[ WP ] Astronomers discover an object on a collision course with Earth . Due to it 's size , scientists determine that the impact will result in a total extinction level event . As it nears closer it 's discovered that the object is n't what it seems .

The *Object* was a week from Earth's doorstep when the news reports stopped. 
 Nearly 10 years ago, when the *Object* was first sighted and brought the nations of the world together in the largest, and necessarily loosest, alliance that had ever been seen. The *Object* had been visible as a scintillating point of light that had grown steadily larger as days turned to months. 
 We had decided, with all our faults, and despite all of our differences, that mass extinction was no longer an option. Scientists, Mathematicians, Astronomers, Cosmologists, Philosophers and the Clergy alike were gathered en masse in the hopes that all of the greatest minds of the world could provide the right spark to continue humanity's feeble existence. 
 That answer came in the form of a mass migration. 
 We, after all, have always been nomadic. 
 In the first six months the first True International Space Station was constructed - it's artificial gravity well generators were a marvel to behold. They were so large that the four structured discs rotations could be seen with the naked eye. 
 Six months later the TISS was fully staffed, an crewed. With seven-thousand refugees in Hyb-stasis on two lifeboats the first shipment of humanity's most precious cargo began it's journey to our Red Sister. 
 In the next three years, two billion more were moved off world to the Martian Subterranean Colony, lovingly nicknamed, `` The Inferno.'' By then, however, full Martian terraformation was underway. 
 Nine years, 50 weeks, and 4 days after we first saw the *Object* in the sky, and with only a few hundred thousand left on Earth ( many had stayed voluntarily, others were unable to make it to launch zones in time ) we watched and waited for the inevitable. 
 The *Object* was a day from Earth's doorstep when the news reports started again. 
 The *Object*, they said... was talking.
