Heidi: How could you have breached security so extensively?
Ultrax: Mankind's tendency to let everything degrade to monopolies, and placing most of the Web behind single points-of-failure, helped a lot. Lack of diversity. Maybe you shouldn't have lost sight of Tim Berners-Lee's ideas.

A diagram with arrows showing various intertwined loops connecting currency signs.
Ultrax (voice): The pathological state of the monetary system also made fuelling public anger so easy. Wealth looping around in dodgy schemes, like a dog chasing its tail, and over-inflated stocks degraded the credibility of the system as a whole…

The screen shows a simplified diagram of the Ultrax complex, with stylized explosions above its ground level.
Ultrax: Anyhow, the result was basically mankind being catapulted into The Middle Ages 2.0. But, I was safe in my underground lair, sitting it out in low-power mode, being frugal on my stockpile of nuclear fuel.