"the night sky isn't supposed to be dark, you're looking at an empty husk that has been emptied of its energy by AI drones who spread from an ancient dead civilization" :amber-snacking:
Please step away from the lathe and resume reporting on your local DSA chapter's moral and ideological failings
The universe is filled, positively teeming, with multitudes of intelligent species who took one look at the void and said "LMAO fuck that fam", and promptly got on with their lives without all that dumb nerd shit.
Mass Effect but the reapers are mindless crypto miners is a pretty good idea
why would they extend and create even more?
Because they are drones that were originally built by capitalists and which never overcame their original programming.
If you have an infinite amount of iron, not even capitalists would want another mine.
If we're going to overanalyze this then I'm going to stop you here, point out that the drones are not capitalists, they were merely programmed by capitalists. Their programming tells them to expand. It does not compel them to consider whether there is "enough" of any resource; it simply compels them to expand, because that was their function to the capitalists, who arrogantly assumed that they would always be in control.
A better explanation for a grimdark capitalist universe is that they purposefully kill suns in order to prevent the harvesting of free energy. Thus furthering reliance on non-renewable fuel sources.
This is good, too.
No no no. The AI hivemind drones are from the future (non-human) civilization which has extracted nearly all matter in the universe and has developed interdimensional time travel capabilities to come extract the resources from our universe. Also it's for NFTs not bitcoin but that's irrelevant.
