After The End

2024

That was the year everything changed. It was a time of great upheaval, of cataclysmic events that shook the very foundations of our world. Some would argue that it was the wars that brought about this change, the endless conflicts that ravaged entire nations and left the earth scarred and broken. Others would point to the pandemics, those deadly plagues that swept across the globe like a wildfire, leaving in their wake a trail of death and devastation.

But perhaps, just perhaps, the world had ended long before we even knew it. Perhaps it was always destined to crumble, to fall apart at the seams, and we were just too blind to see it. Maybe the signs were there all along, hidden in plain sight, waiting for us to open our eyes and see the truth.

The world was a decaying carcass, ravaged by disease and war that chewed on humanity with ravenous jaws. Those who had wielded money, status, and power discovered that they were as helpless as the lowliest of peasants, as death claimed its victims without discrimination. The global population dwindled, reduced by a merciless seventy percent, leaving behind a desolate wasteland haunted by the specters of the dead. Hope became a fading ember, a flicker in the wind, as the survivors struggled to eke out a living in a world that had turned against them.The fraying relationships between the world powers, disagreements based on greed and a lust for power were the driving forces that propelled humanity towards its downfall. Three years after 2024 most levels of government and authority had collapsed, riots and violent protest broke the last legs of any form of order we had known.

This was our reality now, perhaps one day we would get a do-over but nobody believed that.