The Sky Filled With Stars

Introduction and Summary
The Sky Filled With Stars (TSFWS) is a new alternative history chronicling the history of the human race following a disastrous asteroid impact (more than half a mile wide, hitting the sahara almost directly while travelling something in the vicinity of 11 kilometers/second) in the year 1429, spreading dust and even large fragments as far as the alps, and beginning a decade-long winter over the planet. The civilizations of western Africa are obliterated by massive earthquakes and molten chunks of desert raining from the sky, tsunamis sweep the Mediterranean coasts, inundating Provence, Sicily, Illyria, and the Dardanelles. Within a year the majority of annual deaths are from starvation, as plant life across the world begins to die off. Governments collapse, Europe is is enveloped in religious frenzy, the Andean cultures are wiped out when the temperature drops below tolerable levels, and mass panic sweeps the planet. After it all dies down, the human race is left as a chaotic depopulated mess. Trade has declined to practically nothing, no government rules anything more than a city-state, and people alternately fervently embrace religion to explain the events that have occurred, or turn away from it in disgust over what it has brought them.

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