In 2035, Tanoa continues to enjoy a prolonged period of
apparent peace and prosperity, but the volatile geopolitical situation on the world's stage threatens to destabilize the region, and plunge it into darkness once more.
Our world is a deeply paradoxical world, one seemingly delivered into
peace and prosperity, without any
apparent deep threats or deep repression,
and without any ultimate discord or violence except in its peripheries,
and yet ours is a world wholly empty of everything which we once knew as an ultimate hope or an ultimate affirmation, except insofar as this seemingly occurs in a new virtual reality,
and it is all too significant that it is only a virtual reality which we can know as a liberating reality.