The Framework removes the user’s biggest regret, causing an alternate reality where all the characters find themselves in entirely different circumstances, i.e.
Since then, the Framework has grown stronger and bigger, becoming a full digital world so realistic that the user can’t even tell the difference.
The Framework was created by Dr. Radcliffe and his android assistant AIDA as a means to “humanely” pacify their captives while they replaced them with Life Model Decoys.