[ WP ] Humanity is doomed . The remaining humans decide to build a permanent monument to the human race as their final act .

In hindsight, I had no idea why I was up here. `` Monitoring station.'' `` Transmission satellite.'' I should've realised that neither of those things need to be manned, but I was too eager to make the folks at home proud. 
 
 `` My son, the astronaut,'' she'd say, beaming through her thick glasses, and the wrinkles that came with raising us. 
 
 They told me that it was just a different procedure to normal. The tension would ease, and we would need to have the data for whatever fucking lie was fed over the radio feed. I've read the manual so many times now, but I ca n't even remember following the sequence; it all seemed so trivial, so.. inconsequential. 
 
 I do remember the jolt, the hiss that followed, and watching out the small porthole as the payload fell to earth. I thought I was going to die. I was the one that lived. 
 
 It faded out of view as it fell toward the planet, until eventually a small plume of smoke came up from where, I assume, it landed. I did what I was told, but that meant dropping the first bomb and watching helplessly while similar clouds appeared without explanation. 
 
 It's been about two weeks now, since it all happened. I've watched the land go brown, and the oceans almost black. I've not even received a hint of radio from the ground, though I've looked on all channels and circled the husk of my home. I'll run out of food in a month. Water in two. Air in four. 
 
 I look around the cabin at the mess I've made in my desperation. It's not how I want to be seen, so I carefully put everything in it's place. Except the drill. I honestly ca n't remember what they taught me on the ground, but I kind of remember the movies. `` No atmosphere means no decay, right?'' as the drill squeels against the porthole. Completely frozen, forever. Hopefully. At least I'll have tried to leave something behind, resembling a human. 
 
 If anyone comes, they'll see the one that ended it all. `` My son, the astronaut.'' 
 
 
 

