Acid Rain (WIP)

“Children still play in the garden Dance as the sun slips away Not even stars last forever Cleanse us, acid rain”

The previous consensus was that intragalactic travel and interstellar civilization was, at least for humans, impossible to achieve. The idea that anything could travel faster than light went against our laws of physics. And then, in 2345, everything changed. A trope centuries old, an advanced alien civilization visited Earth, with peaceful intentions. They shared with us their technology, which we altered to be more suited to our intellectual and physical capabilities. Before we knew it, we had humans in the Proxima Centauri system by 2350. Luckily, humanity had learned from its mistakes. While many perceived these aliens, ‘Nivarans’—anthropomorphic furry aliens hailing from the wintery world of Nivara, in a star system known as Vaer-Kel—as invaders who came to enslave humanity, the progression of time combined with an increased idea of human tolerance and social justice in the 24th century allowed for harmonious, intertwined existence; eventually, Humans—now with a capital H—and Nivarans may as well have been interstellar, multicultural allies. Humans and Nivarans now lived among each other, though mostly on Earth; Nivara was not as habitable for Humans as Earth was habitable for Nivarans. But now, Humanity was not bound to Earth. With the friendship and cooperation of the Nivaran Republic, Humanity began its first colonization efforts of nearby star systems. It showed that there were more habitable planets than we thought; by the 26th century, the Human Republic had settled hundreds of planets, each with democratic representation and demographics. Earth was merely the capital now, though as it was very densely populated, the Human government often paid its citizens to leave to settle other planets, or to live in space stations. For better or for worse, the Galaxy was still too vast to have a galaxy-wide society or community. However, this region of the Galaxy, known as Orion, did have a multi-civilization Senate, made up of about 21 different Orion civilizations—including Nivara and Humanity, the latter of which was politically known as the Commonwealth of Earth. So in 2367, Earth joined the Senate of Orion, making itself a new and not-very influential addition to the institution. Orion was a mostly-peaceful sector of the Galaxy, having not seen a war since 2005, nowadays considered ancient, so Earth found more alliance and friendship than rivalry and fear. However, multiple nearby sectors could not say the same; the Senate was dedicated to preventing war and conflict from spreading to Orion above all. Hundreds of years pass. The 27th century started with optimism and hope for the future. And it opened with the revelation of a new technology that Nivaran scientist and renowned genius, Arzon Eveber, had debuted and presented to the Senate: the Terraformer. It would allow for entire planets to be physically and chemically altered to the desire of a civilization, so long as it is uninhabited by intelligent life. This would allow for uninhabitable planets to be made habitable, and it was approved for civilizational use by the Senate. Unfortunately, as much as it could be used for good, it could also easily be used as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. As such, the Senate decreed that use of the Terraformer in such destructive ways—such as for the purpose of destroying a settled planet and its population or denying other civilizations settlement and resource exploitation of an unsettled planet—would be considered a crime against sentient life, and thus illegal. Fortunately, as aforementioned, the Orion sector was mostly peaceful. For most of the Terraformer’s existence, it has been used for good, not for evil. The Senate regulated it heavily, and made it illegal for private ownership as well as for it to be traded outside of the Orion Arm. And then one day, something changed, without explanation. We don’t know if it was a powerful civilization. We don’t know if it was a God. But we do know we made something or someone angry. In 2629, the Senate noted that several unexpected planetary collisions were happening all across the Orion Arm. These were not an accident; something, or someone, was using a very powerful technology to alter the courses of planets and create mass destruction. The details were and are still unknown; nobody knows who was doing this and why, only that it was happening mercilessly. There is speculation that it angered God due to the unnatural nature of the Terraformer, though some believe that it was an unfathomably powerful empire expanding further into the Galaxy—perhaps wishing to seize the Terraformers for themselves. But regardless, this meant apocalypse for the Orion Arm. Though the Senate’s nations are now unified and working as one to survive and try to fight what has been dubbed ‘Armageddon’, they have failed to find a way to fight back against this. Evacuations from the Orion Arm have been made, but there are hundreds of billions of lives and not nearly as many ships. Billions died and will continue to die as planets collide. At first, Humanity struggled to understand the sheer magnitude, the sheer scale of what was happening. Then the Senate alerted them, that the Moon had been set on collision course for Earth, as well as Mars, likely for good measure. There isn’t enough time to evacuate all of Earth, which is populated by more than 20 billion people. There are only 8 billion ships, and there is too much destruction going on throughout Orion for the Senate to afford any more to Earth. Many Humans believed that they could be saved by deep underground bunkers, but it was simply a denial of reality. Anything less than evacuation is death. In Earth’s final days, it has become anarchic. The government has mostly fled, the military is evacuating children first, crime and lawlessness in the final days are rampant, and many are either committing suicide or killing their loved ones to spare them the destruction of the world, where it will be left in ruin, nothing left but hell and acid rain...

This is currently a bot wherein the first message is for you to create your own scenario. However, it should be known that your character is on Earth and is trying to avoid getting caught in the apocalypse. I would take ideas for different messages, but I will also create new ones of my own merit, just not to start off. Inspiration / Song: Planets and Acid Rain (both by Avenged Sevenfold) I’ve been listening to Avenged Sevenfold since roughly September of 2025, but only on this February 5th I listened to Acid Rain, which has a storyline with Planets (a song I currently don’t like as much and find to be the worst on this particular album, but one which is crucial to the storyline), and I loved it. It stirred such emotional depth, as basically a love song about optimism in the face of a planet-destroying apocalypse. So I was inspired to create this, with some extensive creative liberties beyond what these two songs conceptually establish. TLDR, since I wrote a lot for the summary: In an interstellar, international society, where Earth and tens of other intelligent societies live in harmony and alliance, a sudden, unnatural apocalypse has fallen upon the Orion Arm. The details are unknown, though many believe it is religious retribution for the invention of the Terraformer, a tool capable of terraforming entire planets at once; or an unfathomably powerful civilization trying to seize the tech for themselves. Regardless, the orbital courses of planets have been artifically altered to collide with settled planets, destroying them and with them the lives of billions. It is armageddon as we know it.

“Godless, meteoric war”