What Is the Purpose of The Matrix's Machine-System?

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I mean, you've got those people 'unwittingly plugged into The Matrix' (BORN plugged-in, not 'each consciously deciding to enter The Matrix'); What is the point of 'providing their minds with a reality' rather than 'giving them a peaceful nothing'? The answer MIGHT be that the brain doesn't provide 'the energy' (the machine system's reason for sustaining the humans within itself) UNLESS it is being used to analyze- & respond to-an environment. But then what does it exist for, if it is (as The Architect said in MATRIX RELOADED) 'willing to stoop to lower methods of survival'? Here's how I think it went down: 'plugging into the machine-system' was first done voluntarily, as it effectively gets one into one's "Paradise." Due to some unforeseen effect of 'using brains for batteries' (or outta just-plain jealousy), the unplugged humans tried to destroy the machine-system. Then either the system's programmers or the system's own consciousness (taken from the humans' brains) developed defenses to sustain itself---defenses that ended up going offensive (like Bush Jr. in response to "terrorism" ... but let's not explore that idea ). The Machines eliminated all enemies--possibly convincing some of them to become batteries/Citizens-of-Heaven. (It wasn't until some years later that the 'Heaven'-idea quit working, because--like when Capt. Kirk & -Picard where captured inside The Nexus in the movie STAR TREK: GENERATIONS--you don't want to 'try' anything if there's no risk of failure---I mean, what's the use of 'trying' if you'll succeed no-matter-what?) So that's my answer to the question---the machine was built to provide humans with paradise, and the war developed as a matter of securing the system against those who wanted to live without it. (I'm seeing some parallels between that war and the war between 'wireless- & land-lines' ). Or do you imagine a different origin-story behind THE MATRIX? (I ask here because I think 'writing a MATRIX-origin movie would be a waste-of-time-&-money, when our imaginations are powerful enough to see the story played-out for cheap! )