![]() In it, the people of EmberĮvacuate the underground city and find a village of people living on the surface. UPDATE: The second book - The People of Sparks - reveals quite a bit more about what happened. Possibilities include an asteroid collision, a new ice age, or a prolonged conflict (either featuring unknown technology or perhaps against aliens). This rules out most natural disasters and any kind of nuclear war or doomsday device. This indicates the air on the surface was still safe.įrom this evidence, we can narrow it down to something that they saw coming ahead of time, would only affect the surface, and the effects of which would only last a couple of centuries. The city did not have any kind of air filtration system (as far as we know), only a ventilation system. Then again, we don't know where precisely the city is located at - it could conceivably be in one of the few locations that aren't susceptible to such activity. The city's residents would be safe underground, which may rule out earthquakes or any sort of heavy tectonic activity.This rules out any kind of heavy radiation, which would take several centuries to decay. The world was expected to recover within 200 years. ![]() The Builders had several years' notice, which they used to plan & build the underground city. The original book only refers to "impending disaster", but we can make some educated guesses based on the evidence: Neither the book nor the movie specify what disaster befell the world. As revealed in the second book, there were a series of plagues & wars that ravaged mankind. ![]()
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