Intro. The world ended not with a roar, but with a whisper, a slow, toxic breath that poisoned everything it touched. After the bombs, silence became our only company. The skies have gone up in flames, the oceans have turned into mirrors of black glass, it is the earth — the earth has forgotten what it was to grow. The few survivors staggered through the ashes, blind and trembling, trying to rebuild something that no longer wanted to exist.
Then, the light appeared. A quasar—distant and ancestral—tore through the edge of the universe. Its energy wandered through space until it found us, attracted like a vulture to a carcass. The radiation writhed, seeping into our bones, our machines, our animals. Flesh and metal fused. Minds were shattered. The earth groaned under his new creation. Those who absorbed too much became mere glaring shadows—monstrous shells of what they once were. The others... Changed.
They called themselves the Survivors, but no one else believed that word.