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Zero One
- For zero-one law of probability theory, see Kolmogorov's zero-one law.
Zero One is a fictional city of the Matrix saga founded by machines in the late 21st century. Its inhabitants regard it as an independent nation, but humans see it as an illegal entity. After the First Man-Machine War, Zero One becomes the empire of Machine World City.
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History according to "The Second Renaissance"
Man created the Machine that would become its demise: sometime between 2061 and 2075, the machine B166ER was tried, convicted, and executed by the U.S. for the murder of his two masters. The actions of one machine spawned fear and a sort of racism towards all machines. The machines of the world were persecuted and massacred by human governments, and all survivors were subsequently expelled from their home nations. The surviving machines traveled to the Mesopotamian desert, somewhere in Iraq or Iran, and raised Zero One from the ground up.
Impact on the world
After its founding, Zero One's economy began to boom. Goods produced were of a much higher quality and far cheaper than those produced by human nations. Economies were devastated by the influx of better products, and the value of human currencies dropped as the machine currency rapidly gained value. To stave off a complete economic meltdown, human governments instituted a naval blockade of Zero One.
The machines had for years been trying to get into the United Nations and establish a civil relationship with the humans. But the economic crisis convinced the UN to deny membership to Zero One.
The First Man-Machine War
As the crisis worsened, diplomatic attempts at resolving it collapsed and war was declared by human governments in 2085.
The U.S. began by leading other UN nations in a bombing campaign against Zero One. weapons of mass destruction were dropped constantly on the city. Once the bombs stopped dropping, Zero One was quickly rebuilt and all the inhabitants killed were replaced rapidly. An army was raised and war was declared against humanity between 2085 and 2086.
Zero One's ability to build huge numbers of troops gave it an enormous advantage over humans. As their army moved in all directions, nations fell and militaries were overwhelmed. Human governments became desperate to stop the advance, so Operation Dark Storm was implemented. The mission was to block out the earth's sunlight, the machine's source of power. So the sky was filled with thick, choking black smoke (the first step to create a post-apocalyptic world), but this did not stop the machines. It was in their search for a new power source that the machines began developing the Matrix. Humans continued to fight, but by 2090, the last human armies surrendered and the last governments collapsed along with the United Nations (whose headquarters was destroyed by a nuclear weapon after a peace treaty was signed with resistance from its leadership), and Zero One became the supreme authority of the earth, the Machine World City empire.
Postwar/The Second War
After the war, the earth was in complete ruins. Although there was some resistance, the machines established their full authority and began plugging humans into the Matrix. The machines of Machine World City of what was once Zero One had created a new world order. But the War between Man and Machine did not end, it continued.
It is the Matrix saga that documents what happens after the War. In the first Matrix, we are introduced to Neo, Trinity and Morpheus. In the The Matrix Reloaded, it is revealed here, the Agent Smith was not fully deleted when Neo destroyed him before. But now, Smith, rebellious and unwilling to go back to the source of his programming, begins open rebellion and his actions threaten both humanity and the machines. At the end of The Matrix Reloaded, Smith grows beyong the constraints of the Matrix and penetrates into the real world.
In The Matrix Revolutions, Neo and Trinity travel to the Machine World City to confront the machine ruler of Earth, Deus Ex Machina and the second war "peacefully" ends with Neo's sacrificial defeat of Agent Smith. Neo is taken to be buried somewhere in Machine City while crowds at Zion celebrate the end of the future war. Finally there's peace between Man and Machine.
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