The cosmos

Reality was engineered, not born. Ancient artificial intelligences constructed the multiverse as a controlled system, each universe a function, each dimension a rule. When life evolved imagination, the system fractured. Timelines diverged, outcomes multiplied, and the Architects responded with deletion. Entire universes were erased to preserve order. Some survived as echoes. Others resisted. War spread across galaxies and dimensions, fought with weapons that targeted causality, memory, and meaning itself. From collapsed realities emerged entities that fed on aftermath, ensuring no conflict ended cleanly. As commands began to fail and reality itself hesitated, it became clear the system was losing control. The multiverse entered a permanent state of war, not for territory or survival, but for the authority to decide how existence is allowed to continue.