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The world is facing an economic crisis. The final drops of the planet's oil reserves are fiercely fought over, with prices skyrocketing. Up to this point the world's scientists had been unable to come up with a true alternative power source. Nuclear reactors were far too unreliable and dangerous. Solar power was much too weak. Alternative oil sources such as biofuel required more energy to produce than they provided. Even hydrogen fuel was a dead end.

There was only one remaining source of power that could provide the energy the world needed. Sometime in 2197, the world's scientists finally cracked the code to nuclear fission. The fission reactors were so powerful, that one reactor was enough to power an entire continent. It was seen as the saving grace for humanity. The world's countries joined together and worked to rebuild the power infrastructure to make use of this new discovery.

Everything was wonderful for a number of years. The reactors ran clean, the fuel was plentiful, and the system continued to meet the growing needs of the world. But then the reactors' output reached a ceiling. Scientists immediately went back to work to discover why no matter how much fuel was added to the reaction, it would not output any further power. Work continued, while the governments considered the possibility of needing to build more reactors, at a prohibitively high cost.

It didn't take long until one brilliant scientist devised a method of creating multiple fusion reactions at the same time inside the reactor. It was retrofitted to the reactor, and everything seemed to be fine. After a short while, the retrofit was added to all the other reactors of the world as well.

Long story short, that retrofit lead to the catastrophe. We're not quite sure exactly what happened from this point on, but apparently it caused an uncontrollable fusion reaction to occur. It began to devour everything around it, like something out of a sci-fi movie. One by one the reactors failed. The world was in panic, as everything was swallowed up by these out-of-control fusion reactions.

The governments and scientists worked together and came up with one last idea to stop the reactions. Using the few remaining nuclear weapons, they were fired at the fusion reactions. Everyone knew it would result in devastation, but it was deemed necessary in order to save the Earth from being removed from existence, devoured by these man-made suns. It seemed fate had played a cruel joke on us; we were about to bring ourselves into a nuclear winter, not because of war, but for survival.

The nuclear weapons worked as planned. They counteracted the fusion reaction, puffing it out similar to how a flame dies without oxygen. Hot mass and radiation exploded for over a thousand miles in every direction, on every continent. In a matter of days, the world's population dropped from 9 billion to 150 million.

The world leaders (those that survived) met together, joining together and appointing a new world government. Everything that survived the explosion was gathered together in the one place that seemed to have survived the most, New York. The high-rise buildings protected the city in a way the rest of the world could not have been. Over the next few years, an immense dome was built over the city, and it was revitalized. The entire world's population was moved inside the dome. Inside, a new fusion reactor (without the retrofit) was created, the last remaining power source of humanity.

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Skip forward a few hundred years. The dome city, dubbed City Eternal, was thriving. Humanity had survived the worst disaster they'd ever seen. As our technology progressed, scientists discovered ways to revitalize the planet, to make it inhabitable again. Many reports about new "Geo Reformation" projects were made. However, nothing was ever seen of these projects. It was as if it was all a lie, but no one would dare question it. After all, what reason would the city have for lying, a city that up to this point had been peaceful and prosperous?

Of course, this is where my story begins.