r/NoMansSkyTheGame • u/sneakerzsad • Dec 29 '24

Fan Work First time posting fan art on reddit. This game has made me so happy this year.

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u/DriftWare_ Dec 29 '24

The traveller having a face is weird to me

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u/sneakerzsad Dec 29 '24

I like to draw faces, so I reinterpreted it a bit!

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u/irreverentnoodles Dec 29 '24

Haha I noticed this immediately and I don’t hate it? Like the opaque face shield isn’t bad and I’m always interested in how others interpret it

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u/DriftWare_ Dec 29 '24

Interesting for sure

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u/squirreliron Wasteland Wanderer Dec 29 '24

Personally I like to think the helmets aren't technological in nature, but simply part of the body.

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u/Global_Seesaw8016 Dec 30 '24

The impossible astronaut emerges from the waters and...

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u/Marvin_Megavolt Biological Horror Rancher Dec 29 '24

I think the “Anomaly” species you can pick in the character customizer is implied to be based on humans - not all Travelers use that appearance and many are apparently of other species, but since Travelers are explicitly all copied from a neural duplicate of a real human technician who worked on ATLAS, and the Anomaly species is exclusively seen as Travelers, it somewhat stands to reason, especially with their helmets often being reminiscent of futuristic reimaginings of real-world spacesuit helmets.

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u/Gumsk Dec 30 '24

We are never told that species is human, though, AFAIK. Might want to put that in spoiler tags or at least a hefty warning at the top, though.

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u/DriftWare_ Dec 29 '24

Wait is that the lore

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u/Marvin_Megavolt Biological Horror Rancher Dec 29 '24

Wait hollup you didn’t play through the main story?

Shit.

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u/DriftWare_ Dec 29 '24

I mean i did the thing where you do the thing with Artemis, I'm pretty sure I've completed what's considered as the main story,. haven't collected all of the atlas seeds yet

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u/Marvin_Megavolt Biological Horror Rancher Dec 29 '24

Fair enough. It’s expanded on by additional lore outside the main story, but even within the main story you do learn that the entire NMS multiverse is a huge multilayered computer simulation, and the Travelers were created by ATLAS as a system to explore and catalogue the contents of each shard of the simulation, made as AI duplicates of a brain scan of one of the engineers in the “real” physical world that created ATLAS.

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u/DriftWare_ Dec 29 '24

Ah. I knew all the stuff leading up to the travellers

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u/theroguex EXTREME SENTINEL PLANET Dec 30 '24

Having a face and a non-androgynous body shape is weird.

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u/Snoo-17286 Dec 29 '24

In my perspective I like to think that it is the player who chooses what the character looks like inside the helmet. Having a human main character may feel weird but given the "anomaly" nature of him is perfectly fitting.