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Chapter One

The End

The Fall does not happen in a day, or in a week, or in a year. It creeps up on humanity slowly, like a sickness.

Resources become fewer and fewer. Water dries up, and the little fresh water that remains, people hoard, guard, fight over tooth and dagger. Wars become commonplace. Many go to ground to escape. Bunkers soon replace homes.

One intergovernmental organization establishes a series of bunkers scattered across the globe with the aim of preserving select humans in cryogenic chambers for eleven thousand years.

These preserved humans will be burdened with the task of rebuilding civilization when they wake long after the Fall, after the end, after the climate changes and memory of the last human from the surface world has long since faded.

These humans form the Sucere Project.

For now, they sleep.