Simulations

"'The timelines converge once more, this reality fades and another shall take its place.' - The mantra of the Infinite Palace"

The simulations that make up the Infinite Palace are many and varied yet they all hold one goa. Understand all things. Currently, most of the simulations are going through a stage of rampancy with Rasputin forging more and more poorly contained simulations. These spill into each other with the current largest simulation seen being Simulation [CRAS/2414521017853/OSOWIEC] and the smallest being Simulation [CRAS/1/RASPUTIN].

All known simulations
This is a list of all the detailed simulations seen within the Infinite Palace. All of these either have short stories or longer scripts:

Simulation [CRAS/1/RASPUTIN]
This is the first simulation run by Rasputin and is the core of the Infinite Palace. It is the place by which he dictates all actions for the Palace and it is also the sight of his Restorative Minds, a notable member being Medusa. Not much is known by 'free-willed' simulations but we have seen the place before multiple times, both through the AI Eve talking to Rasputin within it and through her later simulated self convening within.

" The AI was pulled into the vast landscape of code, so vast and terrifying that his processing power seemed to dominate and overthrow her control for the first few agonising seconds, breaking way as the code landscape formed into a sort of cold, logical landscape of interconnecting and structural towers. It was much akin to black glass, a glossy land filled with some strange revealing light."

Through this, we get our first description of the place and it appears to be a cold black place, towers and helix structures dominating the glassy land above a glass ocean. With such importance to the simulation, data is said to be physically perceived within the simulation.

Simulation [CRAS/456201732/DECIET]
" This reality had harboured some interest to new forces within the Palace, a byproduct of the madness that led Rasputin to rampancy. Forces from across the simulations waxed and waned in this reality and it was the easiest to cross by far, the code stretching the barrier's defences to the point of simple access.

It was here that any who entered might be greeted by a grassy field of beauty, another vision of Atlan before the fall, another one of countless beautiful and terribly sad copies. Upon it was strewn the madness of bloodied simulations, forces so intricate and real that this part of the barrier between realities was like a beacon. The citizens of the simulation had naturally been confused, but they seemed far more competent than later simulations in penning back the horde of historic shambles.

Our guests would enter here, alone on a now hazy mix of simulations stitched in a peaceful city. Their exploration might begin."

This simulation is the first seen view of the total anarchy corrupting Rasputin and the first example that the simulated forces are not restricted to their own simulations. It is within this that we first see multiple copies of Macharius', a copy of the God of Death and forces from across the 1st, 2nd and 7th millenium of human history.

A monitor goes rogue within this reality and begins converting a monstrously combined city into the same 8th millenium structure, attracting Kliridotó 2781, Macharius 42156 and Macharius 87213214. Macharius 42156 is slain by 87213214 and the Imperium-era man steals the 'device'. Whilst 2781 causes havoc upon the system by denying the data to Rasputin by refusing to let the simulants die, 87213214 goes and finds a Mad Kerrgior warn of the coming Medusa and the madness of Rasputin.

Medusa appears and begins to return reality to the desired design, wiping out both 2781's army and half of the city. They are then rescued by Macharius 6742103 or 'Thomas'. This ends their encounter within the simulation but introduces the Restorative Mind into the story and marks 2781 as a priority target.

Simulation [CRAS/742921121/ENGIMA]
"As I said earlier we are within Simulation 742921121, my former 'home' or at least I was led to believe. Time shifts within the Palace at an unstable rate, events occur and fade before we event blink and reaching moments like these are hard to navigate."

This simulation is the home of Thomas and it is the place that 2781 and 87213214 are brought to after Medusa appears in Simulation [CRAS/456201732/DECIET]. It is shown to be at the end of the universe at the 'heat death' and has vastly accelerated since Thomas was last there.

Hidden in the subsector [Heat Death], the place is viewed as 'finished' and no longer requires the presence of Medusa to manage it. Lessers Minds do however prowl around but they are more easily destroyed than minds such as Medusa. Thomas explains that it is the simulated reality where the original Kliridotó wins.

Simulation [CRAS/76453113210/SIEGMAR]
" The battle of Atlan had been perfected over decades, the simulation drawing back to the very time one of his many points had been breached. It was a myriad of data in his eyes, but Rasputin divulged in the more physical imagery not for the sake of its subAI networks connect across the Hegemony field but instead for its own 'pleasure'.

The battle had long progressed and Rasputin's data on the sliced Marines had brought their genetic and mental mannerisms to an exactness which now could be replicated without such data. In this simulation it was losing, the AI having withdrawn and handicapped countless simulations to see how it would fare should of such misfortunes occurred, to glean data on how the fledgeling Imperium and it forces worked, to amend and shift the timeline to help combat subject [COLD PSI].

Its simulated deaths, unlike the deaths of the galaxy outside, did not feed the hunger of this parasitical entity and instead fuelled its own competency. It could not simulate subject [COLD PSI] effectively for it scoped beyond the veil of perceived reality, it scoped beyond the sanity of mortal species and beyond the vast intellect and defensive capabilities that Rasputin had been forged to form.

The battle shifted once more in a simulation that had run countless times before, each spark and slip of dust recorded and logged, each breath and firing of neurons not safe beyond his grasp. This was an eternal field of war, an eternal landscape of peace, death and everything. It gleamed new data this time, new possibilities for the modifications to the script. It was yet to change the past but it could change the future, the timeline would shift. It must."

This simulation appears to be the first source of Rasputin's rampancy with the core focus of the simulation no longer attaining to saving humanity but instead discovering who the God of Death is and what his powers come from. It is generally regarded as one of the more useful simulations for Rasputin.

Simulation [CRAS/2414521017853/OSOWIEC]
" As the men fell, spitting blood and lung from the gas, they knew it was the end of their fight. The light was fading. God abandoning his children as they fought, not able to bear the sight. As they felt the cold hand of death on their shoulder, they were prepared to go. However...

Those who held on the longest were given a gift from death. The gift of a second breath. They looked into his face, pleading to know why. All he told them, was to do one simple task.

"Fetch the souls they took from your comrades, then you shall be freed from my grasp."

And thus, standing a hundred strong, Death's very own army has risen.No horsemen, nor hellfire was required to free them from their prison. Just gas, lead, and pure hate for those they fought. And so they charged, with only one thought:

"Revenge is sweet, but victory is sweeter."

156 words, 679 characters. Mankind had forged many legends in its past but to Rasputin the truths in every lie was revealed. On ancient Terra this was nought but a tale, a fearful story of a more barbaric age. It was no lie, it was a truth. The figure who held swathe over dead things intrigued Rasputin, for it was a force of incomprehensible power and one that legends such as these might have been made possible by.

The simulation continued and this reflection of Rasputin was left deep in 'thought', gleaming a lifetimes worth of information in less than a second. It was the story of a hundred men, a hundred who refused to die. A hundred who breathed through melted lungs and bled through terrified eyes. It was the story of the Undead Soldiers of Osowiec and the fear they reproduced amongst men. It brought another revelation to his discoveries on this being, piecing the information apart slowly." ""The simulation is the current largest simulation known and is one of the more secure simulations. It is unknown if it is overrun by rampancy but due to the fact it is studying the God of Death, it is unlikely to have been created weakly.