This world was still called Earth, though few would recognize it anymore.
What had once been a blue and green planet teeming with natural life was now a glittering jewel of technological marvels, encased in orbiting superstructures and surrounded by vast rings of solar collectors, space docks, and artificial moons.
Over eight billion years had passed since its formation, and Earth had not only survived the tests of time—it had ascended beyond them.
At one point, the sun itself, old and fading, threatened to bring an end to the solar system.
But humanity had long shed its dependency on fate.
They reawakened the sun, reforging it into its prime through impossible science and quantum engineering.
Solar instability, black hole threats, and the heat death of the universe itself—humanity had prepared for it all.
Death was no longer inevitable.
Earth, and those who ruled it, had declared war on the universe's natural decay.
