GalacticGeographic journal entry for May 9th, 2017 Subject: Cassette Information - Location: N/A Discoveries:

Entry

For general information on the Cassette tape ARG, see Cassette tapes.

The purpose of this page is for cassette recipients and potential recipients (the 15 known individuals who HG requested shipping info from) to keep track of running theories.

As such, you don't have to be concerned with organization, grammar, etc - this is all informal and just to keep track of what has been debunked and what is still being considered.

Debunked / Likely Debunked Theories

Atlas-65.com background image is related to the NMS ARG - Reddit user wavespell discovered it's just a stock image.

"Scroll" in the wall of some space stations (those which look like drink bars) may be related to Atlas-65.com background - see above.

Active Theories

Waking Titan

No Man's Sky ARG and the Waking Titan ARG may be related. Information for WT was found within NMS (see "Confirmed Information" section). There are also a number of potentially-coincidental similarities, including: the use of spectrograms, the repeated appearance of the number 16, and similarities between Waking Titan glyphs and No Man's Sky elements (such as starships and diplos).

Cassette recipient and NoMansSkyTheGame subreddit moderator UnimatrixZeroOne insists the Waking Titan ARG is connected, although will not (or cannot) confirm if that information comes from Hello Games, someone involved with Waking Titan, or just their own speculation.

Echo-64

The audio from the opening portion of Echo-64, one of the "ads" from Waking Titan sources, sounds similar to the "Atlas noises" from No Man's Sky trailers. You can hear Echo-64 being played before the "Atlas noise" in this audio clip.

The audio from the second portion of Echo-64 (which unlocked June 10th, 2017) reveals that the "NPC" Emily works for "Atlas Corporation" in her efforts to create echoes, providing two further potential links between Waking Titan/Echo-64 and No Man's Sky.

Lovecraft Connection

Possible connection with the works of H.P. Lovecraft, specifically the Cthulhu mythos. "The 'Puppet master' OldGods user on the [Waking Titan] forum has [real-world] co ordinates under his name which leads to Ry'leh" (AndyKrycek6, Reddit). Thus, Waking Titan could potentially be connected to an upcoming Call of Cthulhu video game or otherwise connected to H.P. Lovecraft.

It's worth noting that Abandoned Locations in No Man's Sky are often described as "Lovecraftian" in their lore and appearance. "Old Gods" is also a term which appears frequently in Lovecraft's stories.

"The famous 'Bloop' sound was recorded with spectograms too and was said to be Cthulhu. The roughly triangulated origin of Bloop is approximately 950 nautical miles (1,760 km) from the more precisely-described location of R'lyeh, a sunken extra-dimensional city written of by H. P. Lovecraft in his popular[8] short story "The Call of Cthulhu"" - (AndyKrycek6, Reddit, Italics are from Wikipedia article on Bloop)

Confirmed Information

Cassettes

Of the known cassettes sent by HG, all of them contain a spectrogram. After the sequence in this spectrogram is put through ROT13 conversion to hexadecimal and then hexadecimal to ASCII, it spells "PORTAL".

Waking Titan

A package was received from a cafe in New York, with a portion (between "BEGIN LOCATION" and "END LOCATION" labels) encoded in Base-64. When decoded, the sequence provided was 013D:0078:0724:0056, a set of No Man's Sky coordinates. At these coordinates, this this Communications Station was located on PC, with the message "LOOP16 UNEXPECTED ERROR 97c-303n-5884-p". "97c-303n-5884-p" proved to be a password required for the Waking Titan website. (It is worth noting that this Comm Station was not present on PS4 - rather, the entire solar system was undiscovered, as confirmed by MrUnnoticed, a tape recipient.)

The site launch order for Waking Titan: Echo-64, Multiverse-75, Myriad-70, Superlumina-6c, Atlas-65.

Chevron-shapes from the Cassette Tape Spectrograms compared to the Chevron from entering a correct answer on Walking Titan website. (Unconfirmed connection.)

Echo-64.com

June 9th, 2014. Infinite Worlds trailer is released.