Aaron's Meteor

Aaron’s Meteor was a significant world event that occurred in **328PR**. It likely would’ve caused the end of the world if it wasn’t for the actions of Tasos, the greatest adventurer ever to live.

## Preparations

In early **328PR**, a man named Aaron Siderallis discovered that a large meteor was heading towards the world. Upon further research and investigation he was able to determine the size and volume would cause a catastrophic event, potentially even wiping out civilisation entirely.

While it has not been discovered how Aaron found the meteor, nor how he was able to find its dimensions, they were correct.

After calculating the time of arrival, Aaron went to the other nations in South-East Arlec and told them about the coming meteor. He had little idea how to stop it, but figured by including all the nations of the time something could happen.

Much discussion was had but he was finally able to convince the nations of the threat, forcing them to come up with solutions to the problem. Adventurers were later brought in to help, bringing up many different possibilities.

## Possible Fixes

### Direct Force

Direct Force was an idea created by Kelly Ulan, she believed that the meteor could be destroyed. She wanted to gather all the firepower accessible at the time along with any awakened who could use long range magic to fire at once. After the direct attack happened and destroyed the meteor, they would individually go after the larger pieces to reduce damage.

It was denied due to the meteor being too large for anything to feasible destroy it in such a way.

### Sand Solution

The Sand Solution was a solution designed by Tasves Otvek, he believed that they could calculate the direct area of impact of the meteor and soften it along with building quick defences around to deal with the impact. He had already begun preparations for it when it was denied.

The group under Aaron reasoned that they had no idea how powerful the impact of the meteor would be and the unintended effects could be catastrophic.

### Warp Theory

The Warp Theory was designed by Zena Khalu. She was an adventuring scholar at the time though had trained under a wizard in order to gain a good amount of power through magic. The theory was to open up a portal to a pocket dimension and get as much of the meteor through it, leaving the rest to be easily dealt with.

The problem the theory placed was getting enough people with the magic up there safely so they could cast the spell and get pivotal parts of the giant meteor through, as it was too big for a single person.

### Wish

The Wish Spell was \_\_ to time (never found or lost). An idea was sparked that they could use it to protect Arlec by simply wishing the meteor away. Though the power was unable to be obtained in the time and too dangerous to think of using after, especially if the impact meant the end of the world.

## Solution

### Organised Explosions

After his Direct Force idea was rejected, Kelly Ulan and a man named Max (last name lost to history), believed that placing explosives, or directly targeting certain areas with major attacks and spells would allow the meteor’s structure to weaken and then allow the clean up crew to deal with the rest. Including some people using the warp theory.

In the end, Aaron and the rest of the leaders decided this was the best course of action as they were out of options.

### Implementation

After preparing the explosives, spells and resources needed, Kelly and Max gathered their teams together and flew up to the meteor. After planting the explosives and triggers to set off the stored spells, the team flew down. What was unknown to Aaron and the rest of the crew was that someone needed to be on the meteor in order to set it all off, Max was the voluntary sacrifice.

Once Kelly and the other crews got out of the danger zone, the explosions were set off by Max who is believed to be killed immediately, hoping he would save the world.

## Failure

The series of the explosions managed to tear through and disintegrate the right side of the meteor, though the left side remained intact.

While half the task meant that the world was likely saved, the region would still suffer almost complete annihilation.

### Reasons

There are 3 reasons that are believed to have caused the failure in the Organised Explosions Solution.

#### Different Material

Since the technology or time didn’t allow for a proper search of the meteor, Aaron and other scholars believe that the meteor might’ve been made up of many different materials clumped together. On the left side, this was likely more durable (though the same weight), meaning that when the explosions and magic were set off, it survived.

#### Incorrect Placement

Since it was all rushed due to the time constraint, it is likely that the placement of all the explosions and magic was not to exact or even rough detail. Kelly and scholars in the future have confirmed that even a rough placement would’ve worked still, causing some to believe that the band of scrapped together groups could’ve missed the mark majorly as they were not under the direct guidance of Kelly and Max.

#### Mistimed Explosives

As many of the explosives were placed around the meteor, it is likely that some of them were mistimed with the technology at the time, removing the major single explosion that was meant to completely destroy the meteor.

## Tasos

With little time and options, the remaining crews simply tried to damage the rest of the meteor the best they could. While the smaller rocks were easy to deal with, the bulk of the meteor was still going to impact and devastate the area.

All hope was lost until Tasos stepped forward. Taking control of the situation he grabbed the closest mage next to him, requested the fly spell be cast on him and then flew up to the meteor, all according to Aaron and the other scholars there.

Once he could fly, Tasos rushed up to the falling meteor, now reaching mountain level, and smashed it with all his strength. The result of the two colliding caused multiple shockwaves to be felt around the world, forcing many to fall over just from being in the vicinity. Those strong enough to still stand watched as the meteor crumbled into smaller pieces, letting the explosion teams deal with them and reduce damage.

## Aftermath

Immediately after the destruction of Aaron’s Meteor, Tasos flew back down and thanked the mage who helped him. Rather than stay for cheers and thanks, he simply left to go on and do other heroic deeds, leaving only his name.

Outside of Tasos, the meteor’s destruction saved the lives of millions, and further efforts from the explosion team meant that only 1,500 people died from the event. Reconstruction efforts only took a few years to be completed. All of the teams were awarded with medals of honour, including Max posthumously.

Aaron and Kelly were also awarded with medals and grants to continue their successful work.

Tasos was also given an award for his efforts and a hefty sum of money, while he accepted the award, he instead gave the money to the reconstruction efforts and to build an orphanage for the children who lost their parents during the event. It is now known as the famous building: Tasos’s Orphanage, which is still functioning today.

The remains of the meteor were split up and either purchased by private collectors or placed in museums around the world.