Meteor Showers

First Meteor Shower (Feb. 6th, 2077 AD)
In May of 2076 AD, a team of Chinese astronomers discovered a massive comet on course to collide with Earth, and warned the world's leaders. Early calculations projected the 9 kilometer comet would strike somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean with enough impact to cause an extinction event. Seven months after the discovery, NASA launched a nuclear missile which struck the comet and blew it into many smaller pieces. Unfortunately, although the largest fragments were less than a kilometer in diameter, much of the debris still entered Earth's atmosphere, and on the evening of February 6th, 2077 AD, a meteor shower struck the eastern and central United States, parts of Canada, and the western Atlantic Ocean, causing a tremendous amount of damage. Several U.S. cities were devastated and many lives were lost.

Geological analysis of the meteorites revealed several new elements previously unknown to humankind, and led to many technological advancements. Sometime prior to 2089 AD, a secretive organization named Dekara Technologies acquired a large supply of the meteorite material and began construction on a transdimensional portal, the activation of which on June 11th, 2089 caused the catastrophic Chronostasis event.