Collapsed
Both words in one sentence
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Again from Lukyanenko, the State in his Seekers of the Sky duology is descended from the Roman Empire that has never collapsed in this Alternate History.
Source: The Empire - The empires in EVE Online are all descended from various Terran colonists who arrived to New Eden before the wormhole connecting the cluster and Earth collapsed.
Source: Culture Chop Suey -
Downer Ending: When he travels even further into the future he finds that even the Morlock civilization eventually collapsed, civilization never recovered, and the only human-descended animal he can find is a rabbit analogue.
Source: Literature / The Time Machine
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