VFX: Prototype civilization montage

[EightRice]

New ending sequence showing Autonet systems spreading to land.

The thesis:
The ships were a prototype - testing civilization at sea where you can't externalize waste, ignore energy, or pretend governance works. Now the proven systems spread to land.

Visual elements:

1. Overview of fleet systems (quick cuts):

   • Food production (bioreactors, vertical farms, kelp farms, fishing drones)
   • Energy (molten salt reactors, size of shipping containers)
   • Governance (liquid delegation flowing like thought)

2. Systems transferring to land:

   • Ethiopia highlands: community installing molten salt unit
   • Rust belt: vertical farms rising in shells of old factories
   • Rio favelas: governance nodes replacing informal power structures

3. Network visualization:

   • Pattern replicating
   • Seeds spreading
   • Old world contracting, new world expanding

Tone:
Not triumphalist, but hopeful. 'Not everywhere. Not yet. But the pattern was replicating.'

Key line:
'This was always the plan. Not to escape civilization, but to prototype its replacement.'

Reference: autonet_story_underwater_edit.md lines 721-751