The Dark Age: The Void Descends

By the laws of humanity, in the early twenty-first century, Earth, the planet that gave birth to life, was about to enter its era. Humanity, now 8.5 billion strong, continued to prosper. But that prosperity came at the cost of Earth's environment collapsing. For humanity, unable to stop the collapse, the arrival of a dark age became an inescapable fate. It sent a plea to distant star systems, hoping to call on outside forces to wipe out all the parasites living on its surface and let life begin evolving anew. Little did it know that it was like a child carrying gold through a crowded marketplace. Few inhabited planets in the universe can evolve human life. Now, news of such a delicacy as humanity had arrived. Who could resist…