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Canon creator

Greggita Mahayfaio / Boring Talking

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Original canon co-creators

TheBoxOfFun and Stretchsterz
(If this doesn't show the canon's age, idk what will)

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Current major contributors

(Have written/translated more than one page for the canon)

RoseMonsignor

Overview

What is Sim Canon?

Simulation Canon is, admittedly, an erroneus name. It is a relic of its shaky, 2020¹ foundations when I first tried to dip my toes into narrative storytelling inside of the Backrooms with Level 600. If you look at both it, its two connected levels, and its accompanying tale, I'm sure you can tell it was a first attempt.

Had you asked silly ol' me what this canon was back then, I would've told you very simply what it was! Once upon a time, it was about the Backrooms being a simulation, people figuring that out, exploiting it, and having the Backrooms fight back against it. However, basically all of those plans have been scrapped, and a new name really hasn't been figured out. So… Sim Canon it is for now!

Okay, so what is it really?

Good question! In all honesty, this canon is simply my own personal curated timeline, made up from the pages I've written and people who I've collaborated with. Unlike other canons, which are united either with a GOI, a gimmick, or a big event, Simulation Canon… Isn't. It's a timeline that gained its own identity.

Its pages are connected mainly through its themes of being mostly about humans, incorporating as much other Backrooms writing as possible, and generally feeling more grounded. The main core of the canon, and this should be heeded as much as possible if someone wants to write for it, is this:

• The Backrooms is a weird, wild place that can get as wacky as it wants, but the canon will always follow humans, human-based issues, and human feeling narratives.

In Sim, you won't usually get a character with powers or have extremely supernatural stuff happen. If it does, it usually happens for a narrative reason. Most people in the canon are just people trying to get by, anyone from a lone survivor to the leader of a dictatorship follows this rule. Besides its rigid timeline, that's basically as much identity as it has! I try stick to it as religiously as I can, especially in the age of canons such as the Pantheon.

What's the goal of this canon?

It has two goals, technically speaking. The first goal is the most obvious, I just want to tell its story. The canon has a definitive lore which mainly starts in 1925, and ends in 2100, and I intend to highlight all different parts of it to the best of my ability as basically the main contributor to the canon. Secondly, my goal is to just write stuff that's different to what's on-site: stuff that's distinctly human-led, yet still utilises as much existing lore as possible, and attempts to tell stories that are almost completely self-contained to their own article whilst also taking place in a grander timeline!

Is it possible to contribute?

Yes, absolutely! I love it when people contribute to the canon as it's something that happens very rarely. As the timeline of Sim Canon is one kept especially rigid, retconning is preferably not something that should happen, it would be ideal to contact me first with your ideas before writing them! As I am just a one man band attempting to write lore that spans over 200 years, quite a lot of it isn't on-site yet, so I'd need to be there to make sure your concepts don't clash with anything and that they fit the themes of the canon too.

If you do want to write but don't have any ideas yet, please see the various stuff listed further down. The canon is technically divided into 5 different periods in history, only three of which have been seen on-site, and any concepts for stories can be neatly fit into any one of those five periods! As I said, the info on this is further down.

(Writing within these dates is not mandatory, these are just the main ones used by myself and other authors.)

Era 1: The Lost (1000 BCE - 0 CE)

The Lost.

The era of the Lost is, obviously, the first era of Backrooms history. In current canon, it was around 4000 BCE when humans first begin arriving.² Back in these days, the Backrooms was far less varied. Most levels were outdoors, small towns, or the inside of straw/stone/mud buildings. Because of this, places were less "liminal" and wildernessy, for lack of a better word. Things were also a little safer, with less dangerous monsters and an easier transport across levels due to their simpler geography.

However, in place of geographical dangers, the Lost had to learn how to fend for themselves. I know, sounds shit, but let me explain! Obviously, back in the days of 1000 BCE, society wasn't as developed. Things like writing and large scale farming were only just developing, and so suddenly being thrust into a landscape not only with alien creatures but without any kind of supplies to scavenge would obviously prove a challenge. That, and the Lost are basically the forerunners of human civilisation in the Backrooms. No one came before them, and it's them who had to try and understand and document what was around them.

Stories from the Lost era should mainly focus on this fact. People in the Lost were setting the groundwork for future generations, and had to do this with no helping hand from anyone above. Innovation would be a major theme, as would the theme of overcoming adversity. On a less uplifting note, there could also be the theme of prejudice. The Lost, and other groups in this time period, were made of hundreds of isolated cultures, all of which having their own ideas on how to run their towns. Obviously, this would cause a lot of indifference and marginalisation depending on which ideologies rise to the top.

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Current pages in this era, listed in chronological order

• None, yet.

Era 2: The Leaders (1970 CE - 2000 CE)

The Leaders.

Jumping almost 2000 years since the last era, the era of the Leaders is the first era within what I'll dub as "main history." Most sim canon lore takes place between 1970 and 2100, and the next three eras follow from one into the other fairly easily chronologically speaking. The Leaders are one of the first groups in the past 200 years or so to get lucky and get a large following of people with power and influence to boot. Whilst the Lost were the forerunners for all of Backrooms civilisation, the Leaders were the forerunners for modern Backrooms history. Think of it like the inventor of the wheel vs the inventor of the smartphone.

The Backrooms is now, mostly, what it looks like today. It's a dangerous landscape with all kinds of entities we'd know in the modern day, and potentially some ones that either evolved or no longer exist! However, the Leaders existed to provide safety at a time where not many places did, basically just fulfilling a power vacuum. With unmatched competition, they grew rapidly, and opted to hone in on giving people comfortable, developed life with proper cities and governmental systems. Of course, for anyone who's read Level 600, this didn't end well. Another group, known as Emstable, found an excuse to wage war on them and destroy them in 1999. So, you may ask, why is the year 2000 mentioned on the list? I included it as there'd no doubt be great fallout from what happened, and that could easily be explored!

Pages in this era can be incredibly varied! If you want to do a story about setting up society, a cozy and life-like character piece, something about the pitfalls of society, or any kind of war story, this era is great for you to write with. As well as this, as most of the physical data about the Leaders is lost in the modern day, it is easy to write a story about people uncovering information about them and theorising about them. Modernday archeology, basically!

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Current pages in this era, listed in chronological order

• Level 22 (Though written in the POV of the M.E.G., and also somewhat predating the time frame of this era, they are a pivotal piece of the era)
• Entity 380 Written by RoseMonsignor
• Entity 215 Written by RoseMonsignor(though written in the POV of the M.E.G., these entities lived on Level 600.)
• Level 25 (though written in the POV of the M.E.G., the level was used by the Leaders in the mid 80's.)
• Level 678 Written by RoseMonsignor
• the-war-for-scene-011
• Level 668 Translated by iccaarus
• Level 910 and Level 812. (Though both written from the POV of the M.E.G., these levels were made simultaniously.)
• Level 11.2 Written by Univ - Wise Explorer(though written in the POV of the M.E.G.)

Era 3: The M.E.G. (2012 CE - 2022 CE)

The M.E.G.

Finally, an era people know about! Yep, they only existed for ten short years… This, obviously, makes this era the shortest, but is also definitely the most packed! This era takes place a decade after the last one, so the war and fallout has substantially settled. Although big groups now existed even during the Leaders' existence, things were mostly stagnant and quiet between the ages, with the M.E.G. being the driving force behind the next century of change.

Obviously, the M.E.G. need no introduction, they're by far the most known group both on-site and off it. A group started in 2012, they quickly rose to incredible size and scale, becoming basically a small government by the end of its existence. In this canon specifically, it is important to note that the M.E.G. received a vast amount of aid from other groups whilst in its infancy, hence why it got so big in literally just ten years. Both Emstable and The Aiding Stragglers aided them, and they used parts of the old database from the Leaders in order to make their own database. Of course, as the eras suggest, they weren't meant to last. After a major accident in Level 13 which threatened the existence of multiple levels, the M.E.G. chose to merge with the B.N.T.G. and CBS. This, coupled with a change in management to an individual known as Leyland Locke, spelled the end for the M.E.G.

For stories, the M.E.G. is extremely broad. Just about any story can be done with them. However, the best ones would be exploration logs, normal levels with a bit of lore, and any stories about mismanagement/inability. The M.E.G. went from three idiots to a government in 10 years, and whilst the people that joined them were no doubt capable at the jobs they chose, there would've been struggle between Overseers and employees, and between different divisions. However, as one may expect, the world is your oyster with this era.

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Current pages in this era, listed in chronological order

• Level 108
• Level 19
• Level 106
• Level 120
• Level 25
• Level 22
• Level 587
• Level 444 Written by TheBoxOfFun
• Level 812 Collabed with TheBoxOfFun
• End of the Fucking World Collabed with TheBoxOfFun
• Level 174
• Level 609
• Level 600 Collabed with TheBoxOfFun
• Level 214 Written by RoseMonsignor
• Level 511
• Level 196

Era 4: The M.E.O.D. (2023 CE - 2100 CE)

The M.E.O.D.

Now, we get onto my personal favourite era! It's not something I'm even going to hide, I just enjoy writing for them a hell of a lot. This era takes place the day after the end of the M.E.G. era, as the M.E.G. merges with the B.N.T.G. and CBS, becoming this group. Obviously too, since this era takes place so far into the future towards its end, it's completely possible for Backrooms levels or entities or what have you to evolve.

The M.E.O.D., standing for M.E.G. and Extended Organisation database between 2023 and 2024 and then the Main Extended Organisation Database from then to its end, is basically the group that has learned the most. It's a culmination of the Leaders, the M.E.G., its branch-off's, and also the groups it continues to grab and conglomerate into itself. Possessing similar goals to the Leaders, the M.E.O.D. want to give a developed and comfy life to those in the Backrooms, but do better than them as they are able to conglomerate or liquidate them. Because of this, they become basically the only operating faction in the "local" part of the Backrooms.³

Most of the M.E.O.D. stuff, specifically 2035 onwards, takes place in what is known as the "Stagnancy Era", where the group successfully provide the habitation they set out to, and continue to expand as a group without competition. So, whilst the early M.E.O.D. is good for M.E.G.⁴ shenanigans but with a higher budget, later M.E.O.D. is good for very down-to-earth stories, or about people hating a very earthy lifestyle. It is also rife with potential for stories about corruption, as the M.E.O.D. definitely becomes more corrupt the more people and various groups it conglomerates. Feel free to ask me for more info!

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Current pages in this era, listed in chronological order

• Level 134
• Entity 40
• Level 179
• Level 998
• Level 605
• PA98
• Level 206
• Middlesorts
• Level 370
• Level 185

Era 5: "Future Societies" (3000 CE - 5000 CE)

Okay, this is a weird one. This era is what I'd like to call the "experimental" and "weird" one, and the one I have the least written/ideated/planned for. This whole era is basically just an epilogue that takes place, at the very minimum, a whole millennia after the main timeline, and as such would have very little connective tissue to said main timeline.

Unlike the last eras, with the exception of the M.E.G. era which obviously has many groups in it, this era has no focus on one group (which does actually differenciate it from the M.E.G. era). Instead, it focuses on many groups, maybe even a new one per story, all of which tell more experimental stories that don't need to worry about continuity to the main timeline of events that happened hundreds of years ago. Obviously, all levels would be incredibly different, too, so this era makes the Backrooms into a complete blank slate for authors!

Because this era is barely ideated, varied, and experimental, I can't really give pointers on how to write for it! Because of that, I won't put much on how to write for them. Just as long as what you want to make fits in with the few things I've got planned, there are no issues in what you want to do.

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Current pages in this era, listed in chronological order

• None, yet.

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Footnotes

1. Yes, it's existed this long.

2. This isn't the date the Lost actually started, as in Sim canon the Lost are just one of many groups that existed since ancient times, they've just been smart enough to know how to stick around long-term.

3. Obviously, as per Middlesorts, there are so many groups across billions of levels. It's impossible for just one group to occupy it all, but as no major wikidot groups exist in this time, I used the word "local" to explain this.

4. Or any group during this time, for that matter.