About thirty years ago, the situation suddenly reversed, and Yawgmoth removed most of the backdoors controlled by Xiang Shan, taking control of the Old Era military and reorganizing them into the precursor of the Protector.
This was also the time when the initial Xiang Shan fell into despair. He was too aggressive in his tactical choices, wanting to kill Yawgmoth before everything settled.
So, he died.
In subsequent operations, Yawgmoth destroyed all the strategically valuable locations on Earth. All the root servers of the internet, almost all large organizational servers, and all important network nodes were within the attack range. Outside of research institutions' databases, almost all the physical foundations of the old network were removed by Yawgmoth's military power.
After this, he was to reconstruct the new network of the Solar System—under his control.
During this process, some brave people transferred precious data from the old network to the new network.