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Lucent Media has successfully weaponized the reality show, to their great benefit and the great chagrin of everyone else who has to deal with them. "Life is a game, so make sure you're the winner" is the message drilled into the consciousness of its audience from their first cell division. It is safest to assume everything one does in the sectors controlled by Lucent is being recorded, and, if sufficiently interesting or embarrassing, being broadcast to the entire blast radius of a supernova.

A mysterious figure of mysteriouser doings. All fear their watching eyes, and yet many yearn for the honour of entering the Director’s presence. Meeting the Director, you see, means you’ve Made It.

[What is ‘it’? Well, no one can ever clearly explain, but you can be sure it is of paramount importance.]

Is the Director an AI? An invention? A figurehead? A genetic abomination of many eyeballs who sees all and yet fears to be seen? Theories abound. Answers are nowhere to be found.

Certainly it’s bizarre in Lucent Land that the Director is never actually seen. After all, being Seen is the best thing you can be.

[privacy is the purview of only the richest]

[secrecy is beyond price.]

[nothing is beyond price.]

So what is the Director, then?

A disappointment?

The Director is…YOU! [and if you see past the bs, maybe there’s another answer to be found.]

[EN: The Director is…us? As in the dev team. Though that’s kind of obvious and maybe a bit of a cop out.]

To encourage scientific and social progress via known dopamine reward channels, e.g., social media response, celebrity status, and the concept of positive reinforcement as a whole. An entertained populace is a docile one.

“People will do anything for the adulation or loathing of their peers. We at Lucent have harnessed that heretofore destructive tendency for the benefit of all.”