Signal Received…

Running Diagnostic…

Connection to Earth…Established

Rebooting Model5553: Codename Noah…

Reboot Successful.

“Welcome Back, Noah.”

A layer of frost had developed over my optics as I awoke in the middle of a cold room lit only by the blue strobes of light on the floor. I was in the control room where they placed me right after my orientation to the lunar colony – the first to wake up in the event of Earth’s condition changing.

Ice crackled from my synthetic shell as I arose from my docking station and moved towards the center of the room, filled with dormant pieces of computer equipment. The frost was now nearly melted from my optics and I was able to see out of the windows of the room to reveal the grey terrain of the moon’s surface. As desolate as I remember it being, there was a certain amount of order to it’s barrenness. From the view I could make out the shape of the Earth in the distance surrounded by nothing, but void space.

The surface of the planet was still grey and blue – devoid of any life ever since the war. It was a stroke of luck that humanity was able to retreat to the moon before being consumed by it’s destruction. Why was I woken up then? I wondered.

The main terminal in the center of the room was blinking now with a series of binary flashing across the screen. I rushed to read the information coming onto the screen.

All my brothers and sisters were broadcasting the signal from the same location – meaning that they had regrouped and started the rehabilitation process on earth. A hundred and twenty-one years later…I guess it was better now than never.

Now it was time to do my job.

I walked over to the end of the room and pushed on the door until the frost snapped from the sides and the door slid open.

The long room was containers upon containers of inhabitants resting in cryo-sleep. The first pod to my right contained a person’s name and rank

            John Harrison

            Lunar Colony Commander

I opened the terminal next to the pod and synced myself with it. Within a few moments the pod came to life and the outer rim of the glass lit up. An announcement sounded shortly after:

Restoration Process Commission…Time Until Completion… Two Months, 5 days and 3 hours.

Only forty-eight-hundred more to go.