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.

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  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 …”