The first we knew of the world"s end was when the bodies fell burning from the sky. Signs of things to come, although we didn’t realize what they meant at the time.
They smashed into our cities, into bank towers and shopping malls and car lots and apartment blocks. When we first saw them blazing down from the heavens, we thought maybe the aliens had finally answered our calls, for better or worse.
But they weren’t aliens, or even alien weapons. They were mummified people in spacesuits. Our soldiers came and gathered up the scorched remains, and our scientists studied them in labs. The rest of us studied them in videos online.
And we recognized the suits.
They were the kind worn in the early days of the space race, back when we still dreamed about the future. The suits were charred and
