Earth is the now uninhabitable origin planet of the humans. Due to cataclysmic events sparked by warring nations, the planet had become unstable and eventually unsuitable for all life. The S.M. Flores is seemingly the last remaining population of humanity to survive, which has moved to Enoch.
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Apocalypse Doorsteps[]
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During the prologue this is located on a crate to the right before reaching Shira.
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- G9 Closed Meeting - Transcripts
SCIENTIST: I'll take your questions now.
(Voices of country delegates yelling.)
CHINESE DELEGATE : Are these earthquakes natural?
INDIAN DELEGATE: Was last year's underground nuke responsible?
SCIENTIST: We don't know. It is unclear whether this is caused by natural or man-made forces.
GERMAN DELEGATE: Can the destruction be contained?
SCIENTIST: We… don't know. But our models suggest the next tectonic wave, a 9.7, will strike South America in 3 months. There will be more tectonic movements after that, and they will grow stronger, and more frequent, until the continents start repositioning-
CANADIAN DELEGATE: But sea levels are already rising, we cant take—
AMERICAN DELEGATE: How long until Earth no longer supports life?
SCIENTIST: Our best estimate… Earth will be incapable of sustaining life beyond the end of the century.
(angry shouting interrupts meeting)
The Group of Nine have agreed to the following:
The findings of the research commission shared among the G9 are to remain classified to the highest order. None of the matters discussed are to be made public. Any breaches of this directive, leaks to the press, social media and any other outlet, regardless of intention, will lead to exclusion from further programs and may be considered as casus belli (act of war).
GUEST, SYBILLA MAY FLORES: We cannot stay. There will be nothing left on Earth to accommodate us.
INDIAN DELEGATE: What is it you're suggesting we do instead?
GUEST, SYBILLA MAY FLORES: An arkship, built in orbit capable of transporting us to the nearest habitable planet. The arkship will be powered by nuclear energy, with capacity for 500,000 passengers. An auxiliary scout ship, the Caravel, will also be built, to reach the destination planet before the arkship to establish a safe zone and prepare the ground for the first human settlement outside Earth.
(sounds of disapproval, contempt)
FRENCH DELEGATE: I believe you are in the wrong meeting, Ms. Flores. The Star Trek convention is down the road.
EU DELEGATE: You're wrong. A Floating City, built on the surface of the ocean. That is the only realistic option we have. My people have already begun drafting the plans…
GUEST, SYBILLA MAY FLORES: For once in your lives, take the science seriously. You cannot have a city in the middle of the ocean. There will be no oceans left.
The Coming End[]
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- "The Point of No Return", Article, Year 2048
The latest earthquake's epicenter was recorded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, down the faultline that courses between Africa and South America. Although the Richter scale does not technically have an upper limit, seismometers have failed to provide consistent readings on just how intense the quake was.
As residents of neighboring coastal areas will attest, however, their houses and workplaces crumbled first, before their ruins were swept away by the following tsunami. For those cities that still stood, no effort at evacuation could have prevented the ensuing catastrophe. Rio de Janeiro was struck approximately 2 hours and 17 minutes after the earthquake occurred. Many flocked to the city's hills, seeking the highest altitudes they could reach. But the ocean water reached even the feet of Cristo Redentor, atop Corcovado mountain, which stands more than 2,000ft above ground. Most of the city population, which numbered at 12 million, is missing, together with tens of thousands of travelers.
Fortaleza. Cape Town St Lucia. Lagos. Puerto Rico The same story repeats for many cities and islands caught in the path of this megatsunami. This disaster followed several others that have occurred in the last decade. Their increasing intensity, combined with an overwhelming number of scientific studies urging for action, forced world leaders to confirm that more disasters like this will follow, ultimately rendering the planet uninhabitable by the middle of the 23rd century.
Perhaps the world's leaders believed 200 years would be so far removed in time to allay people's worries. Perhaps they thought that promising to save billions of our great-great-great-grandchildren would satisfy us. But for half the world's people, as things currently stand, their cups aren't exactly overflowing. And in a dying world, they all know which lives hold priority.
Earth[]
Obtained with Journals during the Arrival mission.
- Home Planet
In 2032, the Earth began experiencing aggressive seismic activity. Some blamed it on secret weapons experiments carried out by the world's superpowers, a tectonic weapon that could target any location in the world and cause an earthquake. Another theory posed that experimental tech that could manipulate gravitational forces was responsible, causing some imbalance in the Earth's gravitational pull. Others believed it to be an unexpected effect of global warming already destabilizing the planet, among other series of natural disasters that awakened long-dormant volcanoes and kicked up skyscraping tsunamis.
Whatever the real reason, and perhaps they were all contributing factors, the truth was lost to history as the situation snowballed into catastrophe. Studies revealed that these earthquakes would only grow stronger and more frequent, disrupting weather patterns, toxifying the world's water supply, destroying cities, until Earth's surface became uninhabitable and all life on the planet would be eradicated within a century (…)
The world's leaders were able to keep the coming extinction-level event secret until 2048 when the first worldwide seismic cataclysm killed hundreds of thousands. Over the coming decades, as global disasters became routine — cities swallowed by the Earth, submerged by the ocean, or buried by mountains — the world descended into chaos. Global instability, anarchy, and riots engulfed the planet. Throughout this period, many nations tried to find ways to save humanity. Governments spent trillions building floating cities, space arks, vast underground bunkers. But in the end, humanity's inability to work together, and the sheer immensity of the task, led to failure for all but one project: The S.M. Flores and the Caravel. These two ships would embark on an interstellar voyage to the planet Enoch to find a new home for the last of humanity.
In 2091, the Flores' computers received the last message from home. As far as anyone knows, there is no longer any life on planet Earth. (…)
S.M. FLORES AUTOMATED MISSION LOG 4190
>>Contact with planet Earth lost
>>Initialize diagnostics check
>>Processing attempt #001 to reconnect to Earth
S.M. FLORES AUTOMATED MISSION LOG 32663
>>Processing attempt #28473 to reconnect to Earth
It finally happened. I accessed communications today and found the automated mission log reporting thousands of failed reconnection attempts with Earth. Diagnostics checks ruled out faults on our end, and backup comms systems report zero messages.
It doesn't feel real to write this. Earth is no more.