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The information from this article is up-to-date as of 28 October, 2018.
-null-
-null- is a Traveller.
Summary
-null-, also called Null, is a central character in the main storyline of No Man's Sky. They were introduced in the Atlas Rises update.
Lore
| “ | I was born to travel, to see these worlds, to catalogue them, to give a name to every creature, every planet. The skies... they were mine. The Atlas told me I could never see them all. There were too many. So I did what I had to do. I survived in the face of eternity. I saw all the worlds of my own universe. | „ |
| ~ -null- |
-null- was once a Traveller from another universe who defied the Atlas and lived for an eternity in order to discover and explore all the star systems and planets of their universe. In response, the Atlas showed them that they were still just one of many travellers in an infinite multiverse, what -null- interpreted as their actions being meaningless, causing much grief. After that meeting Atlas stopped speaking to -null-, but -null- having the new understanding and a knowledge of the walls between universes failing, decided to contact the player in order to find out what's wrong with the multiverse.
-null- perceives the player character as the chosen one by the Atlas. They are sorrowful because of the player, angry at the fact that the player was selected instead of them. They are bitter towards Atlas for it discarded -null- after they had accomplished a herculean task at a great personal cost, yet Atlas cut them off. They question why they are not enough for the Atlas.
Appearances
-null- appears in several missions of the Artemis Path.
Ghosts in the Machine
The player, just before raiding a Korvax Manufacturing Facility, receives a mysterious transmission in space from someone who claims to know much about the player's activity. Once the transmission ends, the stranger is assigned the name -null- by the player's Starship.
The First Traveller
The player unintentionally contacts -null- via Holo-Terminus. Null has an existential conversation with the player, then tells them that Artemis can be brought back to life, after a fashion, using a device called a Mind Arc. After -null- gives the player the device's Blueprint, they set the Holo-Terminus to Artemis's frequency so that the player can capture their soul once they have crafted a Mind Arc.
After the player captures Artemis in a Mind Arc, they contact -null- again via Holo-Terminus. After speaking of the foundation of existence, -null- directs the player to space for further help with Artemis.
After the player activates a Portal and speaks with Apollo via Holo-Terminus, the player is contacted once more by -null-, who requests the player's help in figuring out what is happening to The Atlas.
After retrieving the log of a Crashed Freighter, the player shares the results with -null- via Holo-Terminus. Null then asks the player to gather information from the Vy'keen, Korvax and Gek.
16 / 16
The player shares what they learned with -null- over Holo-Terminus.
The Purge
-null- contacts the player after their ninth Hyperdrive warp for one final conversation, advising the player against heading toward the final Atlas Interface but revealing their selfish motives in the process.
Gallery
-null- recounts their past with the Atlas.
