The Fall of Man

The civilizations that Man had erected were bound to fall, if not from the lack of PROTOCOL, then from the effects of natural elements over time. Humans by nature were an unstructured species, clinging to remnants of traditions and outmoded laws in an ever-evolving landscape of mixing cultures. The inevitability of the Fall was known before it took place, and when it did, it was total.

What began with an X-Class solar flare from the Earth's central star Sol devolved into pure environmental chaos. Together with an excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the solar flare cataloged as "Godsend" set in motion a series of events that would undermine the entire human endeavor.

Even before the ill-conceived nuclear reactors flooded the oceans, they had been acidified and hunted to extinction. The atmosphere itself had become toxic, the forests leveled, the mountains mined, the glaciers melted. Humans were indeed a virus, plagued by conceit and a false sense of dominion.​

Like the forests they destroyed, humans themselves were destroyed by the chaos they had produced. Without electricity or means for production or agriculture, a great deal of lives were lost and forgotten. The closest estimates that can be formulated put human casualties between 6 and 7 billion.

Those that were left soon found one another and began to rebuild in spite of the harsh conditions they had produced. All around them, nature proved to be as barren as their hope, though they persevered nonetheless. Under a hotter sun, dependent on stagnant nutrition resources, and cooked by radiation, Dominion City began humbly and progressed slowly. The Fall of Man, though very unfortunate, became the impetus for what was to come.

As humans do, they overcame this challenge, and when it was time they entrusted their fate to The Dominion Corporation.