The war raged on even though the world was falling apart. First came the earthquakes. They shook for...

The war raged on even though the world was falling apart. First came the earthquakes. They shook for nearly three days on and off in every corner of the earth. The damage was staggering, the death toll unspeakable. Two months after the earthquakes, several meteors fell from the sky. In the past, these meteors might have been tracked and broken up in outer space, but many of the men and women who did such things had perished in the earthquakes and certainly their tools they would use for the extraterrestrial mission were destroyed. Seven meteors hit the Earth; one in California, starting a massive forest fire: one in Japan, one in India, one in Germany, one in the Sudan, one in Australia, and one straight into the heart of the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean hit proved to be the most crucial. The meteor killed all sea life in the area and this was the last source of sustenance that the dwindling Human 1.0 rebels were using to survive. Many of the rivers’ waters were poisoned by the dust from the meteors and the amount of dead and unburied bodies that populated the Earth grew clouds of drifting vermin—flies, wasps, mosquitoes, locusts, cicadas. The surviving humans were covered in boils, living only to find water and food and to fight their never-ending war.