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and doing her daily check, still no signs of communication from the Earth, same as every day for the last five months.
                  She floated over to the viewing port and looked down at the Earth below. She could see a vast hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico annihilating all of the coastal cities, many of which were now completely under water. Observing New Orleans the floodgates had once again broken like they did back in the time of Katrina, but this time there was no one coming to clean up as there was no one left alive to rescue.
                  "Any communication from Earth?" Maria asked as she floated over.
                  "Nope."
                  "So same old same old?"
                  Amy nodded.
                  "Look at that destruction down there," said Maria as she stared at the hurricane. "It's almost beautiful in a way."
                  "I suppose there is a certain beauty in the act of destruction, especially when you know that no one is dying down there. I remember reading once how if the human race were suddenly to vanish inexplicably from the face of the earth within a century there would hardly be any signs that we ever existed at all."
                  "I can believe that. Look at how nature is wiping away all remnants of the human race in just the last couple of months. In a couple of more years we might find the Earth actually starting to recover from all the damage we had done to it."
                  Amy smirked. "I suppose the environmentalists would be very pleased, if they were alive. I was always something of an environmentalist myself actually, but I never thought that genocide of the human race was the way to go about solving the problem."
                  "I still can't believe that there is no one left alive anywhere on the planet. Nothing kills everyone. The Earth has had pandemics in the past, maybe not as bad as this one, but there has to be at least a couple of survivors somewhere."
                  Amy shook her head. "Not necessarily. This wasn't a naturally evolving pandemic. This resembles something more along the lines of a massive biological attack. They completely saturated our atmosphere so it's possible that everyone on earth who so much as inhaled any of the air might have dropped dead rather quickly, probably instantaneously."
                  "At least it was probably relatively painless. Most of those back on earth probably didn't even know what hit them."
                  Amy nodded. "I guess that's a small consolation. At least whoever is trying to exterminate us did so in one of the more humane ways possible, if you can consider anything like this the least bit humane."
                  "But if we were being invaded how come there has been no follow-up? It's been five months now and we haven't seen any signs of communication from whoever did this. If they were conquerors you would think that they would have set up on the Earth by now."
                  "Maybe this was just something that they sent ahead, like an initial attack to clear things up before the colonists arrive."
                  "My grandparents used to tell me stories about how our ancestors in Mexico were wiped out when the Spaniards came and brought their diseases from Europe. Sometimes the most efficient way of conquering a people is with microbes. So I suppose it is possible that this was the attack to wipe us out and we are just waiting for the cavalry to arrive and finish anyone off."
                  "If anyone still exists to be finished off that is."
                  "I like to remain optimistic about that possibility."
                  "If there are any survivors maybe they envy the dead."
                  "Why do you have to always be such a downer?"