The damage caused on that day cannot be undershot, it is simply impossible. Even contingencies for total societal collapse in the wake of a hypothetical Anarchian victory projected less damage. In terms of raw numbers, every plague in world history combined only barely to scratch Elassa's count. One would have to go to the Great War or to the Worldbreaking era in order to find similar events. The world population graph plummeted as if it was a crashing stock market.
It is, and there is no need for discussion or comparison regarding the facts, the single greatest humanitarian disaster in world history.
- Excerpt of a news article written by Etala, of Democracy and the UNN, published two days after Continent Cracking.
