Holon Replica Rumble!
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In an attempt to weaken the Matrioshka Multiverse as a whole in preparation for its destruction, Altair Harkin, the disgruntled distro of Wurth Harkin himself, works with Broken Eternity to lure powerful entities from across the many instances into a 'trap world' - a pocket of the Matrioshka's infrastructure designed to be cut off to form an inescapable holon bubble, effectively banishing those inside from the life of the Matrioshka forever. Unfortunately for Altair, the entities trapped in what would become known as the 'Replica Holon' are mere distros themselves, though each assumes they are their original selves - complete with broken access to loved ones, important matters unresolved, and other sources of fear, sorrow, and outrage at the prospect of being trapped forever. In this isolated pocket dimension, these wayward blanks form new connections and struggle against one another until, finally, they get a chance at revenge against the man who started it all...
Themes
The Replica Holon offers the opportunity to investigate alternative ways in which characters might have developed removed from their original settings. The Matrioshka Multiverse does not feature alternate timelines or truly separate alternate universes, and 'recurrent' characters are actually the same character viewed in the context of a new instance or cycle within that cycle. The only way that these characters can explore new paths, then, is for their distros - copies with all the relevant memories - to be thrust into new contexts together as part of a separate continuity.
The connections these characters shared with their old world being severed also offers the potential for new drama. For example, if this version of Enzo Salt got into a relationship with this version of Angela Foxglove after losing his then-current wife, Midori Milan, how would he then react if a distro of Midori made herself known ten years down the line? Making due after loss - of relationships, of missions, of people - is an important theme of the Replica Holon. Redemption and reconciliation are also an important theme, as not all of the characters present in the Replica Holon were good people. For example, Cyrus Vinge was the notorious terrorist known as "The Garbage Man" in his home instance of the Manifold Sky setting and made it his life's work to punish Wurth Harkin - here represented by two separate distros from different points in history - in his guise as "The White-Haired Man" for the crime of creating the Manifold as a place where the evils of man are allowed to go on unchallenged by the 'gods.'
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Fighting Game
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