It displays a low-resolution, top-down view of a landscape that looks vaguely like Earth, but the colors are "inverted"—the oceans are a deep, bruised purple and the forests are bone-white.
The legend begins with a frantic post on an old tech forum by a user named SignalLost . He claimed to have intercepted a data burst from a decommissioned atmospheric research satellite, the . Most of the data was corrupted, but nestled in the packet was a single, compressed file: AE-2.2.0.4-Full.zip . The Contents: The "World" Simulation AE-2.2.0.4-Full.zip
According to those who claim to have opened it, the ZIP doesn't contain a virus, but a self-executing simulation. When run, it opens a window titled It displays a low-resolution, top-down view of a