ARMADILLO EXPERIMENT
1982
A test was run in a government-held facility using high-powered laser technology and over 5 million watts of electricity. The Armadillo Experiment failed five times.
Many rooms were powered with advanced "TRA" experimental equipment, and these systems could break at any time. They used numerous computers to simulate virtual spaces in real time, but many failed.
Although they were the first company to create a virtual reality vision, they wanted to make it permanent.
Using the TRA technology, the company "SH Foundation" — which originated the idea of a p0.1 design — activated the portals on the first of November, 1982. The test was successful and reportedly shook the ground. The experiment created a door in the middle of the room. When the scientists walked through it, they were transported to a brick room. The floor was made of wooden planks, the lights were white and mounted on the ceiling, and there was a vent behind them.
The community begged to shut down the experiment due to the millions of lives it had already claimed, but instead, they continued.
Now that their world was created, they went all in. They activated the lasers with over 1.5 billion watts of electricity. The sheer amount of electricity killed all the humans in the room, but the scientists noticed something extraordinary: the world began to grow, expanding to a size never before seen. It seemed as if something was alive inside it. However, soon the world started to dissolve. It became transparent, and everything began to fade to blankness.
Eventually, it all ended, and Earth was destroyed to bits.
The scientists knew that, since every person on Earth had been transported into this new world, they had to make it seem as though nothing had happened. When they questioned the people, they believed this was their real world.
To continue their experiments, and because they didn't know whether TRA had erased everyone's memories, they referred to the new world as "Trash Runners."
To this day, no one knows how to leave, because no one realizes it's fake. However, Earth is healing, and void cracks are beginning to slip through.
Someone is still on Earth.