Space Station Saviour

The space station had begun with lofty goals of international cooperation leading to world-saving breakthroughs, but by the point of the blackout it was mostly a relic with just enough funding to keep itself going.

But then the world went dark, every signal below them suddenly gone, the last thing that was sent being a cut off message saying sorry.

The station's crew worked overtime, scanning, testing, sending message after message, trying to work out what happened, until the drifting creature sensed them and ate the station before leaving.

So the station did in fact save the world, sort of.