My progress so far:
I warped to Toganeil system where the outlaw sation is located. The bounty master of Toganeil station offers various tasks which could lead to big money. After completing a few tasks, I bought a new starship. It's a class A solar sailor, which is significantly more agile than my previous starship. I got back to my capital ship stationed in Aishika-Yok VII system, and recruited a wingman who will assist me in space combat. (log #12)
Following Apollo's plan to investigate the Sentinels, I raided a Korvax facility on planet Kirt XVI in Amurobeo XIX system. Breaking into the facility caused the Sentinels swarm around the building because Korvax entities worship the lord of the Sentinels, Atlas as deity. The terminal inside had no useful information about the Sentinels. I ran out of the building and fled. Meanwhile, Apollo collected and analyzed the signals from the Sentinel swarm and found out monoliths were related to their instantaneous appearance via some kind of teleport. I'm going to investigate those monoliths. (log #13)
I checked out 3 monoliths in Amurobeo XIX system. Two of them was on planet Kirt XVI and one on planet Smakewe Ujin. Each monolith gave me partial glyphs needed to open the portal to another realm, with a vision which showed me the First Traveler's journey and encounter with the omnipotent being, Atlas. After obtaining complete set of glyphs, I detected the fourth energy source on planet Kirt XVI. This must be the portal. (log #14)
I landed near the energy source on planet Kirt XVI. As expected, it was some kind of portal. When I input the glyphs at the terminal, the portal was activated.
At the same time, the Sentinels surrounded me and began to attack. I ran into the portal.
I was teleported to a strange new planet, with yellowish sky and floating bubbles everywhere. And then I received a message "Atlas protocol initiated".
Reality faded, and I found myself in a huge hall. There was a gigantic black sphere with crimson hue in front of me. It was Atlas, or maybe a projection of Atlas. I walked to the sphere and accessed the terminal near it. The terminal is called "Atlas Interface".
I ran some kind of diagnostic via the Atlas Interface. From the messages from the interface, it seems the entire galaxy is one big simulation. Both Sentinel and traveler are designated as subroutines, and there seems to be critical errors in both. So, this galaxy-simulation created by Atlas has been running for countless millennia, and for whatever reason, there are serious errors or anomalies. Maybe I am one of those critical errors.
That was it, and I was sent back to the planet. Now I could detect my starship in a distance. I began to walk toward it.
This planet was Aputon Sigma, in Konaka system. I don't know how far I am from the previous star systems I visited, but it seems I'm in the same galaxy at least.
I found some kind of beacon nearby my starship. It contained a small sphere which looked like a miniature version of Atlas. I activated the beacon. I couldn't figure out what the messages from the beacon mean. I'm not sure what I did.
I got onboard my starhip. In a moment, the starship picked up an inbound transmission signal from somewhere on this planet. This could be from Artemis.
The signal source is fairly far away, but, I don't know why, my starship's launch thruster is damaged. I'll get there after repairing the launch thruster.