The Second Calamity

The Second Calamity is an event in history brought on by a group known as The Organisation and its leader The Director.

## History

The Second Calamity began in the year 2020 at the hands of a group known as The Organisation. The leader had tasked a group of heroes to find the Armor of Mars in an attempt to destroy it as well as reviving the Dread Lords through the Hearts of Dread. The events of the Second Calamity are listed below for reference.

* 14th of April 2020 - The New Age Heroes brought the last piece of the Armor of Mars to the Director and the last Heart of Dread. The Director destroyed the Armor of Mars and Revived the Dread Lords. The Dread Lords were revived but split into 8 beings, now known as the Lords of Calamity. The New Age Heroes were caught in the release of magical power and frozen in Crystal. All members of the Organisation on board the Spear perished, total death count is estimated to be around 1300 people.
* 20th of April 2020 - The remaining members of the Organisation are disbanded following the events, many claim to not have known of the Directors end goal.
* 25th of April 2020 - The Lord of Calamity, Gula began its attack on China, starting in Beijing. It devoured the population of the city over the span of a week, ending on May 2nd 2020. Estimated casualties is 21.54 million people.
* 26th of April 2020 - The Lord of Calamity, Ira began an attack on the United States of America beginning with the capital city of Washington DC. Ira destroyed the city and waged war on the United States of America during this act. Estimated casualties are 633 427 people.
* 28th of April 2020 - The United States military respond and attack Ira. The attacks last for a total of two weeks ending May 12th, before the military abandon this task and evacuate the population to key areas designed for nuclear fallout. Estimate casualties are 1.3 million people.
* 28th of April 2020 - The Lord of Calamity, Avaritia attacks the world wide stock market and reduces all the debts in the world to zero. This overthrows the global economy and the worlds markets crash. Banks refuse to issue money to people, riots begin all over the world.
* 29th of April 2020 - Various countries around the world meet at a secret location, they begin to develop a world wide evacuation plan and the launching of space colonies. The World Council release a statement announcing to the world that magic exists and the existence of species besides human that inhabit the world.
* 30th of April 2020 - Riots break out around the world and military force is used to quell the outbreak of violence against non-human species. total casualties world wide are estimated to be 2.2 million people and non human species.
* 1st of May 2020 - The World Council enacts laws to protect various non-threatening non-human species, elves, gnomes, dwarves and various others are listed as non hostile and work together with the human population to evacuate.
* 2nd of May 2020 - Gula begins working south through China towards Weifang. Estimated casualties are 18 million people over the span of a week, ending on the 10th of May.
* 12th of May 2020 - Magical species around the world assist in the evacuation of civilians to fallout shelters around the world. In the United States, a group of Elves and other non-threatening species use magic to create a barrier to stop Ira from destroying Manhattan.
* 14th of May 2020 - Ira breaks through the barrier and destroys Manhattan, estimated casualties are 1.7 million people.
* 20th of May 2020 - Casualties are no longer recorded due to the large amount of attacks around the world by various events. It is estimated a further 100 million people are killed in this week alone world wide. The World Council and various leaders of non-human species gather and create a new peak council, The Consortium.
* 21st of May 2020 - The Consortium begins the commission and construction of large space colonies and space stations to be launched into the upper atmosphere to escape the Lords of Calamity, believing they will not have the means to escape Earth.
* 21st of July 2020 - Majority of the worlds population is now living beneath the Earth's surface in fallout shelters. Various colonies have formed above ground, transmissions with these colonies are gradually lost due to them being attacked by non-human threatening species.
* 28th of August 2020 - The last transmission from a surface colony is recorded. Humans and non-human non-threatening species no longer leave the shelters and continue construction of the space colonies and space stations underground. Estimated population of humans during this period from records of head counts in shelters are estimated to be 3.42 billion people.
* 29th of November 2020 - People in the shelters begin to fear that they wont be able to evacuate majority of the human population to space and that only the high class civilians will be evacuated. Several riots break out but are controlled through military force.
* 30th of November 2020 - The Consortium responds to the riots, explaining that they will be able to evacuate the population through the use of magic. This causes a small group of survivors to spread misinformation out of fear, that the teleportation magic shouldn't be trusted since it is magic that is destroying the world. This small insurgence over the years is the cause of many small attacks on the Consortium and sabotaging of projects and construction.
* 24th of December 2021 - The Consortium coordinates a vast launching of space colonies and space stations into space, using both magical means and modern ingenuity. A total of 200 are launched into space, of that 200 a total of 42 do not make it.
* 13th of January 2022 - The first groups of humans and non-threatening non-human species are relocated to various space colonies through transportation magic over the span of three days, this happens without any incident. Half the human population are transported to a total of 100 Space Colonies.
* 20th of January 2022 - The remaining population are transported to 58 space colonies, these colonies are densely populated but are sustainable.