My interpretation is that the world has already been destroyed and reset several times, because that white core entity returns. And it’s about to happen again, which is why Vix need to unlock her boss mode, her dad barely survived the first encounter, and said in the first LARS recording he was tired and couldn’t do it ~~again~~, don’t know if he’s activity holding it back or containing it, or just tired of fighting or degrading.
As for the population, in the chapter that detailed the first apocalypse, he said that the people that were backed up in PATH had implants, maybe not everyone was equipped yet at the end, and this dialogue makes it clear the hosts are contained and sentient at the PATH. Looks like with the world having an end that the planet got wrecked, looks like they are down to working with a chunk and tech keeping gravity and atmosphere in place.
This is really a cool story, really good escalation from where we started to now.
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