Wreckage

  Even with Light Travel, even with the most advanced defensive measures, accidents happen. These accidents are usually small oversights, and are fixed with a simple re calibration, or a reschedule. The bigger accidents leave a few people injured, or dead. But nothing was ever as devastating as the view from the lunar surface, catching humanity's first great crash in their history of space travel.
  A ship had been orbiting Earth for several months, vast and powerful, this ship was almost fully-constructed. Changes in radiation levels had caused the workers to move the ship's orbit, hoping to avoid unnecessary exposure. Before they had time to alert their commanders of their change in movement, however, something drastic happened. Another ship had just warped into orbit. Without time to react, both ships collided, and havoc ensued.
  The lunar sky was soon filled with debris, and bodies. Air was sucked from both ships, and the combined mass was only colliding further, as gravity warped the two together. Three escape pods had left, their fiery trails fleeing from the wreckage, dropping to the moon. Steel melted, glass glittered around, like a million extra stars had been added to the galaxy. Heat created powerful explosions, shattering the ships like ceramic, lighting up in a great ball of fire, engulfing the empty space around, for a moment appearing larger than the sun. Before more could be viewed, shield generators were sent, turning the sky an electric green. For weeks, the shields stayed, occasionally flashing bright as they absorbed the impacts directed towards them.
  Thousands died, and the debris created thereafter took months to burn up, or be recycled by local collectors. Only 112 bodies were able to be collected.