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We are used to thinking that catastrophes come from outside — meteorites, epidemics, barbarians at the gates. But the year 1177 BC proves the opposite: civilization can kill itself simply by becoming too efficient. In fifty years, forty-seven out of fifty-two major cities of the Eastern Mediterranean disappeared. Not by the sword. From famine caused by the breakdown of trade chains. Tin stopped coming from Afghanistan — and armies were left without bronze weapons. Grain did not arrive from Egypt — and a migration of peoples began that crushed empires like houses of cards. The Hittites, the Mycenaeans, Ugarit — everything that seemed eternal burned in one generation. Archaeologists find a layer of ash one meter thick. A meter of compressed ash — that is when not a city burns. An epoch burns.

Today, sixty-one percent of world trade goes through three straits. Ninety percent of microchips are produced on one island. In 2021, a container ship got stuck in Suez for six days — damage fifty-four billion dollars. Now imagine: not six days, but fifty years. This is exactly what happened in the Bronze Age. And the scariest part — the strongest did not survive. Marginals survived: lone Phoenicians, Israelite nomads, Dorian shepherds. Those who did not depend on the system. Because when the system collapsed, palaces burned, and scribes died — they had nothing to lose. The question is not whether the collapse will repeat. The question is — can you survive without the system you rely on every day.

Invictus remembers what civilization chose to forget.