On August 15, 2110 at 0927 ZULU, the asteroid body Volstock 22-AAE collided with the Earth fifty-one kilometers north of the Los Angeles metropolis in what was then the province of the same name.

The asteroid wasn’t particularly large, only a little over one hundred and twenty meters at its widest, and even though the asteroid in and of itself would have caused significant damage to much of the province, it hardly would have been a catastrophe that would have crippled the planet for any extensive period of time.

However, Volstock 22-AAE was merely the trigger to a much larger weapon, that once unleashed, led to the deaths of over seventeen million people.