March 13, 2116


    That’s when the world ended. As predicted, the impact took place on the coast of


    eastern Australia, near Brisbane. The few humans who had remained in space


    stations in orbit stayed, knowing that this would be their end, but they also


    documented and gathered intel that was then sent to the dome cities for future


    reference.


    With their eyes in the sky and smiles on their lips, some chose to go near the


    impact site and welcome their doom. Kneeling with their hands held together, they


    fearlessly looked upon the small dot that was coming to end everything. Eyes opened


    wide as the small blip of light began to grow exponentially; no thoughts, no time for


    thinking. The dot suddenly grew to cover the entire sky. Less than a second


    remained; the blinding light came without sound, and the last images to be


    transmitted filled those who came later see them with terror. The world became a


    flaming ball of dust and thunder. Winds of unprecedented speed started spreading


    the flaming gases and dust around the globe. A wave of thunderous black clouds


    ignited everything in its path, releasing more clouds of dust and smoke, which


    covered the sky of the entire planet, storming as if on a race around the Earth.


    The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.Earthquakes maxing out the Richter scale were felt throughout the world. The


    tsunamis that hit the west of the American continent and the east of Asia proceeded


    so deep into the continents that they transformed the landscape in their path forever.


    Australia’s east coast sank into the sea. The west burned so hot that the soil looked


    like a sea of lava. For days, a rain of burning rocks, returning debris from the impact,


    bombarded the Earth. Weeks after, volcanic eruptions had not stopped, spewing


    molten rock and adding more carbon and other chemicals into the atmosphere,


    further deepening the thick clouds that were slowly freezing the planet under.


    Most of the dome cities suffered manageable and expected damage; some


    collapsed. Most of the secondary survival plans, like underground vaults, did not


    survive the first weeks. Humanity was now down to about sixty million people in


    population. Sixty million people who, for a while, had visual feed from the most


    catastrophic event ever to hit the Earth. When the earthquakes started shaking the


    Earth, when the winds started whipping the walls of the cities, when the rock impacts


    began to sound like machine guns, relentlessly bombarding the roof of the domes,


    some screamed, some cried, some remained silent. The one common feeling they all


    felt was that our minuscule size and power finally became apparent. Then they all


    understood,


    “We should have moved faster … we should have gone to space earlier


    … we should have listened …”