Earth
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- "O brave new world. What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
- ―Clay Kaczmarek's Cluster #10.[src]-[m]
The Earth (known as Midgard in Norse mythology) is the third planet from the Sun and is considered to be the densest and fifth largest planet in the Solar System, though most of its surface is covered in water. It is also the only terrestrial object known to support life. It formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago.
As the only known inhabited planet in the universe, the Earth is home to millions of animal species. Currently, the only sentient and sapient species are the humans, who were initially created by the Isu as a slave race.[1] It is unknown how the Isu themselves came to be, but they most likely evolved from primates.
History[edit | edit source]
For several thousands of years prior to the Great Catastrophe, Earth was dominated by the Isu, a progenitor race to humanity, whom the Isu artificially created to serve as a docile workforce. Circa 75,000 BCE, a devastating solar flare struck the Earth, ravaging the planet's surface and wiping out most of the Isu and human populations in an extinction-level event.[2] Working together, the Isu and human survivors were able to rebuild society, though the former would eventually go extinct.[1]
Thousands of years later, on 21 December 2012, a second catastrophe threatened to once again devastate the Earth and wipe out human civilization. Fortunately, the Assassin Desmond Miles activated the global aurora borealis device, an ancient Isu construct designed specifically to protect the planet, and saved the world at a cost to his own life.[3]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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The Earth during the 2012 coronal mass ejection -
A geomagnetic storm
