"Yeah, me too."

"Do you want to go rustle up some breakfast before everyone else wakes up?"

"Yeah, I think that sounds good. I'm not that much of a cook but I'm good with cereal and we definitely got some of that."

"I can cook bacon and eggs and stuff but cereal works fine."

Off to breakfast.

Riley will wander into the kitchen after not too long.

"G'morning."

"Good morning. You two are looking a little grim. Is it just missing Earth or did something happen?"

"Apparently, there's a neutron star on a collision course with the sun. So says the news from Earth at least. The news also says that Earth will survive just fine, but I'm not sure I believe that."

Riley pulls out a chair and sits down hard. "That's discouraging. Is there any way we could know with more certainty?"

"Not really, everything we're getting is from the news on Earth and that might be doctored."

"The timing is super suspicious, considering."

"The angle they're saying the neutron star is coming in at is more so. They're saying it's going to hit the sun coming almost perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic. That's a good thirty degrees off the galactic plane which isn't entirely out of the question but it's still a little weird. The weirder part is that it's hitting the sun. The sun is pretty tiny in comparison to the solar system let alone the galaxy at large."

"What's that saying? Three times is enemy action?"

"We only have two events to work from but yes."

"I guess it doesn't change the immediate situation but it does kind of change the long term one. Like a lot."

"Yeah, I really don't want to be the last of humanity."

"Six billion fucking people."

"Hopefully there's more people in the other sections. Ten people is way too few."

"Yeah. Need genetic diversity and that shit."

"I'm not actually sure we do. The clinic can do genetic engineering and so the threat of recessive diseases is less pronounced than it would be otherwise."

"Nobody's gonna wanna shack up with their cousin or half sibling or whatever in thirty years anyway."

"Yeah, I think we could do in-vitro fertilization and such if it came to that. Also, there are hints at dealing with a lot of age-related illnesses in the system. It might be that with enough preparation and understanding we won't ever die."

"Wouldn't that be something."

"It's an exciting possibility."

"That's quite the consolation prize."