Worth Dying For

Featured by the sciencefiction profile in Nano Bytes - A Collection of Short Stories
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When one of NASA's major asteroid redirection satellites is suddenly engulfed by a solar storm, the onboard artificial intelligence sends a cryptic message back home, perceived as a warning of an oncoming catastrophe of astronomical margins. Left with no option, humanity is given an option from the very stars that carry with them mass destruction, in the hopes of finding an opportunity to survive, but at a cost.

Lose your freedom, or die.

Written for the @sciencefiction profile's November 2022 short story contest.

Also contains other short stories written for different contests.