![]() ![]() Gangs can ground his plane, threaten his vehicles, and steal his belongings. But Meyer's obsession to reach Vail is single-minded, guided with the focus of a far-seeing nightmare. Unrest boils in both city and hinterlands. Rioting spills into the highways as time ticks away. And Meyer's ex-wife Heather, coming to the same destination from the west - a woman who remains his best friend, and his secret lover. The fate of humanity, in Meyer's eyes, doesn't matter.Īll that matters is Piper. Reports that Las Vegas has been set ablaze do not matter. The disintegration on the surviving news outlets does not matter. The space fleet in itself doesn't matter. ![]() Meyer knows only one thing, and it's a truth that has perched atop his mind like a psychic obsession: When the ships arrive, his family must be at the Colorado compound or all will be lost. Panic, once it breaches the thin crust of civilized society, spreads like a virus. What do the beings inside the ships want? What will they do when they arrive? And what if the scientists are wrong, and the spheres aren't decelerating? Will they strike the planet, raising clouds of extinction dust? Will they knock the Earth off its axis? Is this a prelude to an alien invasion? An alien war? An alien apocalypse? The first domino in the birth of a new alien empire? Soon, pundits begin to ask questions hard enough to tip those who've thus far stayed calm out of their complacency, inciting chaos: There is no time for hesitation, regret, or pity. But those with means have already begun to scramble as Meyer gathers his wife Piper and his two teenage children and begins their race toward that compound, toward safety. The networks stay on-air longer than expected, creating a farce of calm. But he hasn't yet been able to take the final and most important step: moving the family to Colorado, where every contingency is covered. Meyer has been taking steps for months, and has made preparations: a trove of supplies, a van stocked for the worst, a Gulfstream waiting at a small airstrip in Jersey. Before society shatters into chaos, and it all falls apart. They must run to their safe haven in the Colorado mountains. ![]() He has prepared … though he never knew until now what he'd been preparing for. He knows where he and his family must go. He's seen this in dreams - in visions of another place. But even while those supposedly in charge restrain their own panic, Meyer finds he recognizes bits and pieces of what the world is facing. He can hear tension in the voices of reporters and experts chronicling all that's known and unknown. Meyer Dempsey - mogul, wealthy entrepreneur, arrogant and always in charge - is in New York, on the phone with his ex-wife in LA when the news breaks. They are on an approach vector for Earth. The objects are enormous, perfectly round spheres numbering in the dozens, maybe hundreds. So the news has turned from evasion to triage, urging calm and offering the few facts they have: The popular Astral space app (broadcasting from the far side of the moon and accessible by anyone with internet) has already shown the populace what is coming. NASA doesn't even bother to deny the alien ships' existence. The countdown has begun.įirst visible only as blips on a telescope image, the discovery of objects approaching from Jupiter orbit immediately sets humanity on edge. The popular Astral space app (broadcasting from the far side of the moon and accessible by anyone with internet) has already shown t They are coming. First visible only as blips on a telescope image, the discovery of objects approaching from Jupiter orbit immediately sets humanity on edge. ![]()
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