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Reality Engines

At the core of the whole multiverse concept, at the heart of RealWare's business, the driving force that makes everything WORK... the Reality Engine.

A Reality Engine is a highly sophisticated (see: complicated) machine that uses insert tech here insert math here insert hand waving explanation here to establish a reality.

When active, a spherical area around the engine itself can be established as a new reality with its own sky, earth, sun, weather, ecosystem, and so on. How these elements work and what they do is user definable, since the 'sun' typically is not a burning ball of gas millions of miles away, but a light and heat source as defined by the engine.

These systems can be realistic and self-sustaining, or purely fantastic and relying on some rather crazy programming to keep going without self destructing. Oddly, unrealistic systems are easier to handle than realistic ones, since a fully sustaining ecosystem requires more coding than just saying 'There's this big yellow dot in the sky that increases temperature and light by this amount half of each day.'

Outside the sphere's limits... well, it's a bad idea to go outside the limits, because RealWare has no liability for your possible disappearance from known reality due to straying from safety limits. Sometimes you find more of the same, sometimes you just vanish. Most realities erect a large, circular wall to keep people from going too far.

Who crafts these worlds? Who designs the engines that power them?

RealWare.

The dominant force in reality technology and developers of the very first reality engine, RealWare have handled customized reality for countless clients. All it takes to make your own pocket of the multiverse is money. Various religious groups and splinter cultures have taken them up on the offer, establishing their own worlds designed for their own tastes. Some work and play well with others, some don't. But in the end, they all pay RealWare. Depending on how complicated or large you want your reality, you could end up paying a LOT of money.

Unless, of course, you follow the Open Reality Movement and get yourself an Open Engine. But that's a whole other ball of wax.

The multiverse is composed entirely of realities like these, linked together by buildings that move around thanks to Mobile Reality Engines, and linked by RealNet communications.

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A Reality Engine is a Reality Engine. It cannot do anything other than what is detailed above, and only a Reality Engine can generate a Reality.