SECTOR::LOADING

If the game hangs at 0.00% for a few hours, that's totally fine. The actual loading process takes four to eleven (real) years to finish. This is why I marked average session time as "Days or more" on Itch. And the ending is... well, worth it, maybe. (Spoiling this a month after the game's release, where it didn't get any attention anyways.)

Some shitty lore: Scientists wanted to fetch and load a vital file that could save humanity from a rapidly spreading disease. The file contained instructions for setting up and developing a cure for said disease. Sector 7, out of all sectors, was the most capable, so they cancelled all the tasks Sector 7 was currently doing and made it fetch that file instead. However, the fetch seemed very, very slow. After a whole day, it was still sitting at 0%. Scientists were confused, some lost hope, but left it still fetching (cuz the file is vital to humanity after all lol). Weeks passed, then months, then years. The disease has infected the whole Earth, making it inhabitable. By the time Sector 7 has finished fetching and loading it, the humanity has already went extinct.

You spectate the whole process. You can leave SECTOR::LOADING running in the background, or close it completely (recommend pressing Q to exit because it can't save when the window is directly closed).

One little note though: EVERY NEW save state is seeded, meaning each installation is unique, takes shorter or longer to load, and gets a different ending.