Waking Titan/Characters
Herein lies an index of known characters, beloved may they be:
Dramatis Personae
Atlas Foundation
Elizabeth Leighton - The CEO of The Atlas Foundation, and director of The Citizen Science Division.
Major Sophie Dubois - 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.
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
Echo
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
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 Atlas 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.
W/ARE is a company based in China, 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 the device with his own childhood dream in mind; 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 called "The Tablets of Mnemosyne" for the W/ARE platform, until he went into a coma after his headset malfunctioned.
Dr. Geraldine Nadeau - 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 W/ARE's inhumane experiments in their testing labs. After evading their detection, he blew the whistle on them to recipients of the W/ARE developer kits by intercepting their packages. It is also apparent that he has been in contact with Dr. Nadeau.
Possible Non-Player Characters
Emily Warren - Ham radio enthusiast and moderator of the ETARC forums.
Non-Fictional References
Carl Sagan quoted as saying "WE ARE A WAY FOR THE COSMOS TO KNOW ITSELF"
