Port Cain
Planet Osiris
1530.129.2208
At first they came as just whispers, stray thoughts whipping past in the stiff wind. We paid them no heed, less any fear. We never knew that they were coming for us until it was too late.
Eventually the colonists began to die in their sleep.
We came to this city to make our exodus, but the ships were already gone, taken by ones with more sense than we. We thought perhaps the most rotten hellhole on the planet might keep the bastards at bay. For a while it started to look like we were right.
At sunset we saw them, glittering like fireflies, bearing down across that cold, dark plain. They'd come for us, the last in all the world.
At dawn they will be upon our gates. We will stand tall, but no one ever teaches you how to fight your dreams.
This is not a call for rescue. There is no one left to save.
When we finally fall, it will be fast and sure.
-- Lt. Col. John Pasos, 30th Legion
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