The final day on Earth

It was the last day life as you know it would inhabit Earth. The world seemed quite a bit different than you expected it would look...people generally just walked/drove to the facilities all over the world to get uploaded as they had for the past few days. But occasionally you would see people running around naked or burning their house down or robbing a bank or something like that. They knew they could probably get away with it and few people would be the wiser. This prompted police to beg programmers to give them the ability to punish people in the program. The response was mixed...so much so that some programmers tried to add the new features and others tried to remove them, likely because they'd had their own fun that day.

Most people not yet uploaded turned out alright and uploaded before the day was over. There was some minor outrage amongst the people about corruption leading to some of the richer people getting far better treatment and a much bigger portion of the program's processing and memory power, but few were brave enough to try to actually take action on those feelings, as per usual.

Practically the entire world's military stood guard until the vast majority of the other people were on board all of the ships. Automated turrets using an experimental technology developed from parts of some of the alien mechanisms surrounding the launch site were relied upon so the final soldiers could be uploaded.

The people in your office threw a minor celebration—more of a collective sigh of relief that the first people being uploaded were showing up in the inter-simulatory camera feed. The full simulation would be started once all the parts were put together in orbit, but a small demo scene within each part used for testing allowed you to look into the part of the simulation near you, thus making the camera feeds possible. Before long you were being uploaded personally.

_I wonder if I'll regret not spending my final days on Earth differently... _was the last biological right you would ever have. Your body was then disposed of, the same way everyone else's was, down a chute leading to a mass grave. It was a morbid solution, but people didn't like the idea of having their bodies carelessly thrown about the road and such, even if those roads would never be used again. And it wasn't like everyone could get their own grave and coffin on such short notice.

You thought you were having a dream when you woke up for the first time in the little demo simulation you'd worked within so intensely on the outside. This was to be expected, testing had revealed that people were less conscious than normal at first. Something about allowing the mind to adapt without overwhelming it, scientists hypothesized.

Unfortunately some people didn't make it in time. A few million people were left behind and it was not especially rare to know someone who'd lost someone they cared about because of this.