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>>11209657
just mysterious and apparently uncontrollable blackouts that strike cities, whole areas at random would be a sufficiently powerful and reasonably harmless weapon for a program that wanted to be left alone. shutting down the power in major cities would be a pretty powerful weapon it might decide on as a kind of deterrance strategy. it wouldn't be fully post-apoc but it would be enough to throw things off balance, to the degree to which people begin asking, What Time Are We In? is this the future or is this the past? are we in control of the future any longer? or do we *like* and *prefer* what happens mysteriously to our cities when we start re-communizing in such a way as to be able to take care of our own little polises? it would be like introducing patchwork. but of course you wouldn't want to make this all so overtly ideological, that would be lame.

but so long as something like this has the power to turn the power on and off it becomes enough of a threat in this way. kind of like a much more benevolent version of the joker.

probably in the end whatever this mysterious event is ends with the restoration of power and business as usual. like akenhaton: one of those mysterious events in a long dynasty that in time becomes inexplicable. from 2d to 3d for a weird moment and then back again to business as usual. just a glitch in the matrix, nothing to see here.