You wake up into a much more perfect world than the one you’ve known before: An Utopia!
Having been a Thrive Fan for who knows how long now, you find the following prospect exciting:
The year is 0 TE (Thrive Era), known as 2050 CE in the old system.
It seems like that the wildest dreams a Thrive player could ever imagine about their beloved game came true. Including, but not being limited to, they are the following:
- Thrive united the world under a single banner.
- Thrive ended world hunger.
- Thrive solved aging and all diseases/illnesses.
- Thrive made HDI reach 1 worldwide.
- Thrive made democracy worldwide full and pure.
…and so on and so forth.
You go outside, beyond the walls of your beautiful home. Here, you find more people, out of which exactly 0 have anything negative to say about The New Thrive World Order. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - everyone praises Thrive and Revolutionary Games from time to time.
Speaking of Revolutionary Games, this entity has evolved, and yet it remains true to it’s original purposes. Now acting as the world’s government under the name of “RG Council”, which functions in a large building known as:
It’s said however that one person is getting elected to the top, head-of-the-state position every time ever since Thrive took over Earth.
It’s said this man was in the highest position of both Revolutionary Games and Thrive at the time of the takeover. Despite all the odds, they managed to become most likely the most likable human in the world’s history.
Looking towards the center of your town (you are not sure wherever it is a village or a city) you see a strange place: It has many buildings that have Greek and/or Roman architectural elements. They all are also cyan. When you walk up to one of these, you see three words written above the entrance leading inside a building:
Inside the forum you find lots of people. After a few dozen minutes you get the full picture of what this forum is for: For one, it is the ultimate form of community bonding in this Thrive-topia, and For the second it allows people to talk about Thrive with a community spanning the globe. Logging into the virtual side of the forum, you see that there are billions of accounts here, all of which seem to belong to real people, not being bots or alternative accounts. Categories pile in the thousands, who even knows how many threads are being replied to each second, and yet despite all that the forum stays stable, nowhere close to crashing.
Speaking of Thrive, when you were getting there you saw a fountain with a “statue” atop made of three somewhat-separate parts. When you now went to it, you saw that the “statue” is the Thrive logo, and the inscription below it reads:
You go back to your home and boot up your computer. You notice that it has the Thrive logo on it, and it runs on “Thrive-Linux” OS. You find the layout of the computer very nice, with all it’s functions being the apex of computer engineering surely. One of the pre-installed programs of the computer is simply titled “Thrive 8.0.0”.
You very soon realize that this isn’t Thrive as you knew it before you woke up to this reality. No. This is seemingly Thrive from a thousand years into the future put just 25 years forward instead. The quality of the product seems higher than what anyone could have ever expected from what started as a hoax just some 40 years ago, followed up by what one could safely assume was a project doomed for death.
You manage to get to the end of The Microbe Stage before saving the game and closing your computer. You start thinking about how barely anybody knew of the game just some quarter of a century ago, and now not only does everyone know what this product is, but the product became a saving grace to the world.
As The Sun slowly moves towards the west, you realize that they is much more than just the game, the forum or the achievements Thrive accomplished in this Utopia. You find movies about Thrive. Comics about Thrive. Music about Thrive. No. You realize all and any branches of media humanity has discovered and used to this point have by now produced at least a couple of pieces about “The game to save us all”.
What is there to be discovered by you the following day? Or the day after that? Surely, everything will have even just a pinch of Thrive within. It is up to you to decide what do you want to discover here - Anything you want!