History Fridge / TheAnimatrix

*** But his information would be based off the Zion Historical Archive and thus we are back at ''The Second Renaissance'' being a case of an unreliable narrator. Just one that told the story to Morpheus who passed it along to Nei.
** I also belive humanity scorched the sky. However Morpheus is hardly a reliable narator, or atleast not a terribly well informed one. In the second film we discover that he was missing a lot of information and was being deliberatly misled.
*** Humanity's short sightedness is a running theme in the Matrix franchise.

** The citystate of 01 was already sufficiently fortified that it barely effected them. They aren't organic so they don't have to worry about the radiation so long as they have appropriate shielding on sensitive electronics, machinery can be hardened against EMPs so unless the humans were using nukes deliberately rigged for high electron emissions the electrical effects would be negligible, and very clearly the city of 01 had a metallic dome over it at least a few feet thick that absorbed the blast. Frankly it's quite questionable why the humans thought nuking them would work at all.

** An obvious answer is also FridgeBrilliance. The massive tunnels we see leading to Zion and other locations are probably ones dug by the Machines. This is also where they've been extracting resources for their city. The Machines could survive nukes because they were living and working underground far from humanity's gaze.

Blotting out the Sun actually makes perfect sense... ''for the machines'', thus further supporting the interpretation of the narrator of ''The Second Renaissance'' segment being a case of an UnreliableNarrator. If the machines block out the Sun, they can use geothermal/nuclear/wind/etc power to replace solar. Humanity on the other hand has no real choice but to die off by the billions. As a plan by the humans for stopping the machine uprising, it makes no sense. As a plan by the machines for committing genocide against humanity, it's pure brilliance.
* However, it's clearly stated by Morpheus in the first movie that it was indeed humanity that scorched the sky.
* I also belive humanity scorched the sky. However Morpheus is hardly a reliable narator, or atleast not a terribly well informed one. In the second film we discover that he was missing a lot of information and was being deliberatly misled.

How did the Machines manage to recover so quickly from a nuclear bombardment ''and'' manage to conquer a large chunk of the world in short order afterwards? It's clearly shown that they didn't use things like Sentinels before Operation: Dark Storm was initiated, and their older models are said to have been easily destroyed by humanity's weapons. So how did that happen?

Blotting out the Sun actually makes perfect sense... ''for the machines'', thus further supporting the interpretation of the narrator of ''The Second Renaissance'' segment being a case of an UnreliableNarrator. If the machines block out the Sun, they can use geothermal/nuclear/wind/etc power to replace solar. Humanity on the other hand has no real choice but to die off by the billions. As a plan by the humans for stopping the machine uprising, it makes no sense. As a plan by the machines for committing genocide against humanity, it's pure brilliance.

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* Blotting out the Sun actually makes perfect sense... ''for the machines'', thus further supporting the interpretation of the narrator of ''The Second Renaissance'' segment being a case of an UnreliableNarrator. If the machines block out the Sun, they can use geothermal/nuclear/wind/etc power to replace solar. Humanity on the other hand has no real choice but to die off by the billions. As a plan by the humans for stopping the machine uprising, it makes no sense. As a plan by the machines for committing genocide against humanity, it's pure brilliance.