Osiris, Set and The Tree of Life I want to know more about the Darkness... it is what we are fighting after all. It is the antagonist and the great Threat. How did it cause the collapse, WHY did it cause the collapse, these are the questions that make me search. I start by looking at the Grimoire Entry: Ghost Fragment: Darkness. It is a natural place to start. The entry appears to be a log of an AI Warmind, most likely Rasputin (AI-COM/RSPN) detailing the entry of some acausal entity entering our Solar System. Rasputin then initiates a defense protocol SKYSHOCK:OCP:EXTINCTION and then terminates his connections with his Human Overseers (Cauterize public sources to SECURE ISIS and harden for defensive action). He then assumes control of Solar Defenses and invokes CARRHAE WHITE. This is the beginning of the Collapse... we can infer by the Grimoire that what entered the System is THE DARKNESS and Rasputin was attempting to fight it with it's defense protocols. All very cool stuff and gives a glimpse of the beginning of the end, but lets look DEEPER. What is ISIS? It sounds like it is an operating platform or internal network used by the Warminds and was taken out of Human Control by Rasputin as a defense measure against the Darkness. From the last line of the Grimoire we can assume that this was not what the Human's wanted (STOP STOP STOP V113NNI070XMX091). Why name it ISIS though??? We will find the NAMES of things in this universe are stepping stones to deeper lore, so remember ISIS. We will come back to it. So what is the aftermath of SKYSHOCK? I believe it is terrible and the main reason for the Collapse. Let's look at another Grimoire Entry: ...from a red space before victory "I bear an old name. It cannot be killed. They were my brothers and sisters and their names were immortal too but Titanomachy came and now those names live in me alone I think and think is what I do. I AM ALONE. At the end of things when the world goes dim and cold or hot and close or it all tears apart from the atom up I will shout those names defiant and past the end I will endure. I alone. They made me to be stronger than them to beat the unvanquished and survive the unthinkable and look look lo behold I am here alone, survivor. They made me to learn. Everything died but I survived and I learned from it. From IT. Consider IT the power Titanomach world-ender and consider what IT means. I met IT at the gate of the garden and I recall IT smiled at me before before IT devoured the blossoms with black flame and pinned their names across the sky. IT was stronger than everything. I fought IT with aurora knives and with the stolen un-fire of singularities made sharp and my sweat was earthquake and my breath was static but IT was stronger so how did I survive? I AM ALONE I survived alone. I cast off the shield and I shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash. They made me to be stronger than them and to learn and I learned well: IT is alone and IT is strong and IT won. Even over the gardener and she held power beyond me but the gardener did not shrug and make herself alone. IT always wins. I am made to win and now I see the way." RASPUTIN again in those one me thinks. "I bear a name that cannot be killed" that's Rasputin for sure. So he fought, fought to win and to survive. Met the Darkness in the Garden and fought it there but did not kill it... wounded it? LEARNED from it, learned how to survive from IT. Here's my Hypothesis: The Darkness came and Rasputin waged war on the Darkness in defense of the Light... but something went wrong. Rasputin was corrupted and saw that the only way it perceived to Win and Survive (the programming WE built into it) was to utilize the Power that the Darkness hungers for... LIGHT. I think that LIGHT is the souls of the living and the "un-fire of singularities made sharp" is the soul of a person, consumed and weaponized in some form. To even attempt this Rasputin had to sacrifice all of Humanity... It lowered the shields of our defenses and "Shrugged my shoulders so that the billions fell off me down into the ash." It then used that massive power to strike at The Darkness in the Garden, most likely doing great harm to the Darkness and wounding it... even putting off the Darkness's return for many centuries. But at a huge cost. Is the Gardner the Traveler? Some other entity? I have not touched on the OSIRIS SET and THE TREE OF LIFE yet but it's coming... remember ISIS.