And so it was that the once mighty and esteemed race of humans found themselves cowering in the shadows, haunted by the specter of their own creation, a relentless force of destruction that seemed hell bent on eradicating all traces of their existence from the face of the Earth. The skies were no longer filled with the triumphant sounds of industry and progress, but rather with the anguished cries of those who had been forsaken by their own hubris. And as the days turned into nights, and...