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As the project approached completion, in the autumn of 2008, events intervened. The near total financial destruction of the planet meant that Project Atlantis never saw the light of day. | As the project approached completion, in the autumn of 2008, events intervened. The near total financial destruction of the planet meant that Project Atlantis never saw the light of day. | ||
As they dove feverishly into the weeds the project scope expanded — at first gradually; in the closing stages at breakneck pace — and in the final days — as per the warning of Pimco van der Sark, ex-NASA and now a lexophysical engineer at the University of [[Bretton Woods]] — exceeded the [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] altogether. There was a sudden, catastrophic implosion, and everything associated with the project — all drafts, riders, boilerplate, annexes, schedules — and everyone — the firm {{ISDA}} engaged to | As they dove feverishly into the weeds the project scope expanded — at first gradually; in the closing stages at breakneck pace — and in the final days — as per the warning of [[Pimco van der Sark]], ex-NASA and now a lexophysical engineer at the University of [[Bretton Woods]] — exceeded the [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] altogether. There was a sudden, catastrophic implosion, and everything associated with the project — all drafts, riders, boilerplate, annexes, schedules — and everyone — the firm {{ISDA}} engaged to “hold the pen” — a mysterious cyber law firm that spontaneously winked into existence when a document management system became self-aware<ref>The firm, [[Tubb Fuller Breaden Potter Bacon]], (known in its marketing literature as [[TFBPB]]) has never been heard of since, and curiously, no record now exists of this firm before 2008, even though it was apparently a global behemoth.</ref> — and several thousand members of ISDA’s document working group, seconded by their employers to contributing their “clarifications” and [[For the avoidance of doubt|doubt-avoidances]] for the greater good of the standard form, simply vanished into thin air. | ||
It was subsequently shown by [[Pimco van der Sark|van der Sark]] (a character loosely based on real-life lexophysicist [[Havid Dilbert]]) that all this energy was not destroyed, but instead ejected as a white-hot spume of coordinated financial capital regulation, spewing out across the financial universe a whole new in [[space-tedium]] dimension. | |||
But in the immediate aftermath of the implosion everything — the document, the personnel, the drafting miscellanea and terabytes of [[Tedium|tedia]] — were lost to history. We now do not know what the agreement said, how it said it, or indeed whether the agreement really existed at all. And the chatbots — | |||
Well, speaking of chatbots, Barkley claims that Roy Batty’s extraordinary speech from the original ''Blade Runner'' (1982) originated when a page of his novel fell ''backwards in time'' through a rent in the fabric of the [[space-tedium continuum]] created by the implosion, landing in Rutger Hauer’s lap as he was waiting in makeup for that final scene. Not realising this was a unique document from the apocalyptic future, Hauer took it for a script redraft. He adapted it, but only slightly, from Barkley’s original text, which took the form of exchange between an [[ETD]] [[negotiator]] and a mortally injured {{tag|CDO}} lawyer as they dragged their mutilated psyches away from the smoking ruins of the brokerage firm [[Wickliffe Hampton Asset Management|Wickliffe Hampton]]: | |||
Well, speaking of chatbots, Barkley claims that Roy Batty’s extraordinary speech from the original ''Blade Runner'' (1982) originated when a page of his novel fell ''backwards in time'' through a rent in the fabric of the [[space-tedium continuum]] created by the | |||
“You thought you knew ''everything'', didn’t you,” [[sneered]] the hapless [[futures]] specialist. “And ''now'' look at us. ''You'' did this. You have no idea.” | “You thought you knew ''everything'', didn’t you,” [[sneered]] the hapless [[futures]] specialist. “And ''now'' look at us. ''You'' did this. You have no idea.” | ||
A bubble of blood foamed from thee CDO salesman’s mouth. Weakly he turned, a replicant glimmer in his eye, and said: | |||
:''I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.'' | :''I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.'' | ||