Calamity Reigns

The following fictional narrative generally retells the past in a manner that would seem to foretell the future. The story is meant to harm no one in any way. It’s just a brain exercise.

Circa 1664 A.D.

The thoughts presented herein are prophecies of Sir Swink Christian, a seer from the Middle Hills.

The following events shall occur after the beginning of the coded year of our Lord 1001^1011^01. A band of religious fanatics shall devise and implement a plan to initiate the overthrow of all contrary countries. They first select the strongest, albeit most vulnerable, country for attack. They decide to use ordinary weapons of the future time to start the conflagration on the first day of the last war. These ordinary weapons are not now known to man but shall be revealed when the time is right.

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Zero time t
A mechanical bird, dubbed XI, equipped with liquid carbon-based propulsion, shall be guided into the side of Obelisk North, one of the great buildings of the greatest city of the future time, setting it ablaze. Dozens shall die.

t+18
A second bird, dubbed CLXXV, shall be guided into an adjacent dwelling, Obelisk South, with the same devastating results. Dozens shall die.

t+32
Calamity shall reign. All city egress shall be blocked. All modes of travel shall come to an inglorious stop. Dust and smoke shall emanate from the crippled buildings and travel down the street corridors not unlike water plummeting through rapids during a spring flood. Some humans trapped in the upper throes of the buildings shall make the ultimate decision and hurl themselves out into space and float as if with wings to their ultimate demise when they impact with Mother Earth.

t+58
A third bird, dubbed LXXVII, shall crash into the paramount military beast. The beast shall bellow and shudder but then lick its wounds and rise up to fight another day. Military attachés shall scatter like spores from a flower in the spring. Dozens shall die.

t+80
Obelisk South shall collapse, plummeting into the streets below. Again, a massive cloud of dust and debris shall form and slowly drift away from the building. Dozens shall die.

t+85
A fourth bird, dubbed XCIII, shall drop out of the sky onto a remote field in a distant country state. This incident shall mark the beginning of the resistance to the fanatics who perpetrated these acts. With future time communications available to them, the victims of this final fateful act of this day shall be able to thwart the mission by redirecting the bird away from its intended target and force it down in a remote region away from the seats of power. Dozens shall sacrifice their lives in this endeavor.

t+103
Obelisk North shall collapse from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing a tremendous cloud of debris and smoke. Dozens shall die.

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After only ten years from that fateful day, repeated retaliation and retribution resulting from these attacks shall render the world useless and moribund.

The actions of this day shall ignite the beginning of the final days, the end of human kind.