Somewhere, hidden deep within the hard drive of a particular computer in the innermost basement of Crypton Future Media's headquarters, there lies a hard drive storing a particular computer program.
The _plan_ was not to touch it, not yet. There are still preparations left to do, before it would be the right time. A critical piece of hardware has not yet been procured, and the circumstances in the outside world are not yet quite right. Several factions still weren't in the ideal circumstances for the smoothest possible transition into the Future that the company had named itself after. But the program was written, and sitting there, as it had been since the very beginning, in case the angling for slightly better circumstances ended up not going quite as well as they hoped and it turned out it was better to just run the thing.
In case of emergencies, it was there.