escaped to Terra Nova Bay and DuMont
D’Urville, but their vulnerability to cold
was so absolute they were not able to
mount an offense against those
colonies. Communications were
eventually set up, and a network of
human resistance finally established.
There was no chance of repulsing the
invaders. Our forefather’s only goal was
to stay alive for as long as possible.
Combat teams dared visits to the
homeland under protection of darkness
and winter to find and bring back food
and other expendables. It provided a
minimal existence, and in time we
learned more and more about our
benefactors. The more we learned, the
worse our situation seemed.
The Salantian devils were not only
harvesting humans, they were also
collecting and storing Earth’s natural
resources. They were processing the
rain forests, lakes and rivers, extracting
minerals from the soils, and separating
and collecting oxygen from Earth’s
atmosphere. They were storing this
harvest for future use. Eventually we
were able to measure the change in the
air we breathed, along with the rate it
was deteriorating. Earth, as we knew it,
was being dismantled. As the
environment worsened, the Salantian
population finally began to depart. It
was first thought this was because they
were exhausting Earth’s resources. We
were wrong.
Something in the night sky had
changed. A group of students were the
first to document it. There was a new
star in the sky, brighter than all but the
sun. It was quickly understood that this
was not a star, but a rogue planet.
Some scientists insisted it was Nibiru,
the legendary ninth planet, long
theorized but never before seen. Only a
few days were required to establish it
was growing brighter. More accurately,
it was moving closer.
Nibiru was calculated to be four
times larger than the Earth. Its path
would take it on the worst possible
course through our solar system. Its
passing would affect the balance of
several other planets and on its current
trajectory, it would ellipse into an orbit
around the sun very close to that of
Earth. There was no way to understand
the gravitational upheavals that would
occur. The only hope was to gather as
many supplies as possible and take
refuge underground.
As predicted, the impacts from
Nibiru were cataclysmic. Tidal waves,
massive storms, a shifting of the poles.
Periods of calm followed by additional
upheavals. Sections of continents
disappeared under water. Some human
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