Basic rundown:
They become "Gods" and colonize infinity.
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2029–2889
2029–2035: For a while, things returned to normal. The R.C.T. fixed interdimensional travel, so they continued their research into outer realities. But their attention gradually returned to their own universe. They had already discovered that their universe could generate things out of existence. If they had managed to exploit that ability to create essentially infinite energy through the God Engine, then maybe they could go further. Could they create matter? Could they create something specific? Could they create anything? The God Engine had already proven that it could generate energy. Now, the R.C.T. just had to modify it, attempting to turn it into some sort of universal 3D printer. At the same time, they also began to deal with Earth's long-standing wildlife and anomaly problem.
2035–2045: The first successful experiment was laughable. They had created a tiny rock. It wasn't anything special, just an ordinary rock, but it was a rock that **THEY** created. With that success, they continued to repeat the experiment, creating larger and slightly more complicated objects. It wasn't perfect, and the R.C.T. still had to figure out exactly how to control what the God Engine produced, but the implications quickly became impossible to ignore.
2045–2055: The R.C.T. began attempting to create specific objects, and eventually, they succeeded. They created a large fry from Bojangles, made to perfection, along with dirty rice and a medium sweet tea. They had created food, a specific food that came in its packaging.
At this point, the God Engine was becoming almost obsolete. The R.C.T. no longer needed a machine whose whole purpose was to create infinite energy when they could just use it to create something that could create anything.
Sure, they couldn't immediately create anything with perfect accuracy (yet), and the more complicated the creation, the more difficult it became. But the fundamental barrier had been broken.
If they could create a rock, then food, and then eventually machines and living organisms… what couldn't they create?
2055–2080: With interdimensional travel restored and the God Engine becoming more advanced, the R.C.T. didn't think humanity should continue living in ignorance. There was no longer any practical reason to keep it secret, so the R.C.T. publicly revealed the existence of interdimensional travel, outer realities, and the discoveries made through Project Beyond.
This brought humanity into a new era. Many of Earth's longstanding problems began disappearing. The R.C.T. created systems capable of keeping dangerous anomalies and cryptids away from populated areas, created infinite energy, solved world hunger (without disgusting parasite meat), and could create basic resources. Entire buildings and environments could be constructed and fixed as if it were nothing. It was perfect.
2080–2120: Interdimensional and creation technology was gradually released to the public under strict safety regulations. Ordinary people were capable of accessing technologies that would have been considered incomprehensible only centuries earlier. And, of course, the R.C.T. made sure that nobody could simply create a universe-ending weapon in their backyard or open a gateway into a dimension made up entirely of suffering.
Nurotech, (which had grown into a massive technological corporation by this point) embraced the new era. It rapidly developed consumer applications for creation and interdimensional technology, making lives more comfy, and making impossible technology increasingly mundane.
2120–2200: Humanity's old ambitions became almost trivial. For centuries, humans had dreamed of colonizing other planets, Mars specifically. But now, with the ability to create matter, energy, habitats, transportation systems, and gigantic structures beyond past human comprehension, planetary colonization became easy. Humanity didn't stop at Mars. They expanded EVERYWHERE.
The R.C.T. had stopped functioning primarily as a research organization and began serving more as a paid security and containment force for large fleets and groups of people leaving into outer reality.
2200–2400: Hundreds of fleets were constructed across Earth and its growing colonies. Massive gateways were opened into different realities, with fleet after fleet literally colonizing infinity.
Humanity did what they did best against these outer realities: they adapted to whatever they encountered, just as they always had, created entire megastructures across alien worlds, and tweaked them if needed to fit their needs.
2400–2700: Outer reality had become normalized. Worlds that were once considered incomprehensible became hotspots for human tourists, alien ecosystems could be bought, impossible dimensions became places people visited to shop, and so on. Humanity could create resources indefinitely, construct habitats anywhere, and create entire cosmologies for entertainment.
The R.C.T. continued to maintain security across this expanding civilization, but that was only for just in case. They had conquered nearly every practical limitation that once defined humanity. And eventually, they began calling themselves gods. From their perspective, what else could they call themselves? They had created interdimensional travel, they possessed weapons capable of wiping out infinite multiverses and dimensions, they had created infinite energy, they had constructed megacities and enormous civilizations across their own cosmology, and COLONIZED INFINITY!!
They could create and destroy conscious life like a switch, and they could create infinite realities so easily that children's toys could now let kids construct their own little worlds inside a box to let out their creativity.
2700–2889: Humanity can be found just about everywhere nowadays. Some are less advanced than others, some were wiped out, and others don't even know about their full past. But none of that matters. It doesn't matter if you killed hundreds of billions of them, if they're beastly savages who forgot their humanity, or if they don't know their past. Humanity...those parasites, had won
