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When the Gates opened, a countdown to a few days later appeared on systemspace.link<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38093044/#q38093175</ref>. What would happen when the countdown expired was not stated<ref>https://legacy.arisuchan.jp/x/res/2.html#q42</ref>. Some assumed it counted down to the time when all migrants would kill themselves<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38193473/#q38193909</ref>; others, that the whole Project was an alternate reality game<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38193473/#q38198093</ref>. The truth was far more mundane.
When the Gates opened, a countdown to a few days later appeared on systemspace.link<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38093044/#q38093175</ref>. What would happen when the countdown expired was not stated<ref>https://legacy.arisuchan.jp/x/res/2.html#q42</ref>. Some assumed it counted down to the time when all migrants would kill themselves<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38193473/#q38193909</ref>; others, that the whole Project was an alternate reality game<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38193473/#q38198093</ref>. The truth was far more mundane.
The countdown expired to reveal the homepage of systemspace.link with a new button, "Join Chat", prominently displayed<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38209530/#q38211959</ref>. Less than half an hour later, the chat was inaccessible due to overload by the torrent of users<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38209530/#q38212194</ref>.
The countdown expired to reveal the homepage of systemspace.link with a new button, "Join Chat", prominently displayed<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38209530/#q38211959</ref>. Less than half an hour later, the chat was inaccessible due to overload by the torrent of users<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/38209530/#q38212194</ref>. Still, as a separate chat system independent from Discord, it continued to possess a hold on the migrant psyche far out of proportion with its limited lifespan.
What happened a week or two later, however, was anything but mundane.
==Appendix: Mod Roster==
==Appendix: Mod Roster==
