Timeline Properties

Starholder is an alternate timeline in the universe which originated from the world we experience in 1999. It is believed to have been created as a stopgap solution to address the centrality of capitalism in human life, as it is viewed as an untenable economic system. The Starholder timeline acts as an overflow buffer, designed to absorb the techno anxiety induced by late capitalism and maintain stability until a replacement pathway emerges.

The trigger event for the creation of the Starholder timeline is believed to be the work on the Y2K bug, which had the potential to cause significant negative impacts on society and technology. The Starholder timeline is named after the Starholder Institute, a think tank and research facility formed in 1999 to research potential negative outcomes from the Y2K bug. However, the Starholder Institute is unaware that an alternate timeline with the same name exists, as it is operating in the original timeline.

Time behaves differently in the Starholder timeline. It is both accelerated and a patchwork, meaning that 100 years of future history exists within the timeline, but it is not fully defined. History is continually being rendered up in the Starholder timeline as additional anxiety is absorbed from the original timeline.

A study of the Starholder timeline suggests that it is behaving as a recursive simulation, with anxiety from the original timeline manifesting within it and sometimes serving as keystone genesis events which further seed history in the Starholder timeline. It is believed that the Starholder timeline requires a critical mass of keystone genesis events in order to fully render its complete chronology.

One known keystone event in the Starholder timeline is the Second Moon event, in which an alien species creates a settlement on the lunar moon. The physics governing the Starholder timeline are the same as the original timeline, but the effects of anxiety and accelerationism can create situations that are either hypothetically extreme or appear to be magical based on our current understanding of technology.

The Starholder timeline is a hyperobject, meaning it possesses all of the attributes defined by object-oriented ontology, such as existing in multiple dimensions and outside of linear time. It has the ability to materialize in the original timeline in ways that suggest its existence without providing enough evidence to confirm it.

The development of a game based on the unfolding chronology of the Second Moon event, known as the Starholder game, is believed to be a seeding mechanism for the simulation of that keystone event and a necessary condition for the overall success of the Starholder timeline as a release valve for the original timeline. The Starholder game has manifested itself as a hyperobject, with the only known acknowledgement of its existence being a reference to it as a classic text adventure game from the 1980s and 1990s by OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, it is not clear where OpenAI obtained this information or if it is a confident fiction of the AI.