The Journal of Dr Lucien Amnato

August 9^th 2066

The UN has started to shift gears, as if beyond it’s ostensibly benevolent façade lies another layer of power and military bureaucracy within which the security council can suddenly act to push through radical and unprecedented military resolutions. Their mandate is now clear: restore order at all costs and maintain stability in nations advanced enough to be deemed globally significant. The brutality of survivalism is already rearing its ugly head, I fear.

Tomorrow, leading academics, astronomers, astrophysicists, engineers and experts are gathering at a global symposium in Geneva. The group will constitute a new special UN Advisory Committee and contains representatives from all the worlds’ major space agencies. Their declaration is inevitably to be seen as the official line on the comet known to us all, in the unimaginative and detached astronomical lexicon, as C/2064U.

C/2064U…

Our collective Death?

My Salvation?

The Journal of Dr Lucien Amnato

August 7^th 2066

I feel we are reaching the apex of information storm and through the swirling rain and whipping winds of our struggle with our new reality, an image is starting to form in the distance. Perhaps it is the notion of salvation. Perhaps it is something worse. Salvation means hope and hope means idealism and idealism, in these galvanising end-days, means fundamentalism.

All of this though, all this panic and fear and dread, this sealed fate, give me more cause than ever to press on and complete the first prototype of the GODD Module. I must not allow myself to become swept along by the vile current of radicalism. I must hold my own council and make her proud.

That is what I will take from this. Strength and resolve not fear and alarm.

This is what I pledge to do; to prove my theory once and for all. And not through the pages of some esoteric academic journal, but through the evidential process of experimentation. Through the GODD Module.

I have a little over five years it would seem.