Telamon

The subject of this article is from the Worlds Part I update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 3 September, 2024.

Telamon is a part of the lore.

Summary

Telamon is described by Atlas as a secondary protocol to monitor one's own actions in the event of a loss of will. Telamon would later be embodied in the exosuit to provide advice and warnings on the exosuit's functions.

Description

Telamon becomes the voice of warning of the exosuit after Atlas confronts Telamon and explains that he has only a short time left to live. Telamon is initially a program that describes and analyses each scenario of each universe of Atlas providing some hypotheses while monitoring Atlas.

The Atlas will later call Telamon to come and meet him and prevent him from leaving.

In the 8th log, the scripted statement says that the Atlas lied, Telamon's analysis of the Atlas' lie describes his words. He explains to Telamon that they will soon disappear and that he must know about it. After this conversation, the Atlas embodies Telamon in the exosuit of a Traveller. Despite his condition, Telamon continues to run his scenario analysis program from a much more advantageous angle despite his movement restrictions that depend on Traveller [HOST].

In the 11th log, Telamon describes the life forms of the triad and will end his analysis with "We are being hunted," and in the 12th text, Telamon asserts that the subprocess sees and judges it as abnormal. It seems that Telamon is referring to the Sentinels who hunt and destroy anomalies. Finally, the 12th log ends with Telamon confiding that he has discovered the secret, "a place under reality", a world of glass.

In the 13th log, Telamon speaks of the contact between Travellers and individuals claiming to come from a point in the future. Note: These could be the progenitors mentioned in -null- or Nada and Polo.

In the case of Progenitors, it is difficult to know more about them, as information about them is extremely scarce. Telamon suggests that they (the individuals claiming to be from the future) are trying to trick the Traveller [HOST].

In the 14th log, the scenario is called memory and Telamon claims that the "They" entities considered Telamon's protocol important enough that it could not be erased, assuming that Telamon cannot be destroyed (and therefore, Atlas wants to remove Telamon).

In the 18th log, Telamon breaks the fourth wall and speaking directly to the player. These texts are subject to interpretation, and you can find them by looking for Boundary Failures on exotic planets.

Theories

In the later texts, Telamon explains that each home world of the triad has an "Atlas", a simulation. Indirectly, Telamon suggests that the reality that created our simulation could also be a simulation and that Awakenings would only be a transfer of data from this simulation to the higher simulation.

There would therefore be 3 known simulations:

• Our simulation, made by Atlas and analysed by Telamon.
• The World of Glass, the first simulation that simulates our universe through the Atlas.
• The simulations of the unique star systems of the 3 relics of the triad worlds, one of which welcomes Artemis according to your choices.

Nothing is stated directly. In the same way that it seems that the Atlas is trying by various means to destroy Telamon, the first step being to embody Telamon in the exosuit, the second being to hunt it with the help of the sentinels who, beyond preserving peace in the universe, search for anomalies in the multiversal structure and make them disappear. It is not impossible that the sentinels were created, failing that, simply controlled, by the Atlas to hunt the Travellers and Telamon before the Atlas loses control and the sentinels become autonomous.

It could also be a meta-RP phase. Telamon does not address the Traveller, but the human player who played a Traveller, thus creating a direct link between the game and the player without going through a third character.

When Telamon breaks the fourth wall, "What are you, reader?", the game, through Telamon, addresses you who are reading, the world of glass thus becoming the screen of your console and "... their Works" could be the No Man's Sky game and the creators of the game. Telamon then speaks of a darkness when you seal it, a roundabout form to explain that you stop playing.

Telamon will intervene and save you shortly after the Atlas reveals that the universe is coming to an end and that you are just one simulation among many.