Final Ascent

Final Ascent

He launched with the weight of the world. But the world forgot.

As Earth withered—its skies choked, oceans soured, and cities swallowed by silence—the last embers of humanity clung to myth: hope lies beyond. From the ashes of crumbling nations, a coalition of the desperate was born. They built one ship. One chance. One final ascent.

Commander Echo was chosen to lead it.

Trained from childhood, sharpened by tragedy, Echo didn’t volunteer—he was forged. His mission: to pierce the veil of stars and return with salvation. Energy, knowledge, proof of something greater. Anything to reignite Earth’s dying spirit.

But when the ship vanished beyond the ion storms, Earth spiraled deeper into chaos. Governments fell. Archives burned. And the mission—once humanity’s last prayer—was buried beneath new wars and old greed.

Echo did not die.

He drifted.

Alone.

Systems failed. Time stretched. Rations turned to dust. But Echo endured—fueled by obsession, haunted by the oath he swore. In orbit over forgotten planets, surrounded by the bones of other missions, he waits. Watching Earth through fractured optics. Waiting for the call that never comes.

His shuttle became a tomb. His name, a rumor.
But legends persist in the static between stars.

They call him…
The Forgotten Voyager.