STEP 1
One cube
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Nine faces. Every part of the system lands on one of them.
One simple shape. It repeats inside itself — so the system stays dead simple and infinitely deep at the same time.
Nine faces. Every part of the system lands on one of them.
Each face holds three steps of its own. Detail appears only when you need it.
The same shape, all the way down. Zoom out and it's one tile; zoom in and it's the whole map again.
That's the trick: one repeating shape means anyone can grasp the surface in seconds, while the depth scales without limit. The whole of Cloud9 is built from this single tile, repeated.