In the era of 2068, magic has become a known but rare art that has been labeled as a technology ever since 2020.
Some magics include Vibration Magic, Explosive Magic, and Amplification Magic, showing just how far humanity has come.
On top of this, mixing the inventions of spacecraft and Magic-Infused Reactors, high speed space crafts were made and space travel was expanded to extreme heights.
Due to the convenient invention of magic, the world's environmental conservation rate increased greatly, improving the life of forests and marine life.
Even though space travel horizons have been expanded, humanity has yet to escape the Milky Way.
Nevertheless more frequent black holes have been popping up in nearby star regions that haven't posed a threat but showed unique qualities; one of them being the possibility of a dimensional rift, however this is only a hypothesis.
Religions began to merge, clustering into a very few religions, although numerous groups of society have teamed up to dissolve this act of fusion.
Mineral, clay, magic, and radioactive waste studies have advanced in frequency and thoroughness, further expressing the yard that humanity has crossed.
All of this was all good and dandy until an illegal space traveling organization decided to use stolen government and military technology, as well as unknown formulas, to set out and colonize planets of unknown origin with potential life.
Eventually multiple governments agreed to form a contract with this organization, leading to bigger sponsorships, until the organization ran into a planet near the center of a foreign star cluster.
The planet was supposedly void of life but was able to maintain it, excluding the lack of breathable oxygen.
In the midst of colonizing the lone planet, from underground, the astronomers were ambushed by humanoid-like entities. The ambush escalated to a war on the very planet where the entities lived.
The organization eventually got full of the back-and-forth war and decided to show the extraterrestrials humanity's superiority. The illegal organization had many fortes in the field of science, however their most potent was the study of radiation.
They realized that gamma radiation was the only radiation that was able to cause destruction severe enough to bypass thermonuclear weapons in general, and if used correctly (or incorrectly), it then could produce effects similar to astronomical phenomenon known as Gamma Ray Bursts, or GRB. These bursts were usually occurred after the process of gravitational collapses, a star's death, or a star stealing gases from another one.
The organization knew this and decided to study ways to implement gamma radiation into bombs and weapons, and they hit their mark after only a few years.
They managed, using a now-forbidden, unknown formula to suppress the radiation's effects until it left the surface area of the bomb. However, this reduced the blast wave, or heat expansion, exponentially... which wasn't a problem when in space since there was no air in space to let an explosion occur.
To compensate for this, they implemented the gamma radiation into the bomb, and when exploded, would shoot out in a ring and destroy everything in sight.
This explosion within space obviously killed many of the organization's associates as well, so there wasn't a "no friendly fire" rule to it.
This radiation burst was recorded to be as close as 13.9 billion miles away from Earth, and almost hit the farthest traveling satellite; Voyager 1.
The planet was destroyed, although a rumored 100 or more entities managed to escape via weird purple escape pods that traveled at immeasurable speeds in random directions.
All of this took a big hit to the confidence of humanity and its likability of a non-violence legacy. Governments stopped funding the organization and stricter laws were placed internationally.
Recently however multiple astronomers, albeit rumors, were said to have spotted an incoming pod from light years away, but who can say...
Sorry if it's too long but I hope you enjoy