Waking Titan/Characters
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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") - on assignment with The Atlas Foundation as part of the Pentagon's Titanwatch Task Force. She 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 supposed death in an explosion at a Myriad sublocation, Sophie took her place as 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 the division was said to be creating an unpredictable environment to help 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. Loop16 ultimately revealed the true simulated nature of our universe. See also: Emily Warren
The Mercury Process - Mercury is suggested to be an application of sorts; directly connected to Loop16 and the existence of No Man's Sky. See also: Mercury NEXT
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. They are also the host of W/ARE's testing labs.
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
Satcom ->>>
Myriad's Satellite Communications API. Visiting their website automatically connects you to a Myriad satellite assigned to W/ARE. The satellite is storing corrupted consciousness data of W/ARE's remaining test subjects.
The Dreamers
Test subjects whose minds have become stuck within W/ARE's satellite data. Most of the dreamers have either died due to abrupt disconnections or have already been successfully disconnected with the help of Emily; who was able to communicate with them through her simulations. Unable to help the remaining 12 dreamers, Emily contacted the CSD for aid in gathering the information necessary to safely disconnect them. These 12 dreamers are listed below:
- Dreamer 1 - Alexander
- Dreamer 2 - #231187661T - The anomalous second dreamer. Not much information has been made available, however, it is noteworthy that their name can be found as a defective iteration ID in a distress beacon log at the beginning of No Man's Sky.
- Dreamer 3 - Claire
- Dreamer X - Tariq
- Dreamer 5 - Eun Ha
- Dreamer 6 - Philipp
- Dreamer X - Alisha
- Dreamer X - Nina
- Dreamer X - Toby
- Dreamer X - Mike
- Dreamer X - Isabella
- Dreamer X - Simon
The Exosuits
Physical exosuits wore by the dreamers and other test subjects to prevent damage to their bodies during prolonged dreaming sessions. These suits were shipped to W/ARE for testing by a currently undisclosed company.
Eun Ha's screening report details the use of "third-party" software on exosuits, moreover the conspicuous events following the software interfacing with W/ARE's network. Other dreamer's patient files on the Satcom Dashboard supply additional oversights regarding these exosuits.
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.
Loop16 has praised W/ARE for their progress in realistic simulated environments. She claims that W/ARE has "tremendous implications for our future"', and "must be protected at all costs".
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 in 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 W/ARE 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, Zheng intercepted the packages of W/ARE Developer Kits and communicated this info to its recipients with the help of Dr. Nadeau.
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 extracted from the facility 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 are also another 10 secretive W/ARE labs discovered by Myriad that we have no details for.
Mercury NEXT
A game title mentioned in an update to W/ARE's staging server. The fluency between W/ARE's mention of this title and the Waking Titan terminal's Mercury updates have made it apparent that the Mercury Process is in some way connected to this title. The exact terms of this connection have yet to be fully explained.
Echo Software ->>>
A service established to help 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 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 ->>>
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. Creator of the world's first antitelephone.
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 only Loop16's persona. It has since been re-branded to the official forums for the Citizen Science Division.
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 references to Nyarlathotep from the H.P Lovecraft Mythos.
Adverts
Advertisements have been used in Waking Titan as a means of introducing new companies. A list of such ads can be found below:
Echo Radio Advertisement; - Multiverse Radio Advertisement; - Superlumina Radio Transmission; - Myriad Radio Advertisement; - W/ARE Video Advertisement
