He doesn't respond immediately, his eyes on the swirling of the sors without actually seeing the swirling of the sors.
Eventually, with sort of measured, formal motions he says, Six hundred years in my world's past there was a plague. We refer to it as the Apocalypse plague, because it was. Ninety-nine out of every hundred people died, either from the Pathogen itself or in the chaos caused by the pandemic. We went from a planetary population of almost ten billion people to less than a hundred million in a span of less than 20 years.
The population has grown a lot since that happened, but compared to most every other world I've learned about since I arrived here, my planet is empty. It's a big planet, but it's a small, small world.
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Eventually, with sort of measured, formal motions he says, Six hundred years in my world's past there was a plague. We refer to it as the Apocalypse plague, because it was. Ninety-nine out of every hundred people died, either from the Pathogen itself or in the chaos caused by the pandemic. We went from a planetary population of almost ten billion people to less than a hundred million in a span of less than 20 years.
The population has grown a lot since that happened, but compared to most every other world I've learned about since I arrived here, my planet is empty. It's a big planet, but it's a small, small world.