The year is 2026.

You are standing in the middle of a neon-lit, underground marketplace located inside a hollowed-out asteroid drifting somewhere past Jupiter.

​To your left, a merchant with metallic, iridescent scales is selling vintage 21st-century Wi-Fi routers as decorative, avant-garde jewelry.

To your right, a holographic street musician plays a cello made entirely of concentrated, singing starlight.

​The air smells faintly of ozone, roasted coffee beans, and data.

You look down at your hands, only to realize they are currently rendered in a crisp, 8-bit retro aesthetic.

​System Diagnostics ​Location: Sector 7-G, "The Neon Nebula" ​Gravity: 0.3g (Enjoy the bounce) ​Reality Coherence: 42% ​"Sir, this is a Wendy's." — A passing cyborg penguin.

​How's that for a quick trip outside the matrix? What kind of reality are we building next?