ABADN Control

By now, we all know that Carrie or her simulacrum was killed by Nemesis using a weapon infused with Dark XM. This has parallels in the world of Ingress 1218 and The Animation.

When a simulacrum is harmed or about to die, the skin will turn black. This is seen in Carrie's execution when the Nemesis agent brandished his dark XM knife.

In 1218, Azmati tested if Hank was a simulacrum by stabbing him with a Prime XM Artefact, an ancient dagger. Immediately, Hank's wounded hand turned black. Like what happened to Carrie's face.

In The Animation, Jack's face and body show similar signs of simulacrum damage when his 1331 cycle was about to end.

This is not really a mystery for investigators or truth seekers who have been researching to understand the Ingress Multiverse.

So what am I trying to say here?

I am trying to figure out, or rather theorize what Carrie said before her execution, "Somehow, they have deactivated recursion." How did Nemesis do this? In the diagram below, a normal recursion route is for the simulacrum to enter the portal network at the end of the 1331 cycle. Then, he or she will recurse at ABADN and return to the world as a simulacrum while suffering the side effects of memory lost. This is the normal case (although there are unique instances in the Animation universe, you have to watch it to find out).

I am suggesting two possibilities.

  • P1 The simulacrum was prevented from entering the portal network or substrate because of the dark XM weapon used against it. Being denied entry, the simulacrum could not return to Abaddon for the recursion ritual.
  • P2 Nemesis control the Niantic ABADN and they are denying the simulacra in the portal network from reentering the chamber for their recursion. Are they doing it by destroying the original bodies? (Like Jack destroying Brandt's body in the chamber by allowing his simulacrum body to end the cycle and detonate at that location?)

P1 is an unlikely case because Carrie said she will be together with Enoch before her video ended. The only possible way this could happen is for them to be reunited inside the portal network. So, I am ready to discard this possibility.

This leaves us with P2. Nemesis are controlling Abaddon in Prime and they might be destroying the bodies of the Niantic Project researchers. I have suggested this briefly before. If this theory has some truth in it, could the anomalies that make up Abaddon Prime allow agents to save the Niantic simulacra by wresting control of ABADN chamber from Nemesis?