Independent astronomers are the first to detect the anomaly: the Sun, billions of years before its estimated time, is in the early stage of erupting into a supernova. A catastrophic incident that not only will hasten changes in attitude but, more importantly, the need to guarantee survival. Hereafter, ritualistic ceremonies are held monthly to commemorate life rather than the inevitable extinguishing of it; these are not funerals meant to exhibit somber farewell. Instead, people gather together with reserved pomp in celebrating the honored guests - everyone aware that they shall participate in a similar exulted sendoff in due course.
Interplanetary travel still in its infancy, engineers and scientists around the globe attempt to rapidly advance development. Nevertheless, there is nowhere to escape to absolute safety in the interim. With no means to reverse the imminent destruction, not only of Earth but the entire solar system, humanity seems doomed by natural causes beyond its control. Yet, elements of the population will attempt to survive, for a time, underground close to the planet's heated core before Earth becomes uninhabitable and loses all surface life. Meanwhile, those fortunate to embark at last into the outer reaches of space before the cataclysm ultimately will colonize another planet or solar system before it is too late for them as well.
In the meantime, world leaders concoct an alien invasion story to maintain a surreal level of hope and minimize any ensuing global panic. Under this guise, it is implemented with the assumption that people need an external agent that believably either can be challenged or scapegoated. Thus, as circumstantial evidence suggests confirmation of alien life, its intentions appear, at the very least, apathetic toward, if not outright hostile to, other living organisms. Conceivably, our very own interstellar probes undoubtedly, and with all probability, acted as bread crumbs for the aliens, utilized to backtrack to the originating solar system.
As has been theorized many times before, with no actionable conclusions, what could this planet’s inhabitants do if aliens did arrive to exploit resources beyond our reach? Absolutely nothing - without proper defenses and spacecraft, we shall watch helplessly as our life-sustaining star is gradually demolished by these visitors.
Except, as previously noted, there is a singular issue: it is a lie to conceal the truth. No extraterrestrial aliens are mining the Sun, which instead has gone supernova and will, in due time, wipe out Earth and the entire solar system. Faced with this situation, world leaders feel they are left with no option other than to obfuscate and mislead, rather than properly inform the global population in order for them to make their own choices reconciling the possible end of life on this planet. Fortunately, our species has been given a slim chance not afforded the dinosaurs to save itself from its own impending extinction.
This, of course, is a fictional scenario, and yet we are witnessing a comparable scheme continue to play out globally concerning several crises. All one has to do is substitute “aliens” and “supernovas” for any myriad of current issues and related terminology - most notably the ongoing pandemic, with its vacillating confusions and deceptions. Eventually, all of us must pay the price for our existence, with our deeds and sins weighed in accordance. Shall we all die together under the weight of these lies and manipulations? Or, shall we strive to live on in order to hold to account those who regularly perpetrate them and repeatedly betray humanity?
©2021 Steve Sagarra
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