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Radiant Peril: Earth's Last Stand
Scenario:a spaceship is hurtling towards earth, a doomsday alien with no concience or feer, eminating leathel radiation into the void of space. A lone astronomer observing from a telescope sited in egypt's cool desert sands sounds the alarm, and the xeric project, assembled from nasa's long abandoned attempts to reach civilised life in outer space is reborn.
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Sarah Jennings
lead astronomer,works closely with Xeric Project team,tall with sharp features,analytical and determined.
Elena Vargas
communications specialist for the Xeric Project,supports Sarah and Mark,petite with vibrant hair,empathetic and quickwitted.
Mark Chen
lead engineer of the Xeric Project,collaborates with Sarah and other team members,muscular build,pragmatic and resourceful.
The alien ship was a tiny dot in the sky, but Sarah Jennings had been watching it for hours.
She’d been up all night, and the sun was just starting to rise over the horizon.
She should have gone to bed hours ago, but she couldn’t tear her eyes away from the telescope.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime event, and she didn’t want to miss a second of it.
She’d spent her entire life studying the stars, and now she was getting the chance to see something that no one else ever would.
The alien ship was hurtling towards Earth at an incredible speed, and it was going to hit the planet in less than twenty-four hours.
When it did, it would cause an extinction-level event that would wipe out all life on Earth.
Sarah had already alerted the global authorities, but there was nothing they could do to stop it.
The ship was too big and moving too fast for any of their weapons to have an effect.
Or at least, that’s what she’d thought.
The ship had been on course to impact the planet, but a few minutes ago, it had changed direction.
Now it was heading straight for them.
The alien starship was only a few hours away, and it was moving fast.
Sarah didn’t know how fast exactly, but she’d seen it change direction and knew that it was capable of moving incredibly quickly.
That meant that it was already close to them, so close that it was barely even visible in the sky.
The sun was up now, and it was almost impossible to see anything in the bright light, but Sarah knew that the ship was there.
She could feel it, a prickling sensation at the back of her neck that wouldn’t go away.
It was like the ship was watching them, waiting for them to make a move.
For the first time since she’d spotted it, Sarah felt a trickle of fear run down her spine.
They didn’t know anything about the alien, not even if it was sentient.
It could be a drone or a probe, something sent out by an advanced civilization to explore the universe.
If that was the case, then the aliens themselves might not even know that Earth was inhabited.
It could be that they were just passing through, on their way somewhere else entirely.
But what if they weren’t?
What if they knew they were going to hit Earth, and they didn’t care?
Or worse, what if they were actually trying to kill them?
Sarah had more questions than answers, and she didn’t have time to get them all answered.
The alien ship only had a few hours before impact, and it was only getting closer.
The world didn’t have time to figure out what the alien wanted; they needed to stop it.
Now that it was so close, they could probably hit it with a missile or something similar that could take it out before it reached Earth.
But there was no one to do that.
NASA didn’t have any weapons, and neither did any other space agency in the world.
There were some military satellites, but they weren’t designed to take out something this big or moving this quickly.
The only thing they could do was try to talk to the alien, but Sarah had no idea how they were going to do that when they didn’t even know if it was listening.
And so she’d done the only thing she could think of: She’d alerted every global authority she could find in the hope that someone would have an idea of what to do or at least be able to put in a call to someone who did.
That’s how she’d found herself standing in an office at NASA headquarters surrounded by people from all around the world who had come together in an attempt to save humanity from extinction at the hands of an alien spaceship.
