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With humanities souls ringing; echoes; of a timeless adage, “Hell is war, and war never changes”,
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the 20th century rekindled humanity's affair with atomic energy,
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casting a long shadow of potential destruction, that lingered into the 22nd century.
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However, the apocalypse envisioned was not wrought by nuclear fire,
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but by a more insidious foe:
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human greed.
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This voracious appetite,
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ignited during the industrial fervor,
rendered the Earth barren.
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the weakening of Earth's magnetic field
Amidst this scarcity, other calamities struck—
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and the tumultuous effects of cosmic disturbances
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—culminating in a devastating solar micro-nova.
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This cataclysm wiped out half of humanity,
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with another quarter perishing in the grim aftermath of societal collapse and moral decay.