The world ended.
Well it was bound to wasn’t it?
At the time, it was not the fact that it was destroyed that came as a shock, it is was how we survived that caused the most disruption.

Little more than five hundred human beings survived and every last one of them is somebody that I know. Or to put it more accurately, they are every person that I ever remember and that remembers me.
The neural link that I have with all of these people was utilized to evacuate them from the Earth before it was destroyed. In opening up those connections, I now have access to an unnatural level of kinetic energy and an awareness of the humans that I am connected to.
In layman’s terms, I have telekinesis and can sense other people, their emotions flow into me and I can convert that into movement without physical contact.

The tharat are the race that chose to save us. It is they that found a new home for what remains of us and offered us the chance to learn more about the galactic community that we had no idea existed.

So it came about that humanity set out to its new home on the planet of Virrion.
Forty or so people remained where Earth had been, with the help of the tharat, they will build a station on the surface of the Earth's iron core to act as a signal conduit for an area of space that had previously been inaccessible to the galactic community.  In doing so, a base for trade and income can be established.
Twenty seven people, including myself, decided to take advantage of an offer to spend some time on the planet Kenglowe, a world that is dedicated to knowledge and learning. In the ten galactic units (nine local units) that we were to spend here, we would be taught about the laws we must now abide by, engineering for the advance technology that we had access to, ecological information and practices that would apply on Virrion, advanced medical procedure and chemistry for what medicine is available to replace or enhance what we might need, as well as various supplementary courses and training that took our interest.
We had been on Kenglowe for three local units when the planet came under terrorist threat from an unknown source.
So far, nothing has actually happened, however the entire planet has been put on lockdown; no travel or transmissions in either direction.

That was almost forty units ago.

Goodness knows how much longer we will be detained here for.  We have not wasted this time, all of us here have spent it honing our knowledge and skills, interacting and working alongside the billions of other beings on this planet, to keep everyone going until we are set free to traverse to our new home.
I shall also use this time to write down a full account of all that has happened until now, for future reference. My memory is sketchy at best and there is far too much that I know I will forget if I do not keep as many details written down as possible. I think I will write parts of it as a story simply because it will be easier to read back when it comes to it.

For that reason, I shall start at the end.