

When this anomaly disappeared, the moon rebounded to its original shape, causing devastating methane tidal waves to wash the surface of the planet, shattering the arcologies. On Titan in particular, a gravitational anomaly formed and deformed the shape of the moon, stretching it to the shape of an egg. This last set of data showed, to a certainty of "9 Sigma", a definite and measurable pattern that had a complex, almost linguistic, structure that demonstrated both intelligence and intent.Īs a method of destruction, natural disasters tore across the solar system, eliminating populations. Rasputin conducted an "Omnibus analysis" of the event's effects on local spacetime, measuring a wide range of data points including direction, distance, range, speed, and size as well as a comprehensive pattern analysis of the event itself. An AI observing the event, the Warmind Rasputin, was able to derive some information, based solely on the phenomena that it could detect, but was unable to ascertain its mechanism. The only means of determining that a transient event had even occurred was through the detection of a 0.3-second displacement of gravity waves, as well as anomalous interactions in the local Higgs field traced to sterile neutrino scattering. Immediately before the Collapse, an entity or group of entities were detected just beyond the edge of the Solar System, in what was termed a "TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT". Following the Golden Age, after mankind had colonized the Solar System, the Darkness attacked humanity, presumably through the Black Fleet under the Witness, and pushed it back to its homeworld, Earth.

The Collapse was a cataclysm in human history that nearly brought the species to extinction. Only the screams of humanity." - Henriette Meyrin during the Collapse.
