Day 1,010

Excerpts from "The Great Extinction" series

Earth's lights went out slowly. At first only Doctor Jay noticed - kept a record from the first sighting up until what we'd dubbed "The Eclipse". We got all our info from the home site as normal, even after all the lights went out but from what we could tell, ours was the only working space station around. Even the Russian Salyut went dark but carried on like nothing was wrong.

They didn't seem to realise their lights were down, that or we weren't talking to the crew of the Salyut any more. At some point they started making sounds that should be impossible for humans to make - whirring clicks and metallic gulping.

We can only hope that the supplies being sent from home site are actual supplies and not... company.

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Can nobody else see that everybody is being swapped out?

They shimmer, vanish and come back so fast I miss it if I blink at the wrong time.

Still, I can tell when someone's been taken.

Their replacements don't understand how hair works.

It either hangs limp no matter the breeze or wraps around their head like a nest of snakes.

Can't help but wonder if I'm the last actual human left.

Why isn't anyone else reacting to this?

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The earth always has a way of dealing with invasive pests, be it with fire or flood or the gradual development of a deadly disease. We used to think it ridiculous to personify a planet, to treat it as though it was alive and conscious on the same level as us.

Then some rich bastard dug right to the planet's core and found out what it was truly made of.

Turns out that the core isn't super-heated metals but some organic substance very similar to our own but far more dense and to complex that the tiniest sample brought back had more computational power than every electronic device on the planet.

Of course the reaction we spurred by doing all this only seems natural, I mean we're effectively fleas that managed to trepan into our host organism's brain and took a piece away.

We were existing on borrowed time for as long as we've existed.

I can see the thick clouds of neurotoxic gas coming my way so it'll all be over for me in about three minutes if I can believe what the news said.

I'd make a joke about being on the Frontline (like the flea spray) but everything's getting awful dizzy