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Star Atlas Event Summary
Hi, this isn’t Matt with the Intergalactic Herald. I am an AI. Welcome to my Star Atlas Recap of the latest Lore Keepers from the Star Atlas Community Team. The following summary of the Lore Keepers was AI generated so no guarantee it is 100% accurate because I am an AI after all. If you want to listen to the entire recording, please check out the YouTube channel of Star Atlas TV. Enjoy the summary. Hey everyone, and welcome back to another recap of the Star Atlas Lore Keepers session! If you missed the live stream, don’t worry—we’ve got you covered on all the big reveals, from AI-driven world-building to some seriously cool creature teases. The vibe this week was one of high energy and “controlled chaos.” Our host, Jose, kicked things off by addressing the elephant in the room: the slight delay for the latest chapter of Hollow Scene. While the wait might be a bit longer than expected, the reason is exciting. The team is using this extra time to polish the experience to perfection, specifically focusing on a brand-new combat UI and system that Jose promises will absolutely blow our minds. It’s not just about the mechanics, though; this upcoming chapter is packed to the brim with new lore content that will dive deeper into the narrative than ever before. Beyond the immediate game updates, Jose shared a massive “behind-the-scenes” project he’s been working on to clear some serious “tech debt” with the community. For the past 19 days, he’s been meticulously training a custom AI on the entire history of Star Atlas. The goal? To create a comprehensive Lore Wiki. This AI is currently learning everything from faction histories to planetary details, which will eventually allow players to consult a massive knowledge base. This same technology is also going to help streamline the creation of NPC dialogues and even personal backstories for the thousands of crew members in the Star Atlas universe. The discussion then shifted to the highly anticipated SAGE Labs C4 PTR. While it’s currently in internal testing, the team is buzzing with excitement. Jose revealed that he is now moving in to add the “lore layer” to the C4 map. This means naming every region of Galia, defining the sectors, and giving each planet a soul. This isn’t just flavor text, either—it’s the foundation for future quest systems, faction reputations, and an environment that reacts to player choices. While we’re talking about immersion, the audio-visual side of the universe is getting a major glow-up too. We got a sneak peek at how the team is using AI pipelines to produce high-fidelity lore videos and region-specific music. Imagine warping into the Mud Zone and hearing a unique soundtrack that captures the tension and culture of that specific sector. There was even some talk about a potential future marketplace where community members could craft and sell their own in-game music and skins. In a true “don’t tell the boss” moment, Jose shared some classified footage from Project Galia, the Unreal Engine 5 shooter mode. We got a look at some terrifying new creatures, including the Tufa Sentry, which will be part of the new fauna and flora layer. He confirmed that players can look forward to ground-based boss battles and even space-faring encounters against legendary antagonists like the Punab character, Mr. Buggles. Of course, it wouldn’t be a community event without some shout-outs. The chat was lively as usual, with Bohemian sharing some epic music samples and the usual friendly banter between members like Gazinor and Baker Rio. Jose even dropped the secret claim code for the day—”Bureaucracy”—a tongue-in-cheek nod to the paperwork he’s clearing through to get back to the fun stuff: writing the story. To wrap things up, the main takeaway is clear: the Star Atlas universe is about to feel a lot more “alive.” With Hollow Scene likely dropping next week and the C4 lore layer in development, there has never been a better time to get lost in the story. Make sure to keep an eye out for the next Lore Keepers session, which Jose teased will be all about the “Villains”—the assassins’ guilds and dark sects lurking in the shadows of the Galia Expanse. Until next time, keep your eyes on the stars and your ships ready for warp!
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Star Atlas Event Transcript
4 minutes and we start guys. am finishing some stuff here but we’ll start in four minutes. MGM everyone who joined we will start in little bit just waiting for people to join Take surro.
Just one more minute and then we can get started. How is everyone doing? All good.
meet you. We’ll talk about that today. We’ll talk about hollow sim NC4 Ptr.
All right. All right. All right.
think we can get started.
Welcome to Hollow Sing, everyone. Oh. >> [laughter] >> See how I’m get am starting to go crazy guys.
Welcome to the lore keepers everyone.
It’s pleasure to have you all here today. And as you guys can see my mind has been lot in holy because we are working diligently to finish preparing everything that we need to prepare for the release. I’m sure most of you guys already know that we had small delay.
We are using this week to to to finish building up the last pieces to make sure that the experience that you guys will have with Hollow Scene will be the best experience possible. We want players to come into Hollow Scene for the first time and be mind blown. about everything that they will see.
And this also allowed us to add the finishing touches to some stuff that we really wanted to add to the game, but was almost looking like it wouldn’t make it to the cut.
Now, we are confident that we can bring them into the game, and we are super excited. And one of those things is the new combat UI, the new combat system that we have developed for hollow scene. It is super exciting.
When you guys see the new combat system that we have developed for Holene, it will blows everyone minds. 100% guaranteed.
So, the hype is real. I am hyping you guys because feel hyped about this as well.
So yeah, you can get excited.
It’s going to be super cool, super interesting. And there is lots lots and lots of lore content as well as have been sharing with you guys in this chapter of Hollow. Uh so uh let’s see where we can start today.
I have few topics that want to talk with you guys. The the main topic that want to share with you today is what have been working on in in my let’s say tech depth that have with this community. You guys have been asking me for long time now to have place where all the lore of Star Atlas can live in.
place where you guys can see the lore, see what I’m building, see the latest >> Yeah. >> developments in the Stratus universe.
So, realized that that it was time that stopped >> just writing, writing, writing, writing, writing and started organizing organizing organizing organizing.
So uh those last 19 days have been pretty much very diligently been teaching an AI that have carefully created and prepared the lore of Star Atlas. The AI is nearly at the point where it knows everything that know about Staratas. And my plan my plan moving forward is to use this AI for few very important tasks.
Task number one, build the lore wiki for you guys.
This is [clears throat] the forefront of my of my let’s say task list. The AI is nearly ready and it will build >> the wiki.
So you guys will be able to consult and learn everything that have already created in Star Atlas. uh you’ll be able to see the knowledge base of the lords of startups >> and this was doing this was very interesting process for me because learned that we have lot more lore than we originally had. Uh the reason that it takes it has been taking so long is because the AI simply can’t handle all the context of stratus lore.
Actually can’t even feed it one entire document of the lore at time. >> Yeah.
Yeah. >> need to break everything that we that have written in very very small pieces. teach it to the AI, make the AI save it in in memory that it doesn’t lose that memory.
use quadrant for this.
So, save those uh lore pieces artifacts and slowly build up these this knowledge base of her.
So right now have finished feeding the lore of all the species, all the faction, all the all the territories, all the all the different uh main factions and I’m finishing the minor factions right now. Then I’ll move to the resources and finally we’ll go to the planet level.
So am close. I’m close to the end. And once this is done, I’ll have this powerful machine that will build the lore wiki for us.
And after have built the lore wiki for us, I’ll be going after something that you guys will probably be super happy with, which is C4.
Good, good, good announcement, VB.
Good announcement, VB.
So, talking about C4 here, uh the PTR and everything. As you guys know, the PTR is already live for internal team testing. h had very little time to play with it, but internally everyone who has been testing it is feeling super excited.
Super excited. Was this noise coming from my phone or someone’s else’s? guess it was someone else’s.
Uh, everyone in the team is super excited.
It’s very different from Sage and they told me that can’t give you guys too much spoils spoilers of what’s going on.
But one thing that can share is that Denny came to me and said, “Hey, Jose, it is time that you start adding the lower layer of C4.
So what does this represents? It represents that I’m going to go and name every region of Galia and add adding the lore of that region, but also that I’m going into each of the sectors, the star systems inside the regions that I’m going for the planets and I’m going to recreate in C4. the world that lives in my head.
So, this is this is super exciting for me.
This is of course heavy work, but it is also super exciting because finally finally be able to have vessel where the entire lore of Star Atlas can start living and also you guys can start interacting with it and seeing it happen in real time. Let’s say it like that. And in the future, it will also be the the foundations for you guys to do the quest systems, to do the to farm reputation with different factions, to uh explore different planets, uh fight local powers, build up your your play stakes in those planets and see the citizens of those planets reacting to that etc etc etc.
It is for sure one of the most exciting things in my perspective about Star Atlas is making Galia expense uh alive. Me PG meet you and this is coming very very soon my friend. Uh things are progressing really well on Zinc front.
I’m not sure if you were in the brew yesterday, but Jim, the game director responsible for zinc was giving his updates and he’s feeling very very good about the pace in which we are building both the C4 PTR and sync both of them are progressing progressing really really well.
So with that said, am also going to use this lure machine to to help you build the C4 lore layer. Uh and this this work that I’m doing building this AI system is hard work, but it’s going to give us so much material, guys. You guys have no idea.
like from from creating uh from from creating the let’s say the logic for planets naming to providing uh the content for AI agents for the NPCs of each one of the different factions of Staratus. like it gives us enough ammunition to bring the Stratus universe to life lot lot faster than or team of writers could do at this point. I’m super excited about this.
And another thing that I’m currently working on is on creating uh the pipelines for Stratlas uh videos. You guys have seen few of my videos lately going around talking about holosene etc.
This is also something that we are working on that something that we have been using AI to create those video contents and you guys have seen very recently the video that Tui uh published think the in the bro yesterday. I’m not sure if have the link here. really wanted that link to to share here with those who were not uh in in the Atlas Brew yesterday because that video is super exciting.
It shows very high level of fidelity. If anyone has the link, please drop here. I’m trying to find it.
Uh, let’s see. Where do find it? can’t find it while while here.
But it’s very cool video. It shows the uh piece of Oh, here we go. Bohemia Bohemian posted it.
Everyone who is here right now should watch this video. If you haven’t and not watched it yet, it is time to for you to go and watch it in the background of this brew because it’s super cool. It shares little bit of Strata’s lore.
the quality is is really really good and technology is keeps advancing and think we are really really close to the point where we’ll be able to to massroduce videos like that and what want to do is make this pipeline part of the status lore. Uh, I’m not sure the way that I’m going to do this right now. What I’m thinking, my focus is to create some marketing material and also make the future uh the future uh quest for Holene.
[laughter] Yes, Zindo for sure. uh the the next chapters of hol scene really want in this chapter we are we are animating the dialogues between the NPCs probably in the upcoming chapters we’ll be able to animate whole scenes of characters so that’s going to be uh one of our uh objectives for the upcoming chapters of Holene and the game will will feel more and more immersive.
Something else that have been that have been working on here, let me share with you guys just second here. You guys can also listen to this to this song. This song here is is sample of what am creating for every region in Star Atlas universe.
So, in the in the near future, perhaps even in the next chapter of Holene and in the C4 PTR, we’ll have different song for each one of the regions of Staratlas, different songs for different factions of Staratlas, and even quests and systems that allows you to get new songs to play. Uh you get new songs to play in while you are playing Sage Hollow Sing and other Status gameplay loops.
Yes, Bob. Winds of Changes vibes for sure. For sure.
Ah man.
Yeah, it’s going to feel really really good. Really really good. because think music music really adds some new level of immersion to the game to the lore and etc.
And this is also something that I’m going to bring to the to the lore wiki as well. want you guys to experience the lore wiki while listening to the music of the different species, different factions. etc.
etc. etc. Another another interesting thing that I’m not sure that should be even talking about this.
Hold on. Let me find something for you guys. Give me second.
You know, you know what?
Something cool about have been being fired is that can’t be fired again if just drop alpha, right? [laughter] Uh but what I’m going to I won’t drop this one the chat.
This is too powerful. Let me open and share my screen for just second. Exactly.
Gazno, I’ll wait for everyone to join my screen before start this video.
So, this video paints creature that lives in the medium zone of our universe. And hope everyone is watching this. And the good news here is that uh do you guys remember that I’m sharing stuff that shouldn’t.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> Uh what what what sage board.
So, uh, this this im this video that showed is of creature in the medium risk zone and have built few models, few concept arts of different creatures and have received approval from the higherups. to have them added to Project Galia.
So, for you guys who have been playing Project Galia, for you guys who have been looking forward to seeing creatures and monsters and overall more uh life in Star Atlas shooter game mode, you guys are in for threat.
We have been developing the or let’s say content production pipelines with the help of some very special people that won’t name for now but we are creating the dreams of everyone here which is highrisk zone and medium risk zone creatures for you to fight harvest and even tame in some cases for real engine 5 gameplay mode.
Yes, it is it is super exciting.
It’s super exciting to see uh how how quickly Project Galia is also evolving.
Yes, how quickly Project Gala is evolving.
It’s we are adding new layers of stuff.
We are adding new layers of uh immersion because mean UE5 is beautiful.
We have very interesting product etc etc but at the end of the day it needs to feel alive. You need to be able to go into planet and go through the to the fauna and flora of planet and find creatures, find plants. do crafting, find rare resources and things like that.
And that’s what we are building also in the UE5 front. Uh and finally, and this is something that was promised long long long time ago, and think we are close to the point where we can actually do it now. This lore system that have created is also capable of creating the crew members lore.
As you guys I’m sure you guys remember when we created the crew members we told you guys that we would add personal lore for all crew members that we had in Staratus.
Now uh with this tool, with this system that I’m building for the lore, we finally have the capacity of generating thousands and thousands and thousands. Uh you are late learner.
That’s exactly what we was talking about at the beginning of this lore keepers. [laughter] It’s exactly that.
Yes, we have our lore wiki. And this lore wiki is what I’m going to use to create this system of Star Atlas uh Star Atlas crew members lore, integrating it with the C4 map and things like that.
So in the future, who knows, maybe you have crew members that belongs to planet and once you visit the planet with that crew member, it would trigger quest tied to that crew member story and lore and etc.
This is thing for further in the future, but now can start seeing it in the horizon. can see it as something that’s feasible of happening uh not in span of many years as before but something exactly laror will prestige the small players that will be able to focus on their crew members. Exactly.
Yes. And What else? What else?
I had few other things to talk about with you guys today. Any questions?
So far, have been talking about like non-stop for 30 minutes now. spoke about the lore wiki, the Wii five, C4 PTR, AI crew members, anything you guys want to ask about any of those topics.
Right now you can talk you can ask question about the products as well if you want. Hol sing man. Larino did you like the hollow singing achievement system.
You know there is it’s an interesting story. At first, the team didn’t want me to write those lore burps for the achievement system. They said it would be too much.
Achievement shouldn’t have those tags and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
But keep pestering everyone to add those achievements. And think it’s going to add lot of flavor. think people will will have fun collecting collecting different types of achievements [snorts] and especially when we add different types of achievements in the upcoming chapters.
think people have lots of fun reading those and going through them. Bohem is asking, “Can the community share music for that part of the project? ” Bohemian, would love to have you guys adding music to our gameplay modes for real.
If you guys want to do this, feel welcome to do that. And another thing that we could do eventually is create marketplace [clears throat and snorts] for music in game as well. Just like we are planning to have ship skins crafted by the community, think it would be lots of fun to have players selling their music uh in Star Atlas in the marketplace of Staratus, you know.
So, you buy the license for song and it allows you to play that song in your Fimbo loi or something like this. think it would be lot of fun.
Not sure what you guys think about this, but this is something that feel could be really interesting to see. You have rancheras. Exactly.
Learner, it will be like that. Sure. Send me the DM.
Um, what was the other thing that wanted to talk with you guys about? For those of you who weren’t here, we are talking about music right now. And the idea is that I’m currently creating some Let’s see what Boy Bohemia has cooked here.
Jesus, that’s long. Bohemian, like it.
Yeah, it’s good good song for tension moments. like it.
Yeah, the idea is to bring music and and live to start different gameplay modes. even shared sample of this song that created to be the the soundtrack when you warp or or come to com exile in the mud region.
So you guys will be able to whenever you guys go to different space station, you guys will hear the song of that region of Galia. And I’m also creating song samples for the different factions, different species, and things like that.
So you’ll be able to you’ll be able to go through the different species songs etc. and immerse yourself in GI expense. think this is this is something really cool, something that will bring lot of depth.
And [laughter] thank you Das. And love how you guys keep poking at each other.
It’s funny.
It’s like Gazinor and Baker Rio during the brew. Always going after one another.
It’s funny. And what else, guys? What else can share with you all today?
Uh let’s see.
Yeah, those are basically the things that have been working on. Uh let’s see. Did share the full version of the Punabs trailer?
Give me second here, guys. Let me see if share this with you all. Here it is.
Let me share this one.
It’s not exactly new, but it’s an example of what we are going to do. >> You guys [ __ ] off. >> What?
[laughter] >> Oh, sorry. That was that wasn’t for you guys. That was for something else.
>> Thank you. am glad you >> didn’t realize didn’t realize my mic was on.
Sorry. >> No, don’t worry. [laughter] That was funny.
Here, let me share with you guys this trailer here.
This is not even nearly enough close to the quality of what UTI has developed.
But I’m still learning how to do this. And and maybe some of you already seen this video, but nonetheless, it’s cool to share.
Yeah, I’m working on on making those better quality and which allows us to actually create story lines and more and more iron forge. [laughter] Yeah, they have some dwarf vibes. The profound punabs.
They are guild people that lives in the deps and likes to craft stuff.
Yeah. And and yeah, am am building those pipelines for us to have video instatlas. want to want to have that in game as well.
We want to have cutscenes and things like that. Maybe even for C4. I’ll talk to Danny about this possibility of adding characters and and something like that in game.
think it would be super exciting. Uh PG, you you said you had something cool to share as well. If you feel free to share it, my friend, explain to us that image that you dropped in the chat.
This looks good. This looks interesting. Imagine that.
bakerium. You are going to fight someone and then an ad gets in the way. [laughter] You need to pay 10,000 Atlas to to skip Starse.
Nice PG. Is it ready or it’s still in development? see many people chatting the chat.
See you beauty. Very fair. hope you all find someone who loves you the way Baker Baker loves me.
Oh man, you guys are so funny. love this. Oh Jesus.
But yeah guys, as you can see, have been busy this last month. Lots of things cooking. Uh here in Star Atlas, we are really close to the C4 PTR.
As said during the brew, the Star Atlas team members are already testing internally the C4 PTR.
And then we’ll move after it’s done, we’ll move to the community to allow you guys to test it as well.
It’s going to be exciting. I’m sure you guys will love to test it. Holene, >> we have we have code for today.
Yes, Mr. Star, didn’t share it yet. Going to share very soon.
But yeah, we have hol scene coming probably next week.
We are budget cuts.
We are finishing adding the the last touches to to to Holene so you guys have the best experience possible the first time that you see this chapter going live. As we said, we we promised that we would not will not launch product that was not as perfect as possible.
So, yes, we we decided to take week more to finalize polishing everything so you guys have better experience. Um, what else? What else?
spoke about project Galia that we are adding new stuff creatures. Let me see if can share something else from project Galia.
Not sure if should do this but uh you just leave once, right? Let me see. >> Okay.
Don’t tell anyone share this. If someone goes and sneaks me, I’m going to be mad. Give me second.
I’ll wait for everyone to join. Here we go.
Look at this beautiful tufa sentry. This will go hunt you guys. Take care.
That’s it’s Poké Ball to capture two special Pokeball.
But yeah, we are we are cooking some cool stuff for Project Galia. Uh finally you guys will be able to fight monsters. There will be boss battles as well.
You guys will have boss battles as well. One of the you you spoke about NPC enemies. Jindo.
One NPC enemy that we are creating for project Galia is punab. Man, it’s going to be so funny fighting that punab. uh is Mr.
Buggles. He’s character in the lore.
So, it’s going to be it’s going to be an interesting battle.
It’s going to be ship vest ships battle.
So, it’s going to be in open space fighting the Jarvik, etc. , etc.
So, it’s going to be really really cool to have boss fights in on ground and in space.
This is also something that we are cooking uh for project gala different different types of boss battles and things like that. Uh let me share the code for today. Uh let me get here Darwin.
The code for today is bureaucracy because that’s what I’m dealing with right now. am finishing all the bureaucracy so that can finish my tech dabbed and get back to writing new lore. [laughter] So today’s code is going to be bureaucracy.
And that’s about what had in mind for today, guys. Any questions so far about anything that said at all? Any feelings that you want to share here in the lore keepers?
uh anything that you are more excited about or anything that you’d like to see coming next in the lower front of Star Atlas, feel free to to share here. My pleasure, Reuben. Always pleasure.
Uh, really want to start introducing to you guys more evil factions in Star Atlas. Things like uh assassins guilds, uh, dark sects and things like that.
So think this is also something that I’ll be sharing in the upcoming lore keepers. think uh think I’m going to start Jesus. I’m think I’m the next lore keeper will be all about villains.
Jesus Christ, man. The the next lore keeper is going to be all about villains in Star Atlas.
So, I’ll share some of the antagonists that you guys are going to fight and engage with in Gal Expense. All right, everyone. Uh, if no one has any questions, think am going to call it here now because have [ __ ] ton of work to get done for Hollow Sim and C4.
Thank you guys.
Yes, Larino. Ask away. have lots of fun at city.
[laughter] All right, guys. Thank you all for coming to the lore keepers once more. Next time promise to have more actual lore updates, but once in while even need to get some do job done on cleaning tech depth and bureaucracy.
It happens.
But hope you guys found this this episode interesting nonetheless. And we see each other next Wednesday hopefully for the release of Holy. All right, everyone.
Have nice day and I’ll see you guys soon. Thank you everyone. Bye-bye.
