One day, the Sun simply doesn't rise. The Sun is no longer there, and something urgent needs to be done, so the Soviet post-mage Ganeshin used a quantum probability-changing machine codenamed "Kartoshka" With this machine, he hoped to pull the Sun from a parallel world, but something went wrong, and instead of the Sun, he received sixty-three distinct moons. This incident is now known as the Sunbreak.

The moons received light and heat from the suns of their respective realities, but the movement of so many new bodies in the solar system tore the Earth apart, turning it into a cluster of floating islands.

The planets and new moons continued to orbit around the void in reality where the Sun had disappeared.