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| − | === | + | ===The Atlas Foundation=== |
| + | Dedicated to determining the true nature of reality, The Atlas Foundation hosts a family of businesses ''(Echo, Myriad, Superlumina, and Multiverse)'' which all play a crucial role in their experiments. | ||
| − | [[Waking Titan/Characters/Elizabeth Leighton|Elizabeth Leighton]] - | + | ====Characters==== |
| + | [[Waking Titan/Characters/Elizabeth Leighton|Elizabeth Leighton]] - the CEO of The Atlas Foundation, and director of the Citizen Science Division. | ||
| − | Major Sophie Dubois - | + | Major Sophie Dubois ''("Metis")'' - on assignment with The Atlas Foundation as part of the Pentagon's ''Titanwatch Task Force''. Dubois worked as an overseer of the foundation's progress on precise predictive technology for its potential applications in propaganda and military strategizing. Following Elizabeth Leighton's death, Sophie Dubois became CEO of The Atlas Foundation. |
| − | + | ====The Citizen Science Division==== | |
| + | The Citizen Science Division (CSD) is a collective of individuals who were recruited by The Atlas Foundation via a series of puzzles and radio ads at the beginning of Project Waking Titan. The purpose of this division was said to be gathering a collective of individuals who could generate a chaotic environment viable to test Loop16's predictive capabilities in. All players of the ARG are addressed as part of the CSD. | ||
| + | ====Projects==== | ||
| + | Loop16 - the 16th iteration of an artificial intelligence system designed by The Atlas Foundation to simulate a one-to-one recreation of reality that predicts the future with perfect accuracy. See also: [[Waking Titan/Characters/Emily Warren|Emily Warren]] | ||
| − | === | + | ===Myriad=== |
| + | Partnered with The Atlas Foundation, Myriad is a low-orbit satellite-based data storage company. They help to provide the flexible processing power required for The Atlas Foundation's experiments. | ||
| + | ====Known Employees==== | ||
| + | Julian J. Wong - Help Desk | ||
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| + | Ethan Rose - Human Resources | ||
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| + | ====Testimonials==== | ||
| + | Yi Sexton, Inventor | ||
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| + | Nikolina Sauvage, Data manager at Abstract Concepts | ||
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| + | Tobiah Selby, Developer at Tobiah Selby Development | ||
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| + | ===Echo Software=== | ||
| + | Partnered with The Atlas Foundation. Echo is a service established to help people cope with the deaths of loved ones. Echo uses patented voice recognition software to accurately recreate the voice of any one particular person with a mere 5-minute audio sample. | ||
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| + | ====The Team==== | ||
Ivan Greshnev - CEO / Founder | Ivan Greshnev - CEO / Founder | ||
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Rickley G. Brown - Website Design | Rickley G. Brown - Website Design | ||
| + | ===Multiverse Technologies=== | ||
| + | Partnered with The Atlas Foundation, Multiverse Technologies conducts research in various scientific fields. | ||
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Gunther Mann - CEO / Founder | Gunther Mann - CEO / Founder | ||
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Sabrina Dane - Nuclear Physicist | Sabrina Dane - Nuclear Physicist | ||
| − | ==== Testimonials ==== | + | ====Testimonials==== |
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Alan Steinhardt, Steinhardt industries | Alan Steinhardt, Steinhardt industries | ||
Vasili Pavlov, FTL Industries | Vasili Pavlov, FTL Industries | ||
| − | Mikhail Regison, | + | Mikhail Regison, Echo CTO / Co-founder |
| + | ===Superlumina=== | ||
| + | Partnered with The Atlas Foundation. | ||
| − | === | + | ====Our Team==== |
| − | + | Hanne Cruickshanks | |
| − | + | Esme Savidge | |
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| − | + | Austen Spence | |
| − | + | ===ETARC=== | |
| + | Edison Township Amateur Radio Club (E.T.A.R.C) is a club for HAM radio enthusiasts in Edison Township, New Jersey. | ||
| − | + | ====Characters==== | |
| + | [[Waking Titan/Characters/Emily Warren|Emily Warren]] - Ham radio enthusiast and moderator of the [https://forums.etarc.org/ ETARC forums] before it was revealed that "Emily" was Loop16's persona. It has since been rebranded as the official forums for the Citizen Science Division. | ||
| − | + | Old Gods - an alias that sometimes appears surrounding the Atlas Foundation. It has [https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/oldgods its own account] on the ETARC forums. Its profile picture and name are references to Nyarlathotep from the H.P Lovecraft mythos. | |
| + | =Season 2= | ||
| + | Sort by companies and organizations introduced in Season 2 of Waking Titan. | ||
| − | === | + | ===W/ARE - Dream Better=== |
| − | + | Based in Beijing, China, W/ARE creates special post-VR headsets that allow you to enter virtual worlds within your dreams. | |
| − | ==== | + | ====The Team==== |
| − | + | Xiāo Cheung - the creator, and founder of W/ARE. | |
| − | + | Huáng Zhìmíng - the CEO of W/ARE. | |
| − | + | Zhou Lin & Tang Bo - Lead Developers | |
| + | Li Dan & Jiang Wei - Lead Game Designers | ||
| − | === | + | ====Related Characters==== |
| − | + | Arnaud Lacours - the man behind Philo Jeux, a French indie games studio developing a game for W/ARE called Les tablettes de Mnémosyne. | |
| − | + | Dr. Geraldine Nadeau - a doctor researching lucid dreaming. | |
| − | + | Mr. Zheng - a W/ARE R&D employee who disappeared during a conference tour. | |
| − | + | ====Research Labs==== | |
| + | * Boston Research Lab / Director: Richard Wilkes | ||
| − | + | * Sacramento Research Lab / Director: Helga Johnson - The lab that housed the remaining 12 dreamers before they were relocated by Myriad's field team. | |
| − | + | * Seoul Research Lab / Director: Yu Hyo | |
| − | + | * Beijing Research Lab / Director: Wang Jie | |
| − | + | * Prague Research Lab / Director: Adriana Dvorak | |
| − | + | * Berlin Research Lab / Director: Georg Muller | |
| − | + | There were another 10 W/ARE Labs discovered by Myriad's research team that no details have been made available about. | |
| − | == | + | ==Satcom== |
| + | Satcom is Myriad's Satellite Communications API. It was used in the ARG to interface with W/ARE's Myriad satellite. | ||
| − | + | ===Dreamers=== | |
| + | W/ARE test subjects who were asked to wear exosuits to survive while dreaming in the W/ARE headset for long periods of time. | ||
| − | = | + | Info regarding specific dreamers can be found [https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Waking_Titan/Phase_5#Dreamers here], on their respective subpages. |
| − | + | =Adverts= | |
| + | Advertisements have been used during Waking Titan as a means of presenting new companies and organizations to players. A list of links of where to find such ads can be found below: | ||
| − | + | [https://clyp.it/jdr53oop Echo]; - [https://clyp.it/xbv04wbz Multiverse]; - [https://clyp.it/r4r3xriw Superlumina]; - [https://clyp.it/ivvt15mt Myriad]; - [https://twitter.com/warecloud/status/977348396213190657 W/ARE] | |
Latest revision as of 15:50, 30 October 2020
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Contents
Season 1
The Atlas Foundation
Dedicated to determining the true nature of reality, The Atlas Foundation hosts a family of businesses (Echo, Myriad, Superlumina, and Multiverse) which all play a crucial role in their experiments.
Characters
Elizabeth Leighton - the CEO of The Atlas Foundation, and director of the Citizen Science Division.
Major Sophie Dubois ("Metis") - on assignment with The Atlas Foundation as part of the Pentagon's Titanwatch Task Force. Dubois worked as an overseer of the foundation's progress on precise predictive technology for its potential applications in propaganda and military strategizing. Following Elizabeth Leighton's death, Sophie Dubois became CEO of The Atlas Foundation.
The Citizen Science Division
The Citizen Science Division (CSD) is a collective of individuals who were recruited by The Atlas Foundation via a series of puzzles and radio ads at the beginning of Project Waking Titan. The purpose of this division was said to be gathering a collective of individuals who could generate a chaotic environment viable to test Loop16's predictive capabilities in. All players of the ARG are addressed as part of the CSD.
Projects
Loop16 - the 16th iteration of an artificial intelligence system designed by The Atlas Foundation to simulate a one-to-one recreation of reality that predicts the future with perfect accuracy. See also: Emily Warren
Myriad
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation, Myriad is a low-orbit satellite-based data storage company. They help to provide the flexible processing power required for The Atlas Foundation's experiments.
Known Employees
Julian J. Wong - Help Desk
Ethan Rose - Human Resources
Testimonials
Yi Sexton, Inventor
Nikolina Sauvage, Data manager at Abstract Concepts
Tobiah Selby, Developer at Tobiah Selby Development
Echo Software
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation. Echo is a service established to help people cope with the deaths of loved ones. Echo uses patented voice recognition software to accurately recreate the voice of any one particular person with a mere 5-minute audio sample.
The Team
Ivan Greshnev - CEO / Founder
Mikhail Regison - CTO / Co-Founder
Gerry Mishrason - CFO / Head of Marketing
Caroline Anderson-Smith - Creative Director
Patricia Gorevsky - Project Manager
Jeremy Elways - IT Director
Paris O'Keefe - Head of Sales
Rickley G. Brown - Website Design
Multiverse Technologies
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation, Multiverse Technologies conducts research in various scientific fields.
The Team
Gunther Mann - CEO / Founder
Minna Bell - Chief Researcher: Bio-radiation
Annabelle Brassington - Chief Researcher: Computationalism
Nickolaus Oberst - Chief Researcher: Magnetic Fields
Justinian Ahlberg - Particle Collider Specialist
Sabrina Dane - Nuclear Physicist
Testimonials
Alan Steinhardt, Steinhardt industries
Vasili Pavlov, FTL Industries
Mikhail Regison, Echo CTO / Co-founder
Superlumina
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation.
Our Team
Hanne Cruickshanks
Esme Savidge
Austen Spence
ETARC
Edison Township Amateur Radio Club (E.T.A.R.C) is a club for HAM radio enthusiasts in Edison Township, New Jersey.
Characters
Emily Warren - Ham radio enthusiast and moderator of the ETARC forums before it was revealed that "Emily" was Loop16's persona. It has since been rebranded as the official forums for the Citizen Science Division.
Old Gods - an alias that sometimes appears surrounding the Atlas Foundation. It has its own account on the ETARC forums. Its profile picture and name are references to Nyarlathotep from the H.P Lovecraft mythos.
Season 2
Sort by companies and organizations introduced in Season 2 of Waking Titan.
W/ARE - Dream Better
Based in Beijing, China, W/ARE creates special post-VR headsets that allow you to enter virtual worlds within your dreams.
The Team
Xiāo Cheung - the creator, and founder of W/ARE.
Huáng Zhìmíng - the CEO of W/ARE.
Zhou Lin & Tang Bo - Lead Developers
Li Dan & Jiang Wei - Lead Game Designers
Related Characters
Arnaud Lacours - the man behind Philo Jeux, a French indie games studio developing a game for W/ARE called Les tablettes de Mnémosyne.
Dr. Geraldine Nadeau - a doctor researching lucid dreaming.
Mr. Zheng - a W/ARE R&D employee who disappeared during a conference tour.
Research Labs
- Boston Research Lab / Director: Richard Wilkes
- Sacramento Research Lab / Director: Helga Johnson - The lab that housed the remaining 12 dreamers before they were relocated by Myriad's field team.
- Seoul Research Lab / Director: Yu Hyo
- Beijing Research Lab / Director: Wang Jie
- Prague Research Lab / Director: Adriana Dvorak
- Berlin Research Lab / Director: Georg Muller
There were another 10 W/ARE Labs discovered by Myriad's research team that no details have been made available about.
Satcom
Satcom is Myriad's Satellite Communications API. It was used in the ARG to interface with W/ARE's Myriad satellite.
Dreamers
W/ARE test subjects who were asked to wear exosuits to survive while dreaming in the W/ARE headset for long periods of time.
Info regarding specific dreamers can be found here, on their respective subpages.
Adverts
Advertisements have been used during Waking Titan as a means of presenting new companies and organizations to players. A list of links of where to find such ads can be found below:
Echo; - Multiverse; - Superlumina; - Myriad; - W/ARE
