Die Nihil

The day of nothingness. A day in which lives in infamy for how it changed the world. It started off very much the same as any other during the last days of the collapse. Armies march off to battle, in the meat grinder of Dalvanberg. Starved Union soldiers barely hanging on for life as the Trident bio-weapon decimated their population. Union civilians running away from the outbreak epicentre. Taking their chances in the baking desert of the Mediterranean salt flats, or the frozen wasteland of eastern Europe.

Victory just over the horizon for the Alliance. After decades of war, victory was finally at hand. Only a few more mouths to a year and the war would be over. Just a few more mouths and the Alliance citizens can finally know peace, can finally stop sending their children off to become cogs in the machine of war.

But the Union wasn't going to leave without given the selfish alliance a parting gift. Something to remember them by. A gift that would mark their legacy, to make sure that there struggle would never be forgotten. So on the 9th of November 2314AD. Far outside Alliance territory, within rift valley in Ethiopia, At 12:00 Time stopped and reality cease to be. Nullius momenti, The moment of nothingness, the moment every person, every animal, every single piece of matter felt true nothingness. To exist in a place were there is no up or down, no left, no right, no black, nor white, no time or space, just pure nothingness.

When reality finally returned, everything seemed normal. The wind still blow, the sun still shined, but everyone on Terra knew that something was different. That something was wrong. It was like a little niggling feeling in the back of everyone's mind. A little thought that chanted that something was wrong, something was different, that something had changed, a feeling that would be past down from generation, to generation.

In the immediate aftermath of Nullius momenti, the world was in chaos. Thousands had died from the effects of Nullius momenti, millions more been made insane. Those that was left only survived by not thinking of what just happened, by pushing that moment into the deepest recesses of their mind. Never to be thought able less they go mad in the face to pure nothingness.

It took till the creation of the UTT in 1865PBM that the full extent of what have happened on Die Nihil to come to light. It was discovered that the Union somehow was able to creak open reality itself. Creating a rift in which everything that is possible, and impossible pours in to the universe. From this rift cracks expands out that lead around the world creating areas where the impossible becomes possible. Though even to this day it is unknown how the Union was able to ripe this hole in the world, nor is it known who did it, the information having been lost to time. Though it is believed that who ever created the hole in reality liked poetic justice, as what better place to create a hole in the universe than the Rift valley, the rift in reality, the birthplace of humanity.