Project Aurora – A Tribute Across Galaxies

Some people write letters.

Others scatter messages among the stars.

In search of a unique way to honor my daughter, I decided to merge two passions: the love I feel for her and my fascination with space exploration games. That’s how Project Aurora was born — a living, eternal tribute, spread across the stars of No Man’s Sky.

Why No Man’s Sky?

For those unfamiliar, No Man’s Sky represents the impossible: a procedurally generated universe with 256 galaxies, 4 trillion stars, and 18 quintillion planets. Even if someone discovered a new planet every second, it would take billions of years to see them all.

And it’s precisely this unimaginable scale that makes the game perfect for the project’s purpose. Every discovery can be named, every planet can host a base, and every traveler can leave a message — a trace of themselves in the vastness of the cosmos.

So what exactly will be done?

My goal is to travel through all 256 galaxies of the game, leaving in each one a fragment of a message I wrote for my daughter. Each system will become a piece of this eternal letter, preserved within the digital immensity of the universe.

Find an undiscovered system.

• Name it, and its planets, after my daughter.Example: Aurora_Almeida_G-I_P-I (where G stands for the galaxy and P for the planet number, both in Roman numerals).

• Explore all fauna, flora, and minerals, naming each discovery as a tribute to our family:

  • Terrestrial animals: Pandoris

  • Flying or aquatic animals: Fofinus

  • Flora: Yanis

  • Minerals: Calderis

• Build a base near a portal, leaving one of the 256 fragments of the message there — so that other travelers may find it.

The Journey Begins

With each new system, I’ll record a captain’s log — a travel diary about the worlds I encounter and the discoveries I make along the way.

If love is infinite, then it deserves a universe to dwell in.

And within it, I’ll leave this tribute a trail of light called Aurora.