Through Time, Darkly

[Vogel]

"Inhumane" was an understatement. Then again, where he came from, "humane" was no longer a meaningful word.

These people had been completely isolated from their past, and had no wish to relive it. The Sleeper Ships were a proverbial "reboot" of the human race, or at least of the Alliance nations, made in the face of duress. Duress entailed Extinction. But at the hands of the Coalition; the aliens were unknown to them.

If they even existed..

Doyle frowned, nodded slightly, just to act as if he was paying further attention. Should he bother describing what he saw? What he felt? They already thought he was insane... was he insane?

"Sounds about right.." he finally managed to say, looking down at the floor, "Everyone on Pluto died, except for me."

A half truth: everybody in the Solar System died, except himself, and a certain General Rockford.

Neither of them should have lived.