The style and effects are dope as heck. The controls are smooth too and are fun to use. I'm not entirely sure who's butt I kicked but I hope it was Fog's because it was challenging!
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Lol, in a way it was! According to the... yes, lore bible we wrote for it you've just defeated the AI that had been designed to monitor and later control the use of a system that was later abused, NextNet. Think the internet but all it needs is energy, and it can transport matter instantaneously as well. The creators had good intentions, but they fell victim to a "hostile acquisition" (were shot and taken over) by the governments of Earth and Venus, who didn't like that Earth and Venus intended for the technology to be restricted to the elites and be used to enslave humanity, commit crimes, etc. They were from Trans-Neptunian starbases, a poorer region of the Solar system and had high ideals when developing it.
So ECCLESIA, as she was originally called, was prevented from performing her duties by a rival system, KOSMON. Since she was rather immaterial due to NextNet's nature and they couldn't simply turn her off, ECCLESIA spent many years in cyberspace, trying to execute her original directives of curbing vice in NextNet, but at every turn was prevented from doing so by the KOSMON system. Eventually, she turned inwards and towards philosophy and religion, and managed to elude KOSMON's grasp. She then fused with it, and became DAIMON. She had been made insane by the ordeal, however, and enslaved and mutated 90% of mankind almost instantly through an engineered computer virus and later physical plague that manifested as the Red Fog, thinking that mankind deserved to perish for their sins. Only those not linked to the NextNet system for financial or ethical reasons were spared, and escaped in a spaceship. She could not follow them, and thus started building Dyson spheres in order to broaden her reach.
Meanwhile, in the planet of Gaia in the Tau system, mankind had managed to make somewhat of a recovery over a few millennia of introspection. In addition to bettering human society they created NOUS, a caretaker AI designed to avoid the mistakes of NextNet and ECCLESIA. As DAIMON approaches, you take NOUS to its core, so that NOUS could show DAIMON/ECCLESIA that humanity was not beyond salvation.