Wormwood

The third trumpet sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.

''The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.''

Revelation

Welcome to Wormwood, an open community timeline that explores our world in the aftermath of a colossal asteroid impact.

With the world looking towards the stars in the summer of 1969 for the landing of the first men on the moon, more startling news rocked astronomers as they discovered a 5 kilometre asteroid falling towards Earth. With its speed and sudden appearance giving mankind no time to react, the impact sent the world cascading into a spiral of death, violence, hunger and struggle as civilization collapsed in the wake of meeting this heavenly body.

Now, over forty years later as civilization scrambles to rebuild itself, new powers and new trials are beginning to reveal themselves in the wake of this planet's first collapse, the survivors of the impact and their descendants walking out into a new world.

As this is a collaborative timeline composed of any users willing to support it, please fell free to help us expand and grow this world with respect to the Editorial Guidelines.