Deep Space Fireman

Civilization means spreading fire: burning is fate, passing on fire is choice In 2387 AD, the deep space monitoring array at the edge of the solar system captured an undecoded gravitational wave signal. Three weeks later, the "annihilation tide" arrived: a space-time annihilation zone advancing at 1.3 Times the speed of light. Wherever it passed, stars were extinguished and planets were disintegrated. Even light had no time to escape to report the news.