For those I left behind - the memoirs of Colonel Jason Myers

[Jansen]

However, destiny did never know any mercy with the Colonials, soon after they finished rebuilding the ships, scientists detected a giant black hole moving towards them, calculations showed that Crayter would be devastated as soon as it gets hit by the cosmic danger. The exodus was ordered, even though there was little hope to save even a small part of the billions of people in the Colonies. There was not enough time to build more sleeper ships, so the highly industrialized Republic had to rely on smaller ships equipped with stasis technology similar to the one used on the sleeper ships in order to save as many citizens as possible, even though they knew that the small ships would never be able to travel all the way to Sirius, the hope remained, that against all odds another inhabitable sector existed, one that humanity did not detect yet.


The Black hole came closer and the so Crayterians left their home once more, families being divided, many millions of citizens left behind, all of them with little hope to survive. The Gemini and the Orion were on their way for many years, all of the smaller ships had been lost somewhere on the way. The common Colonial saying ‘For those we left behind’ originates from this disaster.

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