In a high-security lab at a top-secret aerospace facility, a young satellite engineer named Elias reportedly stumbled upon a profound and terrifying anomaly. Tasked with calibrating a new generation of low-orbit satellites, he noticed a persistent data error in the northern and southern-most regions of the planet’s mapping. The data, when run through an advanced simulation, repeatedly showed the Earth as a flat, disc-like shape, not a sphere.

Elias’s discovery was immediately flagged, and within hours, his data and all his research were seized by a shadowy, multinational organization. He was reportedly given a choice: disappear, or join the “Great Deception.” He chose the latter, and his worldview was shattered. He learned that all of modern science, from astronomy to geography, was a carefully constructed lie.

According to the fictional conspiracy, the ultimate goal of the “Great Deception” is to prevent humanity from discovering what lies beyond the ice wall—a barrier that is miles high and thousands of miles long. Believers claim that our entire lives are lived on a closed-off stage and that the sun and moon are simply small, localized lights moving in a circular pattern over the disc.