The year was 4092. The Milky Way was overcrowded, messy, and running out of "computational room." Stars were flickering out not from lack of fuel, but from lack of processing power. The solution was the : a method to compress entire star systems into digital archives, essentially "zipping" the physical matter into high-density storage crystals.
Detail the Elias accidentally released.
As Elias initiated the compression sequence, his monitors began to flicker. Instead of the standard progress bar, a prompt appeared that no Compactor had ever seen: Warning: Overwriting Existing Archive. Extract files? (Y/N) Space.zip
Elias paused. This sector should have been empty. Curiosity got the better of him. He clicked 'Y'. The year was 4092