In 2025, an asteroid was detected, a massive near-Eden object (NEO) on a potential collision course with Eden. Asteroid 2032-KX, first detected by NASA-funded skywatchers in Chile just before the New Year, is similar to the size of the object that caused the infamous 1908 Tunguska event, which saw an explosion over a remote region of Siberia which flattened an 830-square-mile region of forest.

Initial estimates suggest a low probability of impact, but it remains under observation.

In 2035, new calculations indicate that Eden’s gravitational field is pulling the asteroid in, altering its trajectory. Scientists issue a global warning: Impact now seems inevitable.

As 2030-KX (now being called Wolff-Biederman after the two scientists who first discovered the asteroid) nears Eden, the stress of gravity and solar radiation causes it to fracture into multiple pieces. Now, instead of one large extinction-level impact, Eden faces several devastating strikes across multiple locations. The largest chunk, the size of a shopping mall, is predicted to hit somewhere in Europe, while house-sized fragments are set to strike Asia, North America, and the ocean.

The United Nations, in a rare moment of unity, authorizes a global defense coalition to launch nuclear warheads and kinetic impactors to break up the fragments further or alter their course. The ULW, China, Russia, India, and the European Union all contribute nuclear warheads to the effort. Military leaders disagree on execution, causing geopolitical tensions to flare.

Eventually, a plan is created and in 2038 the first wave of nuclear strikes are sent up into space where they succeed in breaking up some of the fragments. However, one nuclear detonation pushes the largest of the asteroids off course, sending it directly toward Switzerland--home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Scientists and engineers race to shut down the LHC, but on July 19 at 9:55 AM GST the impact obliterates the facility, triggering the Atomic Particle Wave event.
The strike also causes massive debris injection into the atmosphere. Over time, this will create severe weather changes, including “nuclear winter” effects and crop failures across Europe and Asia. It is estimated that roughly 2-5 million people died from this impact.

The world did not have time to react as the house-sized fragments were about to hit the planet. Since Switzerland is at approximately 7°E longitude, the Eden's rotation (west to east) would cause the next impacts to move generally eastward, but those further west (like Saskatchewan and Appalachia) would come later.

At 10:30am local time, a house-sized asteroid hits the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of France and Spain. It caused a massive tsunami, up to 600–1,500 ft (180–450m), that devastated the western coasts of France and Spain killing roughly 50,000 people.

Just about 40 minutes later, at 11:10am, a high-altitude impact in the Pyrenees Mountains on the France/Spain border, triggers rockslides and destroys several small villages. Estimated death toll is roughly 7,000 people.

But the worst was about to happen. When the multinational missile strikes were launched, there was one country that was scared they were about to end the world, and hesitated before launching their nuclear missile to stop the asteroids. Britannia, either thinking this was a trap and was waiting to see if other nations launched, or maybe they were worried about being left undefended. No official statement was ever made, but their delay would have a catastrophic impact on the whole world.

As soon as they launched their missiles, their system glitched and the cyber-security team found one of the missiles had been hacked. An intense cyber-battle ensued between the Russian hacker and the team of cyber-security experts as they kept pushing each other out, only to work their way back in. It was not until the missile had reached space and was close to impacting one of the smaller asteroids that the Russian hackers, for now there was more than one, gained control and locked the British team out completely.

The missile executed a u-turn and began its descent back to Eden. Just before its fuel ran out, and before it could enter the atmosphere, the British Team managed to access the missile guidance once more and reroute it to the ocean. They then locked everything out and were able to keep the Russian hackers out until the missile ran out of fuel. By then, coordinates were set, free fall was happening, and there was no changing the impact zone. Somewhere in the South Sandwich Trench, one of the deepest ocean trenches, near the boundary of the South American and Antartic plates.

The missile re-entered Eden’s atmosphere at 11:30am GST and made impact with the ocean surface at the South Sandwich Trench at approximately 11:35am GST. But instead of detonating on impact, the extremely well-built missile, made to handle the pressures of space, hit the surface and kept sinking. The cyber team had done amazingly well at plotting its new course and it was rapidly sinking into the deepest part of the Trench.

At roughly 12:10pm GST the pressure of the deep finally triggered the detonation, but by then it was perfectly placed between tectonic plates…and its detonation would literally change the landscape of the entire planet.

The nuclear missile triggered the instability along the mid-Atlantic Ridge causing a disruption of Eden’s rotational stability which caused the poles to reverse and the axis to tilt. Massive earthquakes of magnitude 9.5+ hit South America, Africa, and Antarctica first due to their proximity. The mid-Atlantic Ridge shifted causing a rupture in the Atlantic Ocean.

Almost an hour later, at 1pm local time, a fourth asteroid hit the Black Forest in Germany, flattening thousands of acres of forest and sparking wildfires. The impact alone killed upwards of 20,000 people.

The subduction collapse in the Atlantic Ocean ignited volcanic activity in the Canary Islands and triggering a mega-tsunami that hit Europe, which was the second time that day for France and Spain.

In Greece, at 1:45 pm local time, a fifth asteroid hit the rural area of the Pindus Mountains, killing 5,000 people, and triggering dormant fault lines, setting off a chain reaction of earthquakes across Europe. At the same time, crustal displacement from the mid-Atlantic Ridge shifted whole continents several meters, some even up to a full kilometer, triggering worldwide earthquakes. The San Andreas Fault begins slipping, increasing destruction risk in the western ULW. Supervolcanic activity begins.

The super-volcanoes (also known as megacalderas) of Yellowstone National Park, the Long Valley caldera in east-central California, the Blake River Megacaldera Complex in the Abitibi greenstone belt of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Kanata; Danau Toba caldera in Balige, Sumatera Utara, Republik Indonesia; the Valles caldera in Northern Yancuic Mexico, Taupō Volcano in Aotearoa's Te Ika-a-Māui, Aira caldera in Tsukushi-no-shima, Nippon-koku; Campi Flegrei near Parthenope, Repubblica Italiana; and the Pigeon Mountain Volcanic Range near Chattooga, Georgia begin rumbling. Even in Iceland and Hawaii volcanoes ignite and immediately lava flows.

The Pacific Plate destabilizes, triggering tsunamis in Japan, Indonesia, and California. On the other side of Wakaskato, tsunami waves exceeding 100 meters, strike West Africa, South America, and the ULW East Coast.

But this wasn’t the end. As the surface of the planet slowly and painfully shifted, there were more asteroids about to strike. In the Nile Delta of Kemet, a small-house-sized asteroid breaks up on atmospheric entry and, at 4:15pm GMT, showers the area destroying a stretch of farmland that will lead to food shortages in North Africa. An estimated 500,000 people died from this rain of otherworldly rock.

Fifteen minutes later, at 4:30pm, a large fragment of asteroid also breaks apart in mid-air and causes widespread but minor damage to small towns across the Dinaric Alps in Albania/Montenegro, killing 8,000 people.

In the southern hemisphere, Australia’s east coast is hit by waves from the South Pacific.

In northern Italy, in the Dolomites region, at 6:15pm local time, an impact from an asteroid triggers a landslide that buries entire towns resulting in the death of nearly 5,000 people.

Further north, in the Barents Sea, near Norway and Russia, at 6:15 pm local time, another impact, this time underwater, causes a localized tsunami and destabilizes the Arctic ice shelves. They crumble and crack apart, the lapping waves and the tsunami swells pushing them further away, where they will melt, causing sea levels to rise. It is estimated that 20,000 people died from drowning.

With the plates crumbling cities, and the ocean flooding the coasts, some counted themselves lucky that they had not been affected. Sadly, in the Norwegian Sea, just north of Iceland and Norway, at 10:30pm another asteroid destroys a deep-sea research facility, killing top scientists working on oceanic AI, leaving everything obliterated and nearly 10,000 people dead.

In the western Sahara Desert, at 11pm, a massive crater is formed when an asteroid the size of a three-story house impacts the desert. The pressure and heat from the impact fuses the sand creating what will be considered a Wonder of the World, a glass crater. The crater has a downside as it disrupts nomadic communities and kills 500 people, but the resulting sand waves, caused by the sound waves and impact blast, also uncover previously undiscovered ancient structures.

For several hours, many across the planet thought it was over and death would no longer fall from the sky. Instead they were scrambling and doing all they could to survive the turbulence of their planet being devastated.

But then, at 5:30am on July 20th, one of the last three asteroids wipes out a massive uninhabited steppe region in rural Kazakhstan. Though no one lived there, the radiation from the nuclear interceptors still lingered on the asteroid and contaminated the surrounding areas. Less than a thousand people died from the impact, but the long term effects were still not known.

The last two asteroids were very much delayed and had traveled, due to the spin of the planet, almost to the other side of the world. At 3:15pm (Giza-8) a direct impact destroys thousands of acres of rural Saskatchewan farmland, leading to a global grain shortage and killing a little less than 500 people.

Just a little southeast from there, in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky/West Virginia, at 9:30pm on July 20th, the last asteroid flattened part of the Daniel Boone National Forest, but, thankfully, avoided major cities. An estimated 10,000 campers, hikers and small town citizens were killed.

The asteroids themselves could have been survived, but coupled with the nuclear detonation that literally rocked the planet, these two days would be classified as a Near-Extinction Event and would be written in history as The Great Reset. At the start of 2038, the estimated Global Population was ~9.13 billion souls. After the initial blasts and earthquakes and tsunamis, the death toll reached a staggering ~1.5 billion dead (~17% of humanity). The radiation and energy released by the impacts have altered the fundamental structure of the planet, causing widespread mutations in plant and animal life. The skies turn a sickly shade of yellow, and the air becomes thick with toxic gases. Eden's ecosystem begins to collapse, and the very fabric of reality appears to unravel.

Now, most of the islands in the The World Ocean, including Nippon-koku, Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, Aotearoa and Tuʻi Manuʻa Faʻapotopotoga, have flooded. Some of those that went to high ground in Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina to escape the floods were burned alive as lava flowed down the mountains and into the rising sea. Some islands are now just shallow areas of ocean. Others are no longer separate islands but one long connected one.

In the end, the world is left in ruins, a desolate and and almost completely barren landscape nearly devoid of life. The few remaining survivors are forced to adapt to a harsh new reality, one where the rules of nature no longer seemed to apply.

The world has changed and more than just geography. In the Aftermath it was found that people around the world were affected by the Atomic Particle Wave that swept around the globe. People who would become known as: Tribal Legacies.