[ WP ] Share an excerpt from a story you 've been writing in your head

It ends with my death. Or at least that was I was expecting, that's what I always thought was inevitably going to happen. You do n't know what it's like to face your death, to stare it right in the face and know you are helpless to prevent it. So what did I do? In my final moments of death? I searched the cockpit of the tiny little tin can that we were hurtling through the endless void of space at who-the-hell-knows miles an hour for the scotch that I had hid aboard, For the couple times a century that I was awoken to inspect the ship. 
 
 I was the captain you see, of the S.S. Destiny, The first space pioneers sent out by the S.A.U.C.E, the Space Administration of the United Central Earth, to colonize the nearest habitable planet a'mere' 400 light years away. 
 
 Our destiny however was in another path as something hit us something big, causing enough damage to force the emergency systems to awaken me from my sleep. it was bad. An rouge asteroid had hit us and damaged the engines, and the punctured a hole in the hull in my section just small enough to be dangerous, I patched what I could with some duct tape but that would only delay my fate as oxygen was still leaking out. To make matters worse since there is no friction in space the asteroid pushed us off course and directly into the gravitational pull of a nearby uncharted planet. 
 
 I do n't recall exactly all the details, you can thank the scotch and the oxygen deprivation for that, but I do remember one thing clearly, as I was so certain that it the last moment I'll ever have. Sitting with my back against the wall. The empty bottle at my feet. I remembered the reasons I had for choosing this path; my love and curiosity of what lied beyond our atmosphere and how that lead me to the love of my life and our dreams of a family together, taken away far to soon. this mission was a chance at a new life and a chance to fulfill my life's ambition. For countless years we have been flying, Everything we had known was gone to the sands of time, even if we were so inclined to turn back. I remembered the speech the world leaders gave us before we boarded the Destiny, mostly posturing as most people knew that even if we made it and manage to survive long enough to establish a new civilization. The beautiful blue green planet we left behind would be long dead from the short-sightedness of humanity. `` You are humanities last hope'' they said. We failed them. We were the last of humanity. And we died.
