Lonely this Christmas

Less than a month to Christmas. This time last year, in my/your time, we were getting ready, decorating the base, shopping, I grew the tree, so much fun. Now, it's just me, Future Diffy, and Hana. We've made it to Dover, we're just waiting for Diffy's new friends to arrive. Apparently the guy from scotland is nearly here, the rest are unaccounted for. Oh well. Diffy's been filling me in on bits of the new world while we wait.

'Something happened a few years ago, which changed everything, even for HG. The balance of evolved humans shifted. About 50% of the world has powers now. Nobody knows why. There was an eclipse shortly before it was noticed, but it's never affected that many people before though.'
'It was an eclipse that did it for me.'
'Yeah, it must be how, but it changed things for him. There was a huge wave of resistance against him, for one thing. A lot of people that had been downtrodden by him could suddenly fight back. Didn't last long of course, he beat all who tried to fight him. Most people didn't even get to him. The ordinary people fought on for a long time, in smaller ways, but he won. He's the ruler now. Every city or town where a major rebellion happened was destroyed. Anyone who resisted was flipped into a loyal zombie. Then he set about working on the planet.'
'Yeah, has he done something to the air? It feels really weird, my Weather Control's picking up so much difference.'
'That'll be the Ozone. A group of 'Equinoxes' with the right powers fixed it ages ago. He killed them afterwards of course, they were 'too powerful to live''.
'He...would..yes...'
'This was after he restored the polar ice caps to stop his world being flooded of course- oh look, he's arrived!'
I can't see him, oh wait, there's something. Up in the sky, it's a weird shape, it's, no, it can't be. No, that's just absurd.......