This is the story of Earth from now until the events of Starbound. This timeline does not show Earth being destroyed, but instead Humans becoming the dominant race. From 2018 until 4000

As the ground erupted beneath Garrett Praxen's sleeping form one evening, he was thrust into terror as the screams dug into his ears profoundly around him. Now drifting in a ruined shuttle above an unknown planet, Garrett must not only learn how to survive, but deal with the very real possibility that he's the last Protector alive - and with no Matter Manipulator to aid him.