Yup. It was a pretty "rocks fall, everyone dies," situation. The game gave us enough time for us to spirit our own selves and our domiciles into the ether but that was it, everyone else on the planet was essentially utterly boned.

[He used to be able to tell this story with such ease, like he really didn't care. Like it didn't affect him. Really, how much had he ever known about the world to feel attached to it?

And maybe he still doesn't. Mostly, he thinks he feels cheated.]