WHITE STAR, COLD WAR
A Sci-Fi Monologue
Henry N. Silva
It’s been thousands of years since the sun shrunk down to a white star… Thousands of years since Mercury and Venus became habitable… Thousands of years since humanity moved over to both planets, losing Earth to the alien invaders…
Our new neighbors promise to leave Venus and Mercury alone. They say they’ll occupy Mars and the moons instead, once they start overpopulating…
How much can we trust them, though? They already took one planet from us, after all…
Heck, even the humans on Mercury don’t trust us anymore, and here on Venus, we barely still trust each other now…
Every now and then, I’m sent to spy on the aliens of Earth, to see what they may be up to. Hardly any trace of human history still exists there. Entire histories and cultures, wiped away… Wouldn’t be the first time something like that has happened on Earth, though…
Maybe humanity deserves this fate…
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