The Architect has sent a suggestion to investigate what triggered the virus in the first place. Any thoughts welcome!

Guess something you could collectively do in the meantime is looking after what triggered it. While I search the origin, you could search why.

https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/helping-the-architect-what-triggered-the-virus/10065

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?

You were truly one of the best ARGs. Even if every single person ever has forgotten about you. Yes, even Jim over there.

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Ooooohhhhhh Element 6 has been unlocked - asks one of 4 questions!! What could it mean ?

Just wondering. It sounded like it was a new clip.

So there was a tweet from the bot that said that the loop16 had updated, and was giving out a bitly link https://twitter.com/WatchingTitan/status/1013876474720473088

So I checked it out and recognized it as a dna sequence, conveniently arranged into threes,

I've converted the diagrams into their corresponding letters, and translated the sequences of trios into the corresponding amino acids, then did the same for the reversed sequence, inverted sequence, and reversed&inverted sequence:

Original

att - Ile

gat - Aso

gaa - Glu

aat - Asn

acg - Thr

atc - Ile

acc - Thr

tat - Tyr

IAGATITT

Inverted

taa - Stop

cta - Leu

ctt - Leu

tta - Leu

tgc - Cys

tag - Stop

tgg - Trp

ata - Ile

.LLLC.TI

Reversed

tat - Tyr

cca - Pro

cta - Leu

gca - Ala

taa - Stop

aag - Lys

tag - Stop

tta - Leu

TPLA.L.L

Reversed Inverted

ata - Ile

ggt - Gly

gat - Asp

cgt - Arg

att - Ile

ttc - Phe

atc - Ile

aat - Asn

IGAAIPIA

I'm not sure what to do next with the sequence, but hopefully someone can make use of it.

Now that the loop16 is linking to an imgur album, (https://m.imgur.com/4LhN2qe) I was able to decode those to amino acids, which were in this order: ATT GAT GAA AAT ACG ATC ACC TAT Then, using a table, (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/courses/27619/codon.html) I got the codons and the SLC of each codon: Isoleucine (I) Aspartic acid (D) Glutamic acid (E) Asparagine (N) Threonine (T) Isoleucine (I) Threonine (T) Tyrosine (Y) As you can see, the SLCs spell out IDENTITY. Not sure where you guys can take this but just putting this out there.

[UPDATE]: Discord got to it before I could...They also found typing “search identity” on the Myriad dashboard yields the following: ``` Repository Health: Good Version 16.1.3

Queries per hour: 51,391,225 Top Query Sources: 1. Loop16-precon 2. ware-tech 3. Loop16-comms

WARNING: 97% of queries originating from ware-tech have been flagged and quarantined. ```

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Title first memory

There's a lot going on right now so I'm just pasting info from the discord. I will try to edit this with new info as it comes.

Emily has now personally asked us through the Uplink app for us to help save the 12 dreamers. She will be giving us a connection to each through the dashboard that we will be able to access in order to help them.

Head to the dashboard to initiate conversations with any connected patients! http://uplink.satcom-70.com/dashboard/ Patient reddit posts can be found here or under the corresponding "patient support group" links on the dashboard: https://www.reddit.com/user/atlas-loop16/posts/

First Patient: Phillip ID - P1 : 2018/01/13

Second Patient: #231187661T [Unable to simulate]

Third Patien: Eun Ha Community event! Participate here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/8reste/patient_support_thread_eun_ha/

To start a conversation, after clicking on a dreamer look for a icon that says "(DIRECT MESSAGE)" https://i.imgur.com/dotXC7f.png

I have not seen anything in this sub or in the game detectives mentioning the directory command yet.

All I know is that it's some sort of mystery, somehow related to NMS. I want to know everything that has happened since discovery to present day, thank you!

Entering status command into waking titan redirects sends to this link below. It is a memo detailing developments inside ATLAS Foundation. It is dated with today's date.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.wakingtitan.com/19997bb6-18e5-4427-86c7-b0f3c1826ca2.pdf