[ WP ] You re one of a small group of people who have started colonizing Mars , waking up one morning you are unable to contact Earth and realize that it has been destroyed by a major meteor impact .

`` I hear the static of radio feedback die out, and all interference fades as we turned off the transmitter, out of respect for their final moments.'' 
 
 `` The only home we ever had, just vanished. Gone. Like a best friend since birth, died in a auto accident suddenly. No goodbyes or farewells. No'I love you'. No last beer together. But simultaneously, we never, for one second, became an orphan. In that same moment, we had been adopted as well. This red planet was the epitome of growing up, of growing into adulthood. Like a young man leaving his home, we were out on our own...'' 
 
 
 
 Some of the crewman had said their prayers and slowly returned to their duties after a solemn and unshakeable silence together. Myers, Davenport, Omura, and `` Scooter'' still had field samples to take from the hills and dunes a few clicks away. The job was mostly useless considering nobody else in the known universe would appreciate the data, but the team suited up and went regardless, because purpose still dwelled within each of them. 
 
 What they would discover later on, beneath the dunes and the ice caps in the north, would explain the journey humanity itself had been destined to take, aeons before these `` visitors'' arrived... 
 
 

