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

We did n't know. If we did know it would n't have stopped us. Who takes these things seriously? Even after all this time, literalists thought it was history, that it had happened and was indeed the beginning. No one over the centuries thought it was a metaphor for the end. When we left Eden. 
 
 Genesis 2:17 
 
... but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.'' 
 
 We learned how to travel the heavens between the stars, we learned so much about humanity and it's place in the heavens. It was a time of wonder and discovery for us all. It all became as ashes in our mouths. I was at Neptune station when it happened. I am a shift supervisor in pipeline operations for the atmospheric mining platform. I was pulling an extra eight when I heard what was happening. The news came to us from Mars and they were getting live feed from Earth and telemetry from Luna. 
 
 I watched on the feed as jagged, shining rents tore in the blue skies over Earth. They struck with speed defying reason. Each angel slaughtering by the score. There was no mobilization, no nation mounted a dogged defense. There was no time. I saw the feed from Luna as the deep blue oceans of Earth changed to muddy red. 
 
 The explosions started then. The data from Luna showed that every fission bomb, every fusion bomb, ever reactor core all exploded. At the same time. All communications with Earth ended at that point. The silence horrified me, I sobbed through my next few breaths. What happened next i am told happened everywhere, all at once. Every monitor, every video/audio signal. Even on the extrasolar colony shifts. 
 
 I drive out thee son of man; I place at Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 
 
 Humanity will go on. But we will never be able to return to Eden. 

