The World Beyond Ours (FILE-INT-MAXPH) - Haltmann's Archives

"The World Beyond Ours [FILE-INT-MAXPH] - Haltmann's Archives" is a high quality lore video and an internal "file" in Haltmann's Archives. It is the final reward of the "MAXPH" branch of The Susie ARG.
== Summary ==
The video opens with a dated display with President Haltmann's logo. A large warning is displayed in red text:
Following this, the color scheme changes to yellow and the advertised file is shown, in a format similar to all Haltmann's Archives videos starting with "[FILE-02]".
The file consists of an analysis of the connections between the main fictional universe of SiIvaGunner lore, referred to as "The Central Canon Continuum" ("The CCC" for short), and the actual universe of the real world, referred to as "the world beyond ours". Dr. Andonuts initially discusses the unexplained anomalies observed in the CCC, such as supposed hijackings of SiIvaGunner's social media presences and proceeds of albums being sent to charity, which were originally hypothesized to be caused by Wood Man, as these occurrences fit in with his abilities and behavior. Eventually, however, stranger anomalies began occurring which did not fit this explanation: rips of "fake games" which did not appear to exist and resulted in the creation of their own Figments, as well as the upload dates of the rips continuing to progress through time while the CCC was still frozen on the night of December 25, 2016.
Andonuts then begins addressing "the world beyond ours", which had been previously described by The Voice Inside Your Head as a "realm of supreme power, populated by deities" who control and monitor "lesser realities" such as the CCC. He notes that sentient anomalies such as The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 have innate awareness of "the world beyond ours", and hypothesizes that the "fake games" observed in rips are actually being created by the realm. He then concludes that the incongruous upload dates of the rips actually correspond to the time frame of "the world beyond ours", as the universe created by the SiIva A.I. started following this time scale as well. These observations indicate that the CCC, and other universes surrounding it, are subservient to "the world beyond ours", and Andonuts arrives at the realization that these realities are actually fictional, created by "the world beyond ours" as a form of entertainment, and the extreme time dilation is a result of the length of the creative process of development of the events in the realities.
Andonuts is shocked by these revelations and believes that he should report them to his boss, but as this thought comes to his mind, he suddenly forgets who his boss is, as the visuals turn grey at 6:19 and the Haltmann logo fades away from the background. At 6:44, Andonuts' reflection on the monitor becomes visible as a message reading "[BACKUP POWER DEPLETED]" appears and the video glitches out. The visuals turn dark as text appears reading "***** THE FORBIDDEN ONE", followed by encoded looping text filling the screen. The last seconds of the video only show the following: 
The realization, all at once
A million flashing colors
and yet the blind spots prevail
Do you remember him?
In the final seconds of the video, "Do you remember him?" switches to "Do you remember me?".
=== Context ===
This video addresses the time loop that acts as the in-universe explanation for the Christmas Comeback Crisis not finishing. Previously, in "Wood Man & Robbie Rotten - A SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story", Wood Man claimed that the time loop was created by President Haltmann to profit off of rips forever. However, this video offers a different take: the true in-universe explanation for the time loop is that there is no in-universe explanation. Andonuts comes to believe that the time loop simply exists because the real world has to create the story in order for it to move forward, and it will not move forward until they decide to do so; this also provides an explanation for the inconsistent amount of events happening between the side characters, such as Haltmann Works R&D itself, and the main characters, who started "One Last Chance" right where they left off as if nothing had happened. All of this culminates in the quite ironic event of Haltmann dying in the middle of the FILE, meaning it was being written during "One Last Chance", the first time the story had moved forward in 6 years.
The phrase "the world beyond ours" was originally used in "Albums [FILE-12] - Haltmann's Archives". There, it was a theory regarding the origins of the metadata in the albums, which are completely unreadable to most in-universe characters.
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== References ==
Category:December 2024 rips