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Apparently, a friend talking to me about the supposed "Mayan calendar doomsday" led to me having a very...odd dream last night.
It started out a few weeks before December 21, 2012...you know, the day the Mayan calendar says the world is supposed to end (disclaimer: I find that idea to be a complete load of bullshit.) A huge rift in space opened up just beyond Mars. This caught the interest of every scientific community on the planet...for about 5 minutes. Then they saw the asteroid that came through it. It was huge, roughly 70 miles wide, and glowing with an eerie, unworldly aura that NASA officials soon discovered was some unknown form of radiation. And the best part? It was heading right at us, with a predicted impact date of...you guessed it...December 21. As a result, the asteroid was officially dubbed "Destiny".
The portion of the world that believed in the Mayan doomsday prophesy claimed this as the ultimate "I told you so", with many committing various forms of ritualistic mass suicide in a final "fuck you" to whatever deity had apocalyptic plans for us. The governments of the world took a slightly more proactive approach. Every (I mean every) nuclear warhead on the planet was amassed and loaded onto a space rocket, and the ubernuke was then launched on a collision course with Destiny. It was calculated to intercept it approximately halfway between Mars and the Earth, with just enough payload to vaporize it entirely.
Plan hit a small snag...the predictions of Destiny's gravitational field were horribly off. As a result, the rocket spent a good 2 days in a forced orbit, only stopping when it finally ran out of fuel and was slowly pulled in. Thankfully, however, the computer that controlled the detonation functioned just fine and triggered the warheads as soon as impact was made. However, this two day delay left Destiny a lot closer than desired...it was about half the distance to us than the Moon is when it was destroyed. The resulting blast sent a huge wave of the strange radiation all over the planet, along with an unbelievably strong shockwave.
The next part of the dream, according to government officials trying to quell the slowly-growing panic from the recuperating populus, occurs two years later. Apparently, the shockwave literally clocked everyone on the planet out cold, leaving us all in a sort of half-comatose, half-hibernating state. During that time, the radioactive fallout from Destiny (and, thankfully, not from the warheads that destroyed it) had rather...strange effects on life on the planet, human and otherwise.
Sadly, roughly a fifth of the world's lifeforms, mostly humans, were unable to survive these changes, and never woke up.
Those who did, however, found themselves evolved to a whole new level of lifeform. Natural energies that we had spent so many decades studying...thermal, electrical, vital, and even the residual energies from Destiny's radiation...could now be sensed and, to varying extents, even manipulated. Because of the inexplicable nature of these new abilities and for sheer simplicity's sake, they were officially dubbed "magic".
Inarguably the most amazing thing left by Destiny, however, was the "Ether Wave", an intangible, crystalline-blue haze that covered much of the world's sky...it was soon discovered that, by channeling one's energies properly, a person could pull themselves into the Ether Wave and, for a time, dislodge themselves from the effects of gravity. It was one of mankind's greatest dreams come true....we could fly.
Naturally, there was a huge economic upheaval over this at first. The oil industries in particular were rather hard-hit, since the needs for fossil fuels practically vanished. People found they could power the engines to their cars on their own (or just skip the car entirely and go from place to place along the Ether Wave), expel the heat from their houses without the use of an air conditioner, cook food without a gas grill...our materialistic needs seemed to drop off the charts.
Fortunately, the pandemonium only lasted about 4 years. Once the major industries learned how to utilize magical energy in place of the energy from fossil fuels, the economy stabilized and all was fine and dandy again.
Lousy point in time for me to wake up. :/
It started out a few weeks before December 21, 2012...you know, the day the Mayan calendar says the world is supposed to end (disclaimer: I find that idea to be a complete load of bullshit.) A huge rift in space opened up just beyond Mars. This caught the interest of every scientific community on the planet...for about 5 minutes. Then they saw the asteroid that came through it. It was huge, roughly 70 miles wide, and glowing with an eerie, unworldly aura that NASA officials soon discovered was some unknown form of radiation. And the best part? It was heading right at us, with a predicted impact date of...you guessed it...December 21. As a result, the asteroid was officially dubbed "Destiny".
The portion of the world that believed in the Mayan doomsday prophesy claimed this as the ultimate "I told you so", with many committing various forms of ritualistic mass suicide in a final "fuck you" to whatever deity had apocalyptic plans for us. The governments of the world took a slightly more proactive approach. Every (I mean every) nuclear warhead on the planet was amassed and loaded onto a space rocket, and the ubernuke was then launched on a collision course with Destiny. It was calculated to intercept it approximately halfway between Mars and the Earth, with just enough payload to vaporize it entirely.
Plan hit a small snag...the predictions of Destiny's gravitational field were horribly off. As a result, the rocket spent a good 2 days in a forced orbit, only stopping when it finally ran out of fuel and was slowly pulled in. Thankfully, however, the computer that controlled the detonation functioned just fine and triggered the warheads as soon as impact was made. However, this two day delay left Destiny a lot closer than desired...it was about half the distance to us than the Moon is when it was destroyed. The resulting blast sent a huge wave of the strange radiation all over the planet, along with an unbelievably strong shockwave.
The next part of the dream, according to government officials trying to quell the slowly-growing panic from the recuperating populus, occurs two years later. Apparently, the shockwave literally clocked everyone on the planet out cold, leaving us all in a sort of half-comatose, half-hibernating state. During that time, the radioactive fallout from Destiny (and, thankfully, not from the warheads that destroyed it) had rather...strange effects on life on the planet, human and otherwise.
Sadly, roughly a fifth of the world's lifeforms, mostly humans, were unable to survive these changes, and never woke up.
Those who did, however, found themselves evolved to a whole new level of lifeform. Natural energies that we had spent so many decades studying...thermal, electrical, vital, and even the residual energies from Destiny's radiation...could now be sensed and, to varying extents, even manipulated. Because of the inexplicable nature of these new abilities and for sheer simplicity's sake, they were officially dubbed "magic".
Inarguably the most amazing thing left by Destiny, however, was the "Ether Wave", an intangible, crystalline-blue haze that covered much of the world's sky...it was soon discovered that, by channeling one's energies properly, a person could pull themselves into the Ether Wave and, for a time, dislodge themselves from the effects of gravity. It was one of mankind's greatest dreams come true....we could fly.
Naturally, there was a huge economic upheaval over this at first. The oil industries in particular were rather hard-hit, since the needs for fossil fuels practically vanished. People found they could power the engines to their cars on their own (or just skip the car entirely and go from place to place along the Ether Wave), expel the heat from their houses without the use of an air conditioner, cook food without a gas grill...our materialistic needs seemed to drop off the charts.
Fortunately, the pandemonium only lasted about 4 years. Once the major industries learned how to utilize magical energy in place of the energy from fossil fuels, the economy stabilized and all was fine and dandy again.
Lousy point in time for me to wake up. :/
