 0-100 hours in three minutes. Night sky begins to shift color, unknown cause. Live news reports on strange phenomena. 0-112 hours. Unknown type of radiation detected in the upper atmosphere. NASA and Foundation cosmic research teams alerted. Night sky is now a deep blue in coloration. Knowledge of incidents spreads through social media. 0-600 hours in eight minutes. Massive entity begins materializing in the sky. Able to suppress knowledge as the entity's head completely eclipses North America. Entity tentatively designated E-42-06-9. 0-900 hours in three minutes. The lack of a gravitational effect on Earth by the entity leads researchers to believe it is partially, but not completely, caporial in nature. 10-100 hours and 39 minutes. Fail is broken. Approximately 80% of the planet makes visual contact with entity. 0-1200 hours in three minutes. Entity makes physical contact with Earth. Large portions of the east coast of the US are obliterated. North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida are destroyed and replaced by an enormous crater. Shockwave from impact causes further fatalities due to resultant earthquakes and tsunamis. Deaths are estimated to be in the tens of millions. 0-1200 hours and 49 minutes. Foundation activates the ARC protocol, evacuating selected beings for transport off Earth for humanity's survival. 1-1400 hours and 43 minutes. E-42-06-9 makes contact with the US again, this time destroying North Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota while heaping up the Earth's crust towards itself. Fatalities are now unfathomable. Dozens of Foundation sites are unresponsive. Only four out of a total of 20 ARC spacecraft survived the second assault and are immediately launched into space. 1-1400 hours. The Earth's mantle begins extruding from the massive crater off the US east coast. An identified object begins manifesting inside. 1-1400 hours and 52 minutes. The four remaining ARC spacecraft successfully exit the atmosphere. 1-1500 hours and 13 minutes. Remaining countries launch a large-scale nuclear attack on E-42-06-9 to no effect. 1-1500 hours and 50 minutes. Countdown begins for ARC spacecraft to use experimental Sugiyati FTL drive, hoping to accelerate themselves out of immediate danger. 1-1600 hours and 3 minutes. All Foundation sites activate fail-safe nuclear warheads. 1-1600 hours and 20 minutes. All Sugiyati FTL drives successfully primed for activation. The fully materialized object inside the US east coast crater spontaneously combusts. ARC SS-02 captures final images of Earth before activating light speed engines. Final reports from the remaining population indicate extreme feelings of lethargy and relaxation. 1-1600 hours and 22 minutes. All contact with Earth is lost. The following message is from Captain H Hughes for ARC Foundation staff. We carry with us the hopes and dreams of the billions we left behind. Do not let their deaths be in vain. We have the opportunity to start over and we have the responsibility to uphold the values of the Foundation that we served on Earth. Nobody should know the horrors we experienced before we left and they will only remember the sacrifices people have made to get us to where we are today. That being said, the image we captured before leaving Earth will be buried under level 6 ARC command security. No one should be subjected to viewing the end of their planet, especially an ending as fickle as ours was. Our people will remember us going out in a blaze of glory, not shame.