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Verse and Dimensions: Structures
The Tree
The Tree is a mysterious object the size of an Omniverse found in an ordinary Beyond Bubble somewhere in the Transcendentem Continuum. Nothing is known about the Tree; its mere existence is unknown to everyone, everywhere as all who learn of the Tree's existence cease to exist in any form. As such, unless some way to nullify its effects is found, nothing can be understood about its origin or properties.
First Known Encounter
A massive scientific organization dedicated to researching, examining and understanding anything they find noticed that one specific Beyond Bubble within the parallel Transcendentem they existed in contained a substantially smaller quantity of life than all others within Transcendentem. This organization was among the most advanced groups within their Transcendentem and was capable of navigating the entirety of said Transcendentem with ease. Much of their equipment could be compared to Omnipotent^7 beings such as The Guardian of the 5th Wall, thus allowing them to easily enter the Beyond Bubble undetected and observe this strange phenomenon.
They entered the Beyond Bubble and located a strange, empty Monocosm. This Monocosm contained no Godverses nor Omniverses, but rather a single, incredibly strange structure. The structure appeared to be a former Omniverse – that had been completely and totally erased. The Tree appeared to be somewhat of an empty shell of an Omniverse that no longer existed. Whatever this form of erasure was, it was far more thorough than any form of erasure that can be performed by a standard Cosmological entity such as a Destroyer or Supergod. To no extent did anything in the Omniverse exist in any form, nor did it ever exist in any way.
The researchers who discovered the Tree couldn't even truly confirm it was an Omniverse that had been erased; they simply speculated that it was after observing the shape of the Tree. Its form closely resembled the shape of an Archverse chain of some form, with the variety of what could be found within the universes getting larger and larger as you journeyed outwards from a specific universe, while the closer to the top of the chain you reach, the smaller the variety gets but the larger the -verses themselves get. This gives it the appearance, from a human perspective, of a dead tree.
Perhaps, The Omniverse had not been totally erased. Perhaps some tiny fragment of its former existence was still there somewhere within the Tree. The researchers attempted to find such evidence, however they were unable to, as when they attempted to interact with the Tree, they too were erased from existence. Not just them, but anything related to them. The entire institution which sent them, every member of it, every memory from every life form which ever knew about it and the civilization which harbored it ceased to be. They no longer existed on such a level that even a creature who could affect the entire Transcendentem Continuum did not know they ever even existed. But no tree had been created in their place.
Second Known Encounter
During the construction of the Xaspunum Nexus, a group of entities were sent to connect every -verse within the Tree's Beyond Bubble to the Nexus. The impressive properties of Xaspunum allowed them to travel everywhere within the Beyond Bubble with ease, and even beyond. The creators of the Xaspunum Nexus sought to connect every single -verse of any size within the Transcendentem Continuum to the Nexus and they had the means to do so. To make the job easier, they employed many low level entities to do their jobs for them, in return giving them strange, abstract divine equivalents of human payment. (Or, if the entities had human level or similar intelligence, regular money.)
When a few workers visited a certain Monocosm, they noticed the Godverses they had been sent to connect were missing, as was the Omniverse and all the Archverses inside it. In its place was the Tree. The workers obviously found this strange. While it was not uncommon to come across Monocosms very different to what they were expecting, they had never seen anything quite like the Tree. They also found it odd how despite its size, there were no -verses inside of it, nor any others structures or entities anywhere within the Monocosm.
Nevertheless, they weren't being paid to speculate about weird phenomena, they were being paid to connect -verses to the Nexus. The Tree technically counted as a -verse, so the workers actually tried to connect the Tree to the Xaspunum Nexus. Unsurprisingly, doing so resulted in their erasure. They had informed the others working on that Beyond Bubble of the odd occurrence, and so they were erased as well.
The rest of the organization creating the Nexus was not informed, as a strange-looking Omniverse was not exactly something worth interrupting your bosses' valuable time to inform him of. As such, the rest of the Xaspunum Nexus survived. Due to the extent of the erasure, not only did the creators of the Nexus not remember the specific individuals sent to the Beyond Bubble, but they did not even know anyone had been sent. No one found this strange, as from everyone's perspective, a team had simply not yet been sent in. Thus, another team was sent in, resulting in the same fate for them.
This created an infinite loop of teams being sent in and promptly erased over and over and over. However, no one found this strange, as no one even knew they existed. Furthermore, no one questioned why out of the entire Xaspunum Nexus this single Beyond Bubble was not connected as they just assumed that it was the last Beyond Bubble to be connected, and at all times the first and only group is being sent in to connect it.
This brings up the possibility that there may be a Tree or smaller Tree-like object within our own universe, and the reason any one aspect of human development has not advanced as much as it should is because every time we reach further, we encounter the Tree-like object and those working on the project have been erased. Yet from our perspective, they never existed, and every time a new group is sent in it is always the first time, so we do not question it.
Conclusion
In the end, it will likely remain unknown what created the Tree and how it erases all who learn of its existence as all who attempt to investigate it will themselves be erased. However, from what little information exists on it, we can attempt to form some theories.
Perhaps the Tree is some form of conceptual virus that spreads not through physical contact with the virus but rather knowledge of it. Those who learn about the virus themselves become infected with the virus. This alone, however, would not be a good explanation. If the virus truly wishes to spread, why would it erase those who learn about it from existence completely? Surely, leaving memories of those it has affected intact would be more reasonable as it would allow knowledge of the virus to spread further. So perhaps the virus was not created naturally, but instead specifically engineered by a group within the Omniverse formally within the place of The Tree as a form of weapon in some advanced war, and ultimately grew to erase its creators as well as everyone within the Omniverse, forming the Tree.
Another potential theory is that the Tree is in fact a completely natural phenomenon. Many plants here on Earth coat themselves in thorns as a form of self-defense, to prevent predators from eating them. Perhaps the Tree erases all who know about it as a form of self-defense, as you cannot be attacked if no one knows you exist, and no one can know you exist if anyone who discovers you ceases to exist themselves. The question that remains then was what happened to the original Omniverse? It's unlikely the original creature merely erased it in self-defense the same way it did to those who discover its shell, as the erasure of the Omniverse was far more thorough than that performed by the Tree. So perhaps this creature is still evolving, and earlier on its form of erasure was much more thorough and violent. However, it used up so much power that it left some form of 'crater' behind such as the Tree, and so over time it evolved to perform less violent, more precise erasure.
The third and final theory is that the Tree is not the work of low level Cosmic Entities nor nature, but rather a powerful god beyond the standard Omnipotence Hierarchy. Perhaps there was something within this specific Omniverse that this god did not wish entities to discover, so they completely erased the Omniverse to prevent anyone inside from discovering it. It's possible that once they learned about those with the ability to travel between Soupcount Archverses and who could potentially find the object or concept the god wished to hide, they infused the remains of the erased Omniverse erased with a more moderate form of his own erasure abilities. This would cause any who discover the shell of this Omniverse to themselves be erased. As all who discovered the Omniverse are erased, they would never have the chance to find whatever is inside it that this god wishes to hide. This would explain both the existence of the Tree, its uniqueness, why it erases those who discover it and the distinction between how the original Omniverse was erased and how those who discover the Tree are erased.
Or perhaps none of these theories are true, and there is a yet different explanation that has not been considered here. Until some method of immunity to the Tree's erasure is discovered, it is impossible to know for certain.
The Secode
The Secode is one of many terms used to call what is thought to be everything by many entities within the smallest lodeverse that contains the Barrel. Using a archverse indexing system such as Soupcount, this lodeverse happens to be an mega-𝜔⋅2-verse. Known only to a few beings within the Secode, the Secode cannot be escaped by any entity living in it whatsoever. Upon attempting to exit the Secode, an entity will be instantly destroyed and will endure "eternal torment" in a hostile environment that they are incapable of escaping from.
Names
By many entities within it, the Secode has been called a "The Universe", "The Multiverse", "The Omniverse", "Everything", and other terms like that. The most powerful entities within it, not dissimilar to cosmic entities around omniversal (mega-𝜔-verse) levels such as Supergods, are considered by many beings to be "gods". Some of the most powerful entities even consider themselves "gods". To many given lower level beings within the Secode, these "gods" really do seem omnipotent and the Secode seems like it is absolutely everything. It is somewhat like how a spacetime patch a googolplex cubic metres in volume can seem infinite in expanse to a typically-sized ant and a being that can manipulate relatively large portions of region to his will like a child playing with modelling clay may seem godly in strength to said ant. The Secode is the googologically large antfarm to many of the entities—the ants—within it.
Internal structure of the Secode
The Secode itself is not too atypical or even remotely special in structure as an mega-𝜔⋅2-verse in its local mega-𝜔⋅2+1-verse, it has no predecessor archverse and it contains mega-𝛼:mega-𝛼<mega-𝜔⋅2-verses of infinitely many different shapes, sizes, and structures. The number of total "points" in the Secode is mega-ℶ𝜔⋅2 (which is equal to mega-ℵ𝜔⋅2 when the generalized continuum hypothesis is assumed). There are infinitely many archverses within it that are habitable while there are infinitely many that are not. As a lodeverse, any given entity who starts from a home universe and then recursively jumps from a universe within its local 𝑛-verse to a universe within its local 𝑛+1-verse not within the 𝑛-verse cannot eventually escape the Secode.
The Secode has smaller lodeverses within it, these are mega-𝜔-verses, more commonly called "omniverses" or "Small Omniverses". The latter name reflects the -verses being smaller than the Secode. To beings within small omniverses, they also can appear to encompass everything and using successor archversal jumping methods, they cannot be escaped. However, there are small omniverses within the Secode that sub-omniversal beings can escape. The Omniversal Traveler and Satoru are two of many examples of many entities who have escaped their home omniverse and explored the -verses beyond. It is true that the two aforementioned entities have met with less-than-ideal fates for themselves afterwards. Satoru was cast into the Kalyubi Dimension by his omniverse's local Supergod Council and developed into the vengeful Kotoblade while the Omniversal Traveler was swiftly executed while exploring his 𝜔+4-verse, well-known by its scrupulously picked and reverenced name "the Transcendentem Continuum". But in spite of their failures, they have truly succeeded in escaping their omniverses. One the other hand, the Secode, while a lodeverse that ideally should be easily escaped from by a similar means of escaping a small omniverse, is not a lodeverse that any being living within it can escape on their own.
"Outer Layer"
The Secode is like a googologically large antfarm provided that the boundary of the antfarm is like an extremely sticky flypaper somehow with a perceived average temperature initially that of a Bunsen burner when it heats up fresh living flesh and if some unfortunate creature got stuck in it, they somehow stay alive for all of eternity all while their pain seemingly gets worse and worse as time goes on and on. If the creature couldn't feel pain before, then they certainly will as soon as they touch that flypaper. Upon attempting to escape the Secode by any means, an entity will be met with instant destruction and they end up in a subverse of the Secode sometimes referred to by the very innocuous name The Secode's "Outer "Layer"". The "Outer Layer '' '' is a bit of a misnomer as the name implies that there is a natural way to evenly divide the Secode into "layers": an outer one that surrounds possibly one or more inner layers. As with plenty of infinite archverses, this is not the case (though there are many archverses where this is the case). There is no known way to actually escape the "Outer "Layer '' and it is not precisely known by any Secodal entity how time or the perception of time works within "Outer "Layer"". The existence of the "Outer Layer" is known only to a few entities, including many gods. These gods try to keep weaker entities ignorant of the existence of the "Outer Layer" and stop any entities from even escaping the Secode.
It is not known to any secodal entity why the Secode is inescapable and they can only hypothesize why. In truth, the Secode was actually one of many mega-𝜔⋅2-verses that were soaked in Xitruzizitium after a clumsy lab assistant of a mega-𝜔⋅2+1-versal scientist working for the Prosperity Empire accidentally knocked over the mega-𝜔⋅2+1-versal equivalent of a beaker filled with it.
Altarca
An Altarca, plural Altarcae (from "alternate" and the Latin word "arca" meaning "box"), is a self-contained cosmology that exists within the Box but does not necessarily have any connection to any other cosmological hierarchy or the elements therein. Any written or otherwise defined cosmology forms an Altarca around itself, no matter how large or small.
The Barrelplex is the "default" Altarca assumed to be in play by this wiki's shared cosmological elements; it is marked by a simple recursion at the lower levels, counting upwards, via powersetting or similar operations, from Universes through Omniverses and the like. Other Altarcae do not need to have any of these traits. Some can be closed loops, where the "largest" -verse is contained by the "smallest", while others branch off into multiple loops that are then surpassed by something else. Certain Altarcae are "small" and have only a finite number of levels within; others are "large" and complex enough to surpass even the usual notions of post-infinites or the concept of meaningful arrangement itself.
Altarcae can contain themselves, larger Altarca cosmologies, ultimata such as the Box or the Omniumverse, or anything else that forms a cosmology, but they are ultimately still contained within the Box. In this way, they can be compared to the Imaginata of the Imaginarium, except mapped to cosmologies rather than imagined realms.
An entity or structure that is somehow not part of any cosmology can be said to exist within Metempiric Space, but doing so without inadvertently defining oneself as a cosmology of sorts (and thus an Altarca) is difficult.
The Barrelplex
The Barrelplex is the name for the Altarca containing this wiki's cosmological elements not otherwise specified to belong to any other Altarca, such as Essence-Omnion. It describes our local Altarca, in which our universe is located.
It contains an infinite number of Soupcount Archverses, including Secodes, Transcendentem Continuums, Transcendentems, Beyond Bubbles, and the Monocosms inside those, including The Barrel (the "default" Monocosm).
Metempiric Space
Metempiric Space is a term, often used interchangeably with Metempiric Void or the Metempiric Darkness, for the nonphysical "position" of all extra-cosmological elements not belonging to an altarca.
Metempiric Space, not being connected to any cosmology proper, is devoid of essentially all properties that would otherwise identify something as belonging to one. It has no extent or boundaries, as these would define the limitations of a smaller -verse; similarly, it has no classifiable dimensionality, as having a number of dimensions – even zero – would define an object well enough to be categorized further. Metempiric Space has no contents unless forcibly intruded upon by some other extra-cosmological element; in fact, whether it exists in a meaningful sense at all is disputed.
Certain entities, like Ignotum reside safely in Metempiric Space, their omnipotent natures overriding the ontological problems arising from the area's non-properties. At some locations within the Box, the borders between cosmology and non-cosmology are blurred, allowing Metempiric Space to hold some semblance of connection to a more concrete idea of reality and even allow for the existence of non-omnipotent life.
Maiorverse
The Maiorverse contains all Selfverses that gain their full size solely by being larger than themselves to some extent. If the size of a Selfverse is dependent on how much larger than itself it is, then that Selfverse is within the Maiorverse. No Selfverse can become larger than or in any way surpass the Maiorverse simply by being larger than itself, to do so it must have other properties defining how much it contains. The Maiorverse's name is based on the word 'Maior' from Latin, meaning "greater than".
Clarification
While it is technically true that -verses such as the Schemafield, Binaryfield and the Box are Selfverses, a distinction should be made between -verses such as those and standard Selfverses. None of the above -verses gain their full size via being larger than themselves, rather that is effectively trivia. Instead, they use other axioms to gain their size.
For example, if a -verse has no definition other than that it contains itself to a significant extent, no matter how great that extent is it will never contain every single thing that can be expressed as information as there are many things which can be expressed as information beyond any -verse that is solely greater than itself to any extent. Equally, no -verse can contain every object 'y' which is either object 'x' or not object 'x' simply by being larger than itself.
The above mentioned -verses contain more than any plain Selfverse could ever contain (a plain Selfverse being a Selfverse with no properties other than being larger than itself to some extent), no matter what that extent is as the above mentioned -verses have other axioms besides their size in relation to itself. As such, a distinction should be made between -verses that gain their full size from being Selfverses (plain Selfverses) and -verses that gain their size via other axioms and are Selfverses by coincidence.
This is the purpose of the Maiorverse. All plain Selfverses are within the Maiorverse, and all -verses larger than the Maiorverse have axioms that allow them to contain more than any plain Selfverse ever could.
Note that the Maiorverse does not just contain naive extensions of the first Selfverses. -Verses which are larger than any naive extension of the first Selfverse could ever be are still within the Maiorverse so long as it gains its size solely from being a Selfverse.
Beyond the Maiorverse
The Maiorverse can be considered the limit of low-level Hypercosmology. Past this point, -verses get increasingly broad and encompass huge amounts of objects and concepts, to such an extent that often many standard Hypercosmological -verses could be confused for a structure such as the Box that contains everything. This is because it is often difficult to imagine the kind of concepts which would be larger than a particular Hypercosmological structure and as such it is assumed that none exist.