Every Project Phoenix on this site
At least twenty public uses of the name are real enough to list. The home page keeps eight. This page is the rest, plus the ones that only get a paragraph because the evidence is a single source.
Pages that already exist here
Games: the JRPG, the 2024 horror game, and 涅槃计划. The novel is The Phoenix Project. Meta’s glasses used the codename and now have a product name. Call of Duty: Vanguard, the Vietnam War Phoenix Program, Rick and Morty’s Operation Phoenix, Discord’s Rust rewrite, and the Fallout 4 quest each have a page. Start at the home page if you are still sorting which one you meant.
Science, software, and buildings
SETI’s Project Phoenix began at Parkes in February 1995, moved to Green Bank for 1996–1998 observations, then to Arecibo until March 2004. The SETI Institute reports roughly 800 targets at 1,200–3,000 MHz and no detected extraterrestrial signal. Its overview says about 200 light-years, while its FAQ says about 240; both are retained rather than choosing one distance. That is the answer behind “when did Project Phoenix start?” on some Bing question boxes, and it is not the JRPG.
AOL’s Project Phoenix was a Gmail-style mail overhaul CNET covered on 14 November 2010. One news story, so it stays a paragraph. Aligned’s Project Phoenix is a 2 gigawatt data center in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, described in a 10 September 2026 release as a $10 billion project. The U.S. State Department used the name in 2023 for a clean-energy and small-modular-reactor feasibility page. Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council runs a hurricane recovery exercise at phoenix.tbrpc.org. Each of those is one public page.
Cancelled games and fiction inside other fiction
Bungie’s Project Phoenix was a voxel strategy game in the spirit of Myth, started around 1999 and cancelled so the studio could make Halo 2. City of Titans grew out of a “Phoenix Project” announcement as a spiritual successor to City of Heroes. Avatar’s recombinant program and Assassin’s Creed’s Phoenix Project are plot devices inside those series, documented mainly on their wikis. South Africa’s Project Phoenix was a 2002 reserve-force effort. BBC Magazines used the name around 2006–2007 for an unreleased Newsbrief, according to the Newsbrief article.
I am not opening pages for crypto tokens, a Mars probe, or aviation projects that appear only as autocomplete. If a later source defines one of them, it can earn a paragraph. Until then the index stops.
Questions
What does Project Phoenix mean?
Nothing by itself. It is a label reused by games, a novel, a headset, a search for alien signals, a data center, and several cancelled or historical programs.
How many video games use the name?
Three that this site treats as separate products: the 2013 JRPG, the 2024 horror game, and 涅槃计划. Call of Duty uses the name inside a fictional plot, which is not a fourth product.
What was the SETI Project Phoenix?
A targeted radio search from 1995 to 2004 using Parkes, Green Bank, and Arecibo. SETI Institute reports about 800 stars, 1,200–3,000 MHz, and no detected extraterrestrial signal.
Sources
- Wikipedia disambiguation — checked 2026-11-12
- SETI Institute: Project Phoenix — checked 2026-11-12
- Bungie — checked 2026-11-12
- CNET on AOL — checked 2026-11-12
- Aligned data centers — checked 2026-11-12
- U.S. State Department — checked 2026-11-12
- Tampa Bay exercise — checked 2026-11-12
- City of Titans — checked 2026-11-12