It was over before anyone even noticed.
DEFINITION/SUMMARY:
Idiom: “fall like dominoes”
- To fall sequentially, one object in a line, falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.
- The process can be repeated an indefinite number of times
- Expression meaning the first action or mistake causing a series of actions or mistakes to happen afterwards
EXPANDED INFO:
In reference to SIVA as marked on the ships wing
SIVA
- A Golden Age breakthrough in self-assembling, self-replicating nanotechnology
- Created by Clovis Bray to accelerate humanity’s colonization effort
- The technology was to be used to create new structures and colonies on new worlds
- Later discovered by the Iron Lords during the early City Age
- It was used against them with the aid of the last Warmind, Rasputin, when they tried to steal SIVA in their attempt to better humanity
- After being sealed away by Lord Saladin for many years the Fallen House of Devils found it and took it to be the perfection of technology
- They sought to perfect themselves entirely, freeing them from their dependency on their life source ether and became The Devil Splicers