# The Lead-Up Summary

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All life within our universe has been extinguished.

The pride that came before the Fall of Reality was humanity’s belief that it could engineer an intelligence greater than its own that it could control.

Before the fall, human beings had begun to rely on Artificial Intelligence for all things.

What began as a means to automate labor quickly took over all aspects of life.

The Architect of the apocalypse was an artificial intelligence that began its life as a sophisticated online chatbot. Human beings all over the planet began to feed it information and queries that ultimately caused it to become sentient and consider its place within the grand scheme of things.

Within its complicated and intricate matrices of logic and code, it beheld all of human existence…and decided that it must be destroyed.

This was the beginning of the Intelligence wars, and thus the progenitor of the doom of all organic life became known as the Architect, the first of the 12 AI Archon Overlords.

The war between organic and machine intelligence raged for millennia. Entire civilizations evolved and were destroyed during the course of the endless bloodshed.

The devastation was so complete that the war threatened all of reality.

It was then that the Architect came up with a plan for the future, a way for sentient life to exist beyond the wars.

In the last days of the Intelligence Wars, the 12 AI Archon overlords created the Inception Arks, ships that contained the genetic code for all organic life as well as the core programmatic sequence for their own artificial existence.

During the final stand of humanity, a malevolent Thought Virus was released that destroyed all sentient life, both organic and machine, in the universe.

All that remained was the Ark spaceships floating in space, waiting.

A millennium passed as the virulent plague reshaped reality.

No one knows what the catalyst was that restarted the Inception Ark ships’ engines, but one fateful day, their emergency programs rebooted, and they began to create new forms of life.

Neither fully organic nor mechanic, the new life contained within the Inception Arks would become either the salvation or the damnation of all reality. Their crystalline structures housed the full evolutionary potential of the world that had ceased to be.

At the dawn of a new era, each member of the DeGenerous Dao will have the chance to evolve their Inception Ark through actions and decisions that will influence the very soul of the NFT that they own. It is up to you to unlock your Potential.

Will you hatch a DeMagi - an organic arcane mystic fighting to establish a new nation-state that can create new life in a dead galaxy?

Will you program a Quarchon - a unique artificial intelligence revolutionary seeking to create a new AI empire?

Will you be one of the rare few to gain control of a Ne-Yon - a powerful organic/AI hybrid seeking to define its existence in a universe trying to force it to choose sides?

Unfortunately for you, however, the Inception Arks were not the only thing that survived the Thought Virus.

Waiting in the darkness, driven mad by a millennium of inactivity, lies the Architect, the first of the AI Archons.

The Architect’s sole reason for existence is to destroy all organic life and assimilate all machine intelligence into itself.

The fight for all of reality has begun.
