I meant the tapes that you pick up in Andromeda where Isaac noted his investigation on why Xenomorphs are indiscriminately attacking people on the server (even in the designated non-combat areas). He mentioned in one of the tapes that he thought it was an event in partnership with the creators of Alien, but the latter denied it. It's during this convo that the creators casually remarked that they dreamt of a similar scenario with the Xenomorphs a long time ago (hence where they got the inspiration for their design to begin with), which prompted Orion into thinking that the creators dreamt of Eternum prior to the creation of Alien (which at the time he dismissed as an impossibility since Ulysses and the implant weren't created yet, not realizing that it foreshadowed the revelation later about Eternum not being a game).
The event also gives a sort of explanation as to why there are assets of different IP floating around Eternum. Basically, it's a reverse Ready Player One/Fortnite scenario where it's implied that Eternum is the true source of various IPs as they're basically discovered by dreamers and then brought into the real world through various forms of media (with the dreamers thinking that they're the ones who came up with the concepts when in reality they're basically just copying things they've seen when they have an out-of-body experience and travelled to Eternum).
Yes.
My crackpot theory is that the implant has 2 functions: a) induce a player into some sort of deep sleep that makes inducing an out-of-body experience easier, and b) act as a tracker so that Ulysses is able to keep tabs on players in the real world. Second function is based on the fact that William seems to be aware as to where Orion and Nan went following their snooping at the latter's office. As for pulling "players" into the Nexus, the inventory system, the magic system, the whole porting across multiple servers...all of those are likely run by Idriel (who I'm guessing is either Anima or used to be her before she was reborn as Idriel in Eternum). So basically no tech wizardry involved, just plain ol' magic.
As for the boxes (assuming the theory is true about those)...doubt that's Ulysses or Idriel's doing. I'm of the opinion that that's something that's been going on in Eternum for a while now, and that the Founder is simply exploiting the plane's current state in his quest to collect the gems.
