I'm back! I used to be EnergyStar, but now I am ICB_Penguin! The mighty Eye of Wisdom shall lead me through the afterlife! (Okay, now that's just silly.) Hello, anyway!
Anyway, I need to say this: Have you ever played the game Spore? You create a creature, and it rises from single-celled form to a fully-fledged animal, to a civilized race, to galactic domination. But, this seems to mirror the history of the subnet. The single-celled creature (aka the Root) was introduced, and it grew in a controlled form until it grew a brain (beginning of the Outer Rim). Then it grew and evolved until it became self-aware (SubNet Defense systems). It realized that growing just led to more entry points for the subnet. So it developed the Edge to keep itself from growing more (and to keep out intruders), and so it had no choice but to adapt to it's surroundings (the tombs, ancient section, even part of the lighthouse).
So, some minor bullet points so I can get my point across.
- Solitary confinement was designed to make people insane.
- The Root was an experiment to test some technology, and that's why we see cipher boxes everywhere.
- The Subnet lives.