The Cascade Failure began at 0347 hours Coalition Standard Time, when the first reality anchor—a crystallized fragment of stable existence that had held the fabric of local space-time together since the Great Sundering—simply ceased to believe in its own necessity.
Reality Anchor Station Omega-7 had been humanity's greatest achievement in post-apocalyptic engineering: a massive structure that used conscious will to maintain physical laws in a region where physics had become more suggestion than rule. For three centuries, it had been operated by the Keepers of Continuity, beings who had dedicated their existence to maintaining the stubborn insistence that reality should remain real.
