Space Station Tiberia

This is Commander Butler, Mission Control. You’re closing on Tiberia – the platform that shields Earth from meteors, now dead after a radiation storm. The largest meteor ever seen is on its way.

You have thirty-five minutes before it hits the station. Restart the systems, go out onto the hull, repair the anti-meteor array. You can call Mission Control only twice – after that, it’s just you and the silence.

On a dead channel you’ll hear a single line, recorded long ago: my voice, naming a star no one knows. I was up here too. Not everything I found past the array made it into a report.

Restart the station. Repair the array. Before the sky falls.