No Man’s Sky and its Waking Titan ARG have been updated once again, and this time players can enter a few new lore commands, solve another glyph and get a picture of what appears to be the game’s fourth race. Here’s a recap of what we’ve learned.
Players discovered a new batch of commands for the Waking Titan command console and they are as follows:
- Glyphs: Something following – zzktt – turn and it’s not there. These caves, I’m – kkttzztt… Exosuit tells me to abandon – zzrtktt – must disable it, I do not plan to survive – zzrttktt – Did not take offer, decided to – zzktt – angered the universe, I know, but I must –
- Whois Aerons: Multiple contacts, multiple – zzkttt – infra-knives, fire, fire! – kkttzztt… Structural – zzrtktt – Sentinels surrounding – zzrttkkt –… Taking us to – zzktt – the harvest circuits glisten – zzktt – not what they seem, not what –
- Whois Nada: At the mention of the portal, the lights on Nada's mask begin to stutter.
- Whois Polo: It takes me a moment to realise who I am speaking to. This alien... I have met them before. They are Specialist Polo, the partner of the Korvax Priest-Entity Nada. They are my friends, stewards of an anomalous station located outside of time and space.
- Whois Sentinel: They are coming, now. The screams of my friends resonate in every hall, every corner. The Sentinels have found me. I told Nada to leave. I told them what we already know, all of us, in our hearts... we are not alone. Even if I die, even if all that is left of me are these words, Nada will find me again in another universe. Ten just like me, a thousand, a million Travellers.. We are not alone, for every soul is many. Even in the face of sixteen, we must declare that we lived. We existed, no matter the horror of the end. They are at my door. I –
- Whois Glass: There is a world beneath all of this, a world of – zzktt – glass – kkttzztt…Those I killed – zzrtktt – Vy’keen, Gek, Korvax, united in freedom and – zzrttktt –They did not die, not – zzktt – Even now, I see their faces. They – zzkttt – smile. We make them smile…
It’s hard to know precisely what we’re getting here in terms of lore, but it seems like all of these commands could be separate transmissions related to the fourth race. The first broadcast suggests they're trying to escape an enemy that has arrived because of some sort of mistake, while Aerons believes the source of that transmission can’t be trusted. Taking a look at Polo, there are mentions of creatures who can manipulate time, and this idea is also hinted in Sentinel. Every Traveler is essentially a repetition and replacement of its former self, which gives credence to the ongoing theme of being caught inside an endless time loop. Glass, then, appears to be some kind of heaven where those shackles are removed.
It’s a lot to take in for those who haven’t invested much time in No Man’s Sky’s lore, but the main thing to take away is that we’re once again seeing the calls to time manipulation that have been present from the start of this ARG. Portals and time bending are unquestionably linked, and that could be a huge deal for players of the game’s next big update.
Of course, that’s not all. Following this weekend’s calibration task, the Waking Titan site’s sixth glyph appeared on the home page and gave users access to a new PDF. Among the smattering of details, it says calibration is 98.49 percent complete and that Mercury Process, the code name for No Man’s Sky, is 97.99 percent complete. This was all noted in a letter with a butterfly watermark.
That butterfly lead users to consider Zhuangzi, the Chinese philosopher behind the butterfly effect. With Zhuangzi entered as the sixth glyph’s password, we get the image above. While not confirmed, many ARG players believe this to be a glimpse of No Man’s Sky’s fourth race. It appears robotic in nature, but given those past transmissions, it’s hard to know if it can truly be trusted.
No Man’s Sky is available on PS4 and PC. For more about what’s happened on Waking Titan in the past, click here and here.
What do you make of these latest clues? Does the new race look cool to you? Tell us in the comments section!
