Blessed: A Short Story
by Nicholas . . . Journal Entry 1 Welcome, reader. My name is Makarios. I have been waiting patiently for this moment -- a moment in which humanity is finally recreated and redefined -- and it has finally arrived. Where do I begin? To understand where we are now, you must understand what happened to get us here. 15.19 billion years after the Big Bang, we had explored the whole known universe, our technological advancements hitting extraordinary levels. We had invented nearly everything there was to invent: meals in pills, telekinesis, mind communication, spaceships reaching light speed, and countless more. We had even extended the human lifespan a hundredfold. Our population over 240 trillion at its peak, we fully depleted galaxy after galaxy, crushing everything in our path. Unfortunately, we left ourselves with a single galaxy. With an extremely limited amount of resources, the human population dwindled to 78 million 1.4 billion years later. As our population continued to dec