Earth had fallen.
After many hard months, the defenses of Earth finally were brought down, destroyed by the force which had seemingly consumed the rest of humanity, The Crawl.
Billions of living beings assimilated into one hivemind, The Crawl spread endlessly across human-controlled planets until it finally reached Earth, where humanity saw its end, cities that had taken thousands of years to build were all destroyed in an instant by The Crawl.
Many lightyears from Earth, a single station is floating slowly in the cold vacuum of space. On the side, in blue and red letters, the logo for the Agricoli Terra company is painted. It seemed to be an agricultural station, but some FTL travel systems were installed just in time to escape The Crawl.
The station's leader sends out a message to any nearby stations.
"Hailing all nearby stations. Come in. This is Gerret Myers of Agricoli Terra. Is there anyone there?" A man repeats in increasing urgency.
