I've been superblocked lately, and worse still, I saw it coming. I just don't know yet how to prevent it. Dispersed myself over half a dozen pieces. It's coming. Apologies.
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File from Cloverboard

https://youtu.be/N0_UVU_Ae4I

The population of the Startrail, mostly rabbits, stranded there by old industries long ago, is not the most connected population out there; although the technical issues that have shaped their culture this way have been resolved to an extent, the habits still persist. Cloverboard is generally regarded as emblematic of the online presence of this community, appealing to dissatisfied youth and goofy characters hungry for a place to voice out of the box opinions; the toxic reputation of this place doesn't affect the majority of the population who tends not to use the internet, because well... they don't use the internet.

In one corner of the discussion board, this community shares their experience with a recurring nightmare a huge number of users claim to have either regularly or only once in a while. Having this dream is considered as a bit of a rite of passage. With few variations, the dream has the dreamer as a small, terrified feral rabbit inside a cage, in a dark place; some sort of mumbled speech, in an assertive, deep voice, can be heard for an extended period of time, before a huge, dark figure, who's seemingly pronouncing the speech, comes through a door, meat cleaver in hand, and walks straight to the dreamer. This is most often, apparently, where the dream ends. Some have it continue for a few more very chaotic sequences in which the dreamer is seized and sometimes physically harmed. In most versions, the speech is unintelligible, but a few claim to catch a few sentences here and there, talking of a necessity to have fresh meat, and something about an elected people.

The theory is similar to the infamous dream of Golden Spirits that's well known to the panthers of the Dim Sun for almost exactly the same reason (except the dark place of the dream cannot reliably be linked to any given real place despite recurrent specific details, such as the four different colors of a tinted window), and it also ties into the old theory of the reincarnation dreams.

It may be confusing, but here's how it is said to work by influent members of the online forum : the rabbit population of the Startrail was planted there as cheap, very prolific labor that would be useful to quickly industrialize distant mining colonies, that much is a known fact. Where it becomes a lot more dicy and controversial, is the part where it is said that they were not supposed to survive past that initial activity spike. They were supposed to be replaced by bigger, more territorial animals as soon as the urbanization of these planets had reached a viable level. They would then meet the same fate as the cows of Lucifer's Blackstar and be kept at best as a source of food. This would be, in their own view, and the one of the supposed puppet masters behind the whole operation, in accordance with a natural order. Quotes about such a thing are said to be mumbled in the dream by some of its alleged recipients but these testimonies are generally dismissed as not credible on the unknown metric used to determine who's telling the truth about their experience.

I would say it's probably because speaking of a natural order would be a little bit too on the nose, but then again, the theory follows, and that's where it joins the idea of the reincarnation dream, by explaining that this nightmare may be a window into an existence located out of time. After a loss of language and cognitive existence, their lives would be timeless for lack of a better term. From this, they theorize that this dream is definitely a vision of an existing reality; that due to the timelessness of both the non-conscious state that's their promised fate, and the natural order that directly causes it, they only interpret it as a vision from the future, but it could as well not matter at all. It could as well be a vision of the last hours of a random rabbit from centuries ago which happens to mirror their own demise, either literal or figurative.