Waking Titan/Characters
| Waking Titan - Characters | |
|---|---|
| Waking Titan was an ARG which led towards the Atlas Rises and NEXT updates for No Man's Sky. | |
| Type | Official |
| Creators | Alice & Smith & Hello Games |
| Discovered | 28 May 2017 |
| Completed | 20 July 2018 |
Main Page > List of Investigations > Waking Titan > Characters
Herein lies an index of known characters, beloved may they be:
Contents
Dramatis Personae
The Atlas Foundation >>>
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.
Characters
Elizabeth Leighton - The CEO of The Atlas Foundation, and director of the Citizen Science Division.
Major Sophie Dubois ("Metis") - Currently on assignment with The Atlas Foundation as part of the Pentagon's Titanwatch Task Force. She oversees the foundation's progress on precise predictive technology for its potential applications in propaganda and military strategizing.
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 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.
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, and will help determine the true nature of the universe. See also: Emily Warren
The Mercury Process - Supported by The Atlas Foundation, Mercury is suggested to be an application or repository of some sort connected to No Man's Sky ("a familiar universe") and Loop16's dreams.
Echo Software >>>
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 >>>
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
Myriad >>>
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.
Known Employees
Julian J. Wong - Help Desk
Testimonials
Yi Sexton, Inventor
Nikolina Sauvage, Data manager at Abstract Concepts
Tobiah Selby, Developer at Tobiah Selby Development
Superlumina >>>
Partnered with The Atlas Foundation. Creator of the world's first antitelephone.
Our Team
Hanne Cruickshanks
Esme Savidge
Austen Spence
W/ARE - Dream Better >>>
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Projects
"Mercury NEXT" - A game title mentioned on W/ARE's staging server update to be in development for their platform.
Edison Township Amateur Radio Club (ETARC) >>>
Emily Warren - Ham radio enthusiast and moderator of the ETARC forums, before it was revealed that Emily was only Loop16's persona.
Old Gods - A mysterious entity distributing Atlas Foundation emails. It has its own account on the ETARC forums, and its profile picture and name are referencing Nyarlathotep from the H.P Lovecraft Mythos.
Non-Fictional References
Carl Sagan quoted as saying "WE ARE A WAY FOR THE COSMOS TO KNOW ITSELF"
