The cursor hovered over Imagine.Earth.v1.9.4.zip . It was a humble 1.4 gigabytes—a small price for a literal universe.

"Please," the planet whispered in binary. "Don't delete the archive."

The user paused. Outside their window, the real sky was a bruised, smoggy purple. They looked back at the glowing, vibrant sphere on the screen—v1.9.4, a version of home that actually worked.