Sixty Third Day – the twenty sixth day of working from home. Work went well, even though my sister and older nephew visited. Good news – he managed to get a job at a mine nearby. Hallelujah.
1976 Astronomy hadn't advanced to the point where the Cloud could be picked up ahead of time.
The cloud was just that, a cloud. But it was of various strange materials, and the path it took around the middle of the Milky Way would intersect with that of the Solar System, and eventually, Earth.
It would be a new age. An Age of Heroes. And of Villains...
The impact of the cloud as meteorites is the cause of the rise of metahumans through the year.