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infrastructures, including food production and transportation; enormous
direct and indirect human fatalities; and the collapse of law and order.
Their predictions, however, were not met. Instead, an unforeseen effect
resulted which still is not understood: a major imbalance in the local
sector of the underlying creativity matrix. Which was promptly adjusted by
the effective erasure of the still localized universe of the cataclysm, that is,
its morphing into one in which Terra differed from its precursor in some but
by no means all respects. In it, many effects of then-recent Terran history
disappeared, remaining only as more or less vague memories in the
surviving, ethnically redistributed sophonts. Sophonts confused not only
by the new and unexplainable world they found themselves in, but by
vague images of horrors in the spray of stillborn universes, horrors that
never quite happened.
This is the only known case of a reality matrix rebalancing itself in that
manner. Its study gave rise to whole new areas of research, and in time to
the cosmology that today we take for granted.


From the HOLY BIBLE
The Book of Renewal, Chapter 1

1 The second millennium had passed since the birth of the Redeemer, and
the Lord GOD looked at what man had wrought upon the Earth.
2 HE saw the waters and the air fouled, greed rewarded and virtue
scorned.
3 Liars were empowered, their voices entering every home, and their
pictures which moved with the semblance of life.
4 And the cities of man were beset with murderers and thieves, tempters
and corrupters.
5 Great armies there were, and fleets of warships that fared upon the sea
and beneath it, and there were other fleets that flew swiftly in the air. 6
Still other fleets flew above the air, and these were the most terrible, for
they had in them such power that a single one of them could destroy a
great city and all its people, and poison whole regions of the Earth.
7 And even as HE watched, GOD saw the armies of man move and clash
upon the Earth; the fleets on and under the seas destroyed each other;
and the fleets that flew in the air wrought havoc upon all they flew over.
8 Then those other fleets took flight which flew above the air. 9 And when
they came to earth, the walls of the cities fell as less than rubble; fire and
great winds reaped the people like mighty scythes; the sun was masked
with blood and the moon hid its face; days became like nights; myriad
were the dead, and loud the cries and lamentations.
10 And the Earth in its sorrow was cold beneath the pall of Death, so that
the corn did not grow; hay rotted in the windrows and potatoes in the
ground.
11 And the armies of man were without rule, sacking and killing, and the
children of man were without bread. 12 Pestilence and famine spread
across the face of the Earth, even pestilence that was sent not by GOD
but by the hand of man, so that few remained of man's multitudes. 13 And
bands of the wicked wandered the waste place the Earth had become,