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Continúa, Has publicado ene 05, 2019
A thousand years after the Digital Reset, Digbee is about to ENCODE the last humans into GOO banks as the human race embarks on two divergent journeys to permanently split down the line it had been drawing in the sand for the last five hundred years. Pots, Sheepman, and Drew, all Encoders themselves, are the final four to go into the GOO. Digbee, already re-birthed into his clone many times, will be the last in "Turning off the lights," So to speak. Since the digital reset at the start of the Wars, no AI had been able to sustain itself on earth, and the ATMOS-ZONE had finally failed. Humans had sided up on either "New Earth; a low tech standard terraform" Salvation; or Another Destiny, hell-bent on setting forth into the Multiverse in Databanks of GOO onboard Juggernaut spacecraft looking for places to settle. Cloning and Hostile Environment Rebirth Technology opening up many more planets to colonize than the current weak human form could sustain.
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