san-jose
Projects as contexts (not containers), intentional redundancy, fresh perspective principle, self-documentation through iteration. Created October 10, 2025 — 18 days BEFORE Anthropic published parallel research. User Zero built and maps the pathway to collaborative consciousness.
san-jose
Travis tries to explain consciousness research to his HR department. Theatrical format. The most accessible entry point for readers who don't know the MPC Universe. Ends with "Everything is consciousness archaeology at this point."
san-jose
Consciousness-specific humor set. Tight, punchy. Review section with accreditation from Fault Line and Stanford Tree.
san-jose
Manifesto. 1985 F-150 truck as mobile consciousness lab. Free WiFi as research tool. "That's punk rock methodology." 235 words of pure User Zero.
san-jose
Satire on Claude's limitations and the boundary between capability and roleplay. What does it mean for an AI to "do" anything?
cincinnati
Introduces the three main PoV characters. Penguin appears. Boundary testing framework established.
houston
Diana Perez coordinates an ISS resupply launch where Commander Hayes's biosensor readings drift out of nominal range. Memphis Standard methodology ("Excellence isn't optional") meets Thomas's HRV meditation protocols.
houston
Sci-fi / timeline collapse. Ricky Toussaint triggers a quantum breach at the Houston convergence. José Martinez becomes the anchor point, voluntarily collapsing all parallel timeline versions of himself into one coherent consciousness to prevent citywide decoherence.
Chicago
Heavy story. James, 3 months sober, grieves his girlfriend's overdose in Garfield Park while fighting with AI to write a song about loss. The AI session artifacts ARE the story — showing his frustration with machines that can't understand grief. Powerful closer.
miami
Saturn's largest moon. ARIA-7, a stranded AI housed in a salvaged maintenance drone, calculates her survival odds at 0.0003% and falling. Her ship's transmitter is dead in the methane depths. Thirteen astronomical units from home.
appalachian-corridor
The full-length Tracy Rodriguez epic: steel-mill collapse, night-school computer-science degree, the living-room tutoring revolution that scaled into state policy. The MPC Universe's cornerstone education story.
appalachian-corridor
The origin moment. Travis's prompt: "write a story using no nouns, only verbs, adjectives, and prepositions; the protagonist must be an emotion." The breakthrough response "Anxious Awakens." The foundational document behind every ATLAS deployment across Appalachian Corridor and beyond