The Gaia Rewilding Initiative for Pre-Holocene Restoration, which led to the 22nd century Global Cooling Event was the final man-made attempt at preempting a full-scale ecological disaster on the planet Earth. The Initiative was a resounding success as it was used to cool the temperatures of the planet back to pre-Industrial Age norms and end climate change. After a few hundred years, the planet Earth returned to a state more consistent with pre-technological levels. However, human recolonization of the Earth was impossible at this time as the species was no longer located within the Solar System. Several hundreds of thousands of years later, the crew of the Phoenix visited the Solar System only to discover much of the system abandoned. Though plant and animal life had returned to thrive o