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** The game leaves it ambiguous. But my personal guess is that it's virtual, given all the crazy physics-bending stuff we see the Process and the Transistor pull off. (Teleportation, gravity manipulation, the Sandbox, etc.)
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** Preston Moyle's file references the concept of "offline district", where people wanted to search for him after he vanished (but they needed Administration's permission and it was denied.) So at least something exists or existed in that respect, though it might just mean parts of the city that have been taken offline and put into storage or something.
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** I believe the prevailing theory is that the fact that Red's friend hadn't entered any of his data meant that the Transistor hit a null-pointer exception (or the equivalent) when he threw himself in front of it and the Camerata accidentally tried to process him. This caused it to reset, simultaneously releasing control over the Process, wiping whatever the Camerata had done to gain control over it, and, for some reason, teleporting Red and her friend a short distance away. It's also possible they just fell out the window to that location and then immediately fled before the Camerata could catch up. Even if they had regained the Transistor, though, they wouldn't have been able to fix things immediately, since it didn't have control over the Process anymore (they would have had to go through the process Red does at the end.)
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* It is a real city with really good and advanced technologic or just a kind of virtual world like "Matrix"?
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* It is a real city with really good and advanced technologic or just a kind of virtual world like "Matrix"?
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** She might have still hoped to restore her boyfriend back to life. Maybe she tries to do that before she uses Transistor for the last time.
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**It was most likely handled in the registration office, and then information collated from public sources later. The only person lacking information is Blue, who admitted to procrastinating.
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*[[spoiler: Given the style of the game, the process was kind of the operating system / programming framework, kind of like an engine.]]
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** [[spoiler: This is all based on the prevailing theme: no one really understands a thing about either the transistor or process. Royce got the farthest, but even he was in the early stages. It could have been very possible to restore everything. One of the problems though: nobody really wanted to. If the Camerata retained control, they’d run the risk of getting buried under their own changes. Who knows what Royce would have done on his own. Red and Blue weren’t exactly curious personalities.]]
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*** Its also loosely implied that Blue is an outsider to Cloudbank, as well as being comfortable with leaving it. Of the characters we hear about, they’re all pretty much described as ‘leaders in their respective fields.’ All of them are described as being embroiled in conflict due to a desire to change the status quo. ‘Leaving’ Cloudbank might have less to do with *actual* death, and more to do with abstract / professional death. We see characters commit suicide, because its either that, or starting over in obscurity some place else. This is something, someone like Blue would be comfortable with since his attachment is almost solely to Red. For the society elites though, this could almost be considered a FateWorseThanDeath. ‘Going to the country’ can be treated as both ‘relocating’ and ‘exhistential suicide.’
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** The city of Cloudbank is implied to be digital in nature, so the ground might not give any true resistances to the Transistor.
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** I took it as they were wanting to capture the 'souls' of the people who had an inordinate amount of control over the city- each person, barring a few, were people who had some deal of sway over the populace. Some of the traces were high ranking members of the government, which meant that they were voted into position in a democratic world, and we see one trace, Grant, was basically the president. Others were people who had skills or abilities that let them directly effect the world, like Farrah and Royce. Finally, we have those who while not in a position of power or with unique crafting skills, who tend to attract a following and shape opinion- people like Red and Shomar, celebrities. The goal was to not just silence their control, but to take it for themselves. If each trace represents a way a person can affect or manipulate the world and it's people, then by collecting them all one could have a method to disproportionately control the entirety of Cloudbank. Another way of looking at it is that due to the patterns of society, people like Red's vote counts for 5 normal votes because of how she affects others, while a normal person counts for only 1. If all the people like Red voted for the same thing, it could potentially overwhelm the majority. Collecting them all in the Transistor means whoever holds it now has a personal majority, which is what they were seeking in the pure democracy. However, since there is a kind of 'dual reality' where people don't realize that they're just programs on a system, one could also notice that every important character is not just a person, but a function that existed within the process, and anthropomorphisation of that function. Red gives the crash button, because she's a sad vulnerable person who spreads this melancholy with her music- the Crash() function which hits targets and makes them vulnerable. In computer terms, the Camerata's goal is to create a class file/executable that has access to every other major function, and be the new operating system.
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*** It has to be automatic. Nobody else could have written Mr. Nobody's file. Obviously nobody in the Camerata wrote it, since they didn't know he existed until it was too late and they lost the Transistor; and obviously neither he nor Red wrote it, since they'd know more about him than that. Since they're the only people with access to the Transistor at that point, the only other option is that it wrote it itself. This also explains the somewhat weird wording at times (eg. the 85% chance that Sybil is lying, the confused-robot-tone used for Mr. Nobody's file.)
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*** There is an offhand reference in Preston Moyle's file to some people wanting to search for him in an "offline district", but Administration forbidding it. This heavily implies that Transistor is set in a transhumanist "simulation" of sorts, although it's possible none of the residents physically exist outside it under normal circumstances (they needed Administration's permission to investigate "offline districts.")
