A few days after breaking through Earth's atmosphere I was captured. Not by DEMONS, but by a force fighting the Grid. They took me in, listened to my story and, after extended questioning, offered me a choice.
As the saying goes, I took the Red Pill. Over the next few days the layers of lies were scraped back, the truth airing like an open wound that refused to heal.
My glimpse into infinite intelligence is the keystone, the secret they've been hiding from us for Millenia. They call it The Sublime, and connecting to it voluntarily, using its power—its iridescent light—is called going Supernova. Only a handful of people in any solar system can do it, and that's what they fear the most. Only the Supernova have the power to fight an entire solar system.
That's the real reason SIMPs exist. They sever some kind of energetic connection we have to The Sublime and repress the dreaming state of sleep, as The Sublime reaches out to us in our dreams.
It was an AI that spotted an opportunity to use SIMPs to turn us into economic slaves via the Adrenaline Grid. Turns out humanity's enslavement was an afterthought.
They also enlightened me as to why the entire system is forced to sleep at the same time; routine AI algorithm optimisation and backup. They don't want a single soul conscious when that happens.
We know why—the truth—and we're going to fight for it.
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