Star Date: 2472.06

Following the death of my home world, then the decimation of the Human Fleet Aliance and their last Capitol ship “Dakota, Pierre”, apparently named after some territory on our home world long, long ago. Humanity is on its last leg. The only people who survived were able to escape via the ships single person escape pods. I guess they were done that way because it is much harder for the enemy to hit one escape pod with many people in it, rather than hitting a single escape pod at a time with only one person in it.

our numbers are dwindling. There used to be billions of us. Now, we are but a few traders and scavengers spread across the galaxy!

There is something hunting human kind. An unknown force that we have yet been able to even lay a scratch on, yet their weapons are so powerful that a single volley from their capitol ships will decimate anything that lays in its wake.

My name, is Mauri. Well, that’s what my friends called me anyway. My full name is Maurice Albat D’Jon. First mate of the Human Fleet Aliance ship De’Pardo. The assumed last survivor of the human race in this sector and this is my story.

I have literally been traveling in the same direction for almost a month. Stasis sleep has been kicking on and off. I can only assume that I still have a full escape pod, but I have not dared to try to slow down to do a space walk and check on damages after the battle. My pod was hit upon exit from my home capitol ship. I’ve just been adrift ever since…

Every time I come out of stasis sleep, I check the comms to ensure that I am not missing anything as far as sub space radio traffic. Comms have been dead for almost 3 weeks. I can only assume that I have gotten to far away from any other survivors. Either that, or everyone else is dead.

So, here I sit. Just waiting for my O2 tanks to run dry, or my power cells to burn out… Either way, I suffocate and suffer an agonizing death… My side arm has been looking more and more tempting but I have been able to keep myself busy between sleep cycles by organizing the bags of food rations alphabetically, numerically by their different contents and by manufacturer, so I guess I’ve got that going for me, right?

(TO BE CONTINUED)

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