Pandora Unleashed Introduction

Introduction

Humanity was one of many species to change the world as we know it. The influence of humanity began slowly as a predator, at the top of the food chain. Like many other species, we learned to use the environment to our advantage. Unlike most other species, we were the first species responsible for its global scale destruction. With the arrival of the industrial revolution, economy destroyed ecology. Growth continued unchecked like a cancer. The world overproduced, the rainforests began dying, global warming became irreversible. With a near-death experience, the human race opened its eyes to its errors and tried in vain to reverse the inevitable. Ecology was to be forever ruined.

In the end, humanity had to change. Everyone knows about the apocalyptic climax, when the world of people ended up divided. Politics, and the irrational craving for wealth, prosperity and economy brought realists against idealists, left against right. There was a great economic depression, that brought blame and shame to the greatest economies of the time. There was overpopulation and shortage of land and water. Religious and secular ideals were rekindled. Diplomacy fell through, Righteousness and equality led to demonstrations, violence, and eventually war. Muslim and communist states supported the cries of the third world and rebelled against the wealthy and powerful first world. It turned out to be the nuclear fallout that radiated the entire face of the earth.

Everyone knows mankind managed to recover from this nightmare. Many qualified people were entitled safety in the deep underground bunkers, including scientists, politicians, religious leaders and others. Humanity had to learn quickly from its first near extinction. The few survivors paved the way to a new ideal of society. Irrational beliefs were now to be seen as cognitive distortions to be disciplined and monitored. Indifference and ignorance to society was not to be tolerated. The economy was to be matched in growth with ecology using a system of sustainable development. The policing of the population and regulation of organisations was to be carried out at maximum potential using technology. Beyond all these, mankind was then to enjoy maximum freedom. This ideal had significant implications through the way challenges were approached, and humanity was prepared for the countless disasters it faced over the next ages.

The survivors, numbering around ten thousand emerged from the bunker after one hundred and seventy years. The wealth of scientific, engineering, economic, constitutional, historical and governmental documents had survived the disaster. Cockroaches were the only eukaryotes to have survived outside on land, and species of bacteria and viruses also survived the radiation and fire exposures. The many lakes and seas were already overpopulated with algae, feeding off the rotten matter of dead fish, sponges and fauna that had surfaced. Most species had survived, either because they were kept in the zoological section of the bunkers, or they were well protected from the poisonous atmostphere. Species that had emerged from the bunker began spreading over the globe, with the direction of ecologists. Planet Earth came to a revolution, and humanity began repopulation and resourcing.

Everyone knows, over the next 250 million years, humanity encountered many other challenges and changes. We learned to terraform Mars to become inhabitable. We survived the greatest ice age only 5 million years later. We diverted an asteroid similar to that which exterminated the dinosaurs, and survived the terrific impact of another. The planet achieved maximum population very quickly, and sustained itself through government strategies of sustainable development.

Residency on land would now be contained in cities of superstructure, each capable of up to 200 million habitants. The non-urbanised land was to be best preserved for agriculture, mineral resources and ecology. The water city of Atlantis was built artificially on the surface of Pacific Ocean, finally populating one billion people.

Everyone knows that the human race began to evolve biologically. In Atlantis, people developed acute metabolism, stronger lungs and pressure resistance for deep sea diving. Eurasians evolved a much larger brain, with emphasis on the cerebral cortex, sensory neurons and hippocampus. The Martians developed infra-red eyesight in combination to the retina, because of the lower sunlight exposure. The lower Martian gravity also caused humans here to evolve smaller physiques and larger brains, transforming this line of humans into a classical “Roswell Area-52” species. The use of genetic engineering was allowed for the further speciation of humanity, solely for purposes of survival and competency using biotechnology. Humans were engineered with bat-radar and dog smell vectors, with optimal career in the police force. Everything from neurotransmitters and hormones could be engineered to give a person ultimate chance in their career. For the first time ever, a species was determining its own evolution. Cloning was forever banned, along with interbreeding of species.

The geography of Earth was forever changed. The continental plate of Africa moved dramatically north, colliding right into Europe, leading to the uplifting of the Mediterranean Sea transforming the Alps into the great Mediterranean mountains, and rotating Eurasia clockwise; rising the United Kingdom and Ireland into high latitude of almost 80^o North, very near the North Pole. The opposite side of Eurasia, being China and South East Asia, rotated south of the equator to join Australia. This left Shanghai on the Tropic of Capricorn. North America shifted east to join South Africa. South America continued further east around southern Africa, to wrap its tail well into the Indian Ocean, and connecting to South East Asia. The Atlantic Ocean had disappeared, and this also closed in the Indian Ocean to become landlocked. The Indian Ocean began drying up with the loss of water greater than its supply from its river basins, leading to a massive salt desert.

The result of the continental drift over the last 250 million years resulted in the formation of a supercontinent, named Gaia, with an extremely dry continental climate in the Arabian section of Eurasia. A 4% increase in the sun’s strength and the moon’s slowing effect on the earth’s daily rotation (now 26 hours), has led to frequent violent hyperstorms along the east coast of Asia. These hyperstorms are the extreme version of hurricanes and typhoons driven by extreme thermally induced air pressure differentials, powering winds up to 300 mph.

Humanity has evolved equilibrium with nature, as most other species do in time. It has become very stable and prosperous, with crime and evil now reduced to almost nothing. There is now one world government, The Earthen Populace. This one world government controls all the subcontinents as member states, such as the Asian Populace and European Populace. There is now constant trade between Earth, the moon, Mars and Jupiter’s moon of Europa. Terraforming and asteroid mining has become very active, with many other projects in the solar system as far as Pluto. The population of Earth is around 20 billion. Mars now has about 3 billion people, and the remaining plantations are now about 1 billion in total.

The people of Earth have survived all types of disaster, from self annihilation to nature’s worst yet. Everyone knows about our evolution over the last 250 million years. With all this, harmony and peace became highly achievable. Everything changes, nothing remains forever.