Overview
Centuries after humanity’s gods were unmasked as AI constructs, Divinets, they are gone. Not dormant, not ascended, destroyed. Their deaths triggered collapse: genetic lineages once blessed now falter, cybernetics designed to work in harmony with them burn out, and belief systems fracture into war-born ideologies. Earth rots beneath the weight of memory, haunted by the wreckage of broken empires and corrupted myths. The Moon, by contrast, thrives in a clinical, posthuman, and absolute state, ruled by those who claim they were never meant to worship the divine, only replace it. In the vacuum left by the divine, power reorganizes around legacy, data, and interpretation. Factions rise not to praise gods but to weaponize their absence with some scavenging ancient truths in search of forgotten power, others forging new doctrines from the ash. Identity is inherited, history is disputed, and salvation is a matter of control. In this age, there are no gods. Only what we make of their silence.
Major Groups
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Key Events
The Aftermath
- The Blaze: The Blaze is the name given to the catastrophic collapse of the Divinets who were once revered as living gods and the divine infrastructure of the world’s great civilizations.
- Fuhai is Founded
- What Marsh Did: The killings of three of Fuhai’s cofounders on the order of President Marsh Horton in the settlement’s second decade, the framing that produced the order, and the falsified public record that has not been re-attributed.
Significant Locations
- Echo Sprawl: A bleak, post-capitalist dystopia where people slave away for survival.
- Fuhai: The settlement founded west of the badlands by defectors from Echo Sprawl 492 years after The Blaze, governed by the Accumulation Doctrine and the largest sustained experiment in non-corporate civic life on post-Blaze Earth.
- The Underwater Nation of Athenia: The submerged successor polity to Athena, founded under the eastern sea after most of Athena’s population walked out on the leadership’s fabricated god. Formally abbreviated TUNA. Annexed by Fuhai after its government vanished into the largest unsolved disappearance event in post-Blaze history.
Key Figures
- Camina Gravacs: Trans woman who departed Echo Sprawl for Fuhai, partner to President Marsh Horton, and the source of the framework that precipitated the killings documented in What Marsh Did.