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Herein lies an index of known characters, beloved may they be:
 
  
== Dramatis Personae ==
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= Season 1 =
  
=== The Atlas Foundation [http://atlas-65.com/ >>>] ===  
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===The Atlas Foundation===
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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.
  
Dedicated to determining the true nature of reality, The Atlas Foundation hosts a family of businesses ''(Echo, Myriad, Superlumina, and Multiverse)'' all playing crucial roles in their experiments.
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====Characters====
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[[Waking Titan/Characters/Elizabeth Leighton|Elizabeth Leighton]] - the CEO of The Atlas Foundation, and director of the Citizen Science Division.
  
==== Characters ====
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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.
  
[[Waking Titan/Characters/Elizabeth Leighton|Elizabeth Leighton]] - The CEO of The Atlas Foundation, and director of the [https://csd.atlas-65.com/ Citizen Science Division].
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====The Citizen Science Division====
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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.
  
Major Sophie Dubois ("Metis") - Currently on assignment with The Atlas Foundation as part of the [https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/images/5/5b/Loop15_Memo.jpg Pentagon's Titanwatch Task Force]. She oversees the foundation's progress on precise predictive technology for its potential applications in [https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.wakingtitan.com/loop16/410a3e5d-01e7-4058-a23c-ca5fdde97f9d.pdf propaganda and military strategizing].
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====Projects====
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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]]
  
==== The Citizen Science Division [http://csd.atlas-65.com/ >>>] ====
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===Myriad===
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 the division was said to be the creation of an unpredictable environment to test Loop16's predictive capabilities. All players of the ARG are addressed as part of this collective.
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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.
  
==== Projects ====
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====Known Employees====
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Julian J. Wong - Help Desk
  
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, and will help determine the true nature of the universe. See also: [[Waking Titan/Characters/Emily Warren|Emily Warren]]
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Ethan Rose - Human Resources
  
The Mercury Process - Supported by The Atlas Foundation, Mercury is suggested to be an application or repository of some sort [https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.wakingtitan.com/mercury/mercury-01-98748sfdlka87.pdf connected to No Man's Sky] ''("a familiar universe")'' and Loop16's dreams.
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====Testimonials====
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Yi Sexton, Inventor
  
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Nikolina Sauvage, Data manager at Abstract Concepts
  
===  Echo Software [https://www.echo-64.com >>>] ===
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Tobiah Selby, Developer at Tobiah Selby Development
  
==== The Team ====
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===Echo Software===
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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
  
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===Multiverse Technologies===
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Partnered with The Atlas Foundation, Multiverse Technologies conducts research in various scientific fields.
  
===  Multiverse Technologies [https://www.multiverse-75.com >>>] ===
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====The Team====
 
 
==== The Team ====
 
 
 
 
Gunther Mann - CEO / Founder
 
Gunther Mann - CEO / Founder
  
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Sabrina Dane - Nuclear Physicist
 
Sabrina Dane - Nuclear Physicist
  
==== Testimonials ====
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====Testimonials====
 
 
 
Alan Steinhardt, Steinhardt industries  
 
Alan Steinhardt, Steinhardt industries  
  
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Mikhail Regison, Echo CTO / Co-founder
 
Mikhail Regison, Echo CTO / Co-founder
  
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===Superlumina===
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Partnered with The Atlas Foundation.
  
=== Myriad [https://www.myriad-70.com >>>] ===
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====Our Team====
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Hanne Cruickshanks
  
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation, Myriad is a low-orbit satellite-based data-storage company. They help provide the processing power required for the foundation's experiments.
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Esme Savidge
  
==== Known Employees ====
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Austen Spence
Julian J. Wong - Help Desk
 
  
==== Testimonials ====
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===ETARC===
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Edison Township Amateur Radio Club (E.T.A.R.C) is a club for HAM radio enthusiasts in Edison Township, New Jersey.
  
Yi Sexton, Inventor
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====Characters====
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[[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.
  
Nikolina Sauvage, Data manager at Abstract Concepts
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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.
  
Tobiah Selby, Developer at Tobiah Selby Development
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=Season 2=
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Sort by companies and organizations introduced in Season 2 of Waking Titan.
  
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===W/ARE - Dream Better===
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Based in Beijing, China, W/ARE creates special post-VR headsets that allow you to enter virtual worlds within your dreams.
  
=== Superlumina [https://www.superlumina-6c.com >>>] ===  
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====The Team====
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation. Creator of the world's first [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone antitelephone].
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Xiāo Cheung  - the creator, and founder of W/ARE.
  
==== Our Team ====
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Huáng Zhìmíng - the CEO of W/ARE.
Hanne Cruickshanks
 
  
Esme Savidge
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Zhou Lin  &  Tang Bo - Lead Developers
  
Austen Spence
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Li Dan &  Jiang Wei - Lead Game Designers
 
 
 
 
=== W/ARE - Dream Better [https://www.ware-tech.cloud/en >>>] ===
 
Based in Beijing, China, '''W/ARE''' is a company which specializes in creating post-VR headsets that allow you to enter virtual worlds within your dreams. They are also one of Myriad's clients.
 
 
 
==== The Team ====
 
 
 
Xiāo Cheung - The Creator, and Founder of W/ARE technology. He claims to have created this technology because of his childhood dream of being able to live within a virtual world.
 
  
Huáng Zhìmíng - The CEO of W/ARE. Graduated alongside Xiāo at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China with a Masters in Business.
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====Related Characters====
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Arnaud Lacours - the man behind Philo Jeux, a French indie games studio developing a game for W/ARE called Les tablettes de Mnémosyne.
  
Zhou Lin  &  Tang Bo - Lead Developers
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Dr. Geraldine Nadeau - a doctor researching lucid dreaming.
  
Li Dan  & Jiang Wei - Lead Game Designers
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Mr. Zheng - a W/ARE R&D employee who disappeared during a conference tour.
  
==== Related Characters ====
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====Research Labs====
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* Boston Research Lab / Director: Richard Wilkes
  
Arnaud Lacours - The man behind [http://www.philojeux.com/ Philo Jeux], a French indie games studio that was developing a game for the W/ARE platform, called '''The Tablets of Mnemosyne'''. Production on the game was halted after Arnaud slipped into a coma due to a headset malfunction.
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* Sacramento Research Lab / Director: Helga Johnson - The lab that housed the remaining 12 dreamers before they were relocated by Myriad's field team.
  
Dr. Geraldine Nadeau - A doctor researching lucid dreaming methods. Geraldine took interest in Arnaud's unusual brain activity during his coma, and took him into her care.
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* Seoul Research Lab / Director: Yu Hyo
  
Mr. Zheng - A W/ARE employee who went into hiding after learning about dangerous experiments being conducted on individuals in W/ARE's testing labs. After evading their detection, he blew the whistle on them to recipients of the W/ARE developer kits by intercepting their packages and replacing the contents with a means of contacting Dr. Nadeau, who he seems to trust.
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* Beijing Research Lab / Director: Wang Jie
  
==== Projects ====
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* Prague Research Lab / Director: Adriana Dvorak
  
"Mercury NEXT" - A game title mentioned on W/ARE's [https://pastebin.com/pGgN8VE1 staging server update] to be in development for their platform.
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* Berlin Research Lab / Director: Georg Muller
  
=== Edison Township Amateur Radio Club (ETARC) [http://www.etarc.org/ >>>] ===
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There were another 10 W/ARE Labs discovered by Myriad's research team that no details have been made available about.
  
[[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 only Loop16's persona.
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==Satcom==
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Satcom is Myriad's Satellite Communications API. It was used in the ARG to interface with W/ARE's Myriad satellite.
  
Old Gods - A mysterious entity distributing Atlas Foundation emails. It has [https://forums.atlas-65.com/u/oldgods its own account] on the ETARC forums, and its profile picture and name are referencing '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep]''' from the H.P Lovecraft Mythos.
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===Dreamers===
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W/ARE test subjects who were asked to wear exosuits to survive while dreaming in the W/ARE headset for long periods of time.
  
== Non-Fictional References ==
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Info regarding specific dreamers can be found [https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Waking_Titan/Phase_5#Dreamers here], on their respective subpages.
  
Carl Sagan quoted as saying "WE ARE A WAY FOR THE COSMOS TO KNOW ITSELF"
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=Adverts=
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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:
  
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[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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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