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Made very lazily. The world of the novel 'Ways of Survival'. Star Stream is, literally, a broadcast transmitted on an interstellar scale, and the content it handles is showing groups of humans struggling to survive. It is a cruel broadcast where ethics do not exist, but since the viewers are Constellations who are no different from gods, there is no sign of it being sanctioned. It is said to be only a part of Star Stream, not the whole. Defining Star Stream more essentially, it is the worldview itself, a kind of 'cosmic law'. In other words, stories (Fables) become the fundamental unit of the world, and the world of this work itself, where entities are subordinate to infinite scenarios that create these stories, is the Star Stream system. Horizon of the Story In other words, the area outside the scenario. Since it is a space outside the laws of the scenario, it seems that system assistance cannot be received here and broadcasts are not transmitted. Disconnected Film Theory A phenomenon where two identical individuals living in different worldlines share each other's stories when they meet. The 'histories' of the two films are independent and do not affect each other. In other words, through Disconnected Film Theory, even if the 'history' of the character does not connect as shown in the original work, the 'existence' of the character does. Probability 「<Probability> is a massive deterrent that controls the flow of the Star Stream.」 A concept that judges how plausibly a scenario is progressing. In this work, it is a concept like causality. It plays a role in ensuring that factors affecting the scenario, such as the difficulty of the scenario and the physical or mental strength of individual Incarnations and Constellations, proceed like a 'plausible story'. In short, since a story must be created by mixing appropriate adversity and achievement, constraints are placed on the characters' abilities and the difficulty of the scenario. However, just as it cannot be said that a story where 'too great a disaster struck and countless characters died' is completely improbable, Probability is generally used to limit the abilities of characters, namely Incarnations and Constellations, rather than the difficulty of the scenario. Since the essence of the worldview is a 'story', this setting is natural. Every story must have probability to be a convincing and interesting story, and if there is a Deus Ex Machina or an Invisible Dragon that can 'solve everything' without probability, the story literally fails. Since all scenarios must proceed naturally within the framework of Probability, if a specific Constellation artificially influences reality, provides excessive support to an Incarnation, or arbitrarily twists a set scenario for personal purposes, they receive damage proportional to the degree of violating Probability. This phenomenon is called a Probability Aftermath, and it mainly takes the form of sparks to inflict damage. The reason Constellations remain as mere viewers watching Earth despite having such mighty power is that they are bound by this constraint of Probability. Since the overall balance is the standard, there is no problem if a reasonable price is paid even if Probability is violated. Multiple Constellations can force their will on the scenario by sharing the Probability Aftermath. In particular, Nebulas, which are groups of Constellations, sometimes exert greater influence than individual Constellations in this way. Also, the stronger a Constellation is, the greater the amount of Probability they can handle, so a few Constellations can directly influence the scenario alone. Nevertheless, the reason why Constellations do not engage in indiscriminate scenario intervention is that one Constellation's intervention gives other Constellations the probability to intervene in the scenario without cost. And even if this is endured, the distorted Probability can roll like a snowball, eventually summoning 'Outer Gods' and causing the destruction of a world. It seems to be the principle that the internal integrity of the scenario is broken due to collapsed Probability, allowing beings outside the stage to intervene. Even Constellations are no exception to this disaster. Filtering A censorship system that blocks information that should not be revealed until a certain point in the scenario. Characters or languages caught in the filtering appear masked as '■', and the degree of this filtering is gradually released as the scenario progresses. From the perspective of the Constellations, it is said to feel like a talkie movie suddenly turning into a silent movie. Because filtering operates independently of the broadcasting system managed by Dokkaebis, filtering sometimes occurs during everyday conversations that are not caught on broadcast. However, if the listener already knows the information, filtering is not applied to them alone. Filtering is not perfectly applied between Incarnations who are progressing through the scenario together.