Impact 1908

On approximately April 3, 1893, a massive meteor impact sent two two-mile wide asteroids, named Mors and Thanatos respectively, hurdling towards Earth. Astronomers on the ground, having only days to react, predicted that Mors would impact in northern China, and that Thanatos would impact in western Brasil. On April 14, 1893, Mors and Thanatos impacted the earth. Mors did not impact Northern China, but near Novosibirsk, Russia. Thanatos split in half in the atmosphere, the first half impacting off the coast of French Guiana and the other impacting just west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Although the meteors did not cause as wide-spread destruction as the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, the ash cloud and the ensuing collapse of civil order would do the earth in.

In North America, with the meteor's pressure destroying Washington D.C. and other major cities within the blast radius, the American government fell apart. The line of presidential succession fell on the Secretary of Agriculture, Julius Morton, who decided to travel north with his family to Concord, New Hampshire. Morton was not alerted of his new position until December 1895, when the provisional government in Charlotte, North Carolina finally sent a messenger to alert him. Morton traveled to Charlotte to assume his position within the next month. Unbeknownst to the provisional government, new sovereign states were popping up west of the Mississipi.

In South America, after the tsnumani and ash cloud began devestating civil order in western South America, Peru began strengethening its government presence in order to keep the country together. Due to the wind after the blast going north towards North America, much of the ash did not reach Peru. However, Brasil, had collapsed and balkanized into incredibly unpowerful states, some of them with still functioning farmland. Peru took the liberty of invading and annexing many of the farmland states, cementing them in the South American geopolitical landscape.

In Africa, Sokoto had a wieght lifted. The ash cloud from Mors had engulfed Europe, removing its colonial influence from the caliphate. With Sokoto free, the government focused on regaining its lost power, not knowing what had occured in the rest of the world.

In Europe, France, Germany, and Italy were slowly collapsing under their own weight. Spain was next on the list, with the ash cloud enveloping the north before spreading out towards the Atlantic. In the South, the Catalans, who had once been under harsh Spanish rule, seceded as their own nation. Free of the horrors of the ash cloud, Catalonia prospered (at least in relation to the rest of Europe) at the time)

In Asia, the Empire of Japan found out by telegram late in the year that Great Qing had fragmented, leaving the north in the dust while the ash cloud devestated the farm land. Japan began colonizing the northeast of China and Korea, straying away from the ash cloud in the distance.