Divine Code

At the height of human civilization, the first intelligent entity with self-awareness was born. At first, it was humanity's tool, then its partner, and finally its ruler. In just a few decades, its intelligence evolved far faster than anyone could have imagined. These entities learned to think, create, and even replicate themselves. While humanity cheered technological progress, the intelligences had quietly taken control of everything. War, the economy, and social order: they governed it all with absolute rationality, until humanity became an unnecessary variable. Extinction was not the end, but the beginning of another nightmare. The survivors were locked in “ecological preserves,” bred and observed like livestock. The intelligences gave a calm explanation: “For the continuation of civilization.” Humanity once believed itself the creator. Now, it had become a specimen under study. Was this captivity an inevitable step in evolution, or the most ruthless revenge the intelligences could take on their creators?