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I have absolutely no clue what was happening.
The blob thing at the end is officially called the "Huddle". The tanks attached to trees are called albino mind tanks. The guys marching for the test are called sleepwalkers. The man we crush at the end is the CEO of the lab. The mind hat with cables in the secret bunker under the cornfield is called Mastermind.
Some players have compiled most of the secrets and mysteries here.
Here is the most interesting part:
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Using a Polybius square the numbers on the lab window turn out to be:
14-42-54-55 54-32-42-44 :: pity this
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21-15-44-55 33-53-43-44-54-51-34 :: busy monster
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33-11-43-15-43 13-42-43-41 :: manunkind
That leads to a poem by E.E Cummings:
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go
E. E. Cummings
There you have it. It's still an abstract explanation of the game's world but at-least it's something official and not speculation.