The end of the world.  

On Friday, October 15th, 2094 at 3:15 pm Eastern Daylight savings time, the planet once called earth was struck by a large meteor.   The chunk of iron, dust and ice measured over 20 miles in diameter, in a shape something like an American football.  It hit in the Atlantic Ocean, some 300 miles off the Coast of South America, just a few degrees south of the Equator.  Though the exact location of the strike was somewhat inconsequential.   Within minutes the planet was completely enveloped in a searing explosion and fiery miasma that dissolved everything in its wake.  

There were no warnings of the impending disaster.  Though many advances had been made, NASA’s advanced meteor detection network spotted the unnamed killer rock streaking across the sky only moments before it hit.  There was not enough time to inform the President.  There were no last minute launches of nuclear missiles, nor movie heroics to redirect the comet.

This was the end.

The only omen of impending doom, was a small tremor earthquake in central Italy near Florence.  Just minutes later, the sky above Florence was Technicolor red and orange.  One minute after that, all life was swept away in the fire storm.  Nothing was left on the face of the earth, as the asteroid hit was even more devastating than even the experts had predicted.  

In the space of one hour all human, animal and plant life ceased to exist on earth.  The destruction on the surface of the earth was total. 

However….

Thanks to the advances in space technology, it was not the end of human existence in the universe, at least not yet. Exactly Six Hundred and forty four souls lived off planet. Five hundred men, women and children lived worked and played on the moon on the first lunar base, which the Chinese space built and inhabited.

In addition, one hundred men and women lived on the newest Mars colony, established by the new NASA/ESA alliance. Twelve astronauts lodged in the NASA’s Lunar Outpost, parked in an orbit between the moon and earth. Finally, thirty-two hearty souls saw the destruction of earth, up close from the newly refurbished International Space Station orbiting the earth.

Six hundred and forty four people now comprised the aggregate of the entire human race.