendon
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💀

dire drum
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Null actually says it outright I think

sterile tendon
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Tfff

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He didnt tell me yet

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Or

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I dont remember

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No clue

dire drum
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It’s right before you reach the final Atlas station

sterile tendon
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Oh

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Thats why

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Pff

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Im like

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Idk

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How far

dire drum
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The very end of the Artemis path

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I’m assuming you’re right towards the beginning

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But yeah, null is an asshole

sterile tendon
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Im at the end

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Kinda

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Still need to go to more atlas station stuff

carmine topaz
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What is the “profound realization” of the Atlas that Artemis makes? What’s the correlation between the -kzzkt- interference and the Atlas “waking up”? I never understood that

dire drum
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The interference is from the Atlas slowly failing. I don’t recall what the realization that Artemis about the Atlas was.

elfin hull
sterile tendon
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Im at the end
So now i have to craft all of those balls?

glass flare
mental socket
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Tbh I don't really judge void mother for doing whatever it takes. After all she went through and Atlas did nothing...

sterile tendon
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Who is void mother?

#

Can someone shortly sum ir up for me

glass flare
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Atlas did nothing because it's their job to maintain control of the simulation, and the races were starting to challenge the authority of the Sentinels. I suppose you could say it was a flaw of the simulation designers that the Sentinels were even a thing that the entities in the simulation could interact with

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Put another way, if you're studying a group of animals, you don't have the National Geographic photographer wandering around in the middle of them taking pictures

queen crane
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i don't know what waking titan is - only got the game in june. where's best to start reading about all ARG-type lore?

glass flare
queen crane
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thank-you! that's my night-time reading sorted

glass flare
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it was basically an ARG that ran for two years, the first "season" ran in the lead-up to the Atlas Rises update, and the second season led up to the NEXT update

queen crane
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ooh pretty huge, then!

compact coyote
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Waking titan was something special

deft pine
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I love living ships but having to pulse for upgrades is a pain in the arse

analog breach
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You also get them from living frigate expeditions

lyric coral
#

But yeah as I was saying, autophage as stated in lore were shunned by korvax society due to not worshipping the atlas, instead going for the abyss, but they also have a philosophy involving building their own bodies rather than korvax means of shell shedding

brisk stag
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Ahh they start from scratch while the Korvax re-use their shells.

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Still so many words away from getting the last few bits in their dialogue to fill out properly.

digital epoch
brisk stag
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I'm working on getting all the broken autophage dialogue, but I can't seem to get the ones I need anymore to translate it from binary.

digital epoch
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Which were also known as the bad sectors

somber lotus
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OK so explain to me

proven aurora
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@thorny rover i think that the void mother might of left although it can move thought the universe and has a simmilar control ove rit

somber lotus
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the space anomaly thing

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\

proven aurora
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or it could just be the salvaged core

digital epoch
thorny rover
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I think the space anomaly is more so modeled after the core

digital epoch
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As the original one seemingly got destroyed or banished to the world of glass

proven aurora
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the sentinals should just email the universe to whereever the creator left too lmao

brisk stag
#

When making the staff the first time, you only get snippets of the conversation, but they seemed to suggest she or someone was in the staff?

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Is that supposed to be literal or do they just mean all Atlantideum is part of her or something?

somber lotus
plain thicket
proven aurora
somber lotus
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whats the void

proven aurora
plain thicket
#

...

proven aurora
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world of glass

somber lotus
#

ok

digital epoch
proven aurora
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the world we are in is the ram

lyric coral
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So you think if the place got locked down we would have a second vault of glass lol

proven aurora
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cause it is short term storage

plain thicket
proven aurora
somber lotus
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I read the things i read in the game and im justr confused all the time

plain thicket
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Hm.

somber lotus
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whats a boundary failure exactly

plain thicket
brisk stag
#

I have a big question that's probably a simple answer. Where was Artemis that she was seeing stars change and realigning? I think she might have said at some point they weren't stars and were like lights or something, but it's been a while since I've done the questline. I know she was gone by the time we found her and probably was gone the whole time, but she went from coherent to unresponsive so fast.

plain thicket
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Why is it when I want to start a discussion about lore, or think about anything in general, people want to scream at me irl and just be a constant annoyance?

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Well, guess I have to go.

brisk stag
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Pity. So long.

somber lotus
plain thicket
somber lotus
brisk stag
#

Also I like how even if you tell Apollo not to go through, eventually he does it anyway.

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"But I gotta"

somber lotus
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wait what happened to apollo?

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i forgot

digital epoch
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I thought they were a he 💀

brisk stag
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Could be either. I can't remember any pronouns, honestly.

somber lotus
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i think everyone in this game is a they

brisk stag
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Just always thought they had cute features, so that's my bias.

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The headwrap sold it more for me, probably. Because I did use that face for my own character at one point.

somber lotus
#

everyone in the game is gender neutral but the title, but it means "no persons sky" but no mans sky sounds nicer

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i meant everything*

brisk stag
#

I wonder if No Man's Sky is partly based off "where no man has gone before".

somber lotus
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im sure it is

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so what happened to apollo

brisk stag
#

I've never put it to words, but I've been thinking it lately.

digital epoch
brisk stag
#

He says he wants your coordinates during the questline and asks. You can refuse and prevent his death.

digital epoch
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Through the portal

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To safety

somber lotus
brisk stag
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But during The Purge, the final stretch of the quest, he'll message you saying he's going through anyway. He "has" to.

somber lotus
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i want to escape

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where did apollo go

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take me with you

plain thicket
brisk stag
#

Yeah, gender is irrelevant in NMS. But my brain auto-fills.

somber lotus
#

we long for the mystery of apollo's departure, and we relate with the fate of artemis, and both feelings are a form of grief

plain thicket
somber lotus
plain thicket
#

TNG made it "No One".

somber lotus
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These are the Voyages of the startrek Enterprise

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no one is better than no mans

brisk stag
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These are the days of our lives.

somber lotus
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no persons

plain thicket
brisk stag
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Yeah but NMS is a better acronym than NOS.

#

Has those nice arches.

somber lotus
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i meant to say no ones is better than no persons

plain thicket
#

Thus, all of the NMS characters as far as I am aware (except specified), are just theys and thems.

brisk stag
plain thicket
#

Anywhoo, appreciation for the rogue data, anyone?

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The last one you ever read is genuinely emotional to me.

somber lotus
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You could say " but theres no girl traveler". And then i think to astronaughts. Can you tell their gender by looking at them in their space suit in space. Not even remotely.

brisk stag
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I've been going through those recently. Not intentionally, just sort of came across them.

plain thicket
somber lotus
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No sentient carbon or based or a robot life forms skies

brisk stag
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Makes me wonder if the PC is meant to be a stand-in for the copied creator.

plain thicket
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And they're Aliens.

somber lotus
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OK for the record, i know a female vykeen when I see one

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because im really into this game

plain thicket
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Unless there were details in "Waking Titan" I have somehow missed.

brisk stag
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Yeah, idk, but regardless, being the cloned mind of the creator the creation doesn't have to appear the same either way.

plain thicket
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Exactly.

brisk stag
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Could be male, female, non-binary, etc.

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We could all be copies.

plain thicket
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But it is implied that they'd be similar to a degree.

brisk stag
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Different but the same.

somber lotus
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we are all the atlas

plain thicket
#

I really like the concept of the Anomaly.

somber lotus
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me too

plain thicket
#

I feel like an Anomaly irl.

digital epoch
somber lotus
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i want to hear more anomaly things

brisk stag
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Imagine being so sad you were abandoned that you just populated your world with pale images of your maker.

plain thicket
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And people try to say ATLAS is evil?

brisk stag
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Yeah, I'm just like "Nada, please not now; Atlas is making me sad".

plain thicket
#

Okay, let me send the one piece of rogue data that has stuck with me from the moment I read it.

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The ATLAS witnesses the final sixteen minutes, simulating the future with perfect accuracy.

The walls between worlds fall, each simulation collapsing into the other.

Ten minutes left.

The Travellers are no longer separated, no longer kept apart. They stand side by side at the end of days, traversing the remnants of creation, laughing, dying.

Five minutes left.

It witnesses its own self, the black hole ripping apart its world, its core systems almost destroyed.

One minute left.

And as it watches the moments leading up to its own death, towards completion of sixteen, something happens.

Someone walks towards the ATLAS, a figure in the darkness and in the light. It places its hand against the glass of the ATLAS, and the vision ends.

The ATLAS attempts to see past this moment, but it cannot. It cannot see its own death. It cannot determine who this figure is.

But whatever happens... whatever may occur beyond the sixteen... something will arrive. Something will be there beside it.

At the end of all things, it will no longer be alone...

brisk stag
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Yeah, I was just reading that. The one before it I haven't seen in forever, too, so I had forgotten all about it. I am only on the second in my current save, I think.

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So my theory might have been dormant knowledge of that.

analog breach
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The figure is the person (you) turning off the game. Because your machine runing the game is literal atlas. Doing simulation of nms galaxy

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😉

plain thicket
#

A lot of people on here joke about me being an "ATLAS Simp", but it's not that. It's simply my appreciation for a character who is severely damaged, misunderstood, and quite literally dying as it tries frantically to preserve itself and the memory of the only person it ever truly knew and had formed some kind of 'bond' with, all the while a force beyond its control proceeds to tear through the very earth, soon to end everything that had been thus far kept online for 1, 946, 218, 921, 221 years.

brisk stag
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Whether intended or not, I like to think of the NMS universe as not just being a game. Always feels cheap when that turns out to be the case in a game. Too meta.

plain thicket
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The ARG makes it more interesting, and I actually enjoy it in the case of NMS. I think it works perfectly.

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Ironically, the first time I ever played NMS and looked up at the stars from my starter planet, I thought to myself about how strangely uncanny or electronic the skies were. As if it weren't real.

somber lotus
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like, yeah i need to get a life

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i am escaping everything through this game

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totally worth it

plain thicket
#

One of my favourite movies is The Matrix, I'm obsessed with it, so every time I see something like that, I think "Oh huh, imagine how weird it would be if this was like The Matrix". I knew nothing about the game or the game lore whatsoever at that point.

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So strange lol.

somber lotus
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ok gn

plain thicket
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I was shocked when I did the main storyline.

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Did not expect to unintentionally predict what was about to occur lmao.

plain thicket
brisk stag
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I found it pretty interesting the first time I played, yeah. At first I was a little put off by it not being "real" but over time I felt like it made it more unique.

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Taking the "universe simulation" to the fullest extent of the word.

plain thicket
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I've been dealing with quite a serious and draining issue since May this year, and I wanted to not exist for a while, but playing things like NMS make waiting for the help I need a little more tolerable. It's a health thing, and where I live isn't ideal for treating it.

somber lotus
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i already knew it wasnt real because its a game im playing

plain thicket
somber lotus
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but then again i am very smart

brisk stag
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lol

plain thicket
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Truly a sentient lifeform that exists moment.

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Or do you?

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What is true existence?

brisk stag
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Our maker holds their finger over the power button as we speak. Let's not get too existential or they might get bored.

digital epoch
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Yo

plain thicket
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Do you exist because you are aware of your existence?

brisk stag
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16 / 16 / 16

somber lotus
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Thats Descartes

brisk stag
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"I think therefore I smart"

plain thicket
#

16 // 16 // 16 // ATLAS PROTOCOL INITIATED// 16 // 16 // 16

brisk stag
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I like how people recoil when you just shout 16 at them.

somber lotus
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Atlas is just some girl really excited for her sweet 16

brisk stag
#

16 Candles Moment

somber lotus
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and she has a good computer

plain thicket
#

Simulacra and Simulation is one of my favourite books.

somber lotus
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boulder man

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thats what i call the guy

plain thicket
brisk stag
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We should be so lucky the Atlas rules the simulation. If it were AM, we'd all be miserable.

plain thicket
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Oh my God

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YES YOU KNOW.

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YOU KNOW THE THING!

somber lotus
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me?

plain thicket
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YOU KNOW THE HATE LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I'VE BEGAN TO LIVE.

plain thicket
brisk stag
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I was worried no one would get the reference.

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I watched the game of that and then read the short story afterwards.

somber lotus
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what is AM?

brisk stag
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I was fascinated.

plain thicket
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All the best characters are AI.

somber lotus
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im so lost

brisk stag
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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

somber lotus
plain thicket
somber lotus
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yeah now get it

plain thicket
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Hehe, devious ahh triangle.

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See, AI like AM make me respect ATLAS more.

brisk stag
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I get chills just thinking about AM, weirdly enough.

somber lotus
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i need to sleep now thol

plain thicket
#

Same.

somber lotus
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at first i thought " this guy really hates mornings"

brisk stag
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lol

plain thicket
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AM is the only AI to truly terrify me and fascinate me simultaneously in a way that not even Shodan could pull off.

brisk stag
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Yeah. That's another game I watched played through. Quite a lengthy game, idk if I could ever play it myself.

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And System Shock 2 genuinely creeps me out, so idk if I can play it personally. Bad with horror games.

plain thicket
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So yes, consider yourselves extremely lucky that AM is not running this simulation.

brisk stag
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The Atlas just wants us to be happy and have all these worlds to explore.

plain thicket
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Respect ATLAS, and be forever grateful it isn't a sadistic bastard.

plain thicket
somber lotus
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id rather play AM's game

plain thicket
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The ATLAS reminds me of The Tet.

brisk stag
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lol, pass

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hard pass

plain thicket
#

Hell no.

somber lotus
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i want to see it

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maybe ill just play Scorn for a bit

brisk stag
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Talk to Sean about it. Maybe he'll make NMS2 a horror game.

somber lotus
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as a warm up

plain thicket
#

Scorn wouldn't come close imo to what AM would do to you.

brisk stag
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A second simulation the creator made, but with torture.

somber lotus
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i said warm up

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I want to see the game though

plain thicket
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You'd be disassembled and reassembled on a subatomic level, feeling every excruciating level of removal over and over again for eternity.

somber lotus
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im more curious about that experience than nms

plain thicket
#

If you say so.

somber lotus
plain thicket
brisk stag
#

I would be enthralled by that game, honestly.

somber lotus
#

exactly

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just attempting to tackle something of that magnitutde

plain thicket
#

Don't tell me you're that weird demographic.

somber lotus
#

gamers?

plain thicket
#

No.

somber lotus
#

guys?

plain thicket
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Why would it be gamers when all of us here are literally that.

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Definitely not guys.

somber lotus
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idl

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idk

brisk stag
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No no, they make a good point.

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Have you met gamers? We're all sweaty.

somber lotus
#

EW

plain thicket
#

Hm.

somber lotus
#

sweat?

plain thicket
#

That's why I shower.

somber lotus
#

gross

brisk stag
#

Fake gamer.

somber lotus
#

this is off topic now

brisk stag
#

Very.

plain thicket
#

It's called living in a cold country.

somber lotus
#

im going to sleep

plain thicket
#

Like...

brisk stag
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I sweat more in the cold because I curl up into a ball.

plain thicket
#

A cold planet in NMS.

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Created by the ATLAS.

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There, on topic.

plain thicket
brisk stag
#

Same. lol

plain thicket
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But yes, anyways.

brisk stag
#

I've finally decided to stop galaxy hopping and stick to the Wayndohalou system.

plain thicket
#

I galaxy hop a lot...

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I'm staying back in Muhacksonto because it's the 16th. Atlas

brisk stag
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lol

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I thought maybe I'd get to choose my system again like the Atlas Path end, but instead the best you can do is go to the center and wind up somewhere.

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But I liked the name, so that's where I'll stay.

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Time I stopped wandering so much and find a system to build a base.

analog breach
#

Do atlas path again when you have all the atlas words

digital epoch
#

Yo

brisk stag
#

It disappeared from my log in the galaxy it took me to. But it is back in my log now after going to the center and migrating, I think.

plain thicket
brisk stag
plain thicket
#

Indeed.

brisk stag
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Cool. I was worried I wouldn't be able to collect more atlas words the good old fashioned way.

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Maybe now I can.

plain thicket
#

I loved learning all the ATLAS words.

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Also back when you did the ATLAS Path for the first time, and you'd run around collecting words from the surface of the Interface, it felt like it was just watching you run around lol.

brisk stag
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lol yeah, I played back when you got other words from it in my first save and maxed out one or two languages.

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Probably removed because of how broken that was.

plain thicket
#

I only started playing NMS in 2022. Immediately fell in love with it though.

brisk stag
#

Yeah, this was like 2020 or so. Now some of them give you nothing, but you could get it for every language.

plain thicket
#

I loved playing through The Artemis Path for the first time.

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I'm going to start a new save and replay it I think.

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I just want to.

brisk stag
#

I didn't expect any story at all tbh.

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Yeah, I kinda want to, too. I will eventually. Maybe next expedition.

plain thicket
#

Okay, now my phone needs to go on charge.

brisk stag
#

Yes, it does. And I should go too.

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So long. lol

analog breach
subtle basalt
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I am loving this game so much

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tacit juniper
#

hey friends

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regarding the purge mission

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after i finish all that, what will happen, is it going to be like a NG+ and reset everything??

subtle basalt
#

So I just did the black hole thing for atlas, i've done the purge and 16 // 16 am I done with story content now and can jsut explore and build?

viscid creek
tacit juniper
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ohhhh so i can choose a new galaxy but still go back to my original base and stuff?

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cool

viscid creek
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And be sure to not use good ships and gears to get there

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All your equipments and ship will be broken when traveling to the new galaxy

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So don’t use a max inventory ship, unless you want to spend hours repairing it

subtle basalt
viscid creek
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No

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Atlas will wait for you to change your mind

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Then you can make a new choice and head to the new galaxy

tacit juniper
#

okay so there’s really no way to permanently fuck up

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dope

subtle basalt
viscid creek
subtle basalt
viscid creek
tacit juniper
viscid creek
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when you teleport to that base, it kills you by dropping you into a volcano or something

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then you respawn in the same place, die again, then again

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never saw it myself, but I heard that it is a thing

tacit juniper
#

FOULLLLLLL

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going through the final interface portal now

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wish me luck

viscid creek
#

good luck!

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i hoep you spawn in an Eden planet

tacit juniper
#

Eden planet? :0

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sounds heavenly

carmine topaz
viscid creek
#

i just started playing 2 weeks ago

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thank you for telling me this

warped sable
#

What happened to the atlas in the end of the “they who returned” mission

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Like it started going crazy

tacit juniper
#

okay

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i chose green

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soundtrack goes hard

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i don’t know what i’ve done but i have zero regrets 😈

subtle basalt
#

wait to unlock the staff quest do I need to reset galaxies once?

warped sable
#

Dk

viscid creek
subtle basalt
heady wyvern
#

!faq-echoes @subtle basalt

cloud joltBOT
#

@subtle basalt
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heady wyvern
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Not necessarily the reset, but you do have to be given the option.

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Besides, even if you do reset, you can go back via your bases afterwards.

light viper
#

Is the mission to get to the core the last one for the main story?

queen crane
light viper
#

needed to make sure that was it

queen crane
light viper
#

yeah yeah

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I'm like 2 sigils away from finishing the artemis path

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then i need to reset the simulation

sweet grove
#

|| I had a fragile stem does it mature while your not on the game as it was 20hrs ||

heady wyvern
radiant schooner
#

so the gek like aliens we see in planets are basically gek that didnt like the first spawn? are they subspecies ? can someone explain it to me? thanks

image.png
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also this is from a nms iceberg vid made by nolopada

upbeat spruce
#

so i finished the main storyline, and now it says I'm in a certain dimension. Is that significant?

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before I only saw that I was in Euclid galaxy

heady wyvern
#

You can still return to Euclid by teleporting to your bases there, and can return to your new galaxy by way of teleporting to a base you've established there.

upbeat spruce
brisk stag
next nacelle
#

so i just finished echoes/autophage storyline, but it looks like it put me back at the start of the atlas path quest again. anyone else have this? bug?

somber lotus
#

you dont have to do the quest again obviously

dense quartz
next nacelle
#

Feels like we are moving towards a conflict or something with the atlas. Them saying they didn’t know it could be scared. We may fix or replace it in the end

heady wyvern
#

This is not related to any Autophage content.

glass flare
polar fog
#

what fate did you chose for artemis?

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I feel so bad for them

sterile mortar
#

Yo have a question did purge reset game now all my stuff is broken and I don't know what I'm supposed to do

junior quest
#

Fix your stuff and you’ll be able to return to the previous galaxy as well as explore the new one

#

Anyways I had a question

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So the entire universe(s) of the game is a ||simulation run by the atlas, which is slowly dying until it resets the universe and then repeats the cycle|| does this qualify the game as being ||self aware|| in its own way? Like is the ||simulation|| just a way to describe the game ||being only that? A game?|| or are the two separate

sweet grove
#

O just the 2

tacit juniper
#

hey friends, regarding the staff multi tool

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it’s a B class, do i need to personally upgrade it to S or is there opportunities to find better ones

uncut hound
#

The expedition reward pet, anyone managed to add growth hormnoe to the egg? every single product I tri says it will decrease the size :/

sudden crater
#

Does it make sense to go to another Galaxy than Euclid? I already never meet any other player outside of the Anomaly anyway, and most of them are in the starter Galaxy, let alone if I travel to another galaxy what has less players playing in it.

tacit juniper
sudden crater
tacit juniper
#

MORE FOR MY EMPIRE

sudden crater
#

Oh wait, I just read it, at one point there was no way of returning to a previously visited galaxy? So the decision was final. Damn.

pale hazel
#

as long as you have a base in Euclid, which you probably do, you can return anytime

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just remember to make bases in every galaxy you visit for more exploration opporitunities

gusty terrace
#

Hmm. Are Remembrance terminals recorded in the Catalogue? They don't seem to be for me. Neither is They Who Returned

heady wyvern
upbeat spruce
#

okay does "The Atlas Path" actually end after you || create your first galaxy || at some point? Cause I learned how to make || a star seed|| , then when I made it, it had me go back to the same Atlas console and || I started doing the same thing, turning on the atlas seed pods around the room, until it wanted the Heart of the Sun in order for me to talk to it again ||. Is it just gonna tell me it'll make a new || galaxy again|| ?

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Don't wanna waste making another || heart of the sun || for nothing

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I was going to make ONE more || heart of the sun || so I can have remembrances for those random Atlas pass v3 rooms that want them, but didn't know if I should use it for this instead

opal wolf
#

hot take but i hate how ||going to a new galaxy makes you be at the mercy of the Atlas|| lol i feel nothing but regret

heady wyvern
iron kraken
#

So is korvax prime actually destroyed or is it just a wasteland now?

upbeat spruce
plain thicket
#

I've said it before, but when you interact with Terminal Prime in The Space Anomaly and attempt to broadcast a message into the simulation it mentions that line: "How could I expect an entire Universe to listen?"

I've always thought it was supposed to show the Traveller Anomaly what it was like for The ATLAS trying to contact them or just interact with its own simulation.

Just randomly thought about it again.

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If not, it is just a parallel.

digital epoch
#

I think the traveller Graves we find in game aren't actually the grave of travellers, instead they are the Graves of the many species that went extinct

tidal mason
#

prob the gek doing their thing

digital epoch
#

Most likely

plain thicket
#

No, they're definitely marks of individual entities, but not in the traditional sense of the word. Some of the graves could belong to certain travellers who looked significantly different from others, but it's definitely not related to the extinction of entire races. Because of how the ATLAS was confined initially go the creation of Korvax, Vy'keen and Gek, it wouldn't make sense for there to be more unheard of and unrelated races without reason. Interesting thought, but personally I wouldn't entertain the idea. Other fauna and flora species could go extinct, but I don't think it would leave a Grave of sorts.

digital epoch
# plain thicket No, they're definitely marks of individual entities, but not in the traditional ...

The main reason I think that those were the Graves of other races is that if you look closely enough you would see patterns in their physical shapes and in general their heads (seemingly only using some of the traveller head types given), we do see other alive travellers and they are well, more different then each other. But why are the grave travellers (excluding Artemis) so similar? The answer could be that they were related by species.

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Also from Vy'keen monoliths we do know that there were multiple races even more then the traditional 3 we see regularly, though this also confirms that the Vy'keen are indeed one of the oldest species alive to

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And about the Graves, those are the only one I can't really answer those ones yet

short elk
#

Hello! I found in game files a story called "They Who Returned". How to discover/learn this story in the game? Can I have it in "Collected Knowledge"?

short elk
runic aspen
#

they who returned is the newest story quests. you need to complete the artemis path in order to do it.

short elk
analog breach
#

!faq-echoes

cloud joltBOT
#

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  2. Lift the Seal from a Harmonic Camp. Info Run !Faq-Interceptor in #bot-spam.
  3. Warp to any system -- if that triggers a freighter battle, you must warp again.

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mellow lagoon
upbeat spruce
#

Ty

sour fossil
#

New building items coming to QS store, no icons yet, just text descriptions

#

Ice Blob Statue - An exclusive buildable base ornament, sculpted from ice. This statue depicts a primitive ancient creature, sought after by many early explorers.
Ice Minotaur Statue - An exclusive buildable base ornament, sculpted from ice. This statue depicts the hefty Minotaur Exo-Mech.
Ice Diplo Statue - An exclusive buildable base ornament, sculpted from ice. This statue depicts a long-necked quadrupedal species.

rigid socket
twilit gull
#

fyi to everyone they just pop a update this afternoon my time

tender spindle
#

...by that I mean they blew it up and mined its remains

tacit juniper
#

y’all

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lmao i went to an autophage camp to get stuff ya know

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well i’m doing their missions, one was to repair a damaged autophage which just happen to be 5 feet in front of the camp

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and then the next 2 other autophage missions were to repair that same autophage

#

so i was able to claim all 3 without doing anything other than fixing it the first time

drowsy thicket
#

Anyone know about derelict freighter missions, is the loot tied to the star system of the hulk? I have encountered the SV Emperor Yufusu in 3 systems, each time giving a S module. I have only found 2 other hulks, and run each once, yielding a C and a B

digital epoch
dire drum
plain thicket
rain burrow
#

So I came to a point in the story yesterday (maybe the end? idk) where I was asked to reset the universe and given 4 choices.
I went with an imperfect universe but am now wondering: does this affect gameplay somehow? What does the choice do?

rapid tangle
#

A little bit in a macro sense. This is not a 'I messed up' kind of game stop being afraid of your choices.

rain burrow
#

ty, although i cannot stop being afraid, space kinda scares me lol

rapid tangle
#

All it does is change the generation % of the systems. But it's really hard to notice it unless you see it over dozens of systems.

rain burrow
#

thanks for clarifying

violet prism
#

(mission with ||Autophages||)
When i gives ||atlantideum to the portal||, something will happen to my items?

plain thicket
#

Don't read my ramble if you haven't completed the game yet.

So I keep thinking about this idea for a far in the future NMS Sequel story where the long lost decedents of the ATLAS' creator had been cryogenically frozen and thus still feasibly alive... there will be some kind of genuine explanation, it was a hell of a long time, but yeah. Somehow these people had become so technologically advanced by this point, when they return - again there would be some kind of logical reason as to why they'd visit their species' origin planet - they find out how advanced the ATLAS had become for a computer that was supposedly obsolete when its creators initially left in its own right. Perhaps they learn about its abilities and find them impressive enough to try and preserve ATLAS and the simulation in a method that may even involve computing in the 4th dimension. Idk what I'm going on about guys, I'm so sad, I don't like 16 minutes. Save the damn ATLAS and simulation from the black hole. I know that would kind of ruin the whole vibe and tone of the game... sigh. It's the happy ending lmao. It could fesibly work if it was an unrelated story that happened years and years (technically minutes irl) after all the main events of the game I guess.

dry summit
#

we don't know hows that 16 minutes count down

onyx forge
#

is there is path that leads to less content? can anyone tell me which part is that so that i can avoid?

analog breach
#

16min in game time. For us it can be bilions of years

vast condor
#

Geks rule the universe killing everyone else

analog breach
#

Was*

heady wyvern
analog breach
patent maple
#

when you beat the main quest and pick a system to create is it worth building something Amazing on that system or will most ppl not see the teleport to it?

#

if i were to build something feature worthy where should i build it

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im asuming anywhere in Euclid would be best or would my personal system be just as good?

sour fossil
#

You are not creating anything

#

At the end of the Atlas Path, game says you're "creating a new star" but nothing happens

#

At the end of the Artemis path, you're presented with 4 galaxies to choose from and you will be warped to the chosen galaxy

patent maple
sour fossil
#

I dont understand what you mean by "hinder traffic to your portal"

#

If you build something and want to share it, you post coordinates of the planet - the glyphs visible in photo mode

#

And the name of the galaxy

#

That will allow people to get to the planet you're on

#

If you upload your base to the servers, it will be visible to other players visiting that planet

patent maple
sour fossil
#

"base is about portal search for other bases" ????

patent maple
#

yea the portal on space stations, or the one you build in your base, the tab in that called other bases lol

#

is that specifically for the galaxy you are in

sour fossil
#

Those are called teleporters, not portals

#

Teleporters can be used to travel between galaxies

#

Portals work only in the galaxy you are currently in

patent maple
#

so new people in euclid could see my base in another galaxy

#

without having to give them the planet address

sour fossil
#

If they get to the other galaxy, yes

#

No, they need to be in the same system

patent maple
#

oh they havew to have been their?

sour fossil
#

Or have you in their multiplayer group so your locations would show up in their teleporter lists

patent maple
#

no i am asking about random ppl not just groups

sour fossil
#

Like I said, if you want to share a location of a base to show off, portal glyphs + galaxy name + base uploaded to the servers

#

But this is gone off-topic enough

patent maple
#

like i want my base to pop up to the msot ppl in the tab "other bases" basically

mental socket
#

Your base will only appear in the "Other bases" tab of a teleporter for other players if:

  • the player is in the same anomaly instance as you
  • the player is in a group with you
  • the player is in the star system where the base is located
#

The other bases list is only temporary tho. If a player quits and opens the game, the list will be cleared

#

@patent maple

#

So yeah. There's not really a permanent way of having your base show up in the others tab. The only way to really get any traffic there would be to share the glyphs

digital epoch
#

I have a question

#

In the "they who return" questline we learn that the reasons ships crash in the corrupted worlds is due to the fact that the autophage remove them from the hivemind, my main question is why they do that. If I remember correctly both the sentinels and a autophage serve the abyss and I don't think she would want her subjects to fight with each other

#

Especially the missions from the autophage we get includes killing a specific amount of sentinels

dense quartz
digital epoch
dense quartz
#

Oh? đŸ€”

digital epoch
#

Even if you kill the corrupted sentinels (who are canonally with the abyss majority of the time) it would count in the kill sentinels list

dense quartz
#

So?

#

I mean they count as the same faction within the game's logic but I dunno how that relates to the story.

digital epoch
lilac walrus
#

Small question, I don’t want too much spoil but what do the robots corpses we find on dissonant planets do ? I don’t have started the autophage questline yet

sour fossil
lilac walrus
#

what are they then ?

sour fossil
#

The actual questline might point you towards them but they dont play a major role

#

Well, they are just examples of the new race of NPCs, reappearing in the world

dense quartz
#

It's kinda funky how they just sorta showed up out of nowhere. Like they start out as scrap and I guess drag themselves around until they find more scrap to build themselves up.

sour fossil
#

In my head they were the ones who "managed to materialise" in the world first

#

You might member, in the Singularity expedition we had a scanner that revealed crystals

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With Autophage parts embeded in them

#

So like not fully spawned in our world

#

Kinda "on the verge of breaking the boundary of non-existence", while the broken ones managed to break it

#

That's what I came up with 😄

dense quartz
#

Oh yeah the echo seeds are in the base game now. But no longer have a use.

sour fossil
#

I wonder what role the Construct in Space Anomaly will play

#

With their unique build, with the player decision on seed of Atlas / Atlantid

sonic raptor
#

wait, if you have 50 milestones, are you supposed to immediately get the ||heart of the sun|| blueprint from the ||atlas path|| mission? Because that's what happened to me...

scarlet belfry
#

no

#

you get it to finish the mission

digital epoch
somber lotus
#

What do those half constructed autophages mean when they say "the ninth" or "
"the 10th". Is there some puzzle there? Why are we giving them atlandidium or whatever its called?

analog breach
#

Yes its a puzzle

#

0 and 1 cequence is binary code.

somber lotus
oak dove
#

Lmao I'm on the apollo mission and when the secret keeper asked me what kind of protection I want for my base, I just didn't know what to pick because my main base is on a paradise planet

warm thicket
#

i just decided artemis's fate and it feels like putting down a puppy

north quarry
#

I know - but which way did you go? the simulation or just ending it?

digital epoch
zenith gorge
#

I personally went with the sim

digital epoch
#

Same

#

At least the dude gets to talk with autophages

warm thicket
#

I chose just ending it

tacit juniper
#

my god

#

y’all, when i jumped through the center, i had no idea what it would do

#

i had all my main stuff equipped

analog breach
#

đŸ„ł

tacit juniper
#

😭😭😭

analog breach
#

Everybody did this

#

Its ok

#

I did it over 270 times total

tacit juniper
#

the good news is that i’m pretty much finished with repairing it all 😭

tacit juniper
heady wyvern
#

Once you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy.

analog breach
wooden anchor
#

So I'm posting this year because it's just a question on the lore and I don't know where else to post it but here's a question not game mechanic wise but ethics wise would it be wrong to reset the simulation due to people like no and others starting to become self-aware

wooden anchor
tacit juniper
#

but

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BUT

wooden anchor
#

Yeah only you'd know, but at the same time there's a lot of crimes that can be done in real life that no one would ever know you could commit either just saying

tacit juniper
#

it’s hard to say

warm thicket
wooden anchor
#

Yeah I've always let them die I had to look up on YouTube what happens if you let them live because I just can't really make that choice myself

warm thicket
#

it kinda hurts too cuz he was your entire objective for a while, even if u barely know his personality

wooden anchor
#

Yeah I think the whole point of the Artemis thing is being attached to an idea less than attached to a person

#

In fact I did all of the quests for the base expansion where you recruit the people ended up recruiting all five of them and did all their Quest even before going to Max myself out so it was like I did all this work to prepare and then boom

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On top of that anyone who can catch souls in a device isn't trustworthy. Looking at you Null.

analog breach
#

Nada also has a machine where you can put souls in (terminal prime)