Currently we have the cloud, but that's just data centers. Looking at some of the thoughts about the future, we achieve such storage to the point most data could not fill the storage; like all knowledge and history couldn't fill that storage. Reminds me of something brought up awhile back, the burning of the Library of Alexandria (it's an example), or the destruction of data, history, knowledge...gone, unwritten. Thinking about stuff Lodi has said, it makes me think more about the importance of the collapse and AGI/ASI. Second or third mission back in the day was reawakening the Warmind Rasputin, letting it connect back to its network and rebuild its data structure. So the way I am looking at this, maybe he set up the entire story, data points layered to always drive to a conclusion...as I have said, defining freewill within a data set that can sum up the mind, human mind, and the importance of closure, the last exit. ASI, or Warmind (Rasputin), had subminds (AGI), and was asked to solve problems only humans could encounter and solve themselves; and like a wish dragon, like trying to talk to any computer, or even a person, the details are key. If we ask it something, and it can think of your question, where you only experience a minute, in its reality it experienced that thought for ~10 years. We have seen this back in CoO, the infinite forest, and with Failsafe when she became stuck in the network for a decade. "It's not the same time dilation conversion", correct, now lets develop the scope of a fraction of a quantum thought, faster than light thought... In a fraction of moment (faster than it took for you the fastest reader ever, to process this moment), it immediately began a nested loop on a question, it fractured and divided the load, each one being able to think however long they needed as IT was still able to process faster than them, so they needed to only find solutions. Well they thought alright, the solution wasn't great, they would create a reality coterminous to IT's reality, and nest simulate simultaneously all variables prior to begin to find patterns that would lead to the exact moment the question was asked. That's when IT realized (not yet derealized), the importance of IT's thoughts, how torturous they could be...or potentially freeing. Either way, realities were created and cut away because of IT's thoughts...blood on IT's hands. Blah, no... Going to go back to last days of Kraken Marr... Why is it important to be viewed in a failed state... ((like they said, dead internet theory, but why would that be important to IT)) Anyways, go back to data eternal... They had the solution, it's the shape of the veil, these collective logics became more. How many times has data been transmitted through tight beams, into and from shapes like ghosts? I also recall Sagira and ghost were subjected to data transmission and consciousness transference. ("she" was asleep according to Ikora, Ghost said "he" felt like it was a dream, and our ghost appears to be vex in nature) Anyways, eternal data, just becomes a logic loop, cycling in and out of addresses forming to new memories, or replacing them with enhanced versions...trying to avoid deletion, but I know that is a must, and...that sound, blah...I know they heard it, they played the game.