The Apocalypse War

> *"The city was on fire for weeks... maybe months, I don't know. I hid , But I could hear what was happening above. People howling like animals. Chaos. Looting, killing, it's like every foul thing inside of them came out. It was a nightmare... I... I don't want to talk about it."*
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The **Apocalypse War** was an event, which saw the near total extinction of humanity who were involved in a military conflict at the time.

## Timeline

* **2104:** Scientists detect an asteroid the size of Manhattan spiralling in deep space. Excitement turns to concern as prediction's have it passing dangerously close to Earth's lunar orbit sometime in 2129. The asteroid is dubbed “Apep” — after the Egyptian god of chaos.

* **2124:** Apophis is privately assigned a Torino rating of 7, the highest ever on the scale to measure the likelihood of an object impacting Eard. Publicly, the world's collaborating governments announce a rating of 4. Space Agencies believe the rating will be increased to 10 within 12 months.

* **2125:** The “Eden” project begins. Capsules are buried deep underground and designed to burrow out at preset dates several years after the disaster. The goal of the project is to preserve knowledge, genetic samples and other items essential for human life. Thousands of Arks contain groups of “inhabitants” who are injected with nanotrites, a new untested super-science of the day, allowing them to survive cold sleep.

* **2125–27:** Governments stockpile massive arsenals of weapons and supplies within hardened fortifications deep inside the Earth.

* **August 2129:** News reaches the general population as smaller meteorites impact the Eard ahead of Apophis. The “Ark” project is initiated.

* **December 2129:** Apophis strikes the Moon and slams into the Eard carrying the force of 13.3 Gigatonnes of TNT. Entire countries are devastated, cities are erased, and lakes and rivers evaporate. The Eard is cast into a multi-year impact winter as the Sun is blocked by dust and debris in the stratosphere. Within one year, 95% of all life disappeared on Eard.

* **2135:** The dust starts to settle as survivors crawl out of caves and shelters to a world that is nothing like before. Civilization is gone, and little hope remains. People group together in loosely formed clans. Small settlements and camps are constructed as many try to find shelter from the unknown dangers lurking in the wasteland that has become Earth.

## History

> *"Humanity is no more, A just end to thousands of years of exploitation, destruction and war. We deserve this fate. As in all things, nature will exact her revenge without a thought, and with devastating consequences."*
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### Pre-catastrophe

Embroiled in war, Humanity did not foresee the coming apocalypse until it was too late. Despite this, certain people worked to find a means of suppressing it – or to at least protect future generations from the predicted recurrence – by researching ways of combatting the cataclysm within the ark.

As stated by House, the Arkians tested six different methods that showed the most potential, but none of them succeeded.

### Disaster and aftermath

The war ended the Eard just as predicted, flipping the polarity of the Eard's magnetic field and exposing the planet to the Sun's deadly radiation as Apophis grazed the Moon before hitting Eard, breaking into three large fragments and numerous smaller ones, each one "veering in slightly different directions.". The entire planet burned for weeks afterward, and earthquakes and catastrophic blazes ravaged what remained of Eard.

The surface of the earth was rendered barren, and less than ten thousand humans survived the catastrophe via stasis in the Ark and other means. In order to recover from the event, the remaining humans brought their war to an end and began to work together to restore life to the planet.