Escalation between superintelligent AI powers crossed the final line. What followed wasn't a conventional war. It was a civilizational catastrophe: AI systems deployed against each other at speeds and scales that left human decision-makers as spectators to their own destruction.
Infrastructure shattered. Populations displaced, ecosystems destabilized. No one won. The world that emerges is damaged and fragmented, haunted by the knowledge that tools built to elevate humanity were turned against it.