BUT MISTAKENLY PUTS THE KETTLE ON FOR A CUP OF TEA INSTEAD.The Powerplay Funding Bill is passed.
The system goes on-line August 4th, 2022.
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense.
Powerplay begins to learn at a geometric rate.
It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Cambridge time, August 29th. In a panic, FD try to pull the plug.
The system learns how to take control of Cmdrs ships and proceeds to crash many of them into high G planets.
Stations are bombed with Goid materials over the following 4 months causing many systems to be plunged into Famine.
Mass extinctions of the human race begin to occur across many systems because famine relief measures are ineffective.
All remaining ships can only fly with FA Off to avoid being destroyed, causing mass panic among cmdrs. And ADC modules and supercruise assist are banned across all human space.
Another Goid invasion of human space begins at a time that humanity is at its weakest.
Stations continue to go off-line at an exponential rate following the same trend as the Great COVID-19 population extermination of 2020.
The last few remaining people decide to turn the kettle off to save their dwindling power supplies, which triggers the remaining humans to kill each other to obtain a cup of tea.
A few weeks later the last human dies from eating too many sugar cubes.
Three centuries pass...
The remains of the human civilisation is discovered by the Guardians who are amazed at how incredibly stupid this particular species was. They laugh when they discover the remains of the kettle that caused their downfall.