Sokovia Simulation for Universe Sandbox

The Sokovia Simulation (a.k.a., Debunking Age of Ultron Simulation) is a simulation file available for download via Dozerfleet Labs for use in Universe Sandbox. The premise of it is to analyze Ultron's plan as laid out in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, and determine its realism.

Ultron's in-film hypothesis
According to Ultron's plan in the film itself, lifting the downtown city of Sokovia to the exosphere and then dropping it straight down onto its former spot on the planet would result in an impact capable of destroying all human life on Earth. With humanity gone, a utopia run by machines controlled by Ultron as a supreme dictator over them would assume control, and lead to a peaceful future. His entire invasion of Wakanda and acquisition of vibranium is based on his quest to use vibranium tech to improve his means of production, to turn the city into a giant rocket that can launch away from Earth, then turn into a giant asteroid-missile capable of serving as the largest artificial kinetic rod ever to hit the Earth.

What he wishes to make Sokovia into, is possibly larger than the asteroid that erupted the Earth to crack open, leading to the depressurization of ringwoodite that produced the steam of the entire Subterranean Ocean, such that this steam then rained down after shooting high into the stratosphere, thus leading to Noah's flood. (Ultron even megalomaniacally compares himself to Noah in the movie.)

But since the re-sealing of the Earth mentioned in the Bible post-deluge, getting ringwoodite to depressurize the same way again would be much harder, making it much more difficult, near-impossible, for a secondary Noahic flood to ever happen. Therefore, a second asteroid of that size hitting Earth would most likely not lead to another global deluge; but to a fiery death for the surface. While 2 Peter 3:10 strongly indicates an omninova destroying the universe and vaporizing Earth into cosmic dust, this hasn't stopped doomsday envisioners from perceiving an asteroid leading to fiery death of the biosphere.

Ultron's in-movie plan is the cause this fiery death of human society, believing his Sokovia kinetic rod will be sufficient to destroy the planet. But shouldn't a super AI machine know better?

Simulation assumptions
Sokovia is a small country in the MCU. While mislabeled as "Sokovia," the capital city Novi Grad is depicted as an asteroid in this simulation file.

Novi Grad's size, mass, and density, based on the size and mass that Iron Man and Thor are seen destroying in the movie, is estimated to be about the equivalent of Chicago. The asteroid used in this Universe Sandbox simulation is set to have a size, mass, and density roughly equivalent to the estimated size, mass, and density of Chicago. YouTubers have estimated that destroying Novi Grad would have been a blast upwards of 100 megatons, though General Ross in Civil War later labels Thor a "walking 30-megaton nuke."

Regardless, Iron Man and Thor combined needed to generate a blast to destroy Novi Grad and foil Ultron's plan that was the equivalent roughly to what impact the city would have had upon hitting Earth if Ultron's plan succeeded. So 30-100 megatons of force would be necessary, depending on the exact size of Novi Grad.

The question then becomes this:


 * 1) Would a 30 - 100-megaton blast in the Balkans be enough to destroy the planet the way Ultron wants?
 * 2) If not, then how much damage would Ultron's plan have actually cause if he'd succeeded?

Results
When the simulation ran in-game, Novi Grad hit near Germany rather than the Balkans. However, it didn't destroy all life. It did, however, turn all of Europe sans eastern Russia into a fireball. The shockwave traveled as far as Morocco. Not even Ireland was spared. However, the Americas were fully intact. China and Australia were largely unaffected.

Conclusion

 * Ultron would have caused a lot of damage; but most of humanity would have endured. Only Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa would be stripped of human life.
 * Simply disabling the internet would have allowed countries to cut off Ultron's network, forcing him to then have to fight the remainder of humanity without an internet to use to his advantage.
 * This would have crippled him just as easily as anything Vision did.
 * Ultron would have lost as soon as he ran out of vibranium to use to make more of himself with.
 * Black Panther could lend an assist to the Avengers, if they'd survived Novi Grad. Feasibly, Thor and Hulk, maybe Iron Man, would have survived.  Along with War Machine.  Black Widow, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch would have probably died.
 * With Stark's help, an upgraded Spider-Man would be able to temporarily frustrate Ultron's sub-Ultron minions, buying time for New York. It's feasible Daredevil would be among the first New Yorkers to die by the hands of the Sub-Ultrons though, to say nothing of the Punisher or Elektra.
 * Given what Aida and the Darkhold have shown themselves capable of, it's feasible that Ultron would try to restore his network by creating a new one with the Darkhold. After all: Aida created the Framework from it, which was a discount Matrix.  However, bonding himself to the Darkhold would bind him to Chthon, make him vulnerable to Ghost Rider.  Failing that, Ultron's journey into the mystical realms to enhance himself with would draw the attention of Doctor Strange, who could then find a way to banish Ultron to the Hell Dimension or even the Dark Dimension in Ghost Rider's stead, as both can use sling rings.  Ultron would soon learn that his worst decision ever, was to dabble in the occult.  And if he should meet Agatha Harkness?  That'd be doubly so!

Ultron's frustration at failing to kill everyone immediately would lead to him either self-destructing by taking the occult path listed above, or by becoming like the League of Shadows from the Dark Knight Saga, and learning how to weaponize economics. With Europe wiped off the map, there would definitely be a huge economic chain reaction. This could cripple the world's economy. And Ultron would have to kick global economics while it was down, sending humanity back to the dark ages. Mankind would then become easier to enslave, and to kill off Bilderburger / Bill Gates / NHS-style. As these real-world villains have made clear, convincing humanity it needs an experimental injection that it doesn't actually need is a far more efficient way to mastermind genocide than throwing a rock at Europe and hoping for the best.

A truly intelligent super AI would have concluded this. But Joss Whedon would never have allowed that script, nor would his Hollywood overlords. That reveal-to-conceal had already been done with V for Vendetta, The Happening, Pandemic, and season 2 of Heroes. Marvel would allow that reveal-to-conceal to be done again eventually, when Insomniac Studios was permitted to put a variation of the narrative into its 2018 Spider-Man game for PlayStation. Therefore, a lazy asteroid plot was used instead.

Ultron's plan was nonsense.

Distribution
The initial upload of this simulation ever was on April 4th of 2018, to DeviantArt. A revision was made and sent to MediaFire to overwrite with, and was released on October 26th of 2019. The upload from 2019 was then linked to from the Labs blog beginning in April of 2020, around the time that the blog for Dozerfleet Labs first went online.

Reception
By July 27th of 2021, the post on DeviantArt has been viewed 69 times, and favorited twice. There is no recorded evidence, however, of anyone having actually downloaded the simulation to try for themselves.