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* In the live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film, Cybertron was destroyed in the Autobot[=/=]Decepticon war and they search for the Allspark in order to rebuild it.

-->-- '''{{Tagline}} for ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'''''

* A common situation in the ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' series.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', the Autobots evacuate Cybertron as it has run out of Energon to support life.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', the Autobots and Decepticons fled Cybertron when it became unsuitable to support them.
*** ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' shows how it happened, and ''VideoGAme/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' centers on said exodus.

* A staple of the ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' series.
** In Generation 1, the Autobot evacuate Cybertron as it has run out of Energon to support life.

*** A robot allows [[spoiler:a radioactive chain reaction which will slowly poison Earth]], forcing the population to expand out into space.

* ''[=SteamWorld=] Dig 2'' features a minor character in the HubCity building an escape rocket because of the ominous quakes going on during the game. By the end of the game, the main character Dorothy and the townsfolk have to board the rocket to escape the [[EarthShatteringKaboom exploding planet]], along with rockets built by other towns. This establishes the new status quo for ''VideoGame/SteamWorldHeist'', another game set later in the same universe which was released before ''Dig 2''.

* ''Radio/DimensionX'''s "[[Recap/DimensionX40DwellersInSilence Dwellers in Silence]]": Earth was evacuated on June 18, 1987 in the aftermath of the Earth Wars. By this time, the radioactive dust cloud had already encompassed UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and was heading west. The comparatively few survivors settled on Mars.

* ''Anime/TowardTheTerra'' is set in an unspecified timeframe after humanity caused Earth's entire ecosystem to collapse and become uninhabitable. By the time of the series only the government even knows the location of Earth. The whole goal of the Mu is to return there and establish a new safe haven for themselves outside the reach of the government. [[spoiler: When they finally find it it's revealed that all the intervening time has been spent by the government secretly trying to undo the damage and make it habitable once again - a painstakingly slow process.]]

* In the RTS ''{{VideoGame/Earth 2150}}'', this is the ultimate goal of all three factions, on account of the imminent Earth-Shattering Kaboom. Throughout the campaigns, you not only have to complete missions to cripple your rivals, but stockpile your excess resources in order to build a colony ship to carry you to another world before the countdown expires. According to the sequel, all three endings are canonical, which is strange given that it was clearly stated in ''Earth 2150'' that there weren't enough resources to evacuate every faction. The ''Lost Souls'' expansion does indicate that a good number of people were left behind, though, and had to find alternative means of escape.

** As Thane Krios explains during his conversaions in VideoGame/MassEffect2, the drell were rescued from an overpopulated homeworld by the hanar sometime prior to the first game. Although only about 300,000 managed to be saved, these remaining drell [[IOweYouMyLife felt indebted enough to the hanar to work as their agents, laborers and assassins]], of their own free will. The only downside is that moving to the hanar homeworld, Kahje, has had terrible effects on their health due to evolving on an arid world, while Kahje is a very humid world where 90% of the planets surface is covered in ocean. This has resulted in many drell suffering from a respitory disease known as Kepral's Syndrome. Though Thane does mention that the hanar have recently begun a research program to both cure the disease and genetically adapt the drell to Kahje's enviroment.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': ''Endwalker'' reveals that one of the backup plans for handling [[spoiler:the Final Days bringing an apocalypse upon the world]] is to evacuate large portions of the global population [[spoiler:to the moon, which is actually a giant spaceship, and fly through space in search of another planet with suitably high aetheric density]]. A substantial chunk of the 6.0 main story revolves around how much effort various characters should put into this plan, since any effort put into ''fleeing'' the danger is effort that can't be put into ''stopping'' it, and a bad division could well result in failing at both tasks and dooming everyone. [[spoiler:In the end, though, you do end up stopping the Final Days, and the moon remains -- at least for now -- firmly in orbit around Ethierys.]]

* In ''Film/{{IO}}'', this is already well underway by the beginning of the movie, after the Earths atmosphere has been ruined by pollution, although some have lingered due to the hope offered by a SoleSurvivingScientist. That scientist has recently died, and the film follows his daughter being torn between trying to complete his work, or journeying towards the final evacuation ship, which is due to leave soon.

** The [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]] for its [[SpiritualSequel spiritual prequel]], ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', is similar. Humans left Earth in AD 2510 due to a space-time anomaly. The only reference to Earth in the game, though, is in the intro, and it is called "the main planet."
** It seems to be a running theme in the ''Xeno'' series. ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' starts with humanity flying off on massive Ark Ships to escape an alien war. Very few of them even make it out of Earth's atmosphere before being shot down by the alien forces. The game proper follows one of the surviving ships in the months after it's begun colonizing a new planet.

* In the RTS ''{{VideoGame/Earth 2150}}'', this is the ultimate goal of all three factions, on account of the imminent Earth-Shattering Kaboom. Throughout the campaigns, you not only have to complete missions to cripple your rivals, but stockpile your excess resources in order to build a colony ship to carry you to another world before the countdown expires.
** According to the sequel, all three endings are canonical, which is strange given that it was clearly stated in ''Earth 2150'' that there weren't enough resources to evacuate every faction. The ''Lost Souls'' expansion does indicate that a good number of people were left behind, though, and had to find alternative means of escape.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', the Red Moon is revealed to be an ancient ColonyShip for an even older space-faring species called, appropriately, Lunarians. Their homeworld used to exist in the orbit between the "Red Planet" and the "Great Behemoth", but, as it neared destruction, the race built titanic lifeboat to migrate to a new home, the "Blue Planet." However, upon arrival, the Lunarians realized that humanity was still primitive and cohabitation was not possible yet. Rather than overrun the native population, the Lunarians decided to turn their vessel into a second moon and fall into a deep sleep, waiting for humanity to catch up so contact could be made.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': ''Endwalker'' reveals that one of the backup plans for handling [[spoiler:the Final Days bringing an apocalypse upon the world]] is to evacuate large portions of the global population [[spoiler:to the moon, which is actually a giant spaceship, and fly through space in search of another planet with suitably high aetheric density]]. A substantial chunk of the 6.0 main story revolves around how much effort various characters should put into this plan, since any effort put into ''fleeing'' the danger is effort that can't be put into ''stopping'' it, and a bad division could well result in failing at both tasks and dooming everyone. [[spoiler:In the end, though, you do end up stopping the Final Days, and the moon remains -- at least for now -- firmly in orbit around Ethierys.]]

* ''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'':

* Subverted in Cyril M. Kornbluth's short story "The Marching Morons". The titular "morons" are induced by advertising to board spaceships as part of one of these, [[spoiler: but they're really being flown to mass extermination]].

* At the start of ''VideoGame/WingCommanderIIIHeartOfTheTiger'', Colonel Blair is listening to a news report that mentions rumors of a doomsday plan for an evacuation of Earth despite Confed claiming officially that the war against the Kilrathi is going well. In the novelisation, Blair scoffs at this as an UrbanLegend the press keeps bringing up. it's not like the Kilrathi can't follow them anywhere that Humanity can go.

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* It is possible that if we mess things up on the Earth to a sufficient degree, either through war, ecological turmoil or due to circumstances beyond our control, we (or at least the best/brightest/worthiest/wealthiest) would likely have to do this sometime in the future. Though we may avert this if the cause was our own incompetence as our current situation (eg. no Earth 2) may well force us to adapt and develop our civilization in a way that is sustainable and not detrimental to the biosphere. And note the "to a sufficient degree" part: since AllPlanetsAreEarthlike is not true in real life, a disaster would need to be absurdly destructive to make Earth less habitable than any of its neighbors. And if humanity had the technology to construct habitats outside of Earth, then it would also be able to construct those same habitats ''on'' Earth (like the Vaults in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''), and the latter would be much easier to accomplish.
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