Outer Space
Before humanity's end, multiple attempts were made to force the species beyond the reach of the Infection by launching people into space. None of them worked.
Cryogenic freeze programs called First Hope and Second Hope placed humans showing early Infection signs into suspended animation pods at bio-dome facilities in North Greenland. Most of those pods were eventually destroyed, scrapped, or breached. When the Infection entered the compromised pods, the interaction of two separate forms of viral fungus with the frozen subjects produced the Semper Mort. The programs meant to save humanity instead created something new and terrible.
Separate from the cryogenic effort, pre-fall scientists launched humans in a suspended state among the stars. Trajectories were calculated to slingshot around a far planet's gravitational pull and return the vessels to Earth. The majority crashed into the oceans. Nothing from space survives reentry. Impact destroys technology, people, and resources alike. Those who crash-landed did not survive the changed environment waiting below.
Today, occasional satellite remains crash-land on the surface, arriving as mostly twisted Scrap. On the rarest occasions, fragments yield information about the people of the past: a scrap of data, a fragment of a record, a glimpse into a world that no longer exists.
The stars offered no escape. Everything that went up came crashing back down.
Cryogenic freeze programs called First Hope and Second Hope placed humans showing early Infection signs into suspended animation pods at bio-dome facilities in North Greenland. Most of those pods were eventually destroyed, scrapped, or breached. When the Infection entered the compromised pods, the interaction of two separate forms of viral fungus with the frozen subjects produced the Semper Mort. The programs meant to save humanity instead created something new and terrible.
Separate from the cryogenic effort, pre-fall scientists launched humans in a suspended state among the stars. Trajectories were calculated to slingshot around a far planet's gravitational pull and return the vessels to Earth. The majority crashed into the oceans. Nothing from space survives reentry. Impact destroys technology, people, and resources alike. Those who crash-landed did not survive the changed environment waiting below.
Today, occasional satellite remains crash-land on the surface, arriving as mostly twisted Scrap. On the rarest occasions, fragments yield information about the people of the past: a scrap of data, a fragment of a record, a glimpse into a world that no longer exists.
The stars offered no escape. Everything that went up came crashing back down.
