https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/26/17616742/no-mans-sky-next-whispering-egg-humming-story

The team at Hello Games has done the impossible, effectively raising No Man’s Sky from the dead. The spacefaring game now has much more depth in almost every regard, and appears just as good at generating stories as it is at generating planets. Up until last night, there was one addition to the game that had so far eluded public knowledge. With everyone hunting feverishly across billions of worlds, those who found it managed to keep the secret for a few days. That is, until one small group of players had the ultimate first encounter.

As Carl Sagan would say, they should have sent a poet. Instead, they sent a narrative designer.