They say that darkness of the soul is a man's true nature. That every person has the capacity for wrong doings and terrible things. They say that mankinds only hope for survival is to forgive their neighbors for their acts of evil and try to steer them to the right path. I had tried that once, it resulted in me being buried beneath several hundred feet of fallen rocks and debris on Mars during the Sol wars. Luckily, I had managed to get to a cyro tube just before the cave collapsed entirely. I bolted myself in and allowed the door to slam shut.
Just as the door sealed, and I felt the coolness laying over my skin, the electrical system in the base overloaded and sent the equivalient of the power that ran the entire base through the cyro chamber, electrifying me and stopping my heart. I could feel my heartbeat slowing down and stopping, yet my eyes stayed open, the cyro fluid churning through my body. I fought to leap into the sweet embrace of death, but my body refused to die, the cyro systems were keeping me alive.
I felt my body sleeping into sleep, or was it death? I could not tell...my eyes closed, and I slipped into death, or dreamless sleep...from which, I could not tell.
922 Years Later
"Alert...no atmosphere detected outside of cyro chamber."
My eyes slowly opened as I looked out into space, my body felt cold, and brittle. I allowed my eyes to close again.
"Unable to open door to cyro tube. Opening would risk de-pressurization. Sending out distress beacon."
"Uggggh..." I groaned to myself as I tried to lean forward with the devices strapped to me. "How long have I been under?"
"922 Years, 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 15 Hours, 42 Minutes, and 2 seconds"
"That's odd, the pod wasn't supposed to unlock until 2,000 years after beginning if no one had found me...Location."
"Unknown."
"Unknown? This pod was stationed on Mars, what happened to Mars?"
"112 years through cyro cycle, systems detected a massive explosion from the Sun. Resulting wave destroyed all life in Sol. All planets except Pluto were destroyed."
"Christ...Alright. Can you do a calculation of where we are at this time?"
"System does not have enough power to run calculation. Powering down to conserve energy."
I groaned again and looked around, that's when I noticed something was very wrong with me. My muscles were showing from underneath my skin and fluid was leaking out of the holes. That explained why the cyro ended less than half way to it's ending cycle, the cyro systems exhausted themselves keeping me in stasis for this long. I reached to my chest and found my sternum almost completely visible. My heart was not beating, the only thing keeping me alive was what was left of the cyro that had been left in my system.
"Great. I'm going to die in the cold of space after I've already died once...can I die if I'm already dead?" I wondered to myself as my cyro tube floated through space. I was unaware at the time of the blackhole in the distance, the remains of Sol and of humanities previous home...