When The X-Files finished its television run 11 years ago, it predicted the end of the world as we knew it in 2012, thanks to impending alien colonization. Now, X-Files series creator Chris Carter is returning to both television and the idea of living with the apocalypse with his new project The After, which just received a pilot order from Amazon Studios, according to Deadline.

The After will be "a human, grounded story about the moment when we realize all of our worst fears about the world and its future," according to Marc Rosen, the CEO of the pilot's production company, Georgeville TV. The supernatural thriller will take place in the immediate aftermath of an apocalyptic event, with Carter writing and directing the pilot. Carter has been relatively quiet in the years since The X-Files went off the air, with only 2008's The X-Files: I Want To Believe movie to his name in the last decade.

The After is just the latest pilot pickup for Amazon, which also has Transparent – starring Jeffrey Tambor as a father who reveals his transgendered secret life to his three adult kids – and sports comedy The Outlaws in the works in addition to a number of other projects in various stages of development. The first wave of Amazon Studios pilots found themselves put to public vote before being given the go-ahead for further development; should the company choose to take that route again, Carter would do well by mobilizing his sizable X-Files fanbase to vote early and often in his direction.