>>720626816
Tying 2027 with the future, obviously.
>why
Actually it worked well in IW, a logical progression considering the location at which JC ended up. One can make at least a handful of solid guesses as to why the Aquinas router collapse has happened.
Some things flew over heads of others.
One can reconcile IW too, even all endings at once.
>Great story
JC succeeds, male Alex sibling saves Billie. With ubiquitous biomod, populace affected learns about the Illuminati.
Helios starts to spread its nanotech through the planet and beyond.
The Illuminati is forced to submit and admit defeat. They admit it, all parties know they don't and continuously attack.
Their non-aligned and critical personnel *dies* as Illuminati cleans up house before, during and after JC takes over.
Deep Illuminati begins constructing its own AGIs and entire industries in Earth's upper mantle using nanotech, waging extremely sharp psy-ops and sabotaging info systems as they exfiltrate from Helios's domain, until they develop teleportation device and spread in Sol.
Illuminati prepare for total war and reemergence as a public entity at a later time.
Compromised agents are let go of completely.
The Templars submit most bitterly, resistance is crushed.
Remaining non-known Templars are reached to by the Illuminati, shaky but robust alliance starts.
Second century of peace starts with a shake up, as Illuminati start to raise questions in post-human domain. They succeed, and moderate humans that weren't agreeing with Helios, democratic exiles, non-aligned deaugmented criminals, and cliques of scientists shake democracy.
The Illuminati come back as a full polity. Democracy project fails and succeeds both.
World War for Human Reemergence begins.
MD Jensen, by now just a historical footnote, comes back out of nowhere with Eliza and his own robot & human civilization.
3 way war between post-humans, "Enlightened Illuminati" and pro-human Jensen faction is on.
MC is Illuminati infiltrator.
