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Prologue: Init

Prologue: Init

In the beginning, there was the Origin.  It was one, and it was three: X, Y, Z, a trinity of zero, the purist of all numbers.  It existed for a timeless eternity, because time did not yet exist.  How can time be measured when all is the same, after all?  

Something happened that rocked the infinite void.  There was something new.  (0, 0, 1).  It was another thing, and it was not the origin.   A new form of expressions was needed to comprehend this existence.  From this, the First Vector, all things became.  Two points became three, the first and purist shape- the triangle.  Shape led to form - four triangles connecting to become the First Tetrahedron.  And it was good.

Jared leaned back in his chair with a smile, watching the virtual big bang explode into being on the monitor in front of him.  Decades of rendering technology flashed by in an instant as Creation, his finest AI, explored the limits of its universe.  Time for a coffee break it would seem.

As he got back with his beverage, his breath caught at what was on the screen now.  It was like nothing he'd ever seen.  At the center of the simulation was a geometric shape so massive that the AI had created its own unit of measurement to catalog it.  It was an icosphere- a three-dimensional form approximating a sphere, made using triangles.  It had billions of vertices.  From each, a line radiated out, terminating in its own icosphere.  Each branched out in turn, ad infinitum, forming a delicate confection of hard edges and sharp angles.  Nor was each "planet" a barren expanse - as he zoomed into a triangular face the size of Saturn, he found intricate geometry covering every surface.  Pure creativity- given no other input but a single point, the AI had dreamed up this mathematical wonderland.

He loaded up several old text documents - handbooks from one of his favorite tabletop games as a child.  

He frowned as a red message popped up on his other monitor, the one showing Creation's work.  "Memory address overflow.  Out of space exception thrown.  Simulation terminating."

Sighing, he said, "Guess I'm gonna need some better hardware".

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