Mitheral
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The Pandemics
The Covid 19 pandemic of 2020-21 took the lives of some 80 million people before it was all done. In 2024 Covid-24 ran its course with few casualties, but still left scars. There would be two more pandemics in 2029 and 2035. All total they took the lives of half a billion people. But that was nothing.
Schumacher’s Anomaly
On July 29, 2027 evidence of a massive object entering the Solar System was detected passing through the Oort Cloud. It was travelling on what many thought was a collision course with Earth. And it was massive, affecting the asteroids in the Oort Cloud, yet invisible. The date of impact was set on Mar 3, 2039. The object was called the Schumacher Anomaly.
The closer the object got the more astronomers learned. It was incredibly small and extremely dense. Some theorized it was a remnant fragment of a neutron star. (And just FYI, this is a scientific impossibility, but we will suspend the reality of that fact for the sake of this RP, lol.) It carried in its wake an asteroid / meteor swarm, some as large as planet killers. These were tentatively identified as remnants of carbon and iron planets, and even Earth like planets.
10.6 years we had to prepare. Of course, the government chose to keep the threat a secret from the public to prevent panic.
Even if by some miracle the object and the planet killer sized asteroids missed the Earth nowhere was truly safe. Earth would still have meteor strikes raining down with impacts that had energies in the nuclear yield ranges. Worse would be the effects of gravitational forces. Massive tsunamis of the Hollywood variety would wipe out the lower elevation regions. The Chain of Fire would go crazy with earthquakes and volcanoes.
Supervolcanoes and Tsunamis
Mar 4-6, 2039 the super volcanoes of Yellowstone and Long Valley, erupted. The passing of Schumacher’s Anomaly caused massive megatsunamis.
USA Topographical Map
Any area that is green on the map will be flooded by multiple waves of megatsunamis. There will be no outrunning it. All land based life will be destroyed. With very few exceptions.
Supervolcanoes
Volcanic ash - Wikipedia
For an idea what the effects of ash will be on the environment and people.
CME (Coronal Mass Ejection)
Mar 5-7, 2039
Two days after the passing of Schumacher’s Anomaly the Sun unleashed a massive CME that was off the scale and lasted for three days.
Immediately known by all
Internet and phone service fails
GPS Service fails
Power goes out across the country
Fires and destruction in cities
Note: Cars still function
Known by the first night
Aurora Borealis globally for days
Dependent on location
Crashed airplanes - Either you see an aircraft in the sky when it starts or you don’t. Eventually you will see wreckage on the ground though.
Strange weather conditions - heat, storms, lightning
Frequent earthquakes for 6+ days in NW USA and along the San Andreas
Volcanic Ash in NW USA (There will be other sources.)
The Government Secret Plans:
Messiah: The construction of a massive interplanetary spaceship with a payload of nuclear warheads sent to target the incoming swarm. Pretty much a wasted effort if the bigger ones were going to hit Earth.
Enclaves: Massive caves dug and stockpiled to support about 1 million people. (That would be 1 in 300 of the US population. Anyone over 50 would be excluded unless they had critical skills.)
Space Ark: Much smaller version of the Enclaves - smaller because of the cost and time to get everything into space.
WW III: Prior to impact the superpowers of the Earth orchestrated political strife and militant sabre rattling as a prelude to nuclear war. However, the true targets of the warheads would be incoming remnants of the asteroids and meteors. The downside was that the debris that rained down would be contaminated. So prior to the final moments, the PBS issued warnings to evacuate to shelters. Months before people began a program to teach stockpiling for pandemics and war. So we were a little prepared.
The Covid 19 pandemic of 2020-21 took the lives of some 80 million people before it was all done. In 2024 Covid-24 ran its course with few casualties, but still left scars. There would be two more pandemics in 2029 and 2035. All total they took the lives of half a billion people. But that was nothing.
Schumacher’s Anomaly
On July 29, 2027 evidence of a massive object entering the Solar System was detected passing through the Oort Cloud. It was travelling on what many thought was a collision course with Earth. And it was massive, affecting the asteroids in the Oort Cloud, yet invisible. The date of impact was set on Mar 3, 2039. The object was called the Schumacher Anomaly.
The closer the object got the more astronomers learned. It was incredibly small and extremely dense. Some theorized it was a remnant fragment of a neutron star. (And just FYI, this is a scientific impossibility, but we will suspend the reality of that fact for the sake of this RP, lol.) It carried in its wake an asteroid / meteor swarm, some as large as planet killers. These were tentatively identified as remnants of carbon and iron planets, and even Earth like planets.
10.6 years we had to prepare. Of course, the government chose to keep the threat a secret from the public to prevent panic.
Even if by some miracle the object and the planet killer sized asteroids missed the Earth nowhere was truly safe. Earth would still have meteor strikes raining down with impacts that had energies in the nuclear yield ranges. Worse would be the effects of gravitational forces. Massive tsunamis of the Hollywood variety would wipe out the lower elevation regions. The Chain of Fire would go crazy with earthquakes and volcanoes.
Supervolcanoes and Tsunamis
Mar 4-6, 2039 the super volcanoes of Yellowstone and Long Valley, erupted. The passing of Schumacher’s Anomaly caused massive megatsunamis.
USA Topographical Map
Any area that is green on the map will be flooded by multiple waves of megatsunamis. There will be no outrunning it. All land based life will be destroyed. With very few exceptions.
Supervolcanoes
Volcanic ash - Wikipedia
For an idea what the effects of ash will be on the environment and people.
CME (Coronal Mass Ejection)
Mar 5-7, 2039
Two days after the passing of Schumacher’s Anomaly the Sun unleashed a massive CME that was off the scale and lasted for three days.
Immediately known by all
Internet and phone service fails
GPS Service fails
Power goes out across the country
Fires and destruction in cities
Note: Cars still function
Known by the first night
Aurora Borealis globally for days
Dependent on location
Crashed airplanes - Either you see an aircraft in the sky when it starts or you don’t. Eventually you will see wreckage on the ground though.
Strange weather conditions - heat, storms, lightning
Frequent earthquakes for 6+ days in NW USA and along the San Andreas
Volcanic Ash in NW USA (There will be other sources.)
The Government Secret Plans:
Messiah: The construction of a massive interplanetary spaceship with a payload of nuclear warheads sent to target the incoming swarm. Pretty much a wasted effort if the bigger ones were going to hit Earth.
Enclaves: Massive caves dug and stockpiled to support about 1 million people. (That would be 1 in 300 of the US population. Anyone over 50 would be excluded unless they had critical skills.)
Space Ark: Much smaller version of the Enclaves - smaller because of the cost and time to get everything into space.
WW III: Prior to impact the superpowers of the Earth orchestrated political strife and militant sabre rattling as a prelude to nuclear war. However, the true targets of the warheads would be incoming remnants of the asteroids and meteors. The downside was that the debris that rained down would be contaminated. So prior to the final moments, the PBS issued warnings to evacuate to shelters. Months before people began a program to teach stockpiling for pandemics and war. So we were a little prepared.
