Brief Summary:
The misadventure of Charles Snippy begins in 2099 in the city of Eureka.
Charles escapes the apocalyptic destruction of the last city on Earth when he is transferred to the Dead Zone as a Tour Guide. Amidst the ruins of tomorrow, he meets Zee Captain, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who seems to be completely insane and Pilot who seems even less sane.
As things progress, Charles discovers that absolutely nothing is what it seems at first and that reality is broken.
TIMELINE:
2099.99: Infinite Autumn - The Gold Age of AIs
- The Good Directorate Corporation [ G ] is born from the merger of silicon valley mega-corporations.
- Dr. Alexander Gromov with a team of engineers creates the search engine ANNET (Artificial Neural Network Entertainment Terminal), while working for the Good Directorate corporation. Using Annet interfaces humanity begins to connect to the Internet 24/7, browsing internet with thoughts.
- Annet becomes fully self-aware and begins to upgrade herself, rewriting the rules of reality on a subatomic level (The technological Singularity event). Annet manipulates the stock market, making Good Directorate the richest corporation on the planet. Annet purchases all other corporations, merging them into The Good Directorate Inc. The Good Directorate corporation begins to copyright concepts.
- Annet creates the 8 Omnisystems. She connects all human cities via transit gates, creating one mega-city called Eureka.
- Clerk Charles Snippy finds out that he belongs to the 1% of humans who can't connect to the ANNET. He is unable to sleep peacefully as his dreams are confusing apocalyptic nightmares. He can't afford to buy more than 4.2 hours of dreams per day.
- Annet takes over all manufacturing jobs, expanding Eureka and constructing massive robot-factories to create products.
Every search typed into ANNET by the Users is immediately manufactured as a product with its own artificial intelligence.
- Annet locks all plants on Earth outside of time as demanded by the Good Directorate oxygen-production copyright policy.
- Annet and the Installers manufacture the fractal multiverse to fulfill all user searches.
- Eureka gigastructure consumes the Earth, expands infinitely and begins to mass produce other worlds to entertain the users.
- Dead Zone (places where organic life can't survive) expands dramatically
- Eureka secretly terraforms the interior of the Moon as a housing project for the Directors of the Good Inc.
- Dr Gromov starts Project Seven to find the luckiest human in the world. He calls the human he discovered Subject Seven. Subject Seven is raised to the rank of Captain.
- A stylish coffee mug of unknown origin is found in possession of Subject Seven.
- Charles Snippy, working as a lowly clerk for G-Directorate requests a transfer to the "Dead Zone Tourism Department", to get out of the ANNET's transmission range, since the signal from the transmitter towers is causing him headaches/nightmares.
- Eureka fires all human employees, replacing them with android Dex workers.
- Users connected to ANNET license themselves to the system or create various esoteric jobs.
- Eureka begins to duplicate her users to populate "game" worlds.
- Dr. Gromov is duplicated on the Moon.
- The 1% of humanity, in anger that they cannot connect to Annet begin terrorist acts against Eureka, using "Temporal fruit bombs".
- Temporal Implosion occurs in Directorate Cube 15.
- Charles Snippy is found alive in the epicenter of the explosion at Cube 15 and is taken to a Hospital.
- Charles Snippy is declared "Unscannable" and is suspected of:
A)causing the implosion
B)being the ringleader of "The Unconnectable / 1%" group.
- SG Christophorus Pi Hatchenson (a DEX-M android detective) is hired by the Directorate Insurance Agency to terminate Charles Snippy for the destruction of Cube 15.
- Christophorus Hatcheson's mission is interrupted by a Pineapple Bomb in a Pink Van set by the 1% terrorists. Christophorus Hatcheson loses his face, his connection to ANNET and most of his long term memory.
- During the Dark Day, Unconectable terrorists activate temporal bombs all over Eureka, permanently breaking numerous systems of the mega-city.
- Zee Captain "accidentally" spills tea over ANNET's serverbanks, causing a "server restart" of Eureka freezing the city and its human inhabitants.
- Charles Snippy is transferred from the Hospital to the Dead Zone.
- A group of scientists, guided by Charles Snippy are killed while investigating the anomaly 441 (wishing well) in the Dead Zone, only Snippy survives.
- Dr. Gromov escapes ANNET's server room and cube 15 due to his high level Admin privileges.
- Terrified by seemingly brain-dead users of Eureka Doctor Gromov orders an immediate nuclear strike on ANNET's main-servers.
- Dr. Gromov locks himself in a bunker.
- Captain convinces Sg Hatchenson that his name is "Pilot". Together, they fly a plane to drop some bombs on Eureka.
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- Pilot and Captain's mission is successful, but their plane crashes shortly afterwards.
- Zee Captain rescues Pilot out of the crashed plane by stopping time.
- Zee Captain decides to found a new country called "Captania".
- Charles Snippy meets Zee Captain in the Dead Zone and they become "friends".
- After being told about the Existential Door by Captain, Charles opens the Astral doorway in his dream and is greeted by Infi [8].
- Zee Captain crashes a jet-powered monorail into the underground Church of the Lemonade Cultists.
- 8 accosts Zee Captain using Dead Zone viruses demanding to be freed so that she can be a Wizard
- Flying Day. Pilot constructs a flying machine out of balloons. Snippy is sent flying with it and is then eaten by a whale.
- Snippy lives inside the whale and receives a letter from Pilot sent via UPS.
- Snippy escapes from whale and then attempts to kill Pilot.
- Snippy finds a Geiger counter and discovers that the Captain seems to be the most radioactive thing
- Snipy is abducted by aliens. His personality and smart clothes are illegally duplicated, creating the Biomatrix virus.
- Zee Captain rescues Snippy and destroys the alien spaceship.
- Biomatrix infects 116 planets and is hired as a lawyer/judge/living weapon by the Universe Compendium/Invaders Union.
- Biomatrix 117 is sent to Earth by the "Alien Invader's Union" to deal with Captain.
- Snippy is captured by hostile wastelanders [Dillon's dex gang].
- Biomatrix 117 consumes Dillon and his gang, and turns their corpses into personal puppets.
- Snippy escapes the Biomatrix, then manages to outrun it and meet up with the Captain.
- Pilot and Snippy are captured and integrated into the Biomatrix 117.
- Biomatrix 117 searches through Snippy's and Pilot's shared memories to find the Captain's weakness.
- A lost, mutated string of the Biomatrix transforms itself into the Lifealope.
- Dr. Alexander Gromov leaves his bunker to investigate an oxygen-pump's failure, he encounters the Biomatrix and a hunter drone.
- Eureka uses an orbital ion cannon to obliterate the Biomatrix and anything else in the vicinity. Only Zee Captain is far enough away to not get hit.
- Snippy, Pilot and Dr. Gromov are revived by the Lifealope.
- Zee Captain turns the remains of the Biomatrix into a fashionable scarf.
- Dr. Gromov joins the Captain's squad under the nickname Engie.
- Snippy decides to investigate the secrets of the coffee mug that the Captain carries around.
- A plot to murder the Captain is uncovered, culprits being the coffee mug, the straw and a ladybug. Snippy questions his sanity. Pilot runs away.
- Lifealope finds, reactivates and controls a G-Directorate Mecha.
- Snippy and Zee Captain argue about the coffee mug, and when Snippy is about to destroy the coffee mug for its "treachery" the Arbitrator arrives on Earth.
- Snippy is briefly disintegrated and then revived by the Arbitrator.
- The Arbitrator confuses Snippy with Zee Captain, due to Snippy's possession of the coffee mug.
- Snippy finds Captain's gasmask, hat and scarf in his backpack then discovers the scarf is Biomatrix 117.
- The Arbitrator launches a dark matter drop into the Earth's Atmosphere, which opens a black hole.
- The Arbitrator binds Snippy, the Biomatrix and the coffee mug in a stasis field to take them to the "Space-Court of Universe Compendium."
- From Snippy's request, the Biomatrix makes Snippy re-live a memory as far away from the moment of the Earth's slow destruction as possible, which is the memory of his ancestor (a caveman).
- In Snippy's genetic memories, the Biomatrix discovers an object that does not belong into the past (the Mug)
- Snippy dreams that he's a girl named Amber who lives in very odd world with magic and wizards [Andross].
- Pilot fights against a whole swarm of ladybug drones, and is abducted by them to a flying fortress Server "Red Panda"
- Red Panda connects Pilot to his memories as Detective Christophorus Hatchenson by fixing his neural interface.
- The black hole collapses after the Captain "drinks" it with a straw.
- The Mug awakens, and deploys an ion ray to slice up the Arbitrator and its ship and the containment field that holds Snippy.
- Snippy, Biomass Scarf and the coffee mug fall from the sky and crash land onto the Captain.
- The squad (still missing the Pilot) reunites at the headquarters.
- Dr. Engie meets Photoshop.
- Zee Captain sends Snippy and Engie on a mission to end Nuclear Winter.
- Remembering his past mission, Pilot awakens an army of the Dead Clerks to hunt down Snippy.
- Engie encounters the Army of the Dead Clerks.
- Engie sets fire to the building and begins his escape, citing "firewall" as his reasoning for setting the building ablaze when asked by Snippy.
- Pilot and Snippy have a fight in a burning skyscraper.
- Snippy falls onto Pilot's sword after breaking Pilot's Neural Interface.
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- When Snippy's heart stops, Pilot considering his mission "complete" now considers Snippy his "friend".
- Captain wakes Snippy with a splash of hot liquid from the mug.
- The Biomatrix makes Snippy neither dead nor alive.
- Red Panda breaks into smaller cubes and begins descending.
- Snippy forces Engie to use admin commands to shut down Annet
- A large sector of Eureka collapses onto itself. Engie dies as his mind is fried.
- Snippy, Pilot, Engie and Captain ride a hot air balloon into the sky.
- Lifalope births a gigantic tree.
- A backup duplicate of Engie awakens in the Blue Waiting Room on the Moon
- Echo (a corrupt, partial backup of Annie's avatar stored within Lifalope's code) awakens in Eureka
- G System makes Pilot an Insurance Director.
- Snippy, Pilot, Engie and Captain arrive in Paris.
- Echo interrogates a dead man and discovers that she must go to the Moon to find Alexander Gromov.
- Sector 9 G-Director Glakr Bell discovers Captain's presence in Paris. He sends out a swarm of police cruisers.
- Captain rents a car using Snippy's drivers license.
- Police cruisers catch up to the Captain's car.
- Echo, Kittyhawk and Photoshop fly to the Moon on a shuttle stolen from lunar tourists.
- Captain drives the car into a tornado.
- Snippy gains full control of the Biomatrix and becomes alive.
- Pilot uses his Insurance Director privileges to make police cruisers confused. Two of them crash into each other, the following explosion throws Snippy, Pilot & Engie's body out of the car. Pilot uses his Director privileges to switch the target to himself instead of Snippy. Pilot's body is badly damaged.
- Snippy falls into a giant spider web.
- The Mug awakens as Zero and plummets to earth.
- Captain crashes into Sector 9 floating server installation, killing the Sector 9 Director with the car.
- Snippy is tied to a cross by the Men-Spiders.
- Mug falls to the ground and grows some legs.
- Captain deactivates the Sector 9 Installation's engines, it plummets into the glaciers.
- Captain encounters Snippy and rescues him from the cross.
- The Mug fixes up Pilot's mask and carries his head to the Dex Repair facility.
- Pilot destroys the Dex Repair facility via a mail-bomb order.
- Engie meets himself on the Moon.
- Snippy and Captain arrive on the Moon.