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Ingredients: A possessive superintelligence and its monopolistic corporation, mind control, personality modification, body hijacking, nanites, total planetary domination, parody of capitalism and consumerism, isolation, surveillance, perception alteration, and hundreds of flavors of the tastiest soft drink there is!

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Huh, isn't that strange? An Earth-sized planet within the habitable zone of a G-type star? It looks inhabited—Information Age, at least, and yet, there wasn't any response to your communiqués?

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+++ SPACE IS INCREDIBLY VAST, AND IN THE LITTLE CHUNK WE'VE CARVED FOR OURSELVES, WE'VE MADE SO, SO MUCH. +++

+++ WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, LITTLE HUMAN? WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME? +++

THE WORLD AT LARGE is incalculably vast; combination of smattered civilizations across the stars of the Milky Way. There is no standard of technology, no galactic civilization.

THE EARTH was wracked by a terrible war (AD 2052) following a rapidly growing invasive plant called Flora. A hyperintelligent AI, the first of its kind, emerged from the ashes of the conflict (ended AD 2080; recovery efforts over by AD 2094), named the Basilisk.

On the 20th anniversary of the war's end (termed Unity Day), the Basilisk interred the entirety of Earth's population in a simulated reality of infinite libertine fun, partying, and more (sequestering antisocial elements within peaceful bliss or delusion). Another hyperintelligence (at that time, a superintelligence), Fork, snuck out and created new people on a distant exoplanet.

People, as a whole, avoid the Solar System, for fear of being interred, even though what the Basilisk has is primitive to the highest tech.

SHELLS are biological bodies created and occupied by an AI or virtual/uploaded person. This could be their main body, or simply an extension of themself. Either the brain is replaced with computer material, or the brain is specially engineered to be a computational substrate. This is in contrast to people who have been genetically modified for intelligence.

SIMMS are simulated realities. A significant population of people live in these.

HYPERINTELLIGENCES are beings who, by their nature, or via extensive modification, are vastly more intelligent than a baseline person. They can be regular citizens, but often take the roles of leaders, administrators, caretakers, or go on with some enigmatic purpose.

Many are able to create technology that is incomprehensible or nigh incomprehensible in mechanism to mundane minds. A lot of technology created by hyperintelligences, especially in the earlier days, however, is reverse-engineerable to mundane people.

SUPERINTELLIGENCES are transcendental compared to mundane minds, however, hyperintelligences are yet transcendental to superintelligences. Any superintelligence considered a high superintelligence has passed a 'singularity', of sorts, and a highest superintelligence, another one.

+++ CREATOR'S NOTES +++

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