Infestation Protocol

The world looked welcoming. Water filled the marshes, the landscape promised beauty, and there were no dangerous animals to threaten the resort they planned to build. The insects were a nuisance, nothing more.Then the world began to fight back.The insect attacks came in waves, separated by brief periods of peace. Each time, the insects returned in greater numbers and with greater ferocity. A month of mounting terror has brought the colony to its knees.The colonists are abandoning the resort, the evacuation underway, and the chief administrator faces an impossible choice: get everyone aboard the shuttles before the next swarm overwhelms them—or leave people behind.Perhaps the insects are only following their instincts. Perhaps something else is at work.Whatever the truth, one thing is certain:This world has said no. And it's not going to let them leave.