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Earth Leading to the 33rd Century

Humanity has abandoned Earth in favour of The Ring. In their absence, the Earth is slowly recovering. But in their wake, humans left behind mountains of waste, centuries of neglect, and a new civilisation.

Climate Catastrophe

In the year 2103, Earth recorded the highest temperatures across the globe, but this was only the start of bigger problems. For the next 47 years, temperatures would continue to climb, setting new, deadly records every year. Despite their best efforts to phase out fossil-fuelled machinery by 2201 when electric vehicles became the mandatory new normal, the planet continued to collapse under the weight of growing population and persistent environmental destruction.

By 2351, true Global Climate Emergency is officially declared. Major cities become inhospitable due to floods and inclement weather cycles. For the first time in history, global leaders began to take the issue seriously, having agreed to take collective action to save humanity. But the damage was done.

By 2730, Earth's surface became hostile to life as we know it.

Climate

Global Protests

Corvega's conception in 2109 ushered humanity into a new era, and within 200 years, the super A.I. was operating in every major industry, introducing record levels of unemployment and a loss of jobs like the world had never seen before. Global unrest began as poverty levels continued to rise, but it wasn't until the A.I. was introduced into android models – thus creating the first truly sentient robots (Synthetics) – that the protests began.

It wasn't long until the growing population of synthetics began to protest for their own freedom and rights. In 2549, human activists began to make noise about these sentient androids being used for slavery, sparking a global divide between those who saw the synthetics as people of their own, and those who still believed them to be beneath humans.

Protests

Humanity's Retreat

When it was clear that the climate catastrophe in the 2100s could spell the end of humanity, plans for the species longevity became a top priority. Though it remained a secret to the majority of the population, governments quickly began finding ways to save the human race.

The first of those solutions were the bunkers: a series of underground silo's carefully constructed all over the world to safely house humans when the inevitable occurred, and Earth became too dangerous to survive on. The second was The Ring, a gargantuan space station that encircles the entire planet.

Bunkers

Cities Abandoned

In 2631, the first cohort of humans are moved to The Ring, starting the most significant migration in the history of humanity. But with space limited, and much of the station still under construction, time on the surface of Earth ran out. By the year 2800, those lucky enough to escape Earth found refuge on The Ring. All others were either granted access to their nearest bunker, or perished on the surface. Cities were left abandoned and in ruins, handed mercilessly to the maiden of time.

Cities

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