Quote Originally Posted by SamSmoot View Post
Since the whole place was virtual, there should have been nothing left after the servers shut down. No structures, just a blank void.
Who said the place was virtual? It's an existing place built from electrope in a ruined reflection. Only the outer layer was an illusion generated by electrope to make it look the way it did. Though there are some questionable things - like the people made from memory having any physicality at all (I kinda thought we'd see machine bodies as base of the memory-people like with the queen previously, but they just fully dissolve) and the food being physically edible at all for living people (though with no taste). Not quite sure how that works out, unless it's aether-manifestations similar to the scion's 'spirit bodies' in the first.