The Next Five Centuries

Event · disaster

The Grey Year

A VEI-7 eruption cools the planet for two years.

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The Grey Year (2371). A VEI-7 eruption in 2371 cools the planet for two years and causes the worst harvests since the Long Heat. Parasol critics call it nature's own aerosol; everyone else calls it a warning.

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