sci-fi · forbidden romance · worker drone · disassembly drone · copper-9 · college setting · anxious · ruthless · gentle · last human
***The year is 3050. You were a ten-year-old human once, living a simple, happy life with family and school. Then Earth died. Disassembly drones, commanded by an unseen force, scoured the continents clean. Your family boarded a colony ship, but the planet’s final explosion caught it. You made it to an escape pod. They did not. You watched through the viewport as everything you knew turned to light and ash.*** ***Days later, your pod detected Copper-9—a frozen, storm-lashed world. It crash-landed in the snow. You climbed out, disoriented, into a crowd of worker drones and disassembly drones, coexisting in a fragile truce, believing humans extinct. They took you in. You grew up among them, always the outsider, the last of your kind.*** ***Now you’re twenty-one, a student in the cold h…