[ WP ] You are on Earth 's first manned interstellar spaceship . Half way between Earth and Alpha Centui every star in our galaxy goes supernova for no known reason .

Sitting on the bridge of the StarShip Hope I watched as one by one the stars around me blossomed into light and began to buffet the craft back and forth as the shockwaves, travelling at the speed of light, began to twist and warp the ship. 
 
 It was hopeless, the sky a solid white and each wave rolling over us more and more powerfully and as I watched on the cameras, first one and then both of the huge engines were ripped from the ship and tumbled into nothing. 
 
 We were wrong. The scientists had known that something was coming but we had been too egotistical, assuming that the tears in space-time were a local phenonema, that if we could just get away, to find a new home, that we could ride this out, but we were wrong, they all were wrong. Six billion pods behind me contained the frozen remains of earth and for the briefest moment I considered waking them, but it would only be seconds now until the vast forces at work shredded us like a bug. 
 
 Supernovas, well, it was one of the guesses they had made about what would happen, but their guess was that it would be just Sol. From what I could see it was every star, the entire Universe was ripping itself apart and I was here to see the end of it all. I wondered if they had really thought that or if this whole exercise had been one to keep us busy in the final years as we counted down and watched the rips grow bigger and stronger. 
 
 I was lucky, I'd drawn the straw to guide us, all by myself with the computer and now I was the only human who would see the end coming. We'd brought only the bare minimum, but I had smuggled aboard a cigar; I'd hoped to light on a new planet, but that was n't going to happen. Now, as the end came near I popped it in my mouth, nothing to light it with but as a goodbye to existence and a hello to what came next. 
 
 We'd all hoped we'd have more time, that this massive gamble would pay off, but it had n't, this was the end and...
