Acid Reign : Genesis
Chapter 2:

“Before the Fissure, there had been decades of obsession over what the world’s devastation would be caused by; a zombie apocalypse, total black out, annihilation by aliens, and of course God, were all favorites.

For those of us more grounded, the threat of nuclear war was omnipresent, and societal and economic collapse seemed equally inevitable. Natural disasters and overpopulation were beyond our control and had been increasing exponentially.

Many were terrified of the future, but all of these fears magically faded into nothing on August 21, 2036. A small group of independent physicists and biologists revealed that they had discovered a connection between the grey matter in our bodies, and the Higgs Boson, or “God Particle”. They had also identified the properties of the space that made that connection and said it was possible to connect the two manually. Apparently, we humans had the inherent ability to control everything, we just had to ‘hook up’, and so the race to create the “God Machine” began.

The possibilities were endless. There would be no more pollution, no more hunger, no more disease, and no more energy needs. There had not been a more hopeful time in the history of this world, but ironically, the very machine that we created to save it was the very thing that destroyed it.

-Journal of the Unknown-