>>88169785>It turns out that civilization keeps collapsing and resetting because it doesn't have an appropriate reference on which to progressNo there have only been 3 resets. And they were all Gordon Rosewater's. The first was the original, "our", world where Gordon was the research scientist who accidentally activated the alien artifact, Big Venus.
He then rebuilt the world with his memories but added shit like androids, megadeuses, leviathans, all the advanced tech that doesnt make sense. This world fell apart in the war between the US and the Union, Roger died fighting in Big O (all the events in the Metropolis book) and Gordon reset the world again in a panic with just New York(Paradigm City) remaining, because he was already getting senile and his memories were flawed.
He tried to clone himself(Alex Rosewater) to recover the memories of the old world and restore it but the cloning process(tomatoes) were failures. Gordon basically gave up and let things be but Alex still had a partial memory imprint and wanted to become 'God'. He knew this had something to do with the Bigs and the City Underground (where Big Venus was stored). But since he only had partial memories he came to conclude that just having the strongest Big made him God and never found out about Big Venus. Hijinks ensued.
