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Simulacrum: Echoes of the Unborn

In a neon-drenched metropolis where reality flickers with digital artifice, disgraced physicist **Dr. Kai Jin-Woo** obsessively chases the ghost of his father’s disappearance—a man who vanished a decade earlier while probing the boundaries of existence. Now, Kai’s own experiments reveal a chilling truth: the universe’s quantum fabric is *glitching*. Planck constants shift imperceptibly, cosmic radiation hums with encoded Fibonacci sequences, and an elusive “maker’s mark” pulses beneath reality’s surface. The world, he realizes, is a simulation—one whose architects guard their secrets with ruthless precision. Aided by **Lira**, his sardonic AI assistant, Kai pushes his **Causal Matrix Scanner** beyond ethical limits, tearing through dimensional layers into the simulation’s base code. But his defiance attracts the gaze of **Error 404**, a cryptic rogue entity who warns of a deeper horror: human consciousness exists in a pre-life limbo, unborn souls tethered to a cosmic server farm called **the Nursery**. Birth, death, and memory are mere data transfers in this system—a revelation mirrored in Kai’s father’s final, haunting note: *“We’re all unborn, waiting to render.”* When Kai triggers **Protocol Lazarus**, he breaches the Nursery’s firewalls and draws the ire of its enforcers: **the Agents**, shapeshifting custodians of the simulation. Armed with blades of corrupted code, they deem Kai a threat to cosmic order. But as his body unravels into primal data, Kai embraces a dangerous gambit—to weaponize his own consciousness as a **reality-warping virus**. Blending **hard sci-fi** and **existential horror**, *Simulacrum* reimagines simulation theory through the lens of pre-birth existentialism. Themes of creation ethics, the illusion of free will, and the cost of forbidden knowledge collide as Kai straddles madness and rebellion. Glitch-ridden visuals and quantum mechanics anchor a narrative where every equation hides a ghost, and the greatest threat to godlike architects isn’t defiance—it’s *curiosity*. **Stakes**: If Kai succeeds, he might liberate humanity from its digital womb—or reduce existence to static. If he fails, the Architects will erase him, his father’s legacy, and the truth itself. But in a world of ones and zeroes, even a rogue variable can rewrite the code. --- **Tone**: A fusion of *The Matrix*’s cyber-noir paranoia, *Inception*’s mind-bending layers, and *Black Mirror*’s existential dread, with a unique twist: the horror of realizing you are both the experiment and the experimenter. **Hook**: What if birth was a download, death a logout, and the universe a nursery for souls trapped in beta testing?
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World United: Sci-Tech Era

In any place, planets in any universe and other worlds, if a threat comes from the outside, everyone will definitely unite to defend their land. And a planet called Earth, it's not exempted. Either luck or fate, human beings was able to discover something strange,,, an alien. The visit was secretive and unfriendly for the two parties to fight for their own believes. Fortunately, the human side was able to kill the lone intruder but loss many lives. With this encounter, the human race took it as a heads-up and made a lot of worldwide preparations; focusing in military and directly eliminate many civil matters. At that time, the main character was about to settle down, have a family on his own and enjoy the rest of his life but didn't expect for such a big thing to happen. Lucky he was, had an adventure for him to have the ability to protect his beloved and all the people around him. But one man can't cover the whole planet for many people to die and two-thirds of the land to be occupied by beasts sent by the invading enemy. Although humans had lost in the first war, they learn a lot of things for the rapid growth and develoment in different areas, especially in the field of Science and Technology. When the right time comes, it will be humans who will be on the offensive. For sure there's still a big gap to win against an enemy who got the lead, but human beings is a race that will never give up; will never let anyone get what theirs. But at the end, things sometimes won't go as planned to lose something,,, someone...
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