2073. The year of the Eschaton. The world trembled as human civilization was atomized in a cataclysmic hail of asteroids. Ten thousand years of evolution snuffed out in a single day.
Europe was hit especially hard. Fires and electrostatic discharges lit the night. The days that followed were filled with smoke and dust. The rain became acidic and the air was poison. Cities stank of death.
But the worst was yet to come.
Earthquakes and volcanoes blasted the fragile remnants of humanity. Fault lines shifted and magma flowed across the devastated cities melting cars, filling basements, and burying bunkers. Poisonous gas wafted across the wasteland; the dying had no end.
Red crater dust and volcanic ash filled the sky, casting the land into twilight. The sun became a distant, glossy marble.
In Africa, however, a new age of prosperity swept over the land.
Equatorial jet streams pressed the dust clouds away to the north and south and the dark continent was able to breathe. As a deep freeze settled over Europe and South Africa, a pleasant Mediterranean climate replaced the oppressive heat that defined most of Africa. Warm winds blew rain filled clouds from the Atlantic over Africa. The Sahara bloomed, while the rest of the world was poised to freeze to death.
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DEGENESİS
Ficção CientíficaWhat is Degenesis? Degenesis takes place in a ruined future, 500 years in the future. Civilization as we know it has been demolished by a asteroid swarm. Seven diverse cultures are all that is left of the eastern hemisphere. The world is plagued wit...
