Starting in the year 2045, a series of events pushed Humanity technologically forward by hundreds of years, propelling them into the cosmos to take their place among the stars.
Scientists scrambled aboard newly built ships that could make it to any location in only a day.
Explorers rushed to chart new stars and systems, eager to make their claims on alien soil.

It took only a week for Humanity to discover one horrific thing.

We Are Alone.
This message was lightly edited by the user at 02:49, Mon 06 Nov 2017.

Bumpity bump

In reply to JimmyDJames (msg # 1):

I'm interested!

Bump!

I hate to be that guy who rains on creativity, but there is no possible way that humanity could have figured out that the galaxy was devoid of intelligent life in a week. Even if they could instantly travel to any star in the Milky Way, there are roughly 200-400 billion of them. If the drive you speak of takes 24 hours to arrive at any location, it would take anywhere between 28,571,428,571-57,142,857,143 ships to all leave at the same time. This is not accounting the time it would take to actually explore any of the star's planetary systems either.