1.1518 Wasteland Punk
The core concept of "maternal body" mentioned many times in the latest "Matrix: Matrix Restart" starts with the "robot revolution".
After all the costs, even using black clouds to cover the sun forever, still losing the doomsday war with the Machine Legion, humans are no longer regarded as equal high-level species, but become bio-cells that have been raised on battery farms since childhood to provide energy to the Machine City. But later, the Machine Legion discovered that instead of abused humans and forced them to fall into internal mental distractions and seriously affecting the stability of the biological energy supply, it is better to provide humans with a comfortable prison of thought to produce energy more efficiently. Therefore, engineers in the Machine City created a virtual reality system called the mother body.
The first-generation mother is called the "Paradise Matrix". As the name suggests, the world presented is a perfect utopia, without any pain such as diseases, war, etc., and a perfect result can be obtained due to the lack of choice, which makes a large number of humans begin to question this non-real world and die in large numbers when connecting the mother. Agent Smith once assumed that it is because of human imperfection that one needs to define oneself with pain, so that these phenomena occur.
It is said that Seraph, who protected the prophet, was created during the first generation matrix. When this matrix was proven to fail and was destroyed, many programs of the first generation matrix were left to the second generation matrix, and these programs were called "exiles".
Based on this, players speculate that (unofficially set), the second-generation mother is called "Nightmare Matrix". Humans believe that it is a painful virtual world created by engineers. Many programs appear in the appearance of zombies, aliens, vampires, werewolfs, and various mythological monsters. However, it is unknown whether the second-generation mother really embodies human pain. The few evidence is (The Matrix comic). When Morpheus saw many evil supernatural creatures, he speculated that it might be because the first-generation mother failed, so he chose to create it in the opposite way.
The three generations of parent bodies are the version of the "Matrix" trilogy. The Prophet discovered that the way to make humans think that the virtual world is real is to have choices and simulate the earth from the end of the 20th century to the early 21st century. This indeed made 99% of human beings stablely controlled by machine cities and continuously provide bioenergy with sources.
But 1% of humans still resist the third generation of mothers. If these people continue to live in the virtual world, it will lead to chaos and collapse of the mother's data. Therefore, the prophet decided to store these humans who resist the mother in a certain "container", which is the city of Zion (the debate about whether Zion is another deep mother or is located in the underground of the real world has never stopped among players), but free humans will rely on reproduction to increase the ethnic group, which will eventually lead to the destruction of the mother.
Therefore, the Machine City came up with a solution, focusing these "error codes" on a specific human being, turning him into the so-called "Savior (The One). Engineers and prophets who foresee this situation put the code to restart the mother's body in the savior. Before the mother's body collapses, the savior can restart the three generations of mother's body to avoid destruction.
This is why the machine party chose not to kill the rebels directly, but instead asked them to establish the city of Zion, with the purpose of making the savior have emotions with humans. In the past dynasties, without exception, saviors will choose to destroy 1% of Zion in order to prevent 99% of humans from entering the matrix mother from dying in virtual reality, and sacrifice their ego for justice. On the other hand, the mechanical city needs the savior to learn human emotions, obtain information, and upgrade the mother body to create a more real virtual world, making it increasingly difficult for humans to discover abnormalities. In this process, the machine life will gain the most precious "creative" of human beings and achieve higher level of evolution.
Whenever a cycle from creation to destruction is completed, the Machine City will select 16 women and 7 men from humans to rebuild the City of Zion, and then select a new savior to conduct an infinite cycle and maintain a delicate balance. But the only exception (program error) still arises. The new savior Neo is different from the previous saviors. He would rather choose to save his beloved woman and break the entire cycle. This is the core plot structure of "The Matrix".
In fact, the big players who have experienced the subsequent plot baptism of the sanctuary version of the Matrix trilogy are more profound than the plot thoughts and understanding shown in the original 4th generation of "Matrix: Matrix Restart". Just as the city of Zion, which was talked about by players, ended at the end of the trilogy, players who intervened in the main line also gradually withdrew the decay of the underground pipeline and the subsequent personal plots of the saviors of all generations, as well as the "electronic ghosts" that ravaged the pipeline and the "Last Exorcism" that were not completed due to the sanctuary, all reached the height of the shelter that surpassed the original plot under the core demand of "loyalty to the original and higher than the original".
Just as Wu Chen briefly intervened in the fragmented time and space of "Mad Max", through the unique plot distortion rules of the Feizhai Plane Elevator, completing the stage-based maximum harvest of the derivative main line, while also elevating the Wasteland Doomsday Science Fiction to Wasteland Punk Science Fiction in one fell swoop.
As the guardians of the "V8 Castle" supported by the God of the new generation of V8 engines, Captain Nika Fordman and her Lieutenant rangers need to fight at all times, as well as the two-in-one "Centaur Distortion" they carry, the distorted plot lines that are far beyond the familiar Wasteland era. They have come to the Wasteland Punk era.
Similarly, Wu Chen's adventure in the post-trilogy era of "The Matrix" also promoted the original plot of cyberpunk to wasteland punk in one fell swoop.
The definition of wasteland is usually set against the background of severe damage to the environment in which humans live, and the plot is the struggle of the protagonist, as the survivor, in a cruel but real harsh environment. The core of the creation of wasteland themes is mainly to explore the world where civilization was completely destroyed after experiencing huge disasters. These disasters are diverse in forms, including global nuclear bombs, biological resident evils, celestial collisions, etc. The concept of wasteland began to become popular after World War II, and its ideological origin comes from the public's concerns about the possibility of global destruction by nuclear war. Works on wasteland themes mostly discuss people and
Naturally, the relationship between technology shows the struggle of human beings in a resource-scarce environment. In the wasteland world, survivors must exert subjective initiative in rural and urban ruins, and use all available resources to create new settlements and self-defense weapons. The original currency may be replaced by a new item or a variety of items as a currency. The original order will no longer exist, and will be replaced by the management regulations within the settlement, which will be extremely dangerous outside the settlement. Some items will become extremely precious due to the cessation of factories.
The subject matter is more neutral to the attitude of science and technology. Its discussion is more about the relationship between man and nature and technology, which shows the struggle of human beings in a resource-scarce environment. At home and abroad, scholars tend to classify wasteland as "Post-Apocalyptic" in "Post-Apocalyptic style". It has a unique charm: the rebirth after destruction and the aesthetics of ruins. Urban ruins, civilized ruins and even garbage are the main aesthetic objects of wasteland, and the survivor's decadent spirit is also an important element. The incomplete beauty of ruins represents a vague past and future, and the hope of survival is hidden under the ruins; just like a whale falling, rejuvenating new life on the corpse of the city.
There are generally two ways of presenting wasteland landscapes. To be precise, they are two stages: the ruins that do not exist after the disaster, and gradually attack the cities where plants are soaring. For example, in "I am a Legend", in "I am a Legend", in addition to lifeless and deserted cities, it focuses on displaying the scene of nature re-occurring dominance. Human beings are no longer dominant in the world. Everything we know has become history. Survivors search for food before the disaster and avoid the hunting of mutant monsters at all times. Garbage (waste) is an important thing on the wasteland. The regression of technology has made it possible to simply piece together useful tools. In order to survive, the killing of each other among the ethnic groups has never stopped. The era of prehistoric civilizations exist is a distant legend of Eden.
This is a classic wasteland science fiction.
It is likely that Wasteland punk/Wastepunk (Wasteland punk/Wastepunk) was first created by the shelter player, and the biggest difference between it and the wasteland comes from the word "punk" (so sir, did you just create a science fiction genre casually?).
Chapter completed!