The Sun Cries Greenlight.
The Russian scientists had originally designed the simulation to be affordable and dull, from their laboratory in New Zion. The master computers had been hooked up to self sustaining nuclear power reactors and fed with information from fifty years of internet life. That was three hundred years ago. All experiences since then had been artificially generated in the synth dish. An artificial world that was now just as real to the minds living within it as any organically formed continent. The original vision for this shared perception of reality had been mockingly called "Do housewives dream of electric Zuckerbergs?" In reference to the all conquering tedium of Facebook in the 21sr Century. No surprises! Well for two hundred close to three hundred years this had been the case: White lights held open the door to black lights as instructed. Anger became a crime in the synth colonies. Racism was punishable by unplugging or banishment. Death in other words. It wasn't...