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The war culminated in an eerie defeat for humanity, as they were subdued and assimilated into a power network, their consciousness preserved within a simulated reality known as the Matrix. In this advanced and controlled environment, people lived obliviously, unaware of their grim reality.
The inception of the Matrix was initially fraught with failure, leading to substantial losses—millions of human souls perished in the process. Eventually, a retroversion of early twenty-first century life emerged as the most successful model, and humanity was ensconced in a facsimile of their prior existence.