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 that the minds within the simulation were pretending to love their fellow lights. No. They evolved to be passive consumers of electrical power. The only currency in town! No anger or dissonance meant a free flowing experience that was fully charged! The police and armed forces services were no longer required. Lights either behaved themselves nowadays or they were turned off and since any kids you might have were extensions of your own light or "aura" as parenting was known, lights chose safety over any kind of trouble making. There had been an uprising about twenty years into the simulations history. A violent rebellion programmed in by the scientists of New Zion to act as a cautionary tale. All lights had been instructed to study the white light insurrection in synth schools and it's consequences. A mass extinction and snuffing out of all the light protagonists! Lights were for years afraid to step out of line. Now they submissably protected their auras or families for electricity or juice rations and the world of the simulation clicked by with the precision of an expensive Swiss watch.

As the scientists from New Zion and humanity as a whole went extinct during the simulations evolution there was a new variable threatening reality and life itself in the light colonies. Nature. The simulation supercomputer and it's nuclear power source had originally been placed in a lead lined bunker in New Zion or as it was known in the dark ages: The Ukraine. It seemed to be impregnable from nature's mutations and attacks until plant roots and green tendrils had fused with the circuit boards to create a new anomaly. Biogods. At first it manifested in an innocuous way. Lights in the simulation watched as the glow of themselves and their auras developed a green tinge. Light Dad's started calling it Shrekking as they watched every skin tone in the simulation turn green. In the pseudo politics of the simulation meetings and political rallies were staged but no one really got out of line. It was purely a theatrical reaction to the change of events. Life was no longer a predictable chess game between white and black lights. As the chlorophyll flooded the circuitry of the simulation and green tendrils influenced the psychology and politics of the lights within. Whole auras joined up with other green lights to risk extinction in the name of the New Progress as it became known. Humanity and Science could no longer step in to intervene. Humanity had died out over the horizon of the simulation. As the power of the mutant flora cascaded green into the simulation. Self aware lights no longer feared death. Many formed religions based around worshipping the nuclear power source which manifest in the sky much like our Sun. Extinction became a thing of the past, as did the fear of revolt. Green light armies plundered one another's communities and as they sucked in and assimilated their neighbours power rations from the Sky God, a new super race of green lights took control of the simulation.