SEPTEMBER 17, 2061: Unidentified object of immense scale enters and maintains a fixed geosynchronous orbit. DESIGNATION: UGO-1 (Unidentified Geosynchronous Object-1). Publicly nicknamed "The Crimson Moon"
FEBRUARY 17, 2062: The "Sudden Sleep," a global phenomenon of unexplained mass comas, begins. Initial projection: neurological pathogen.
MARCH 13, 2062: First recorded re-awakening of a comatose patient (Subject Zero: Adam Elna). Subject exhibits extreme aggression and cellular instability.
MARCH 19, 2062: Subject Zero's condition is officially designated "Blight Contagion." The pandemic receives its name.
JUNE 1, 2062 CONFIRMATION: Blight Contagion confirmed to affect all carbon-based life, not just humans.
JULY 3, 2062: The United World Alliance (UWA) enacts Directive 7. All Blighted individuals and life-forms are classified as hostile existential threats, to be neutralized on sight.
AUGUST 8, 2062: First use of tactical nuclear weapons to contain a Grade-9 Blight-form outbreak in the [REDACTED] Exclusion Zone. Containment fails.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2062: UWA activates the "Iron Wall Protocol," retreating to pre-fortified "Citadel" locations and fencing themselves off from the rest of the world. Global governance ceases.
The Scourge Years begins…
Global population collapses by an estimated 70%.
Citadel infrastructures, Independent enclaves, bunker societies (Vaults), and nomadic cultures form from the ashes of the old world.
NOVEMBER 14, 2071: UGO-1 (The Crimson Moon) shoots down a second, unidentified vessel on a direct trajectory into Earth's atmosphere. However Seven small pods eject from the vessel moments before its destruction.
This pods' trajectories scatter across the global space, their purpose unknown, their entry unobserved and their stories yet to be told.