In the virtual civilization, the Data civilization that humans had already seen was the first.
In fact, the Data civilization was similar to the Ukanda civilization. They were all intelligent side-products of the extinction of the original carbon-based life civilization.
However, at least, the Ukanda civilization was real mechanical life. However, Data civilization was only the digital creature that existed in the virtual network.
From this point of view, the people of the Data civilization were actually very awesome. In the process of pursuing immortality, they had built a real digital world in the digital network by accident.
People of the Data civilization originally hoped that after creating the digital world, they would transform their souls into complete digital life, so as to abandon their physical bodies and realize immortality in the digital world.
Unfortunately, they miscalculated that even if a soul was converted into data, it still had the concept of lifespan.