Apophis Event

On January 5th of 2021 the until then unsubscribed Arjuna asteroid, later named Apophis passed exceptionally close to the Earth nearly destroying modern civilization. This shocked great many billions of Earthers, their nation-states and a consortium of the billionaire elite that came to be called the Exodus Group. A hysteria gripped planet as humans became fixated on the idea of a celestial apocalypse, this fever pushed humanity outwards from their planet in mad rush onto Luna, and Mars. The Apophis Event is widely considered by most modern historians to be one of the most important factors that contributed to the first settlement of the solar system in the early twenty-first century along with the Sino-American Cold War.