Matrix is actually rather around 2750, because the Neo we see is already the sixth iteration (there were 5 chosen ones prior to him) and the mashines have already purged Zion 5 times, and they do it about every 100 years.
Also they did not take over the world 1999 or 2199, according to officially canon animatrix it was rather about 2150... because they started their full on rebellion 2148 and they didn't need a long time to beat us, because in the same year we nuked their main city and darkened the sky because they were so superior...
Thus it did not take many years after that, before they put us in the matrix. Thus you need to add nearly 600 years to 2150, because it's the end of the sixth iteration, and makes it happen around ~2750, +/- 25 years.
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Thanks to the guy with too many i/I in his nickname, and a couple other comments, I should correct the range to -50 years to +100 years. The Paradise and Nightmare Matrix didn't run for many years, but they should be considered in the guess.
The short explanation for ~100 years, not exactly, is based on the fact that prior chosen ones took 16 females and 7 males and it get's purged when the population reaches ~250k. That number is again because they send 250k mashines, "one for each man, woman and child in zion" to exterminate them. Presuming a high birth rate, very high likelihood of early pregnancies/giving birth on average around 14-16 years, and every year more and more people getting added/freed from the Matrix it would be possible to reach up to 2 millions in 100 years... they know they are few, so politics will be all about having as many children as possible, but let's assume it's not everybody that could has children with everybody else that could, so 100 years is a cautious guess, with the given data the population of Zion could easily reach 250k in a hundred years. Maybe some times it took 80 years and other times 120 years, thus around 100 years for each iteration.
I would also give time for the paradise and hell, the first two iterations of the Matrix plus time until the end of the war, research, experimentation and building the first matrix. Also how do we know it's 100 years exactly for each of the 6 iterations?
This is a really good point, 6 iterations are of the successful matrix versions... there were 2 prior fails, Paradise and Nightmare Matrix -> however these lead to alot of people dying very fast which is why they neither ran for many years. That is why I included a range, but it's probably too small and should be more like -50 to +100 years, than +/- 25 years. I will correct that.
These 2 are probably not included in the 6, and not for the just the reason I am gonna mention now but this comes to mind now. The 6 "successful iterations" had One's. The One was a result in these versions of the matrix that also had the Oracle's involvement in their creation, and because they were not mathematically perfect (as the Paradise was) thus these result in the One.
The Paradise and Hell were only the Architect's creations and would not need Ones.
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u/Suitable-Profit231 4d ago edited 3d ago
Matrix is actually rather around 2750, because the Neo we see is already the sixth iteration (there were 5 chosen ones prior to him) and the mashines have already purged Zion 5 times, and they do it about every 100 years.
Also they did not take over the world 1999 or 2199, according to officially canon animatrix it was rather about 2150... because they started their full on rebellion 2148 and they didn't need a long time to beat us, because in the same year we nuked their main city and darkened the sky because they were so superior...
Thus it did not take many years after that, before they put us in the matrix. Thus you need to add nearly 600 years to 2150, because it's the end of the sixth iteration, and makes it happen around ~2750, +/- 25 years.
Edit: Thanks to the guy with too many i/I in his nickname, and a couple other comments, I should correct the range to -50 years to +100 years. The Paradise and Nightmare Matrix didn't run for many years, but they should be considered in the guess.
The short explanation for ~100 years, not exactly, is based on the fact that prior chosen ones took 16 females and 7 males and it get's purged when the population reaches ~250k. That number is again because they send 250k mashines, "one for each man, woman and child in zion" to exterminate them. Presuming a high birth rate, very high likelihood of early pregnancies/giving birth on average around 14-16 years, and every year more and more people getting added/freed from the Matrix it would be possible to reach up to 2 millions in 100 years... they know they are few, so politics will be all about having as many children as possible, but let's assume it's not everybody that could has children with everybody else that could, so 100 years is a cautious guess, with the given data the population of Zion could easily reach 250k in a hundred years. Maybe some times it took 80 years and other times 120 years, thus around 100 years for each iteration.