Year 59365 An asteroid collides with Earth, removing its tilt and launching tons of space cheese into a far orbit (now known as Minmus) Earth is destroyed. No life remains, Humanity, having colonized the solar system, has fled to the Proxima Centauri system, where it remains on Centauri D then on as the solar system slowly fades away, earth remaining un-inhabitable. 2 billion years later, Earth has recovered, but humanity is long gone, along with any trace of its existence, its rotational period is reduced to 6 hours, the only surviving species are trees, and grass, when a new race pops up, Kerbals. Mars pulls the entire asteroid belt into orbit, forming a large moon. The Oort cloud and Kuiper belt are flung out into interstellar space, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn are absorbed by Jupiter, which also turns green. One of jupiters moons mysteriously gains an oxygen atmosphere and liquid water. Plutos orbit moves inwards. Earth is renamed Kerbin, Mars becomes Duna, Jupiter becomes Jool, mercury becomes Moho and develops strange holes at its poles, Venus turns purple and becomes Eve, the moon becomes the mün, the comet Minmus is capture in Kerbin orbit, and Pluto becomes Eeloo.