The System is too protected and has failsafes so any attempt to stop it will be detected so she turns against the System, then gives herself up for interrogation.

Though she created the System, the Witness and Firespine eventually Annie has a change of heart, the System is fundamentally wrong, people need to be able to make stupid decisions so decides to bring the System down. The 'correct' decision is typically deteremined by the Witness. The system is imperfect because people can't be trusted to make decisions so the system has an overriding function called Firespine whereby a small comitee of people can directly influence the democracy when the populate makes an emotional and 'incorrect' decision. This eventually becomes the System and the Witness, the system being the entire system including the democracy, with the population being requested and required to participate in the democracy, the Witness being the software AI that monitors and supports the system. Shortly after Annie and Colson are attacked and firebombed in the grandfather's home and they begin to split in their ideology, Colson become more of a fundamentalist believing in the control of the system. The government moves to take over their project in the interests of the nation. Here is the story re-organised into a timeframe that makes senseĪnnie Bekele and Colson create a video game that uses the latest technology and the design assistance of her artistic grandfather.

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