THE CENTIPEDE WARS
In the closing days of 2027, as the world drowned itself in festivity, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network detected something abnormal approaching Earth. The object was vast, silent, and menacing. Within hours, satellite alarms blared, and authorities across continents were informed. A nuclear protocol was triggered.
On the eve of January, the operation codenamed Oppression Stone Dust was launched, a joint militarized strike, humanity’s first united nuclear offensive in a century of fractured territorial rivalries. For one brief moment, nations stood together against a common enemy.
I would have loved to say the mission succeeded. But instead, it marked the beginning of the end—the unprecedented fall of the world as we knew it.