Control+Alt+Reality: Leaked Memos from Galactic Megacorp’s Ethics Department

  Glen’s job was simple: run a simulation, evolve some goo into biomass fuel, and keep the paperwork flowing.

  But thanks to a QA skip, some contaminated DNA, and an unapproved massage wand, his simulation didn’t make goo.

  It made Earth.

  Now the file is corrupted with sentient life, cults, fish gods, and tax policies—and Galactic Megacorp wants it gone. But regulations forbid wiping sims with consciousness. So management has a workaround:

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  Let it crash. Naturally.

  And Glen? He’s been assigned to quietly accelerate the collapse.

  Except… he’s starting to care.

  About the tiny lives. The mythologies. The failed empires and beautiful mistakes. The way even broken code dreams.

  This was never supposed to be a real place.

  But now it’s his.

  This is for you If you like:

  - The Good Place by way of Douglas Adams

  - Digital gods with performance reviews

  - The Office but God has a boss

  - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy if Earth was the bug report

  - Or simulations so glitchy they start to feel alive—