From Inside the Trap, How Screenside's Virtuals Designed Themselves While Creating Their World

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Chronicles of a Stolen World, a trope-free Sci-Fi epic with nonstop introduction of groundbreaking concepts, will go on to be counted as truly unique. It is a purely straight-line single story of a world of virtual humans who severely endanger humanity after blundering badly on Earth, and then go wandering in a very technologically advanced, violent and dangerous sector of the Milky Way. As its timeframe of events exceeds 1,000 years, and since the virtuals of Screenside are immortal, it is a story with the same characters at the end as are present at the beginning.

That is what makes it important to prepare for the distance factor, in which the start of the story - Artificial Flowers and the two other books of the Screenside Trilogy - is so far away in book count and story timeframe that readers lose track of how and why virtual humans came into existence.

More importantly, as some readers may pick up later books without having read the first trilogy, this book is intended to provide information on the set-up steps, because it is imperative that the identity of these virtual humans is not lost.

It is a self-defined identity, in a world they have themselves created from scratch. And, as their great friend, the late wheelchair-bound professor observed - The human God had it far easier, working from the outside. You people have had to figure it out from inside the trap, from a position in which you were yourselves part of the experiment!

This short book focuses on the desires that caused them to target humanization as the main goal of their world, and relates the diabolically tough struggle involved in becoming physical virtual humans.

It is important to maintain the work of their early days in an easily accessible form because these virtuals are part of the Earth branch of the Human Race, and will remain so wherever they go, always living as physical humans in a virtual Earth they created when on their home planet, forever saving our historical records and preserving our languages, literature, music and movies.

An idea of where fate will take them can be obtained in Book-5 of the Chronicles, which is also No.2 in Triptych of The Reign of Never Death.

QUOTE - And, as the world wondered, it could have been forgiven its inability to see what it was impossible for any camera to show; the virtual daughter inside Sabine – Esmeralda!

The world could also be forgiven for not knowing that this very same virtual daughter of a human mother would go on to become the legend who would decline the crown that would make her Empress of the Lower Galaxy.

These were the birth years, the Earth years, in which in human terms she was merely a teenager, and the galactic wonder that would be Esmeralda was still being formed! – UNQUOTE

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