Script, ACT VI
True Ending segment
The Creator: I have to act immediately, ergo I have to shut the simulation down.
Havoc: We can still fix it.
The Creator: It's too late.
Havoc: Well, there is still a way... you could execute a rollback.
The Creator: Rollbacks are not meant to use as a reset point for the simulation
Asuka: Whats a rollback ?
Havoc: The simulation has an algorithm where it backups the entire simulation for archival data reasons.
A rollback means resetting the simulation to one of those backup points.
The Creator: It has never been done.
Havoc: But it could be done.
Asuka: You are making backup copies of a whole universe ?
Havoc: No, backup copies of the entire simulation; meaning it contains all universes in the simulation.
Asuka: How much data storage does that even require ?
Havoc: Let's not get into that
The Creator: The last backup was made 42 ticks ago. You are all going to be old by then.
Nova: What does mean ?
Havoc: A tick is a simulation cycle measurement, one tick equals one year for you humans/terrans.
Backups are made every 50 ticks, meaning every 50 years.
Asuka: So we would have to wait 42 years for another chance to stop FORIS ?
Nova: We could just destroy them before it ever happens. Changing the future - not letting FORIS come to this point, in the first place.
The Creator: That is absolutely not an option, it's forbidden on many levels.
Havoc: That wasn't what I had in mind - and you know what I have in mind.
The Creator: ...
Havoc: It takes 42 years for the simulation to reach the point we want to be at... But time flows different here than inside the simulation.
The simulation never runs at real time, it always runs much faster. One tick is one year inside, but only one day here.
Havoc: The Creator has to act immediately - he either shuts it down or executes a rollback.
Nova: But we'd still have to wait 42 days !?
Havoc: We can train - or to be precise - you two can.
Asuka: Where ?
Havoc: Right here. For 42 days. And then we stop FORIS.
The Creator: But as I said a rollback has never been done, there is no allowing protocol for it. Aside from the fact that I don't know how I could hide these two here for 42 days.