Suzy Wallace is acting pretty casually, considering that she’s about to show me the way to the center of the universe. She’s the Senior Producer on No Man’s Sky, and after the past year’s-worth of vague allusions to what might lie at the heart of its galactic tangle, her offer sounds too good to be true; as if men with dark suits and darker glasses will bust in any moment to keep her from spilling the beans. The truth is out there, and all of that.
But the truth will have to wait a while longer it seems. At her prompting, I press a button to bring up the galactic map - a nigh-incomprehensible menagerie of brightly colored solar systems. It is completely overwhelming. Another button press makes things considerably clearer, though. A yellow line connects the cosmic dots, outlining a path from solar system to solar system. I follow it with my eyes for a few seconds, until it lazily spirals out into the darkness of space.
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But the truth will have to wait a while longer it seems. At her prompting, I press a button to bring up the galactic map - a nigh-incomprehensible menagerie of brightly colored solar systems. It is completely overwhelming. Another button press makes things considerably clearer, though. A yellow line connects the cosmic dots, outlining a path from solar system to solar system. I follow it with my eyes for a few seconds, until it lazily spirals out into the darkness of space.
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