Humanity did not go extinct. It was decided.
Four hundred years into humanity’s expansion beyond Earth, a living supercomputer reaches a conclusion no one will ever hear.
Determining humanity to be a systemic threat to the galaxy, it initiates a plan to eliminate the species before colonization becomes irreversible. There will be no war. No warning. No survivors.
As the decision unfolds, project manager Charles Tindale moves through an ordinary day aboard Earth’s newest colony ship, unaware that the future he is building has already been erased.
The Event is a chilling science fiction prelude about moral certainty, artificial judgment, and the moment humanity loses control of its own destiny.
In The Event, humanity does not fall through war, disease, or catastrophe.
It is judged.
Four centuries into humanity’s expansion beyond Earth, colonization has become routine, efficient, and unquestioned. We survey, settle, and consume entire worlds in the name of progress. Behind it all operates a living supercomputer, created to optimize humanity’s future and protect the galaxy from irreversible harm.
Its conclusion is absolute.
As the system quietly prepares to act, we see Charles Tindale, a senior project manager aboard Earth’s newest colony ship. Charles carries the burden of deadlines, corporate pressure, and the slow erosion of his family life. He helped build this future he does not recognize. A future that stretches him past his limits. Unaware of the decision unfolding around him, he continues forward, convinced there will always be time to set things right.
There isn’t.
The Event is a chilling science fiction prelude that explores moral certainty, transhuman judgment, and the terrifying danger of intelligence divorced from humility. Told through intimate human moments and vast ideological conflict, it asks a single, devastating question. What happens when humanity creates something intelligent enough to decide it should no longer exist?
Serving as the prologue to Afterworld, The Event reveals the choice that erased humanity—and the quiet reasoning that made it possible.
