Fall from Grace
The beginning of the fall of Humanity began on November 23rd, 2043. Cities where reduced to nothing more than sand and ash, the population that had once crested at 12Billion souls was sundered, falling to less than 1 billion by 2045. War destroyed humanity, just not the war humans expected to destroy them. War with gods, their pets and their armies reduced a bourgeoning space faring civilization to a shadow of a memory.
Many thought humanity would destroy itself through war, the 2020s had been a decade of near misses and increasing division among the nations, and people of the world once known as earth. The Ukro-Russian conflict had nearly embroiled the denizens of earth in what many thought would be the third, and final world war. Lat minute compromises and a suspiciously timed heart attack had de-escalated the tensions, however the distrust and fear of the people was still there, rotting away at the fabric of the world order of 2026.
When China invaded Russia, no one saw it coming, all eyes had been on Taiwan, so when paramilitary forces dropped into cities across the Russian landscape, as never before seen military capabilities where shown to the world, the people of earth where shocked. However no nation wanted another conflict, and the Russian Republic, and all her territories and riches became the property of the Peoples Republic. The Russians, exhausted from more than a half decade of war that shouldn’t have lasted more than half a year, were unable to raise their sword or shields in defence. In less than 6 days, the powers of Russia where captured and killed and new Russian leaders installed. The Chinese had known that they would never hold Russia if they tried to occupy the nation, instead, they had installed Russians with significant financial ties to China. The Chinese contracted an unlikely ally, India, to oversee the transition of power, using Indian troops to maintain order during the transition.
Seemingly overnight a new global super alliance was borne, the western powers, shocked by the speed at which things had changed began to splurt and sputter about legalities and concessions. The once mighty Americans could do nothing, with all their might, political partisanship and tribalism handcuffed the Senate and the Judiciary, Europe couldn’t muster so much as squeak as China re-opened the flows of natural gas and offered to build a new overland rail transportation system, connecting the eastern shores of Asia with the western ports of Europe.
America and her allies eventually mobilized, threatening war on behalf of a nation they had always viewed as a central pillar of the axis of evil, the global boogie man so useful by western media to control the hearts and minds of its people. On the heels of this saber rattling and ever louder drums of war, a new power, or as some would say, an old power finally rose from the darkness, the Secret Societies of the world had had enough. A digital virus was unleashed on the world, social media, the internet and the general means of communication where deleted in an instant. The armies of the western nations took control of their respective territories and announced the end of democracy, the leadership : the heads their respective secret organizations. The Masons in Europe, the Simo of Africa and the Illuminati of North America all rose up overnight and seized control of their various territories.
What followed the tumultuous second decade of the second millennia was a new golden age of humanity. With the death of the internet as early humans knew it, so too died the fractious tribalism that had kept people so occupied on division, with the heavy hand of the new Republics things began to move quickly. The worlds nations began to share resources in an unprecedented way, the militaries of the worlds set their sights on expansion into space, technology was shared and Mars was successfully colonized. New technologies, new medicines and new businesses appeared at an ever increasing pace, global borders where torn down and freedom of movement was the norm. People could move to areas that suited their belief, and could just as easily leave California to work in Hong Kong. The surveillance technology of the era allowed for unprecedented intervention into criminal activities and organizations. Powerful organizations like the Asian Triads or the North American Hells Angels where brought to heel, strict operating guidelines where implemented, the underworld could exist, but it would be limited.
As humanity became more unified, so too did it become more prosperous. Mining operations where set up in the asteroid belt, heavy industry was moved off planet and the planet began to heal from environmental wounds levied against it in the previous century. Humanity had a bright future, the future depicted in stories like Star Trek seemed all but assured.
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When the Martian colony discovered a pyramid on Mars, the information was made public and a manic pyramid fervour was ignited. Soon the world began to share what they knew of earth, and now Martian pyramids, new fields of research opened.
In 2039, a South American team of researchers unlocked a secret of the pyramids that set humanity on a path of destruction. Humanity, learned of dimensional portals, humanity learned that pyramids had been constructed on dimensional lay lines, weak points in the fabric of space that could connect to others, allowing for instantaneous transfer of mater. By 2042 a network of over 2999 pyramids were unlocked, humanity could move from Earth to Mars in less than the time it takes to sneeze, local planetary transport was instantaneous, without delay and seemingly without adverse effects.
In June 2043, a team of explorers found a pyramid unlike any others, made of a pure black obsidian. The new pyramid was 33 times larger than the great pyramid of Giza. The pyramid was located at the 33.33.33. Deep in the Levantine sea, off the coast of Egypt and Syria, near the island of Cyprus. The humans of the new era had found the final pyramid of Earth and Mars. 1500 had been discovered on mars, while only 1499 had been discovered on earth. What would they find, what secrets would they unlock when they reached and explored such a find.
The history of the world had long been discarded, humans knew that they didn’t know the truth, but like children playing with fire, they never stopped to consider the implications of their search. Who had built the pyramids, how had they been lost? Even the Masonic societies failed to raise caution as the world approached a multiplier of their sacred number, 33. The pyramids had been nothing but a blessing, how could the last one be anything but?
November 22nd, 2043, was the last day of the Golden Age of humanity, the world watched as researchers approached the pyramidal load stone, and activated the pyramid for the first time in ages unknown.
A great pulse left the tip of the obsidian pyramid and the world experience a new breath of life, as the pulse washed across the planet and the quality of the atmosphere improved drastically, the air seemingly cleaner, with a hint of something more. A second pulse was released a few hours later, the atmosphere taking a tangible leap forward in quality again. The old and sick started to feel better as the pulses quickened. By the 32nd pulse, it was 11.30 am London Time on Earth and the pace of pulses had increased which each successive burst. The worlds had transformed, and humanity felt invincible. The blind could see, the sick were healed, the paralyzed could walk, the lakes and oceans were pristine, no trace of pollution could be found. Mars, once a desolate wasteland was unrecognizable, an atmosphere had established itself overnight, the vast dry ocean beds were filled with clean fresh water. Barren land was now fertile. Humanity held a collective breath for the 33rd pulse, what wonders would be unlocked, bestowed upon the denizens of Earth and Mars?
At exactly 12PM, the 33rd and final pulse escaped the obsidian pyramid. The world seemed to stand still as pulse greater than all those before it washed out from every pyramid on the planets. The pyramid portals all winked out of existence and within moments, a great rumbling could be heard. The Great Obsidian pyramid began to rise, pulling the seabed with it. It rose until it breached the surface of the sea. As it rose, more was revealed, it wasn’t a pyramid, but an obelisk, and as it rose the extend to which Humanity had lost its history began to make itself known.
All the pyramids began to rise, all revealed the darkness that was the history of earth and mars. As the obsidian pyramid rose, the seabed revealed a city unlike any on the planet. Great buildings, grand pantheons and agoras rose from the ground. Statues of forgotten gods shook free the shackles of the Levantine Seabed. Had humanity found the fabled city of Atlantis?
Before humanity could even digest what had happened. Portals began to open at the base of every Obelisk. There was something new about these portals, never before had portals been anything but pure black, however these new portals were of every different colour imaginable, some even coloured in a shades unknown to the human race before this very moment. As humanity gazed upon the beauty of the new portals a new phenomenon occurred.
At the base of the Levantine obelisk, a man stepped through. At first, humans thought he was a man, until they realized his skin was wrong, it was a dark shade of green, scaled like a lizard. As the first observers of this man, this creature, digested what they saw, another stepped out, then another, all carried a long dark spear in one hand, and a large circular shield in the other. As the green men, or creatures stepped through the portal, a similar scene played out across the planet. Some portals released great beasts of nightmares, from other creatures of legend, and from more than most, aliens, invaders.