Doug Structure

In the ultimate picture of the universe, matter is just a brief exception in nothingness. Everything has been locked by iron-clad cause and effect, the future has already been written, and free will is nothing but an illusion. The Dougian structure—the ultimate theory that explains why matter exists—is the starting point for all stories. In the 22nd century AD, physicist Lin Zhe verified this framework beyond the standard model, and found twelve identical signals from different time and space in the reverberations of the space-time structure: In the past more than 10 billion years, there have been twelve other civilizations that also understood the nature of matter, sent out the same ripples, and then each fell silent. Humanity is the thirteenth. Two thousand years later, the fourteenth ripple appeared. Humanity finally has the opportunity to meet another civilization that is learning about itself - an existence composed of a crystal network that has been waiting for 300 million years. Thousands of years later, when the home universe's return to space accelerated, humans united with multiple civilizations in the galaxy to build contraction field spaceships to escape the dying universe, and joined the "Void Walker" community that had been sailing for hundreds of billions of years - a group of escapees from different dead universes, heading towards the starting point of everything. From the lonely physicist who deduced the ultimate theory to the ordinary crew member who heard the echo of the void, three stories spanning thousands of years revolve around the same core: the recognition, contact and departure of civilization. In a universe without purpose and meaning, we are just a slightly more complex mass of matter that once briefly and accurately understood the cold and beautiful structure in which we lived. This is enough.