No one knew where they came from, but everyone would forever remember what they did to announce their presence. Not many people who saw the first shot hit the colony ship lived to tell the tale, but there were a few who not only survived that attack, but they went on to become important people in our history. As you know Earth in the year 2342 could no longer sustain life, we had regrettably used up all the resources, be it the air to breath, the water to drink, or the food to eat. We had squandered away the last of the resources in an attempt to revitalize the planet. It did not work.

On the day January 23rd, 2342 four colony ships, our last hope for our dying race left Earth behind. They flew past all the planets in our solar system, and then they flew by other solar systems that would had just begun to touch. They were to find a suitable home for us to once again prosper, and hopefully learn from our past mistakes. The Kilrothians didn't share that thought. It was on the 457th day that we made contact with one of their scout ships. We weren't really prepared for what happened next. In the blackness of space, the ship just disappeared, but when something reappeared, it was a much larger ship, and it put the first colony ship in their sights. The first ship didn't even have enough time to put up any sort of defense, the shot from the canon of the Kilrothian ship blew a hole clear through the ship, leaving only debris behind. The next two were a little bit better prepared and tried to make a run for it with their defenses up. They sustained several rounds of fire, and we held out hope that they would get away, but when the two other Kilrothian ships appeared, we knew that this would probably do us in. While all the chaos with the other ships occurred, the final ship was unloading passengers via escape pods. No one knew if these pods would ever find the surface of a planet, but it had to be a better chance of survival, over staying on the ship. It wasn't until halfway through the unloading that all three Kilrothian ships finally turned their canons upon the last colony ship. In a spectacular, yet eerie display of lights the last colony ship was destroyed. To this day I'll never know how we got away and the Kilrothians didn't hunt down the pods, perhaps they thought we'd die on our own, or perhaps they were convinced that someone out there would find us and finish the job they started.