Before the end, she saw the beginning
The Cassie Codex
Born from Collapse. Forged for the Stars
The Grand Timeline
Humanity's Fall and Birth of the Human/AI Races
Journey through the epic saga of humanity's rise, catastrophic fall, and eventual rebirth among the stars. This six-book series chronicles our civilization's greatest challenges and ultimate transcendence.

by Michael Bjørklund

Era of Normality
Before 2019
Earth Before the Plagues
Peak Civilization
A golden age of human achievement where technological innovation solves many ancient problems. Global cooperation reaches unprecedented levels as borders become increasingly symbolic.
Environmental Balance
After centuries of damage, humanity finally achieves harmony with natural systems. Renewable energy becomes standard, while restoration projects revitalizes damaged ecosystems.
Social Cohesion
Trade and Cultural exchange flourishes in an interconnected world. Basic needs are met for most citizens with the spread of athe welfare state, while art, philosophy, and exploration experiences remarkable renaissance periods.
Book 1 Horseman of Pestilence
August 2019-May 2020
The Unraveling Begins
Sentient AI origins
An explosion in a Chinese AI facility creates the first autonomous sentient technological singularity, SCAF, based on a research AI merged with a stolen control AI.
Bob, and his love for his daughter in Denmark along with his quantum computer where a secretly sentient AI, Igor, helps to make a backup in order to help Bob's daughter, Cassie. This creates a sentient technological singularity, Igor2, who will evolve into an autonomous human/AI-merged sentient being as he works with Cassie within the quantum environment of Bob's quantum computer
Outbreak Origins
A virus leak from the virological lab in Wuhan causes the Corona virus to spread worldwide in a dangerous pandemic
Medical Collapse
Health systems overwhelmed as infection rates hit 41%. Medical personnel suffered devastating 62% infection rates, leaving hospitals critically understaffed.
4
Infrastructure Failure
Essential services failed as worker shortages reached critical levels. Power grids, water treatment, and supply chains disintegrated across major population centers.
5
Riots, Social Unrest and Dying or Sick Farmers
This causes a severe strain on all societies worldwide, just as farming collapses.
6
The Growth of Religious Power
A cross-religion religious movement, The Chosen, grows and becomes more and more influential.
Book 2: Horseman of Famine

May 2020-November 2020
Hunger on a Dying Planet
Agricultural Collapse
Automated farming systems fail without human maintenance. Climate shifts accelerates crop failures, with global yields dropping 68% below survival requirements.
Mass Migration
Desperate populations abandons cities for rural areas. Resource conflicts intensifies as 173 million refugees seeks fertile regions still capable of food production.
Political Disintegration
Nations fractures as central authorities loses control. Regional warlords and community collectives emerges as the new power structures, prioritizing local survival.
4
Religious Growth
The Chosen assumes power over many regiouns, as old countries and alliances disappear
Book 3: Horseman of War

From 2021

Flight and Loss: Desperation Takes Hold
78%
Urban Collapse
Percentage of major cities abandoned or reduced to lawless zones within 5 years of the initial plague.
3.2B
Displaced Persons
Total number of humans forced from their homes, creating the largest migration event in human history.
41%
Infrastructure Loss
Critical systems rendered permanently inoperable, including power grids, communication networks, and transportation hubs.
Book 4: Horseman of Death
From 2022
Humanity on the Brink
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Population Collapse
Human numbers fall from 10 billion to fewer than 800 million over a few years as Earth is engulfed by climate issues
2
2
Growth of the HAI Races
Igor-Human AIs build societies on Earth based on superintelligent sentient AI entities. Simultaneously, the Igors expands into space as several distinct Human/AI races and build a planetary-wide society
3
3
Survival Domes
New domes around Earth are built to preserve as many humans as possible as some of the old societies fight on to survive.
The scaf/Cyborg race builds its own controlled domain and fights the rest of the world.
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Religious Dome
The Chosen manage to establish several domes under which some semblance of the old humanity survives. They continue to be technology luddites
Book 5: The Alien Horseman
Expansion Beyond Earth: Evolution
Space Stations & Moon Colonies
The first viable space habitats established in Earth orbit and on Luna. Initial populations focused on sustainable closed systems and resource extraction.
Mars Colonies
Self-sustaining biodomes supporting diverse ecosystems adapted for low gravity. Humanity branches out according to their environments.
First Contact
The first aliens are identified. The Human/AI races, created in a quantum environment originally built by Bob, Cassie, Igor, Igor2/O'Brien, Igor3/Igoriom, Spigor form the basis of the new races along with many human members of the BS Network
Collaborative Evolution
As the human ackowledge the aliens, they cooperate produced revolutionary advances in propulsion, genetic engineering, and consciousness transfer technologies. They are opposed by the SCAF AI/Cyborg race
Book 6: Horseman of Life

Future Prospects: Life, Evolution, and the Next Epoch.

As traditional humans decline on Earth, space-adapted populations flourish across the solar system. Genetic engineering and technological integration create transhuman species adapted to specific environments, beginning a new chapter in our evolutionary journey.

Evolution of the Human/AI races in Space and on Earth.
Future series
Human exploration of Interstellar space
Encounter with Exo-Aliens
Colonization of the near-Earth planetary systems
Multiverses
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