The Story - "On its way to make first contact with an alien species on the verge of warp flight, the U.S.S. Springer encounters a massive gravitational variance that seem to have come from the system that they were approaching. When they enter the system, the crew discovered something horrifying. The sun in the centre of that system has vanished without a trace. Approaching the centre, they pass a gas giant, matching the profile of a gas giant that was in the system before. Then a Mars size planet that was also within the system. The movements of those 2 planets were moving at the same speed as they would if they were orbiting the sun, but they were moving straight rather than elliptical. Then they reached the fourth planet where the aliens were preparing to launch their warp ship. All of the coast lines, mountain ranges, land masses, matching a planet that once thrived a population of eight billion humanoids, frozen solid. From the survivors, the sun winked out in an instant as though it has burned out like a light bulb. The crew of the Springer tries to figure out why the sun had vanished. A super nova would have destroyed all of the inner planets in the system and would still leave a massive gravitational body behind. A black hole would not have gone unnoticed, and would take millennia to devour the sun. If the nuclear fusion within the sun has ceased, there would still be a massive gravitational body behind. What ever it was, it left a grizzly mark. On ships, outposts, and colonies that are independent of the sun that had left them, only 73000 survived. It would have taken 14 minutes for the last photon of sunlight to reach the planet. When it finally reached the planet, everything froze over instantly. Without faster than light communications, sensors or immediately ready travel, no one on the fourth planet knew of their fate until it was too late. In the massive icy grave on the planet below, eight billion people are frozen in the very posture and position when they died." The Picture - I was debating whether to put this Star Trek picture under Sci-Fi or Horror. And I'll be honest, I have no idea what caused it. It could be that giant amoeba that is 18000 km long from the orignial Star Trek episode "The Immunity Syndrome," or it could be something else. This piture was done with AutoCAD 2002.