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categories = ["52stories", "fiction", "short story"]
categories = ["writing", "fiction"]
tags = ["52stories", "short story"]
date = "2020-12-07 00:00:00 +0100"
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title = "Natural Selection"
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*Galactic Council Record No. 2020*
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Over and above that, they refused to allow any of their number to run. They contained the plague even as it burned like a wildfire through their population, devastating their core worlds in a matter of days. Some did try, not all humans were noble. Some were just scared. But humanity, acting in the first (and, as it came to be, last) time in their history, truly as a cohesive species, set up a perimeter. And though it must have hurt, they shot down their fellows. Blew pirates, traders and civilians alike out of space, condemning them to a slow death not unakin to that the infection brought, all to ensure this mysterious infection did not spread beyond their space.
In the end, natural selection caught up with Humanity and dragged their whole species into the darkness. But even as it inexorably did so, they fought tooth and nail to prevent it from taking us all with them. With the blood of their own people, of their own brothers and sisters, they burnt a firebreak across the stars and saved every one of us. Whenever we look at the Black, the dark between stars, we remember them. To them we owe everything.
In the end, natural selection caught up with Humanity and dragged their whole species into the darkness. But even as it inexorably did so, they fought tooth and nail to prevent it from taking us all with them. With the blood of their own people, of their own brothers and sisters, they burnt a firebreak across the stars and saved every one of us. Whenever we look at the Black, the dark between stars, we remember them. To them we owe everything.