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Schneizel decides to stage a coup. And absentee emperor is no good. He sends Suzaku to assassinate Charles. Unfortunately, he is guarded by the top knight.

Charles synchronizes all the relics and reopens the gate to the Sword.

Schneizel calls Charles, but he dismisses him, saying not to bother him with mundane things.

Anya is revealed to actually be Marianne. She had a prior contract with C.C., but failed to complete it. Now she jailbreaks C.C.'s memory.

Rolo helps Lelouch escape. But it turns out that his geass has a fatal flaw. When he stops time, it stops his own heart.

He uses it so many times trying to get away that he dies.

Lelouch has lost everything now.

Nunnaly, C.C., Rolo, the Black Knights.

Only revenge remains.

Schneizel cones on a diplomatic mission to the black knights.

While Lelouch has a breakdown, he tells the Knights about Zero's identity, and about geass. He has a dossier of people who have been geassed.

The Knights feel betrayed. They agree to trade Zero for Japan.

Kallen is released and joins the battle. She fights Suzaku, and beats him.

This would be his end, but he's been geassed to live.

And they've installed an annihilation bomb on the Lancelot. It he discharges it over Tokyo, he will survive.

Nunnaly is vaporized in the blast.

Suzaku demands a private meeting with Lelouch.

He has a bunch of questions he wants answered. But he doesn't know that Prince Schneizel's people are following him.

Lelouch is captured and Schneizel learns his identity.

He escapes, of course, and the battle begins.

Charles appears via broadcast, and says if it's war Zero wants, bring it on!

Zero now faces, not a headless Britannia, but a fully operational one.

Lelouch reaches out to the one friend he has who can protect his sister in the upcoming war: Suzaku.

The price is high.

Charles is trapped in subspace. Britannia is rudderless.

The United States of Japan evolves into The United Federation of Nations, by merging with China's successor states.

They intend to liberate Japan and show that Britannia isn't the leading force in the world anymore.

Lelouch rescues her from the collapsing subspace and they escape through the mystic door.

But C.C. has lost her entire memory, regressing to the mind of a medieval slave.

Charles has taken V.V.'s immortality.

C.C.'s ultimate goal is for Lelouch to take hers. Or it was, anyway. She arrives to confront Charles and sends Lelouch into her own memories.

But Lelouch will not be removed. After learning C.C.'s history, he returns and destroys the Sword.

This is no mere vision. Lelouch is physically in the Thought Elevator/Sword of Akasha confronting Charles. He uses his geass and Charles shoots himself through the heart.

But it isn't that easy.

The final stage of geass is to absorb the progenitor's immortality.

The documentation is all in YouTube videos or Discord channels.

Basically, Cyberpunk seems obsolete because we've leapfrogged it. Space Exploration never happened, so it still seems futuristic.

That's my guess, anyway. What do you think?

A modern Cyberpunk story is just a spy thriller set in the present time.

(And don't get me started on how many spy thriller plots fall apart in the presence of cell phones.)

But lots of Cyberpunk stories assume wired networking, but we have 5g and WiFi. Lots of them assume portable computers slightly larger than laptops, while we have smartphones.

Their online communities look like Second Life (but successful,) not like Facebook groups.

It was just wrong about what they were!

Instead of Cyberspace, we have Facebook. Instead of VR, the World Wide Web.

Instead of anonymous hackers paid with digital money we have... okay, we actually have that one.

Cyberpunk assumed that computer technology would become cheaper, more effective, and privately available. And it did. And it led to a bunch of things that Cyberpunk didn't really predict.

Cyberpunk was right that there would be social repercussions from ubiquitous computing...

This was probably because the space race was a challenge between the USSR and the USA to see who could burn more money and still survive.

Exploration science fiction assumed that space exploration technology would become cheaper, more effective, and privately available and it mostly didn't.

I mean, it did, but not in a way that led us to colonize other planets. We're still talking about getting back to the moon.

I think it's that we've leapfrogged the Cyberpunk future, but not the Space Exploration future.