Editing Post-Apocalyptic (section)

=== Asteroid ===
A space rock several kilometers across crashes out of the sky and into the Earth at orbital speed. If it hit's water, it sends tidal waves that wash away cities and flood continents. A shockwave rips across the world, shattering forests and buildings and scorching the landscape. Rocks kicked up in the impact rain down around the world while the planet is rattled like a drum by the impact, resulting in earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. If you survive all that, a dust cloud shrouds the earth, temperatures plunge and photosynthesis basically stops for a few years. Frost, famine and fighting reap many of the survivors leaving only a few pockets of the lucky to weather the storm and emerge into an empty world.

The Astronomical equivalent of [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]] has a lot of fire and fury and it's something which can just fall out of the blue. It happened to the non avian [[Dinosaur]]s 66 million years ago. If you want "everything was going along as normal, then it all went to shit in a split second" few things beat an asteroid. If you want a simple straightforward explanation for why our world came to an end, this is it.
==== Examples ====
* Ace Combat Infinity Timeline
* Rage (video game)
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