Drifter’s Hope

We tried to make peace with them, we tried to make war with them, but nothing would stop them. They’re thoughtless, they think differently. They’re a hive mind, a hive mind bent on destroying everything we have built. And now they’re coming to earth. A second tremor struck the ground…

We had been preparing for them for nearly a hundred years. They’d entered our solar system 150 years ago and settled on Neptune. From then on each of our colonies have winked out one by one. We thought we had longer… They had just finished harvesting Jupiter. That put Mars between us and them. But now they are coming. 

Reya winced as another asteroid struck the land. She only hoped that it wasn’t one of the Drifters. They had cannibalised asteroids to hide. Humanity’s last hope really.

Feeling the air on her skin and the smell of nature, Reya knew that she would never feel this again. It should’ve saddened her but it didn’t. Looking up, she felt a burning sensation. They were coming. She could feel them inside her head, twisting her mind. She had prepared for this. She slowly brought the gun up to her head and thought about Caleb. He was humanities hope, her hope, her son.

A third tremor struck her head…