The Spark of Life (4.5 Billion – 2 Million BCE)

Earth forms from cosmic debris. After billions of years of volcanic chaos and cooling, single-celled life emerges in the oceans. Evolution slowly crafts complex organisms. Humanity’s ancestors—upright hominids—eventually appear in Africa.

Rise of Homo Sapiens (2 Million – 10,000 BCE)

Early humans begin using fire, tools, and language. Small bands of hunter-gatherers roam savannas and tundras. They adapt, migrate, and survive the harshest climates. They learn to paint, bury the dead, and dream.

The Agricultural Shift (10,000 – 2,000 BCE)

Humans settle. Rivers like the Nile, Indus, and Euphrates became cradles of civilization. With domestication comes hierarchy, religion, trade, and war. Cities rise. Writing is born. Bronze clangs into Iron. Humanity learns to shape the earth—and each other.

Empires and Industry (2,000 BCE – 1800 CE)

Empires span continents. From Rome to China to the Mali and Aztec empires, human ambition has no bounds. Religions guide and divide. The Renaissance sparks reason. The Enlightenment demands answers. But the greatest shift is yet to come.

The Industrial Age (1800 – 1950 CE)

Coal. Steam. Oil. Machines roar. Cities swell. Progress accelerates—at a cost. Forests fall. Rivers run black. Carbon silently saturates the skies. Humanity stares upward and dares to fly, to split atoms, to walk on the Moon—while poisoning the Earth below.

The Era of Denial (1950 – 2100 CE)

Warnings rise with the heat. Glaciers melt. Coral reefs bleach. Storms intensify. Nations debate, delay, distract. Fossil fuel barons profit. Ecosystems unravel. Tipping points pass. “Climate change” becomes an inconvenient truth too few heed.

The Unraveling (2100 – 2250 CE)

Climate refugees swarm collapsing cities. Water wars erupt. AI models predict planetary death spirals. The oceans acidify. Methane bursts from permafrost like ancient ghosts. Yet some cling to comfort, carbon continues to burn. Then it happens.

The Trigger: Earth Fights Back (2251 CE)

Rising temperatures disturb Earth’s delicate geological balance. The melting of polar caps and the shifting weight of oceans cause tectonic instability. A cataclysmic asteroid impact at Long Valley has triggered worldwide volcanic eruptions, plunging the planet into environmental collapse. 

The Ashen Age (2251 – ?)

The Earth is no longer home… it is a countdown. The wealthiest nations, corporations, and technocracies launched an international initiative to construct atmospheric domes, sealed environments with artificial weather and hydroponic agriculture. Exton Industries initiates an interstellar exodus, an audacious mission to find and reach a new habitable world before Earth succumbs entirely to ecological collapse. Massive Ark Stations are now under construction in low orbit, each designed to carry 150,000 souls. But even at full capacity, they can only preserve a fraction of humanity. Time is running out. The search for New Earth has begun.