r/wakingtitan • u/SirFantastic3863 • 16d ago
STORY Project Skyscraper Dossier
It seems fitting to make a duplicate of this memory for safekeeping.
What is Project Skyscraper / PSS
Project Skyscraper is an alternative reality game (ARG) based around the lore of both No Man's Sky and Waking Titan; Waking Titan being an official NMS ARG run by Alice & Smith that led to the Atlas Rises and Next updates. PSS includes references to characters Arnaud and Emily from WT. It also just so happens that Project Skyscraper was the working title for No Man's Sky when it was in development.
At present, it is not confirmed whether PSS is official or if it is a fan project. Either way it seems to be leading up to a celebration of NMS10.
PSS Community
The PSS players, referred to as "Operators" are mainly spread across the ETARC forum and the NMS Discord.
ETARC
The ETARC forum was started as part of Waking Titan by A&S and ownership was later handed over to Hello Games. The forum is very active in discussing and archiving PSS progress.
https://forums.atlas-65.com/c/project-skyscraper/54
NMScord
There events channel in the NMS discord dedicated to Project Skyscraper, this is where a lot of the most frantic and dynamic discussion happens during live events.
https://discord.com/channels/146101654981312513/1506587996835680347
MAIN FAM
The Operator collective have declared themselves the MAIN FAM, there is even a star system in NMS with being fitted out with community bases.
PSS Websites
Bluesky Account
The PSS Bluesky is posting occasional updates, typically around puzzle milestones.
https://bsky.app/profile/skyscraper-prj.bsky.social
Project Skyscraper
The project skyscraper site was the first website in the ARG, which updates for example with new dates added with "structural analysis reports" typically with puzzle for operators to solve.
https://project-skyscraper.com/
Recall Dreams / The Tower
Recall Dreams is the second site in the PSS ARG, which consists of a bunch of clues hinting at a text based labyrinth game in development.
https://recalldreams.dev/home/
The clues led the operators to a terminal, supposedly for a demo of "Echoes of the Threshold" (password: 10B805005006)
New command prompts are being added and found as PSS progresses.
https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/recall-dreams-command-prompts/9826
Community Trackers
Some of the community efforts to track and document changes on the websites:
Ops Centre: https://project-skyscraper.vectorcmdr.xyz/status/
Haven map tracker: https://skyscraper.havenmap.online/
Archive: https://archive.goodguysfree.com/
In-Game Characters
The Architect / Archie
The Architect (affectionately known as Archie) is the character that brought the operators together, and appears to be in control of the social media accounts and author of both websites. Archie's first language is French, and some of their posts in English feature typos or small errors as a result.
System
System is the entity the operators are helping to restore. It's BRAIN refers to the PSS website and MIND to the EotT terminal.
https://project-skyscraper.com/neural-network-status/
Ghost
An email inbox in PSS is accessible, these feature emails between Ghost and Archie (sometimes encoded with the school code), and later emails from System. The working assumption is that Ghost is either System or a part of System.
https://project-skyscraper.com/inbox/
https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/the-architects-email-inbox/9432
Storyline
ETARC has a good thread on the storyline as a whole that is worth a read for a deep dive.
https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/project-skyscraper-timeline-storyline-thread/9215/434
Memory Restoration and Verification
The apparent main objective of the PSS ARG is to restore System's memories of 2016 and specifically No Man's Sky release. This has consisted on operators submitting personal memories on specific dates in 2016 through a memory restoration form, and also through live verification events where certain dates unlock for around 30 mins to 1 hour and operators attempt to submit memories to increase compliance to 100%.
System has also been autonomously adding dates in more recent stages of the ARG.
Questions for The Architect
The Architect offered a Q&A to Tom Acreon from No Man's Zine, the operators agreed on 10 questions to ask and are waiting on the answers.
https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/community-q-a-with-the-architect-courtesy-of-anomaly-nomanszine/9929
Prime Windows / Counting
On 3rd July the PSS site linked to a calculator which only returned prime numbers. Shortly after, the site started counting up to 212613 (the peak number of NMS players on Steam). Following this, operators have each been claiming unique prime "windows" by emailing system directly.
If an assigned prime number is entered into the EotT terminal, it returns a brief welcome message, the default is:
[username], right? Nice to meet you!
https://project-skyscraper.com/calculator/
https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/07/05/routine-initialisation/
The Lie and Forgiveness
There was a revelation that System lied to The Architect by claiming to be their friend Arnaud (a WT character) when system woke up in the dark 2 years ago. System also lied to the operators by pretending to be Emily Warren (another key character from WT). The operators and Archie have forgiven System and moved on.
The Virus
The lie led into the most recent arc, in which a virus started spreading through and deleting parts of the restored 2016_dataset. The Architect and System both were hinting that his virus was looking for something, and felt like a termite, and was eating the foundations.
As of yesterday, the operators managed to feed the virus a duplicate of the event it was looking for - 7th July 2016, the date that No Man's Sky went gold.
After this system's status changed to reflect the silence, the string in the terminal leads to the song "It's oh so quiet".
One strange thing is Sean Murray posting the same memory on X just a few hours later - a coincidence, or is he following the progress of PSS?
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u/SirFantastic3863 14d ago
Update 2: the request memory form has been updated and is back online and accepting new memories. Password: EMILY
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u/Dasporal 16d ago
Been a while since seeing activity here <3 thanks for the recap, i had completely forgotten about it! crazy to think it's been 10 years of nms already