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The '''Veritas''', literally '''The Truth''', was a [[book]] which existed inside the [[Shadow World]], a digital simulation of the planet [[Earth]] created by the [[Monk (species)|Monks]] to plan their invasion. The pages of the Veritas supposedly contained an ultimate truth, so true that anyone who ever read it committed [[suicide]]. | The '''Veritas''' ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') or '''''The Veritas''''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse]]'') literally '''The Truth''', was a [[book]] which existed inside the [[Shadow World]], a digital simulation of the planet [[Earth]] created by the [[Monk (species)|Monks]] to plan their invasion. The pages of the Veritas supposedly contained an ultimate truth, so true that anyone who ever read it committed [[suicide]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') That truth was that the Shadow World was merely a simulation and not the real universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse]]'') | ||
It told the story of a demon who, to conquer Earth, creates a replica of it to practice and play with. The book was sealed inside the [[Haereticum]], a forbidden library under the [[Vatican (Shadow World)|Vatican]]. | It told the story of a demon who, to conquer Earth, creates a replica of it to practice and play with. The book was sealed inside the [[Haereticum]], a forbidden library under the [[Vatican (Shadow World)|Vatican]]. | ||
The replicas of real people who populated the Shadow World could confirm what the text revealed by trying to say a sequence of random numbers. In truth, since they were all part of the same program, they could only generate pseudorandom numbers, thus confirming they were nothing more than artificial intelligences and not real people. They would then choose to commit suicide instead of being reused and abused by the Monks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') | The replicas of real people who populated the Shadow World could confirm what the text revealed by trying to say a sequence of random numbers. In truth, since they were all part of the same program, they could only generate pseudorandom numbers, thus confirming they were nothing more than artificial intelligences and not real people. They would then choose to commit suicide instead of being reused and abused by the Monks. As the [[Twelfth Doctor (Shadow World)|Shadow World Doctor]] put it, it was like [[Super Mario]] becoming self-aware and deleting himself from a video game to try and avoid dying at the player's hands again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'') | ||
One source later wrote that, because ''The Veritas'' was about the simulation world, it did not exist within the real universe, only to end its paragraph with the question "Or does it?" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse]]'') | |||
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