The Collapse

The Collapse
The Collapse is the Human half-century-long series of events that brought down the Age of Decadence and brought what scholars now call the Age of Rebirth.

2021: Commercial life extension, bionics, and Human augmentation became widespread but primarily used by the rich and powerful.

2023: Robots make millions of jobs obsolete and a second Great Depression is triggered near-worldwide.

2036: World War 3 begins and conscription is imposed in many countries. Most people join to get paid before they're even conscripted.

2044: World War 3 ends in the Switzerland Treaty which abolishes nuclear weapons for all nations, abolishes national armies, and disallows militarist wars between nations.

2046: The American civil war against the Switzerland Treaty begins and destroys the nation from within and they lose much of their remaining power. China and Russia lose further hold on their own claims to power and mass floodings along with worsening global weather conditions leaves millions homeless.

2047: Mass Exodus from old coastlines further inland occurs, hundreds of cities are left abandoned and sometimes submerged.

2052: Nature finally catches up with Humanity and the surrounding weather worsens, destroying nations and billions of people in huge swathes. Everything abandoned is considered the old world.

2054 - 2062: MegaCorps seize power where governments fail and establish themselves as the new leaders of Earth.

2055: The first citywide dome is established over Beijing to protect against the horrid weather and nuclear fallout. Other MegaCorps soon follow suit.

2066: The last stubborn nations fall due to bad weather and sabotage from the MegaCorps.

2070: The global population decreases to under 3 billion.

2056 - 2076: Slum-cities are established around these domed cities owned by MegaCorps using scraps salvaged from the Old World and the landfills used by the MegaCorps. These cities house millions and are generally poor places to live.

2177 marks the invention of FTL travel and the slow beginning of the Age of Rebirth.