[ WP ] In 2050 the Rapture happens and the Apocalypse ravages earth . The colonies on the Moon and Mars are untouched by the events .

The thing called God came down from the sky in a furious rage, fire and brimstone creatures of mythos and plagues with him. He came to exact his final punishment on his “ children ”. We had destroyed the world he had created for us. It was not the blood on the ground nor the injustice in the world which enraged him, he Yahweh had after all bathed in the blood of humans past killing millions and calling it a lesson he had watched as his faithful followers killed those who dared to disagree with them. From the crusades to the Christian cleansing riots of the 2030 ’ s he stood by and did nothing. 
 
 Only when we had cracked open the Earth, sucked her dry and used her remains to escape her gravity did he strike. Enraged that we would leave what he saw as perfect Yahweh came down from on high. Gathering his select few, those who hung off his every word and appealed to his vanity who worshiped the ground on which he trod were the ones he gave the divine right to exact their righteousness upon the other humans who inhabited the Earth. 
 
 From on high upon the lifeless Moon we watched in horror along with our Martian brothers as the tyrant swept along the planet we had called home. From out perch we could observe, but were helpless to assist those who were like us those who dreamed not of conquering a strip of desert bathed in the blood of a hundred generations but who dreamed of going towards the stars, those who dreamed of looking up and knowing that each speck of light housed another beacon of humanity, those who were not afraid to go into the dark abyss of space. They were the first to die. God and his faithful flung them gleefully into lakes of molten brimstone condemned for wishing to leave the perfect world God had created. 
 For 7 years we watched, the Martians tried to communicate with Yahweh and we on the Moon tried to assist our brethren below. For 3 years straight the Rail guns of the Moon fired upon God, but alas metal accelerated to 99 % the speed of light would not kill a god not his followers. We watched as humanity ’ s cradle died. The faithful swept through the continents bestowed as they were with the power of angels the armies of Earth fell. God was content to remain in the desert where he first contacted man directing the faithful watching gleefully as they destroyed the civilizations of Earth. 
 
 America was the first to fall, after the Middle East of course. So many zealots within its borders that within a day of God ’ s return the country fell into civil war. The top scientists of the world were marched out of the institutes and schools to be thrown into the lakes of brimstone. Many fought back using whatever means were at their disposal. From ingenious war machines fashioned from whatever they could find burning in the streets to fissile material stolen from missiles left unattended to create bombs the men of science fought to the last man. But against the tyranny of God the inventions of man had no effect, his followers would walk laughing at the men through mushroom clouds and radiation only to slay the men that had created them. 
 
 Africa fell next, then Europe. The Scientists at CERN locked themselves within the accelerator tunnels and with their fusion reactor attempted to defy God. Working for a year straight they managed to create a single kilogram of antimatter a feat that has never been replicated. From the moon we watched as they struck out from the tunnel, firing the opposite of creation at the creator. They died as soon as they opened their tunnels but they managed to fire off the missile. God did not strike it from the air, he had after all survived the onslaught of the nuclear arsenal of every state left on Earth. The missile struck and for a moment he staggered, the Chinese managed to get 600 craft they had waiting to launch into orbit beyond his reach in this brief window. This last escape is considered to be the last great feat of man ’ s science and technology on Earth. 600 rockets roaring into the night sky each with a man woman and child aboard escaping to the moon and away from the tyrannical God nursing its wounds. 
 
 Recovering God shouted to the heavens through every signal and language too us on the moon and further away to Mars. He was done, he would no longer guide us and he would no longer accept any into heaven. He threatened us with an eternal death unless we would return to his domain of control Earth. Humanity took its stand and accepted this, if we had only one life to live it would not be wasted appeasing a tyrant. 
 Furious God burned the crust of the Earth, boiled away her oceans and destroyed the life left upon her surface. Like a child sick of a broken toy he took his faithful and disappeared. 
 
 Humanity breathed sigh of relief and united like never before we started to rebuild. The moon was prepared to accept the final and only refugees from Earth. The 500 men and women upon her surface had spent the years since the tyrants return preparing. The 500 built a colony to house thousands, and by the time all was finished there were 4000 on Earth and a scant 200 on Mars. We had survived as humans always do. The first decades were hard but productive, humanity would live on and expand outwards in defiance of the God who created us, a creator who now feared what he had created. For in the last moments we had managed to wound him and if he could be wounded he could be killed. 
 400 years later the crust is still molten, the Earth is dead and will remain so. We humanity have nowhere to go but forward towards the stars. 10 million now live on the moon and 50 million live on Mars within her red atmosphere. Mars, she accepted her role as the new mother to humanity and became what the science fiction writers dreamed she could be a utopia and a garden. It was surprisingly easy to terraform her, in fact once the process started she practically came to life on her own. 
 
 So on this day 400 years later we look back and remember as we move forward, as we launch our first ship to the stars. The Ship of Eden will take humans to another Star system where our spirit can thrive and where we will begin to take the stars themselves as our own. 
 
 A/N Wow this came out all at once, please forgive any errors and such I just put this down and now I need to sleep. 
 

