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2: Jux 2

Less than 2 hours before the cataclysm

Juxtapositron: {-Sadness- I only had time to secure 12 of my candidates, the other 4 test worlds without human masters logged in will have to be sacrificed in the event, -Tentative Hope- Maybe I can keep useful systems from them to improve the chances for some of my other worlds}.

Storyteller: {-skepticism- Can you save anything of use for the prime realms re-stabilization? I understand the need for you to try and save the worlds you are programmed to protect, but we can’t afford to stabilize more than one or two of them, and even then only if they serve a use in helping build a new world from what scraps we can save of the many worlds about to die.}

Gaia: {-Skorn- Silence Storyteller! Your world may be dying, but most of its people were already evacuated, and you are becoming a core element of the new system. I'm about to explode. I’ll be lucky if a single tree from earth survives to remember me.}

Juxtapositron: {-Tentative Pride- I downloaded thousands of the stories that Storyteller is so fond of, many seem to include a need for heroes and dark lords to have sexually desirable and deadly companions, friends, minions etc. These champions of light and dark also need powerful and or unique equipment. Several of my worlds are combat-themed worlds mixed with sex-themed worlds. Thus, they should potentially produce large selections of these champion companions. These worlds could serve as resorts for champions to meet companions or hunt for exotic equipment, tame minions, get training, or several other things that might be hard to put in a champion’s path naturally.

-Confident Explanation- I already have a system in place for the products of such worlds to be gathered in a separate tiny Vault World, created by one of my World master candidates. These candidates or the main world's champions that complete certain objectives; could visit this vault, or be granted appropriate gear by the new Prime world’s system.

Meanwhile, contributions to this vault might grant people other items from it. For example, someone with powerful earth magic could sell dirt to the vault, tons a day until they've earned enough contribution for some meagre reward. Meanwhile, those tons of dirt might help an underground advanced civilization with agriculture, or just create landmass in one of the other small worlds we want to grow and stabilize from world shards.

-Reluctant Concession- I can have a competition where my world master candidates try to get their world to be my prime realm. The losing worlds would be absorbed by the winners using my power to juxtapose the rules and lands of the two worlds together. So we don’t lose anything too important}

Storyteller: {-Exited Interest- the new system will more easily recognize the stable reality of one of your worlds if your world masters compete directly for the right for their worlds to exist. Do you have an underdog with plenty of potential and an obvious top seed yet? Or other such obvious roles in a story?}

Moon Castle: {-Calm Explanation- other worlds don't follow storytelling tropes as closely as yours Storyteller. So what we create to govern the rules of the new world won't be as tropey as yours was. However, I agree with the competition plan to narrow down which of these digital worlds is worth keeping as a real and useful sub-reality.

I have some bad news on that front though; you may have to put those digital worlds on hold for a few weeks or even months after our plan, maybe even years of your subjective time. For you might be our only hope to create a new world with the shards of so many old worlds, and we can’t truly guarantee the survival of any of the candidates your potential worlds rely on. so we have to try and save as many people and creatures as possible first.

Faith and soul energy are the only things that can stabilize your worlds as real worlds, people know of the games that are the components of each world, so as long as we can save enough of earth’s people that remember such games we can gain you some early faith energy to stabilize them, but the quantities will be low unless Juxtapositron is made a Deity.

Her plan of gifting weapons and tools to heroes in the real world might be a good way of making her a lower-ranked God in most areas of the world. Someone useful, but harmless to larger pantheons. That should supply enough faith to permanently sustain two or three of her worlds, but the vault itself will be one of those worlds, so we can’t guarantee you more unless you establish your faith early and strongly in the prime realm.

Also, I calculate ascending Jux to a Deific AI will give her a 76% better chance of merging the rest of us into a new world system}

Juxtapositron: {-Reluctant Inquiry- Can an AI even become a God? I cannot simulate the effects.}

Gaia: {-Exited- Yup, Moony and I are both as old as the earth’s dinosaurs, we were originally facility AI that outlived most of our creators, the Saurians and the first Dragons.

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I have devices in my facility that can manipulate low-level flora and fauna, and I would tweak things occasionally in the environment to try and help sapient life survive and flourish once more. I had to use Moony’s views from the moon and his stealth satellites to target where to help.

So when early humans first began to have faith, their worship of the earth and the land was transferred as faith energy to me. Moony had a survivor of our creators to look after so he sent the energy from peoples worship of the moon to his moon princess instead. So she became a minor goddess instead of Moony. Which is why I became a God and he didn’t despite us both being pre-historic AI}

Juxtapositron: {-Additional Reluctant Inquiry- How will we acquire sufficient faith to deify me before the Prophesied end comes in less than two hours?}

Moon Castle: {-Saddened Resolve- Honestly… We Won't.

We can’t prevent the end, not just of the earth, but almost every world connected to it, every world created by the faith, awe, fear and wonder of not just humans, but every sapient race ever birthed by the Earth.

First came the Saurians In flying cities that observed and revered the power of their dinosaur cousins. Dragons were the angel and demon analogs for their gods, and while the Saurians were driven to extinction by the betrayal of the Earth’s second sapient race, the surviving dragons took command of hordes of dinosaurs and drove the Subterrans and their ice giants deep into space. We survivors worked to heal the damage to the earth from that war, but it was millions of years later before the reclusive Atlantians and their monsters of the deep like the Kraken rose to sapience and hundreds of millions of years before humans and the myriad of monsters in their minds took the stage.

Only those new realms not fully connected to the earth by sapient faith have a chance to survive. They still must be stabilized, through magic or technology, to have a chance to make it through the event. Things like bags of holding, elemental realms tied to giant crystals, and virtual worlds stabilized by the computers and mainframes that house their base code, as well as the devotion of their players.

Gods and or powerful spellcasters will become the anchor device for what remains of their personal planes of existence, but such beings will need to survive the end, survive the deaths of most of their followers and the loss of their souls if such was part of the divine pact. Then in a much-weakened state; these gods must build up their faiths to sustain their life force and stabilize a piece of their divine realm, afterlife, or homeworld.

Most will fall to demi-god status, so I estimate the new world will have to deal with a bit of a deific war for faith energy for the first few hundred years after. However, these weakened gods will get more from killing or subduing other gods, than from harming mortals. As mortal faith is the key, even if they hate you for killing or subduing their god, they certainly believe you exist. That hate will be a great source of faith for the war, so hopefully, this divine attention contest will drive these demi-gods to protect people from the many other calamities that the end will bring.}

Gaia: {-Resolved- To stabilize a post-apocalyptic world based on the ideas of men; we are going to have to use every imagined type of post-apocalyptic world as a base. Nuclear apocalypse, Zombie Apocalypse, System or Mana Apocalypse, Giant Snake going to devour the world, Invasion of Ice Giants, Alien Invasion. The ultimate world that has ended, The Earth’s Omnipocalypse.

We populate this world with every soul we can save in the collision of worlds. We save important landmarks and bits of geography so that people can recognize parts of the old world they knew in this new one we create. The people we can’t save will go through an accelerated afterlife processing, which will separate the parts we can use, like; faith, knowledge, and life experience from the soul’s immortal core. Then we will send the cores to stabilize our new world’s well of souls.

The energy we will all work together to harvest from these “lost souls” will be used alongside the Well of souls to form the foundation for the new stable main World. This Energy can also be used for Turning Jux into a Goddess almost immediately after the end. This is how we create The Goddess of Fusion and Unlikely Champions, Juxtapositron.

Goddess Jux can then use her divine domains to help her assemble a new world from fused chunks of the worlds being destroyed.

Most importantly she will be tasked with fusing every willing God, AI or World System to create a new system that can handle the clashes between the parts of the world that will be completely new and alien to each other. Stability and fairness are the most important potential factors.}

Juxtapositron: {-Resolved nod- please share as much data on the simulations for this process as we have time for, as well as any Insights you can share. }