Fanatics · Zero Tolerance

Just one more war was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Mankind’s patience with religion finally ran out. It was time to draw a line in the sand; time for Humanity to grow up; time to begin showing religion zero tolerance.

No-one could be sure, of course, just which set of religiously-motivated nutcases detonated the first bomb; but by the time the fallout had begun to settle, everyone knew that they were sick and tired of religion and the conflict and bigotry that inevitably trailed along in its wake. Tolerance didn’t work.

But the real disaster was not what they thought it was. It was something worse, something no mad scientist, evil magician or hellfire preacher could have dreamed up; it approached silently, stealthily, a cataclysm so bizarre and subtle that the victims would mistake themselves for survivors…