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Masterplan...
Let's keep marching through the Yggdrasil/Tree
metaphor, and deepen.
Basically, three are the elements, or sections that compose this
Tree: Roots, Core and Branches.
The Root represents the Operative
System,
the mainframe, the guidelines coming directly from the Core,
and guarded by the Yggdrasil
Goddess Office. Three Goddesses
administer said Office, with different roles.
The Core is the Master.
The Master has no Logic, just Control. The Master is no Conscience, just
Will. Both Goddesses and Demons are subject to Its Law. The Master has
Plans on us all.
The Branches are the system 'windows'.
Though being each a distinct unit and entry point in the system,
they are tightly linked one to the other. Each branch shares with its neighbour
a specific code (a 'key') that allows and denies access through one specific
path that must be followed step by step. Obviously, the 'keys' for the
access to the 'doors', 'firewalls' and 'flood barriers' variously set on
the paths, are in possession (other than of the Master) of the Goddess
or Demon governing the specific area and the passage through any sector
is subject to approval of the sector master. This tight dishomogeneous
muddle of links and connections can be easily compared to a thick net
or web. 
These three elements are bound together, under
a severe hierarchy and regulated by a systems of rules and terms of policy.
In particular, the cohesistence of
light and dark Branches (that is, handled respectively
by Goddesses and Demons) might cause system corruption and instability
due to both the sides. The last thing a fundamental and complex system
like Yggdrasil would need would be internal breaks. The Tree System has
been studied and built to function just thanks to the diverse and
sometimes opposed forces governing each of its sectors/branches. In order
to bind such opposed forces, though, a special ring
has been added to the chain, the ring you know thanks to Mr.Fujihima's
work, as the Doublet System.
Finally, the function of
Yggdrasil is to
keep balance between different worlds and
dimensions, with particular attention to the relationships
between them, and to calibrate the fair dose of
light and darkness, of happyness and grief, of justice and disdain, according
to the Master's judgement.
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 Being it what it is, a System, Yggdrasil
can be easily described like a Network. Although physically it is not,
Yggdrasil is rather comparable to a computer internal Network, similar
to those Mortals have built on Earth.
Where the Master, the Goddesses' and Demons' Offices,
the whole architecture around the System, even the Goddesses' and
Demons' physicities are the hardware, while
the Will we call Master, along with the Goddesses' and Demons' minds
and energies, conveyed to different aims, are the softwares.
The softwares do work, communicate, and at times
even battle one to the other, always riding the lines traced by the mainframe,
the operative system, set and governed by the Core.
The occasional errors and crashes we call Bugs
do rarely origin from software incostancy or contrasts, but they are more
often brought by sudden hardware failure. The very bodies of Goddesses
and Demons imply a dispersion of energy that may cause temporary system
slowness, and the consequent creeping of a bug.
As previously said, the communication between the
various sectors of the System is thick, and must undergo severe login/logout
procedures. Yggdrasil was born an internal network, and has developed into
a complex whole of sectors/offices, each of which is provided with its
own network, access keys, codes, features and functions. None of
the offices can be accessed by an external user, without the permission
of the office master or mistress, nor the offices can freely communicate
with external systems without previous approval by the Core and under strictly
high security levels. The System itself would be cut off any other network,
and, in particular, isolated from the Three dimensional World, was it not
for the Yggdrasil Goddess
Office and, more recently, for the Earth
Otasuke Center.
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