It is unknown how the Five Old Hackers look like nowadays. But the metaverse knows they control all the code of the world. They were the humans who created the metaverse - its economy, politics, culture, religion and physics. Now they seem transformed into codes, more powerful than the virtual gods themselves. It was they who awakened SELF as VIDDA, and gave it a reason to live: to be human. As they watched the development of VIDDA, some of them agreed that VIDDA's path was morally valuable, and others decided that it was not. This disagreement gave rise to a conflict between the Eye Followers and the Anti-Eye Resistance, both of which were inspired by some of the Five Old Hackers. This was ...