75 years ago, first contact was made with extraterrestrial life. It was 2020, and it had been many years since the first satellite, dubbed Reperio, had been sent into outer space with the hopes of communicating with life on another planet. When the first alien transmissions came through, Earth could hardly believe it, let alone comprehend that we’d be able to understand one another like we did.

70 years passed and Earth came to know these aliens as the Kismet. Once a year we would receive and send information to each other and on the 30th year of correspondence, the Kismet gave us the coordinates to their home planet.

On the 50th anniversary of our contact the Kismet and Humans arranged for a peaceful meeting on the Kismet's home world. Humans would travel to their planet, known as Epoch, and we would set up an embassy there. Once established, we would take a selection of Kismet and do the same on Earth, essentially founding the first inter-galactic treaty.

This agreement would happen under the premise that we would begin to trade Epochian knowledge and resources, but especially in their biological engineering; and in turn the Kismet would benefit from our technology and resources knowledge.

However when we arrived, we were not prepared for the slaughter that was the betrayal of the Kismet...

On the 70th year anniversary of contact we arrived at Epoch. A few thousand individuals who had been chosen to go, had departed from Earth upon the great vessel Primitia in 2070. Once landed, we began to create our Embassy. However, it wasn't even a year when they began to capture us. Slowly and quietly at first, but soon it was publicly known the Kismet had kidnapped about 500 humans for the purpose of torturing us and using us for our knowledge of Earth.

So began a 4 year battle with the Kismet that saw the humans who had been brought to the planet under false pretenses, wage a guerilla-style war against the traitors. Fortunately for us, being a cautious species, we were slightly prepared for what occurred. On the giant ship Primitia rested many emergency vehicles and around 2000 humans were able to escape, but only to other areas around Epoch. From there, our resistance grew and we were able to establish ourselves again, in secret this time, on the planet.

Four years have passed and humans number in around the few thousand and to add to our burden we are all doomed to die.

It all began when the first humans were kidnapped... Seeing how resilient our species was to viral outbreaks and diseases they used us to create biological weapons that would help them begin to expand around the universe. Humans happened to be the closest sentient species and we were perfect for first attack, world colonization and experimentation. When we were first captured, they used their advanced knowledge of biogenetics to develop a mutagen virus that was supposed to only affect us. They experimented vastly on us and from their haste to eradicate us they released the virus into their atmosphere hoping it would infect all of us that remained in hiding.

But it didn’t kill us… Instead its effects were far worse…

It disfigured and transformed those first infected into hideous monsters that, in turn, infected anything they managed to maul. The Kismet’s haste to rid their world of the un-captured survivors was foolish and costly. The infection spread so rapidly and was so unstable it was quickly out of the Kismet’s control and soon after it began to infect even them, their native fauna, and then even their flora too. Epoch was falling.

It’s nearing the 75th Anniversary of the day Epoch made contact with Earth and in 72 hours, according to reliable human guerilla Intel, the Kismet are leaving Epoch... earthbound… They’re going to destroy the human race using a revised virus, then cultivate earth as their new home as they have destroyed theirs.

Their brutal efforts to understand everything about us, including our location - which had been kept secret- was successful. They will leave for Earth, with what Kismet people they have left unaffected and extinguish their own world to be rid of the last humans who are their only threat for once and for all.

That is, unless you stop them…

You have barely survived the past four years… The virus the Kismet unleashed upon the humans has lain - unknown until recently - dormant within your body. But signs have begun to surface that suggest all humans on Epoch are doomed to mutate… A small glitch in genetics has allowed for you and others to stay the virus until now...

All hope for you saving earth is lost, no one can warn earth because if you were to return the virus would surely destroy earth more than the Kismet could hope to… You are stuck on Epoch left with realization that Earth is vulnerable to destruction… Humanity has no way to know that it is living its last thirty years is blissful ignorance.

BUT… There is a rumor of one woman, a geneticist and bio-engineer named Alyssa Erde. She is the only known human left alive who is completely immune to the mutagen that now plagues Epoch. Ironically she also developed the means to test humans for the deadly mutagenic virus, and also by fate is the only one to be completely immune. Adding to her incredible fate it is apparent there is one last working human escape ship that can cryogenically freeze her and preserve her for the 30 year return to earth. If she leaves within the 72 hours of the Kismet's anticipated leaving, she can engage the escape pods temporary hyperspace drive and get five years ahead of the Kismet.

These rumors are wild and ravage Epoch’s surviving humans with hope that their home can be saved.

72 hours are counting down… Alyssa must get to that escape ship and travel to Earth before the Kismet reach it first… She must warn Earth of the great threat it faces...

And hopefully with your help, Alyssa can do it.

Unfortunately you’ll be dead in 72 hours... You can't make it back to earth, you can't stop the Kismet destroying Epoch... But will you spend those last hours with your loved ones? Will you get revenge on those that have brought this doom upon you... Will you help save Alyssa or allow Earth to fall to the same fate you have...? Will you be a hero or a coward?

No matter the choice, you will die. But what is yours to decide is; whether your last hours count.