According to most mental health professionals I ' ve encounteted , yeah . <| sep |> So , who wants to become God ? I ' ll never forget those words . They were the last words out of the old man ' s mouth before he disconnected the tube that ' d kept him alive for the last thousand years . The tube that made him God . We ' d spent the last month or so heading to the strange vessel the man was on . From Earth , it looked like some kind of brass ball . Up close , it was definitely organic , with a strange texture over it that seemed to move . On the side of the entity facing us , there was an opening that looked like a cave . Oddly enough , it was fully lit , with no visible source providing this light . On the walls of this cave , ancient Greek writing could be seen . Once it had been translated , we were amazed by the story it told it described the life of a Roman from around 1000 A . D . , who was on a transport ship that mysteriously flew into space , and eventually was taken to this strange orb . The story seemed to stop there , with a sentence or two at the end inviting travellers inside a room through a passage at the end of the cave to find out what happened next . We almost certainly wouldn ' t have gone in if we ' d known the passage would collapse once all of us were inside . The first few hours after the old man ' s body mysteriously dissolved after he ' d disconnected the tube were spent discussing who should become God . Obviously , it was quite a big undertaking . Some of us didn ' t want the responsibility of being God . But in his final moments before biting the dust , the old man told us everyone else in the room would die once the God is chosen . This made the issue quite contentious , and eventually , it became a fight . In the end , I ' m not sure how , but the tube ended up in my hands . And amid all the yelling , I jammed that thing into the back of my neck , just to shut everyone up . And suddenly , I understood . The people of Earth were quite confused when the ship they ' d sent into deep space came back completely void of human life , and with over half of the food rations still onboard . All records from after the ship ' s last communication with Earth approximately two days before the Greek writing was readable had been erased , leaving the people of Earth completely at a loss to explain what had happened . The mystery was deepened by the fact the orb could no longer be seen in the sky . For the next thousand years , humanity pondered this mystery . That was , until the orb appeared once again , and I welcomed the next generation of travellers to decide who shall become God .