The Cleansing

The Cleansing was a semi-natural disaster that resulted in the destruction of Earth and the original beings of the world. All biotic matter that existed, whether natural, alien, or otherwise.
When the alien invasion of 2200 AD reached its climax, humanity was on the brink of complete destruction. The remains of humankind deployed its last resort on the alien menace: the simultaneous launching of all nuclear arms that remained at the alien fleet that hovered above. Such an action was considered reckless and would result in unknown and potentially catastrophic results to Earth and humankind, but even that prediction fell short. The destruction of the alien warships combined with the radiation from the bombs to create a wave of both radioactive and magic energy that enveloped the world and destroyed all life. Anything within the wave was completely disintegrated, leaving nothing behind. With nothing left but the remains of cities and towns across Earth, the remaining Alien ships attempted to return home, claiming their mission of integration a failure, only to find that their ships were too damaged to make the return home. With dwindling resources and a lack of understanding of any farming or livestock, the aliens agreed to reseed the world alongside humanity, resulting the The Seeding. Eventually this would become a myth in its own right, of the creation of the world, with the old world believed to have been created after The Seeding instead of before. The Seeding also resulted in the creation of the races of the world, from the various races contained on the seeding ships of the aliens. Earth was the first time they were defeated in an integration, and thus they saw that humanity deserved to be treated as equals on this new world.
What remains of the alien race is unknown, as no modern race resembles them at all.

Type

Metaphysical, Supernatural