Talk:Confracta Continentem (Map Game)/@comment-5590986-20180221222029/@comment-5590986-20180221223243

By 2035, the planet had built a formidable meteor-busting defense system, it wasn't perfect and it needed improvement, but it was enough (so they thought). Pope Celestine VI (Francisco Rudolph Vendotis), who had risen to pope in 2033, had became somewhat sort of a messiah and prophet for Christianity as a whole due to his good deeds the past decade. He predicted that sincethe meteors would successfully hit the Earth in 2036 (roughly 2000 years after Jesus' death in the hebrew calender) and the apocalypse would come for a period of 7 years, when God would test humanity and reward them with the "Second Coming". Many were skeptical, although this "Vendotism" had drawn a significant following.

The day came in May 2036 when the meteor shower approached Earth, within days of hit. The planet began preparations and launched their defense against the meteors early next day sometime before the meteors could reach within the gravity of the moon. The attack was mostly successful, as it repelled most of the meteors and destroyed the large meteor.

However, as most of the debris were sent to the opposite direction, a small amount was sent hurling towards Earth at a faster rate. A small amount of missiles were sent to try to take down these meteors but were of no use as most of the debris had splashed from Asia all the way to the Americas, leaving small (and occasionally large) craters between 1 to 100 kilometers in radius across the lands. The largest debris meteor (10 km) had hit off-coast Phillippines and caused a period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact.

The supposed "messiah" was seemingly right, as the Earth had fallen deeper and deeper into chaos during the period of 7 years as the weather and ash had affected food production and wild life, causing a mass extinction event, with an estimate of up to 25% of humanity would perish. But this is merely by the effects of the meteors alone.

Governments around the world began to collapse and descend into anarchy as the Golden age of unity had came to an abrupt end. The more religious oriented people (mainly Vendotists) had claimed to see demons crawling out of the Earth in their visions but this was dismissed by many.