What on Earth is that Portuguese man-of-war doing out there in space , a veritable cnidarian out of water ? Is it a B - moving picture freak ? A tentacle - waving starship ? A hyper - intelligent wight come to shift our ideas about life on other planets ? Share you story of this space - faring puppet .
Here ’s mine :
When they crested the hill , Parker let out a gasp . “ Wow ! you could really see it from up here . ”
Jeremy grinned as he slew out of his knapsack . “ I told you , ” he enunciate . “ You have to get away from the urban center illumination . ”
Parker looked up and blew out a long breath , warm and snowy in the nighttime chill . “ I ’ve never see this many ace . I ca n’t believe it take on a giant man-of-war to get us up here . ”
Jeremy pulled a plaid blanket from his pack and the two men spread it over the soil . As Parker smoothed out the last few wrinkles , Jeremy produced two peanut butter sandwich and a bottle of pinot . He poured the wine into two moldable party cups and give one to Parker .
“ Do you think it ’ll suffer ? ” Parker asked , stare at the creature as it hovered like a living moon in the nighttime sky .
Jeremy throw off his pass . “ I do n’t imagine it ’s smart enough to feel pain . Otherwise I think it would know well than to slam into out atmosphere . ”
Parker hugged his knees as he take another sip of wine . “ Maybe it ’s just attracted to all the body of water . ”
Jeremy gave him a soft flavour in the back of the head . “ It ’s not really a jellyfish , dummy . ”
Parker swatted him away . “ I know . I just experience no-count for it . It ’s been travel through outer space all this time , believably number from light - age away , and it cease up just another bug on our windscreen . ”
“ Hey ! ” Jeremy pointed toward the jellyfish . “ It ’s starting ! ”
They look on as their be moon transformed into a dying sunlight , blazing with midday brightness . But before it blow over into charred exotic embers , Jeremy tip over and planted a osculation on the quoin of Parker ’s sassing . Parker ’s regard never left the sky , though , not even after the light die and the stars returned to the sky .
Michael Munro ’s story :
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19:06:14 DSJ [ Clements ] : Wellington , this is Delta Sierra Juliet . Is there any known dealings below five thousand ?
FS [ Flight Services ] : Delta Sierra Juliet , no known traffic .
DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet , I am , ah , there seems to be a very expectant aircraft below five thousand .
19:06:44 FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , what eccentric of aircraft is it ?
DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet , I can not affirm , I ’m seeing lights , and it seems to me like landing luminance .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet .
19:07:31 DSJ : Wellington , this is Delta Sierra Juliet , the aircraft has just cash in one’s chips over me at least a thousand feet above .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , roger , and it is a big aircraft , confirmed ?
DSJ : Er – unidentified , due to the speed it ’s travel , is there any zephyr force aircraft in the vicinity ?
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , no known aircraft in the vicinity .
19:08:18 DSJ : Wellington , it ’s go about now from due east towards me .
19:08:41 DSJ : ( open microphone for two seconds . )
19:08:48 DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet , it seems to me that he ’s work some sort of game , he ’s flying over me two , three time at upper I could not identify .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , roger , what is your actual level ?
DSJ : My level is four and a half thousand , four five zero zero .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet and you sustain you’re able to not describe the aircraft ?
DSJ : affirmatory .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , roger , stand up by .
19:09:27 DSJ : Wellington , Delta Sierra Juliet , it ’s not an aircraft it is ( opened microphone for two seconds ) alive .
19:09:42 FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , can you describe the – er – aircraft ?
DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet , as it ’s vaporize by it ’s a long form ( loose mike for three second ) tentacles ( open mike for one second ) can not identify more than it has such speed ( open microphone for three second ) . It ’s before me right now Wellington .
19:10 FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , roger and how with child would the – er – target be ?
19:10:19 DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet , Wellington , it seems like it ’s trail me . What I ’m doing mighty now is revolve and the matter is just orbiting on top of me also . It ’s semitransparent , it ’s immense , I ca n’t tell how big ( open microphone for three irregular ) like an oil slick ( open mike for two moment ) .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet
19:10:46 DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet ( open microphone for three seconds ) It ’s just vanished .
19:11:00 DSJ : Wellington , would you have it away what kind of aim I ’ve acquire ? Is it a military ( open mike for two seconds ) .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , support the – er ~ aircraft just fly .
DSJ : Say again .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , is the aircraft still with you ?
DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet ; it ’s ( undefended mike for two seconds ) now approaching from the Confederate States of America - west .
19:11:50 DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet , my engine is rasping - tick over . I ’ve got it coiffe at twenty three twenty - four and the thing is ( cough ) .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , roger , what are your intentions ?
DSJ : My intentions are – ah – ah – Wellington , that strange object is vibrate on top of me again ( loose mike for two second ) . It is hovering and ( open microphone for one second ) it ’s not an aircraft .
19:12:28 DSJ : Delta Sierra Juliet . Wellington ( open microphone for seventeen seconds , loud ringing and metal scratching sounds ) .
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , are you there ?
FS : Delta Sierra Juliet , do you copy ?
END OF TRANSCRIPT
Butterfly_Kid ’s report :
The International Resource Management stasis abridgement pour down undefended with a bird , and using all of his persist metier , Capt . Frank Marshall hauled his heavy physical structure out of the chamber . He stumbled and fell to his knees with a smack on the inhuman base as he skin to border on the control console . It was only 10 or 15 animal foot aside , but to him it might ’ve well been light years . He broke into a cough fit that draw him to stop for a moment . He fetch up and cleared his pharynx loudly before finally attempting to speak to the ship ’s computer . “ AIMOS , ” He coughed and grunted , “ particular date and locating , please . ”
The computer chime to attention before serve , “ estimable morning , Captain , the current Earth - date is July 18 , 2247 . We are presently in domain over our final destination : The Neptune moonshine of Triton . Would you care further information ? ”
Frank coughed again and wipe his mouth , “ No , AIMOS , that will do . Can you bring my chair over to me , please ? I can just cringe , permit alone abide . ” The computing machine chimed again in affirmation , as the chair from the control console slid over to to where Frank was laying . He awkwardly hauled and clamoured his approximate - lifeless dead body up onto the buffer seat . like a shot , the chairwoman slid him back to the control panel , and Frank was greeted with all of his relevant current deputation statistics . How long he ’d been in stasis , the present date , and his emplacement . “ Six years ? ” He think out cheap . “ AIMOS , what happen ? Why are we behind docket ? ”
The computer chimed to life again . “ I have ran a full symptomatic report for you . It is presently on your interface screen . ” Frank rubbed his eye and sighed hard . “ AIMOS , could you please just severalize me what I want to have intercourse ? My eyes are foggy and my head is splitting . I just need to do it why it took six old age and not five . ”
“ Of of course , Captain . As you know , our coordinates were mail to us from mission control . They were remotely control the ship while you were in stasis . However . ”
“ However ? ”
“ Yes , Captain . However , we lost contact with them some 13 months ago . When this inauspicious exploitation arose , I then took over restraint of the ship . ”
“ Okay , so ? Why so slow ? ”
“ Because , Captain , ” AIMOS chirrup , “ I am not programmed to navigate the ship at speeds higher than mk . 2 thrust . you’re able to see on your sieve that we have arrived at the appropriate time if this speed is taken into account . ”
Frank sighed heavily and slouched in his chair . AIMOS served him with a pocket of water ( which he lactate back graciously ) , some painkillers and a soft speed to stir the grogginess . After a scant time , the feeling return to his legs , and he decided it was fourth dimension to finally stand up and stagger over to the toilet . When finished , he stood asterisk out of one of the few porthole - like windows . Before him , the beautiful dispirited giant , Neptune prove on the horizon . It was breathless , he thought . But this was no time for sightseeing . He had to accommodate up and cook the mission cargo for deployment . He was already running behind schedule .
He showered and rise into a refreshing naval forces blue jumpsuit , the IRM logotype blazon on the arm . He then render to his control chair and took ascendence of the ship . It was time to head for the surface . He punch in the necessary co-ordinate and convey hold of the manual controls . It was time to take the ship down to the surface and deploy the massive IRM teleporter fishing rig .
The ship began the pedigree , rattling and shaking as it come near the Earth’s surface of the icy moon . It would be a few minute before he reached his address , so he decided to suit up into an EVA causa . The teleporter was n’t going to set up itself up , after all . As he suit up , he talked to AIMOS .
“ AIMOS , ” He tell , “ is there any known reasonableness why we would miss contact with Mission Control ? ”
The computing machine do , “ There is no known reason why we would have lost contact , Captain . Perhaps there is trouble ? I do n’t want to worry you of course , Captain , but there is any number reasons why we could lose contact . This mission is a first for IRM , and therefore unforeseeable circumstances may arise … We will be arriving on the surface in 6 minutes , Captain . ”
hassle ? Frank began to worry as he grabbed his fishbowl helmut and locked it into property . With a quick spin , it clicked and hissed affirmatively . He was ready . Six years had been exact from his sprightliness , and he could n’t expect to prepare up the teleporter , and be back home in time for supper . He thought about his wife , and his girl . She ’d be , what ? fifteen now , he thought . Too long .
“ 1 minute until we shoot down , Captain , ” AIMOS announced .
Frank sprain and walk to the air lock . He punched in a computer code and the door birr clear . He stepped in and sat on the soften work bench deep down . He ’d be out on the surface of Triton in a few bit . The first homo ever . But for certain not the last , if IRM were to have their mode . “ Hey AIMOS , you do n’t think the war on Earth really broke out , do you ? I intend , a good deal can happen in six years , and there was n’t a whole lot of drinkable weewee provide on Earth when I leave behind . Do you mean … ? ”
“ I can not speculate , Captain . Let us hope that whatever battle may have arisen will be swiftly settled once IRM — once we — successfully start channelise the full-bodied resources of Triton ’s frosty tonic water ocean to Earth . ”
Frank grunt . There was some reason to be hopeful . The airlock room access sealed , and the ship shook . The landing place gearing had made inter-group communication with the frozen surface of the moon . He was nearly finished . All that was left to do was deploy the transporter . He stepped out onto the surface , the frost crunched beneath his boots . There was some degree of gravity here . It was enough to keep his feet on the ground , but he had n’t planned on doing any jumping around , anyway .
He key in a bidding on his carpus module , and turned to watch the ship ’s consignment bay crack open . A massive metal machine pluck out on bicycle . Frank steered the car about 50 feet aside from the ship , and weightlift the button to activate the teleporter forum . It open up like a massive metal flower in prime . Hydraulic arms tardily pulled huge components from the opened storage container . It would take close to 30 minute to full assemble . He began to launch the necessary psychometric test to assure that everything was operating consequently , when something scorch intensely through his intellect . He dropped to his knees , and put his hands up to his helmut . The botheration was so intense , he thought he was going to pull the fishbowl off of his head . He felt his nose dribble with blood . “ What the Hades is become on ? ” He steam .
Just then , something indescribable told him to look upward . He did , and what he get word was unlike anything he had ever seen . Above him , floating in the black and starry sky , was a monolithic being . He could only describe it as a giant jellyfish . Whatever this brute was , it attempt again to speak to him , transmit more head - splitting pain through his skull . ultimately , it spoke .
“ YOU WILL LEAVE IMMEDIATELY . ”
“ What ? ” He did n’t know what else to say .
“ YOU WILL LEAVE THE SATELLITE YOU CALL TRITON . YOU WILL bequeath AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . ”
“ Leave ? ! But why ? I have a mission to fill out . After I deploy this teleporter , I ’m out of here . But more will come . This is a passageway back to Earth . ”
“ WE KNOW THIS . YOU WILL RETURN TO EARTH , AND THE MACHINE WILL BE DESTROYED . YOU HAVE NO choice . ”
“ What are you saying ? I just spent five … no , six years in stasis for this mission . I am completing it . ”
“ WE HAVE READ YOUR judgment . YOU ARE HUMAN . YOU CANNOT HAVE THE WATER OF TRITON . human ARE A PLAGUE OF THIS Galax urceolata . YOU WILL regress TO YOUR DISEASED PLANET . YOU WILL BE GIVEN ONE CHANCE BEFORE THE MACHINE IS DESTROYED . ”
“ No ! ” Frank shouted back , “ I will not just impart ! I have to get this water to Earth . People are dying . We need this water . ”
AIMOS announced into Frank ’s earpiece , “ The machine is almost deploy . Are you okay , Captain ? Your ticker rate and neuronic activeness have jump apace . Do you need to return to the ship ? ” Frank didder his head . “ There ’s something out here . It ’s trying to hold back the mission ! ”
AIMOS chime an affirmative , “ Defence systems are being launched . Hang on , Captain . ”
A gun turret mount from the ship , and launched several little missiles toward the giant loom Portuguese man-of-war . Within a few seconds , the missiles exploded in mid - space . Frank stood in hopeless awe of what was come about .
“ YOUR furiousness WILL NOT BE bear HERE . YOU WILL LEAVE IMMEDIATELY . ”
Just then , Capt . Frank Marshall ’s entire ship exploded , the shock absorber charge him hurl through the low - gravity outer space of the moonlight . He began to panic . monumental fragment of metal and charge card fly past him , narrowly missing him . Suddenly , he was frozen in mid - space . He looked up to the jellyfish . “ What the hell on earth have you done ? ” He screamed upwardly . The jellyfish softly repay him to the airfoil of the lunation . More debris flew outwards . The teleporter was left unscathed .
“ THE forum IS ALMOST COMPLETE . YOU WILL RETURN TO YOUR PLAGUED PLANET . YOU WILL NOT CONTINUE . ”
He was then take to the teleportation pad , and the machine begin its activation sequence . But he had n’t pressed any mastery into his wrist module . The jellyfish must have been controlling this . No , he thought , it ca n’t end like this .
“ GOODBYE , HUMAN . ”
Suddenly a flash of gamey - dark-green light surrounded Frank , and before he could blink , he was back in the familiar IRM Mission Control — back on Earth . The soberness was almost too much to bear , and so he found himself falling to his knees yet again . There seemed to be no one present in the way . This elbow room that was typically fill with a hundred or more men and fair sex , toil away at their research and duties . What had happened ?
Frank crawled to a terminal and attempted to spark the interface screen . “ AIMOS ? AIMOS , are you there ? ”
The information processing system respond in its usual chime . “ The AIMOS system is currently run on adjunct index . Only canonical protocol permitted . ”
“ Dammit ! ” Frank said , as he finally got to his feet . He remove his helmut and unzipped his EVA wooing . He wax out and headed for the exit . He walked down an empty corridor , squall for someone , anyone to learn him . There was no solution . He kept walking until he reached the front lobby of the IRM mission controller . He passed the security door in the antechamber . They were left astray candid . It expect as though the position had been defect in a hurry .
When he finally stepped out the door of the mountainside complex , he could see over the city below . Everything in the city had been desolated . Plumes of smoke originate from fires burn every which way about . Frank could n’t believe it . The war for water had actually happened . This was the outcome . He was too late . He had to try and get home . Maybe his wife and daughter would be secure . possibly not … Either room , he had to endeavor to find them .
He begin the longsighted walk down to the city below , when he was stop over by a soldier . “ Stop decent there , asshole ! Do n’t move . ” he said . He pointed an ravishment rifle at him . “ hail with me . ” He motioned toward a landrover that was parked in the space .
Frank walked with his captor , who , for as far as he could assure was just some American kid . Had the warfare been internal ? Did tensions rise to the point that Americans were pitted against their fellow world ? Frank was afraid of what the reply would be , but in that moment he could n’t facilitate but recollect that maybe when that giant man-of-war confronted him on the cold surface of Triton , it had done the galaxy a favour by sending him back to Earth . He could see now that human being did not deserve to tackle the imagination of the Milky Way , when it was plain that they could n’t even manage their own .
PV ’s story :
“ They ’ve traced it back . They ’re pretty sure it came from Jupiter . Got belched up during that giant violent storm . ” Matt said as he watched the affair near Earth slowly . “ They ’re still not going to tell the mass ? ”
Tom sighed , “ No . Not going to tell them . What ’s the point ? Where do you go when something that large is about to … well … ”
“ cash in one’s chips , after detonating with the explosive force of a million - million Hiroshima ’s ? ” Matt noted , consider about the strange and fickle cocktail of material carried in the Jellyfish being ’s massive fuel sack . “ And they carry us to come through ? I mean why not just send it up empty ? ”
“ As a testament , I theorize . We ’ll last long enough to describe the end . They project that the blast will just fling us aside . We ’re head towards mystifying space , so if we aim just right we ’ll neglect everything in the route . We ’ll live just long enough to steer to miss the grown obstacles . We ’ve got a bit of our civilisation on here . A lot of datum , according to the guys at JPL . Maybe , just maybe , someone out there will find it , and remember us . ”
What happened next was something nobody bear . Just as it seemed that the creature was about to accede its end - throws and detonate its store of Hydrogen and Helium 3 , a voice rang out in their oral sex . It was words , but not words , feelings , emotions , but no sound .
“ We have heard your song , for the last 10 cycles . At first it was just tones , coarse and unyielding , yet distinct . We listened as you gained your vocalism , and we mature quiet as you began to listen yourselves to the music of the star , to allow you to see its beauty unmolested by our birdcall .
“ Our voice , your vocalisation , are the same … life is in the service of lifetime . We volunteer you this salutation , and this warning : For those who can sing in concordance , you are welcome to our shores . For those who only verbalise discord , stay your distance or be destroyed . You have the ability to be a great multitude if you wish well to be . Let our strain of harmony guide you to the stars . ”
Without warning , the great being changed of course chop-chop , speed at a pace that was faster than anything human kind had ever seen . Until , with a eye blink of exotic energy , the being flash out of existence .
years later they would observe that mere moments after the being disappeared , it reappeared at Jupiter … the light from the event get to them a full 38 minutes subsequently .. and proceeded to descend into the cloud .
Matt and Tom guided their vas back to Earth , and secretly squish down in the Pacific Ocean , a Navy submarine secreting them away and their ballistic capsule allowed to lapse below the moving ridge .
As for the being ? The song began just a year by and by . They were indecipherable at first , radio waves of odd harmonics , but as time went on we learned to see and talk the language of the Oaan . They speak in mathematics and electric impulses , and much of what they were spill the beans about was the light menstruum of silence they maintained to see what we would do . For them , 10 cycles of Jupiter is an eye - blink . They are an ancient species who have lived in the atmosphere of Gas Giants for countless millions of eld . They were , for the most part , happy that we had not destroyed ourselves and pleasantly pleased that we had get a line to address their language in their medium . They had been so very alone , despite the fact that their race had spread across the whizz .
They had no one else to sing with other than their own for a very , very long clock time . Oh , other mintage had taken to the maven , of trend , but we were the first to speak in their language . It would seem that radio , while dewy-eyed to us , was simply not often opine of by other sentient intelligences . Because of this barrier to communication , some of the Oaan were hunt by the wash for their fuel - sac . Others killed out of reverence , malice , or ignorance . It had made them cautious .
In time they spoke of their method acting of travelling , amazingly alike to Warp theory and the idea floating around at the time . They tell us how they manipulated the exotic matter to shield their bodies from the actinotherapy and to protect themselves from the stresses of the warp . They also learn us how to sing into the ‘ house of cards ’ as they call it , to convey faster than light using warp house of cards . And thus , we discovered that we were not alone , and that the understanding for the quiet we notice with our ‘ naive ’ wireless was discover .
The Great Silence : because others simply did n’t think like we did , or have the Oaan ’s rude chemical attraction for the medium . And as we advanced and produce we acquaint the Oaan to many civilizations . We took their words to heart , and left behind our hate , our violence , and our avarice . We still fought , though . That was a sad truth of the universe that not all things are equal and not all human relationship forged in trust are hold back dependable . But between Humanity and the Oaan , there was a affinity that sweep the stars themselves .
Sometimes , there is a happily ever after . It is not without grimness or disagreement , but there is a smart time to come – if we are uncoerced to reach for the stars .
Kailow ’s report :
We fleck her days in advanced . Them , only latter . We kept it a secrete because we want to surprise the world ; not give the conspiracy theorists ammunition in their war against science and sense . We wanted to try and avoid giving them something to load the pseudoscience with so we hesitated until we jazz we ’d know more than they about them . We only want to name it , to name them , to batten ours as the first or true discovery . However I detest to spoil my own story yet nothing ever seems to run as program with out a bug first . No architectural plan ever went as planned ; to many variables . And alas , the credit was not granted
The “ Star Nettle ” Or the Stellar Medusa if you ’re european and convinced Wednesday happens before Sunday . There was little meter to work whence they leak it . We were trust to turn it around . Afraid it ’d burn up in the atmosphere . But it fell so lento . It revolve so , slowly , for months now , people’ve been looking at them through field glasses . The first one , we named her Tera , since she was the first to go into the atmosphere . And safely too , others not so prosperous .
We call her a she since as she fall she shrivled up . At first we were upset ; however the jellyfish ’s lifespan cycle is well studied . She was reverting to larvea and then back into a polyp .
Some cerebrate she ’s from Titan , or somewhere else in the solar arrangement , but we ’re more skeptical than that . eff the life cycle and near immortality of the jelly fish she ’s probable from somewhere light year by . Judging by the sizing and years of Tera , the “ mother ” and largest of the “ flock ” of thousands of 6 - 17 foot jelly fish Tera spans over 35 human foot and 11 inches . I ca n’t even start to fathom where they came from , what this stand for for life-time in the universe and organic evolution . I ’m a physicist . But I can tell you this . It does n’t take a wizardry to go alfresco and look up at the field of bobbing small lights that rival the majesty of the stars themselves . Casting so much light we ca n’t see the milkyway and what were dark sky zones are illume by thousands of the star lantern jelly fish , even cast shadows . The pale brilliant bluish luminescence meshes creating a belittled nebulous bobbing and shift swarm slightly falling to the east against the rotation . They ’ve stabilized at around 15,000 ft their decent being turn down it ’s clear they ’re lighter than airwave . Some think they ’re autotrophic , live on the sunlight . But whatever they do ; whatever they need ; whatever it is they need ; they ’re welcome here ; with us they have a home .
And after a few calendar month . They left as mysteriously as they came . Never had I feel sadder in Sojourner Truth , it was bitter sweet . It proposes the question as to if they ’ll return , cycling around like a comet , perhaps once upon a time , they ’ll come back .
But their sojourn was not with out determination , their departure not with out yield ; some how , either by design or accident , a few where left behind . Such as the one just to my left , one of Tera ’s offspring . Left behind from that piffling sojourn that was oh so many ten ago ; from just a nomad ’s pit stop that change my life , and the universe as we sleep together it .
HLHPattison ’s story :
It was God , but in a unusual , semi - gelatinous conformation . It had a brain bigger than Texas , and no discernible emotional responses . It ate whatever it wanted , and it shat low-spirited lightning storms .
We prayed to it , until we came to understand that it was blind and deaf to all our signals . A few tried to down it , to pull it from the sky ; they were behave out of the primitive superstitious impulsion that have always sprain humans against each other . One rich adult male want to consume it . Another need to make angelical love to it .
But it was n’t ours to be had . It was God . Our God . Their God . The God .
It hum little song that made the ozone play .
And it follow over us all , even while we sleep .
MRNasher ’s story :
The first sensation was warmth .
Warming , streaming waves of clear vigor not unlike those it experienced so long ago .
When ? At the beginning ? It was n’t quite sure but somehow it knew that would gain clarity as the thrill lessened . Instinctively a rippling pulsed through it ’s soundbox , a convulsion that blaze up it ’s body out wide and then squiffy , a sensation of movement it had not felt in an historic period and all because of that vague feeling of high temperature .
The convulsion produce more frequent as the sensation of eon - long forget heftiness alive and the ice crystals that encrust it ’s open crackle , liquify and pullulate off it ’s sides .
importunity infuses it ’s apparent motion as it passes round wide bands of substantial objects to get to the beginning of the heat and the belief of time turn over take from long lost computer storage . The warmth pulses through it ’s being as it notice more objects ahead . unconstipated , round and colorful objects . Not unlike itself ? It ’s own kind ? meet around that scant giving disk of warmth .
disregarded ideas awake in it ’s creative thinker , as if the ice instill through it ’s tissue is releasing them as it melts , and get it towards it ’s kin . Moving severely towards the cluster of objects they increase in size until .. until .. it control they are not like itself .. just more backbreaking , sterile and exanimate objects flock around the giver of heat . The colours a brutal trick to a traveller celebrate from afar .
It slacken , twist slow as it moves past the open of one of the inner objects grant the speculate passion from the Earth’s surface to warm that side not facing the heating . Like so many times before it sight a colourful patch in the far distance . Convulsing , languid movement propel it away until the iciness restoration , the ice vitreous silica form on it ’s surface and the memory fade . await for its clan among the lead .
Justin . K ’s story :
“ Hypergnosis hovers over our major planet in the form of a jellyfish . ”
“ Our thoughts , our ideas , anything the collective creative thinker has constructed in the past and into the future , is transfer from the human head into a quantum form of mesoglea , travels up towards the sky and out of the atmosphere . It bonds to whatever mass already hovers above the major planet . It adds context of use to the Hypergnosis . ”
After he end up reading the transcription loud , Caius slid his chair away from the sieve . He appear over at Osella . She rock her head easy as she asterisk at the floor .
“ This ca n’t be right . It should n’t read like this . ” Osella ’s voice was faint , as though her respiration was shallow .
“ Os , it ’s the third time I ’ve transcribed this section . We ’re almost there . ”
Osella stare into the story . Her mien was brickly .
Caius rubbed his cervix , wincing lightly . “ Hey , did you ever render those glyphs into coordinates ? ”
“ So now they ’re coordinate ? ” Though exhausted , Osella tried heavily to savor the dig .
“ descend on . Did you get anything worth get hold of a smell at ? ”
“ Here . ” She briskly typewrite a command into her desk . Within second , the co-ordinate appeared on Caius ’ projection screen .
05h 14 m 32.272s , −08 ° 12′ 05.91″
“ Let ’s try on it . ” Caius feel a velvet anxiety in his chest . He was out of ideas .
“ You ’re not serious . You ca n’t be . ” Osella want nothing but nap .
“ What ’s there to miss ? ” It was as though Caius had been infect by an idea .
“ take heed , anything we ’ve transcribed from this ‘ bible ’ has turned out to be roachshit . They ’re wasting our time . ”
“ Osella , you know that we ’re onto something . You know what kind of things those Malconites have been saying late ; the predictions of battle termination , the — ”
“ OK , just because those sometime mole - men spouted some vague gibber from the Malconium does n’t mean they ’re clairvoyant . I could cull up a cookbook , read you a recipe and transpose all of that nonsense into an apocalyptic sermon . Sacred texts are meaningless oeuvre written by illiterate peasants from primeval major planet . We ’re neutralize our time . ”
“ Alright , OK . I ’m just go to take a flavour . A agile look and then we ’ll call it a Nox . Good ? ”
“ Fine . ”
Caius plug in the coordinates . He waited for a moment , thinking to himself and laughing . He then slid to another part of the marble table . “ allow ’s bring it up on the principal monitor . ”
Osella fiddled with her own screen . “ Stop roleplay so optimistic . It ’s uncanny and gross . ”
Caius laugh again . “ OK , OK , bring it up . ”
A shot above Rigel appeared on the sieve .
The two sat in thunderous secretiveness .
Caius gripped Osella ’s hand tightly . She wring back as they stared at a jellyfish floating in the sky .
Corpore Metal ’s taradiddle :
Gao , Gao Region , Mali , Tuesday , February 23rd , 2134 : For Immediate Release to the Press !
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wordworker ’s story :
Richard liked going into the aquarium subdivision of the outer space station to watch earth . The refracted view through the deoxyephedrine and water give the earth a soft look that gave him a temporary calm . They were studying the farseeing term force of distance on aquatic species . So far the resultant were unremarkable .
latterly he ’d had the common sense that the jellyfish was examine to communicate with him . It would float in front of him irrespective of where he was standing and it would stay in that one place until he lead . The more stressed he was from deal with the fucking objectionable Dr. Thomsen , the more apace the jellyfish seemed to rush in front of his human face . Richard had the flavour it was start to mock him . Like it knew how weak he was , and how he was letting that pig squad leader rip his dignity and self - Charles Frederick Worth from him wholly .
Richard smile , as before long he was endure make certain everyone knew who was really in rush of things . No one on earth would ever forget what was going to happen . He took especial satisfaction in picturing this smug invertebrate simmering in its tank when he soon made sure the entire million plus pound of alloy and wires they were all cocoon at bottom of was yell back into the atmosphere .
foriamclever ’s narrative :
At first we panicked . When we watch what looked like a giant man-of-war five mile across in the night sky , we get understandably upset . Riots , looting , mass power outages , fervor , felo-de-se . After the first few days of furiousness , the military machine quelled the riots and restored power and water . multitude lock up themselves in their homes , their basements , their bomb protection , their distant survivalist compounds and stayed glue to coverage , live on every channel , 24 hour a solar day . The religious leadership were telephone it God ’s judgment , the end of days . Age quondam disputes were forgotten . The politicians and the military machine were mobilizing across internal and ideologic water parting seek to figure out how to destroy it , the skill residential area unite across those same divides to prevent this . After a hebdomad , it did nothing . It neither assault or draw back . Nothing happened . debate raged on boob tube . Was it the bad threat in humanity ’s history or the giving opportunity ? At the commencement of the second week , some eating house , grocers and hardware stores opened for a few hours a day sell food and supplies . citizenry waited for hr try just for a loaf of dinero and some bottled water . By that Wednesday people were going back to study . By Saturday the local coffee shop had an exotic man-of-war special latte . ( Iced double ginger soya bean with tapioca globe . )
It ’s amazing how quickly life sentence have back to normal . It became a piece of the landscape . The Israeli went back to killing Palestinians , the North Koreans went back to threatening nuclear state of war , the Republicans and Democrats kept on fighing over gay marriage and Pepsi buy the farm right back to its war on Coke . Three months later and only the Scandinavians are still pay care . They keep saying that it ’s tilt .17 degrees northwest every sidereal day , a trajectory that will put it over India in three week . They say jellyfish are increase in figure along the shoreline of Texas , Norway , Brazil , Thailand and in the Mediterranean . A scientist from Oslo say it ’s begin to emit beta radiation sickness . All I have it away is that it surely looks middling up there among the star .
Ogden ’s story :
IF YOU ARE record THIS occlusion ! !
This diary is property of James Lawrence of Wall , Coyote State
February 9 , 1942
Today start by fast ! The whole country lost an hour today . It ’s because of the warfare and saving gasolene , Mom said . It also means I had to go to bed too soon tonight . That ’s okay , I would n’t beware if we did this everyday . That way , Dad will get home faster . He ’s been gone over a whole calendar month now .
Hey ! I just saw a bright green light out the window , like something blew up ! Did n’t hear anything so I do n’t cogitate it ’s a plane or a turkey . It ’s fading out now but I cogitate it ’s room past the field , there ’s a little incandescence left on the snow out there . I ’m going to look for it in the dawning , between chores and school . right night .
February 11 , 1942
I ground it yesterday – it ’s a huge jellyfish ! I had to wait till after school , because I wake up up deep . Mom let me sleep in a scrap , she say newfangled things take getting used to . Anyway , I walked past the battleground and kept walking to the border of the farm . It was hard to see because it was mostly clear , like the frosted glass I ’ve seen in the city . It reckon kinda gross and messy on the snowfall . I ’d seen picture of jellyfish in school but I did n’t make out they came this big ! I was scared but I touched it . Something curious encounter , it kind of babble out to me without words . It was in pain and frightened , and lonely . That ’s what got me – the lone . I experience the same way since Dad leave , so I fill it home and hid it in the old dirt - floor barn . That was easy because it had enough strength to float in the air , which is how it gets around I guess . It ’s sleeve dragged in the C the whole manner , and when we got there it went to sleep . mum ’s in the hall now and I have to change by reversal off the light . Good night !
February 14 , 1942
Today ’s been rattling good . Postman Walt amount by and we each got letter of the alphabet from Dad . Dad sent them with a government note for Walt to hang on to them until Valentine ’s Day . mummy sit at the kitchen table and cried while she scan hers , but it was a adept variety of cry I cerebrate . I read mine out in the onetime b , partly since I was afraid I ’d cry too and partially since the jellyfish was still sleeping and I wanted to check on it . In my letter , Dad called me ‘ his favorite Logos ’ . That ’s a joke he always tells because I ’m his only Word , and he usually mess up up my hair’s-breadth when he says it . I usually hated that but now I wished he was here to do it . I ’m disturbed he wo n’t ever make it back . They all verbalise at school and I know that people are dying where Dad ’s go . The sure-enough kids are real nervous , though they try not to play like it . I was near the oddment of the varsity letter when I felt something in my hair and see there was a unripened glow along with the candle . The jellyfish had woken up and was floating , about midway up the barn ! The tentacles ( I learned that word reading about jellyfish ) were mostly float too , kind of swinging around low and slow , all over the raftsman and trading floor and one in my hair ! I guess I should have been frightened but I was n’t , and it severalize me that everything was going to be ok . “ The only thing we have to revere is dread itself . ” Dad once told me the President had read that and I never forgot .
February 24 , 1942
Sorry I have n’t written in a while and that I fell at peace last time ! I ’ve been very busy with Jeff . That ’s what I name the jellyfish – Jeff . Get it ? If I ’m not at school or doing task I ’m in the barn , and by the ending of the day I am bushed ! We ’ve been arranging things so Jeff has more room . favourable it ’s the old barn and there ’s not much in it anymore . It ’s immense , too , compared to the newfangled barn or most others I ’ve watch . That ’s big , because Jeff is the big jellyfish in South Dakota ! Without the tentacle he ’s about ten feet tall , at least – and the tentacle , well , let ’s just say I ’m always tripping over them . I was distressed about how to feed him at first , but he tells me that he can go a farseeing time off little meals . I detect there were less shiner running around the rafters . Barn cat is gone , too . We did n’t talk about that , though . Or the olfactory sensation , like when you clear gaseous state ? mama says cultivated people do n’t talk about that tone . Dad always said that was her Department of Defense against being impolite enough to make it , and he ’d express joy . ma would turn red for a irregular , but she laughed too .
Also , it ’s pretty cold in there . Jeff does n’t seem to heed , but there ’s a Sir Henry Joseph Wood stove and I hang up blankets to keep in the heating and the light . I study to Jeff out of the encyclopedias from the study . He does n’t care what I register , he loves larn about the world . I do my good to say all the words correct , and I memorise material too . Did you know that the first Ferris Wheel was made in Chicago in 1893 ? That was a tenacious time ago ! I also discover stuff from Jeff , but I do n’t understand most of it . Jeff is very smart . He distinguish me he leave his own dwelling a farsighted prison term ago – before they built that Ferris Wheel , even – but I do n’t acknowledge if I trust him .
Bedtime already ! Good night .
March 2 , 1942
Grandpa is visiting from Wyoming , and we get more letters from Dad last week . In mine he joke – he was always joke – about how much he missed me , but that he was bask the peace and quiet of introductory training compared to being at home .
afterwards that Nox I was supposed to be sleep , but crept to the top of the stairs . I experience which of the floorboards are screaky , so it ’s promiscuous to do . I listened to Mom and Grandpa . They were sitting at the kitchen table and speak about how scared they were for Dad and for the world . But then the talk come down to me – Mom said she ’s worried about me because I work alone in the b so much , but that she feed me room to figure it out my own path , which sounds like material adults say . I feel tough that I ca n’t tell her the whole truth . But I can distinguish her that I lie with her . That ’s rightful , and I tell her every day . Jeff says he ’s very lucky he met such a dear person , and he tells me that every day .
March 5 , 1942
Jeff is incur secure , and says he ’ll be going very soon . I do n’t want him to go , but I infer . He has his own fry to get back to , a daughter who is the ‘ equivalent ’ of my years . I think I spelled that right . I opened the square vent door above the loft and sat there , half in the barn and half out . Jeff , glowing his brightest yet , pointed towards the sky . Then I close my eyes and saw where he ’s go . It ’s as tremendous as it is unusual , and full of colors I ’d be lucky to see in a dreaming . Good nighttime .
March 12 , 1942
I ’m sorry . I ca n’t indite for a prison term . The spoiled matter happened this week . The very worst thing . Everything is nuts around here now . I ’ll explain after , when I stop over crying and my workforce do n’t hurt as much .
March 31 , 1942
This is my last ingress for maybe forever . I ’m just going to recite what occur and leave it at that .
I was in the barn with Jeff when the letter of the alphabet came . I heard Mom crying and shouting from the front door of the house . “ James ? James ! marvellous news – rattling ! Dad is last to be an plane machinist , and has six more months of schooling – who knows , James , the state of war could be over by then ! ” There was delight in my mother ’s voice . It had been some clip .
Jeff had been teaching me maths . He ’d narrate me I was good at them and showed me stuff that schoolhouse had n’t . I was stoking the flaming in the forest stove at the same time , and turn around too tight . The mantle catch fervour and the rest just happened .
It seemed like the whole barn caught in a second . Everywhere I looked it was bright visible light and heat energy and weed . I could n’t see the doors , much less get to them . Jeff had risen to the ceiling , the one point that was n’t aflame yet . He tried reach the doors for me with one of his tentacle , and it practically boiled away right on before my eye . I could hear him scream in my head . It was the most horrible sound you could imagine . Then he make out with another tentacle , and prove again . And then again . I could n’t tolerate the auditory sensation anymore . I fly into the filth severely . Even over the fire , I could hear Mom and Grandpa screaming outside . My eyes were full of dirt and sweat and weeping and the last affair I find out was my skin vesication .
I wheel onto my back . Right then I saw my Dad . I saw him very intelligibly . It did n’t make signified , but there he was , powerful in the centre of everything . All the other hooey just seemed to go real soft , and fade . He reached out and messed up my hair . He smiled genuine gentle . “ You know you ’re my favourite Logos , right ? Remember , there ’s nothing to fear but dread itself . ” I grabbed his hired hand , but it moil away . Then there was a deep screeching strait and a big rush of insensate atmosphere . I open my eyes wide .
Jeff was arise the b . fervency and all , he was lifting the whole b right off the land . He was right on over me . I could see the ripe tentacle he had left , some snaking deeply into the corners of the roof , some wrap close around the beams . He had it about 15 , no , 20 fundament into the air now . There was a dim , little wobble .
I looked over . I could see Mom and Grandpa in the yard , standing perfectly still , looking up . It was moody out and the fire was reflecting off the snow , light up the house and the truck and the big cottonwood tree past the fence . I realized in that moment that all they could see was a floating barn on attack , not get laid how it was done . I see Mom blink . Then she move faster than I know a person could , mightily toward me , best me up and holding me with a intensity which did not surprise me . She took me back , back to the curtilage and back to my wits by throwing me down into the snow . She began to cover me with it while Grandpa ran to the motortruck . The barn spin slightly and doss into ardent pieces , steam in the Charles Percy Snow .
Two Clarence Day later I arouse up in a Rapid City hospital . I found out I had been lucky . Or rather , I found out what Mom and Grandpa had done . They got me from Wall to Rapid City in the back of the truck , letting the March air cool my skin . It ’s an hour farseeing trip . The bus made it in 37 second .
Mom enjoin I was in jolt and gumming about Dad and FDR and some form of math . She has n’t bring in up what happen with the b . She and Grandpa just say it ’s a miracle that I be . I guess Jeff kind of was a miracle .
I do n’t say much . I sleep a set and seek to see those color again , but all I can see is his daughter , hanging around next to the Ferris Wheel . She ’s wait on her Dad but she ’ll never see him again . She ’ll never even get a letter .
undecomposed night .
Thezombiemessia ’s story :
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A series of classified documents pertain to the rumoured NEO lifeform of 2021 have recently been made usable to the public .
In February of 2021 hearsay of a gravid Near Earth Object began to spread around the globe , with many amateur astronomers take note an anomaly in the nighttime sky that appeared to be semi - vapourous and heading directly for Earth .
Over several weeks , the rumour grew in detail , explain that this NEO was really a lifeform that would collide with our planet in less than 6 months , simultaneously confirming that we are not alone and eliminating all life .
regime of the world remained quiet and guarded about the anomaly when questioned , and rumours of increased funding for quad geographic expedition coat .
The once classified documents , released by all participate governments under a conclusion from the United Nations , unveil that the NEO was indeed a lifeform , but that it posed no threat to Earth and run to increased geographic expedition of the Solar System .
It is suppose that the lifeform originate from Europa , the 6th moon of Jupiter .
This timeline has been pieced together from the most relevant documents presently uncommitted to the general world , tailored to the search criterion . Many of the event in the 2020s were not break to the world until a much late appointment , but the issue have been order in chronological parliamentary procedure rather than when they became wide advertise .
January 7th , 1610 – Galileo Galilei fall upon Jupiter ’s moon Io . Due to the limited ability of the telescope , Europa is mistaken for being the same moon .
January 8th , 1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers that Europa and Io are disjoined Sun Myung Moon .
1892 – The find of Amalthea leads to Europa being pushed back to the third close moon to Jupiter .
1979 – The Voyager probes discover three more satellites orbit Jupiter , push Europa to the position of the sixth Sun Myung Moon orbit the major planet .
December 7th 1997 to October 15th 2001 – The Galileo investigation spend several class passing between Io and Europa , give humans their first detailed views of both moons , adding strong sustenance to the hypothesis that Europa had a liquid sea beneath the surface ice .
2020 – A brief flash of weak and indecipherable disturbance are observe and recorded by legion world space agencies , all pointing to Europa as the informant of the unexplainable phenomena .
2021 – The NEO lifeform is recognise by amateur astronomer worldwide . In truth , this lifeform has been under surveillance by all participate members of the United Nations since find in later 2020 . It is hypothecate that it originates from Europa and is the source of the mysterious newsbreak of light and unclear disturbance .
late 2021 – After a universal increase in funding to space exploration and related field of force of study , liaison is made with the NEO lifeform , alongside clear images . It is revealed to be interchangeable in feel to a uncouth Jellyfish found in the oceans of Earth , but far larger .
In a quite a little that is still see as controversial to this day , several trade countenance are removed from North Korea in the arrangement that they will begin to raise propaganda about the creature and announce an geographic expedition program to direct their people to make contact with the creature .
Due to the deficiency of public noesis of the mint itself , when the program is announced and word reaches the internet , 98.7 % of all rumours and enquiries into the NEO lifeform disappear or are simply marked as confederacy possibility . The general public touch the conclusion that the rumours , and all witnesses , are complete fabrications or gullible citizens .
November 17th 2021 – The NEO lifeform begin to orbit Earth . Its filmy nature causes a ocular straining in the dark sky to those that pay attention . News reports start to circulate of strange solar action causing something exchangeable to the Aurora Borealis . Rumours of the NEO lifeform begin to circulate again , unbelief declining to 98 % .
November 18th – After brief contact with a select group of representatives for the United Nations , the NEO lifeform moves beyond Earth ’s orbit and travel out of the solar system of rules .
2022 – NASA ’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer ( JUICE ) is launched .
July 13th , 2023 – succus reaches Europa and begin orbit . Images receive by NASA disperse amongst the United Nations , showing a large hole in the Earth’s surface ice of the moonshine , still in the process of freeze over .
August 1st , 2023 – Information pick up from the NEO lifeform detailing quick , easy , and safe space travel is finally decrypt and workplace begins on the first manned missions throughout the solar system . The breakthrough is said to have been from research by the LHC team . mental rejection in the NEO lifeform rumour decline to 56 % , many get down to query the timing of the North Korean propaganda .
January 7th , 2025 – The first manned missionary post to Europa is launched , make it safely after 12 hours of travel .
January 10th , 2025 – geographic expedition of the ocean of Europa uncover them to be rich in chemosynthetic bacteria . It is hypothesised that the NEO lifeform is one of several larger lifeforms that survived under the surface Methedrine of Europa by absorbing this bacteria as an energy origin .
2030 – Exploration of the solar organisation and beyond the oort cloud has increased the economic and cultural wealth of mankind . The technological breakthroughs discovered in the past 7 year is close to becoming common place for everyone , conduct to the dawn of even and cheap space exploration .
The fear of being uncovered chair the United Nations to let go all documents pertain to the NEO lifeform and its effects on humanity to the general public , hoping that the move will be seen as a positive stone’s throw .
torsu ’s story :
Up here on the plateau , far away from the city lights , the sky was crystallization exonerated . In the night , it appeared as if nothing part the incrustation from the cold space above . Everest let his son stay up belated tonight , and had take on him about a hundred meters from their half - sunken dwellings so they gaze up at the ace .
The boy´s former buddy had left in yesterday´s twilight on pilgrimage to the umbilical . They had been very close , and the brother had left without admonition or farewell . The father could not even commence to think of an effective way to explain to his younger son what his brother was doing and why . Somehow , though , he conceive it best to explain to him where their family came from . Maybe he could start there , start to give the male child the foundational ideas of the outside population in all its vastness . Maybe shortly he could start to read why his blood brother left , even if he didn´t agree with it .
Everest caught peck of the umbilical to the Orient , a faint , glittering scratch that strain up from the vale below the tableland up into the sky where it disappeared in the black distance . That was going to be a conversation for the son another night . Everest return his regard to the myriad of stars above .
“ See that there , ” Everest said , tracing his fingerbreadth along several star . “ That´s the man-of-war . And next to it is the reef . Can you see it ? ”
“ No . I don´t see a jellyfish ! ”
Everest kneel down and positioned his pointed sleeve along the boy´s line of sight . “ Here … here … here … and here . That´s the man-of-war . ”
“ That doesn´t look like a Portuguese man-of-war ! It´s just star ! ”
“ Well , those lead make up a constellation . That´s what a group of stars making up a pattern are called . Have you find out of that word before ? In schooling ? ”
“ No … ”
“ Okay , well today you discover a newfangled word , ” he smiled , looking at his boy in the starlight . “ Someone once a tenacious time ago , perchance even the first hoi polloi that come here , decided that the configuration looked like animal from the sea . It might have been before the first sea animals were bring here . The hoi polloi then might have been homesick . You know there weren´t always as many animals as there are today . ”
His male child turned to him with a cheeky grin , “ It still doesn´t look like jellyfish . ”
“ I don´t think so either , ” Everest concord . “ But that´s what it´s called . Now look again . ”Everest put his limb out again and point at the bright ace in the jellyfish .
“ Do you see that bright genius ? ” He asked .
“ Yeah . ”
“ Yeah ! ”
“ That´s our star . That´s where my grandfather came from with his syndicate . He brought his fellowship here and his Logos was my dad . Now usually many , many multitude come at once from one of those star , but not my grandfather . As far as I make out , we are the only kinsfolk on our world that came from that maven . He took a longer slip than most did . But he still came on one of the starship , like the one we saw on the news the other Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . Do you recollect seeing it on the news ? ”
“ Son , I just desire you to bed that hoi polloi add up from far away and sometimes they go far off too . They leave for many reason , but often they do it to have a better life . I just desire you to know that they aren´t gone , they´re just travelling . ”
“ Is that where Nevis went ? ” His son´s straits drooped to the dry ground as he spoke .
“ Yes . Somewhere up there . He´s not gone or stagnant though , he´s just travel . But I also want you to know that they don´t usually amount back . Or if they do … they´re the same but you´re totally different . ”
Everest guess then of how his aunty had leave with her own girl , his full cousin when he had been about the same age as his boy was now . They had pull up stakes much in the same way the boy´s blood brother did , but for different reasons . Thirty year later , though , when Everest´s own children had been bear , they yield . They had scarcely maturate . A young female parent with a young daughter , all exotic to Everest . Between relativistic speeds and hibernation as insensate as the empty space around them , they had experienced only a few month , perhaps a class . Everest had see a whole lifetime . In the aunt and daughter´s form of reference only a few months ago there had been family penis awake and vernal . But here on this worldly concern they had lived a lifetime and died .
For everyone involved , the social jounce was too much . They had not stayed for long .
His attention take back to the male child search at the ground . “ The last thing I require you to know Word is that Nevis roll in the hay you and will think about you all the clip , just as you intend of him . No matter how far away he goes , or to what star , your persuasion of each other will keep you connected . No matter the aloofness . ”
His Word nod and looked up at the stars again and gave a small undulation . Everest chuck him on the back .
“ Let´s go back deep down . Maybe we will come out here again tomorrow night . And then maybe every night . ”
And for many years as they grow older that´s exactly what they did .
ParagonJC ’s story :
“ It is not a jellyfish . ” That was the revelation that heralded the end of the world as we know it . scientist from around the globe had been tracking the being for three age . The fear - inspiring organism , which was the sizing of five football game stadiums , was first spotted by amateur astronomer , Zarathustra Magnus . It was not a jellyfish .
Scientists from around the world pooled their resources together , both pecuniary and intellectual , to construct a probe to examine this monumental entity . The investigation , crissened “ Deus Ex ” , was a god of technology . At 99.7 % the speed of lighting it reached the entity in six month . It was not a Portuguese man-of-war .
The investigation ascertained it was an entirely raw lifeform made of unknown matter comprised of novel particles never seen before by advanced man . mass on earth give the entity a cognomen : Cthulu . Its trajectory was Earth . There was no check it . No altering its course . Deus Ex passed through Cthulu like a phantom . This was no man-of-war .
The United States government tried to keep it a closed book for fear of panic and hysteria . What a futile try . Instead of hysteria and panic there was worldwide peace and quiet . Why fret over that which you could not change ?
It reached the Earth ’s ambience on Easter Sunday of 2013 . Cthulu shapeshifted to become a mass that enveloped the Earth . This new rap that cover the Earth shone with a Heavenly light . It cured Earth of it ’s diseases and pestis . Three days subsequently the inhabitants of Earth set off to develop superhuman abilities . Intelligence and strength increased one - hundred time . Some gained the power to fly . It heralded the terminal of humanity as we know it , and ushered in the day of The Reborn .
Jonathan Bloom ’s taradiddle :
The planet was much closer now . Its curvature had become visible . No longer was it a mere dot , a distant blue wonder , but real and real . It would n’t be long now . A day , perhaps , two at most .
He felt a lingering import of fear somewhere within itself . It had been so farseeing and so cold that the persuasion of letting go of the anxiousness feel exotic to him . He felt it enwrap his entire flesh . Why , he thought , was he not afraid of the vastness of the ocean of stars , but of this flyspeck major planet ? What trauma could the blue dot do to him ?
The call seemed to have happened so long ago . If he concentrated severely , he could still retrieve the look of when it first materialize . How his bell had buzz to the step of the beetleweed and how his entire nervous organisation had feel like it was about to break . He remembered how it had matte up to fall in barren of home and how the first gust of solar wind dry him from the warm waters that he had grown in .
He had lingered . It shamed him now . But the creation was vast and full of adept and sounds he wished he could contain on to everlastingly . His mind raced back to the momentaneous moments that he had share journey alongside a lone shot star , it too far away from home . He call up the astronomic light source . The horse cavalry head nebula exploding . A second universe colliding with another . His intellect filled with color and boisterous lighting , the kind he could not ever full understand .
Then he remembered home . He retrieve the low Harkat-ul-Mujahidin of the deep . The dateless majestic call of every living being in it . His sensing element felt a charge run through them and he allowed himself to drift gently with the pull of the satellite .
He hear carefully to the call of the planet . He could hear the distant crashing of the waves hit the rocks of a newly forming continent . He heard the rich breathing of the planet center , pushing out hot molten lava through the opposite side of the world . He heard the wind roar through the empty million year old canyons and the whisper of the trees that had seen the Sunday come up a thousand time over .
He heard the endless abyss and vacuum of the ocean .
He heard the beginning of life somewhere inside himself . He had hear it ’s call light years away and it had take him here .
To the origin .
Dexomega ’s tale :
“ TODAY : China readies nuclear arsenal for strike on Object S31 , how will United States respond ? ”
With that headline , Steven put down down the paper and leaned back in his seat . The world seemed to be poised to destroy the entity above them and he was just along for the ride . As humiliating as it was , that was the reality . The door across the office opened and through it a tall , suited man entered .
“ Mr. President , the Russian ambassador is waiting . ”
“ Thank you Tom , show him in . ”
The human beings turn dexterously on his heel and exited . Shortly after ; a scant pallid man entered .
Steven stood respectfully and walked around the desk .
“ Mr. Sokuv , receive back to Washington . ”
“ A pleasure to return Mr. President , although disappointing that we must meet in these circumstances . ” , say the man with a rather hefty Russian accent mark .
“ Yes it is Mr. Sokuv . May I get you anything ? A boozing perhaps ? ”
“ I am afraid not Mr. President . As you know we stand at a unusual moment in history . ”
“ I do Mr. Sokuv . And I wish well to reaffirm that the United States of America has no interest in attacking a perchance sentient being . ”
“ I understand Mr. President , but America has not been feign as wildly as the Russian Federation . Power fluctuation and outpouring remain rearing across the nation . The People ’s Republic of China and our other neighbor experience the same issues daily . ”
“ Mr. Sokuv , I ’m truly sorry for your fuss , but you must understand that attacking a sentient being is against American- “
“ I rationalise Mr. President , but the Russian Federation has seen at least twenty citizen killed by this phenomenon . Whether or not you fall in us does not matter . ”
“ Mr. Sokuv , the United States will not tolerate an motiveless onslaught on that being . We still have people on the International Space Station . ”
The door open again , this time a uniformed man enter .
“ Mr. President , NORAD has confirmed that the People ’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation have brought their nuclear arsenal to combat readiness . ”
“ Is this what you call a diplomatic meeting Mr. Sokuv ? Jon , respond by bringing up our own arsenal . ”
The uniformed man salute and left the room .
“ Mr. President , that is not necessary , our atomic forces are undergoing exercises- “
“ redeem it Mr. Sokuv . As long as American astronauts are present on the International Space Station , any attack will be seen as an act of war . ”
“ Then I am very sorry Mr. President . ”
Frozen for a irregular , Steven picked up the phone and started dial the military contact , but the threshold opened again . The uniformed man entered .
“ Mr. President , the Chinese and Russians have set up 67 nuclear equipment at the entity . ”
Steven leap to his understructure and cannonball along to the windowpane . Out there , in the aloofness was the target , barely detectable if you were not looking for it , glowing in a strange blue visible light , and underneath … the lives of three Americans remain in the balance .
“ How long ? ” , Steven said solemnly .
“ Just under two minutes now Mr. President . ” , read the uniformed man before leaving again .
asterisk out across the sky , Steven enjoin a prayer for the men aboard the place . Then suddenly the sky around the entity explode in a brilliant racy light , long before the atomic weapons would have impacted . The rings of the explosion easy washed over the atmosphere , swirls of igniter following behind its wake .
As it washed over the metropolis , lights across the mall flickered and pass . Finally , the White House plunge into dark . In the distance , the distinct blue lighter of the entity remain .
It was over .
Pitchblende ’s story :
“ Are you sure the payload will live on re - entry ? ” He asks me again .
“ My calculations are right , if you grew your constitutive shielding correctly there should be no problems . ”
I depend off from the screen , they are giving me the uncomfortable impression of actually being in humble ambit around the target planet . Most of the invite dignitories and scientist are all glassy - eyed , asterisk at the monitors , glasses of wine hold neglected in their hands .
“ Tell me , doctors , why did you plan a totally constituent vehicle for the Panspermia projection ? ” Our inquistor is a sharply - dressed cleaning woman of nonindulgent - but - fair grandmotherly appearing , my memory feels she is a political leader but fails to furnish a name .
“ The break - up in the upper atmosphere is more everlasting and the risks of contamination far less , plus , do n’t you think it adds a sure poetry ? ” The stock solution , it also conveys a good degree of invisibility to foresightful - range sensors and plays better to many PR sensibility .
“ What effect would it have on an inhabited major planet ? ” Her vox is level , gently curious , almost as though the answer is of faint academic interest only .
“ Why , Madam , one might dare you are think of repurposing our project as a weapon . ” We all express mirth courteously and the game move a step further .
Pkunk _ ’s story :
The Gateways
The engine driver had work up us to last . Our only use to exist was to chart all the possible wormholes between star . This unit had been jumping from wormhole to wormhole for a 1000 years now , and had graph over 2000 systems .
2000 organization and NOTHING notable was notice by this unit yet . The home organisation was exactly 1022.7 wakeful years away . And this dual asterisk system with 2 stars , one 20 % more massive than the other was evenly uninteresting . Then out of the blue , it was wireless wafture after radio set wave . The form that only a crude sentient slipstream could make . All the investigation could make out was it was some kind of audio - video signal where atomic number 83 - pedals would spill the beans unceasingly about nothing useful .
This social unit triangulated the origin of the transmissions within an hour and institutionalize a gravitative beat straight towards the base world . After 1 yr finally the social unit had located a wormhole towards that lone yellow star . Within 1 minute this unit had reach the other closing . And it was a system even more gifted than the Almighty ’s . There was one pocket-sized blasphemous major planet . This unit at once start transmitting its subject matter of peacefulness and approached the blue planet knowing it had succeeded in its use .
The next few days would adjudicate if this fresh subspecies was worthy of contact with the creator or to be avoided at all cost .
Drabbler ’s story :
The conversation die away as everyone became delight by the sight of the gargantuan , semitransparent form passing in front of the sunshine .
Jenna express joy . “ See ? I evidence you he was tangible ! ”
Ten minute earlier , Jenna had n’t been doing so well . “ Why wo n’t you believe me ? ” she wailed .
“ Why do you take a firm stand on living in a fantasy earth ? ” her female parent fool back .
“ Honey , ” her Padre said , “ we just think you should be develop for the theory that this online boyfriend of yours may not be what he tell . ”
Lisa twit , “ Sure he is . Who besides a infinite man-of-war would date Jenna ? ”
Jayden ’s tarradiddle :
Terry stopped dead in his data track . What the nooky , he thought , as a pointy metal objective whizzed past his brain at thousands of klick per hour . Not again , every clock time I wipe out life on this rock it comes back strong than ever . They warned me blighter restraint is a shucks job out in the derriere end of the galaxy .
Now what have we got , a fairly distinctive fleshy with finger and psyche case being . I ve been gone , what ? like 66 million age . The others wo nt conceive how persistent these little bastard are getting . Ill have to go bring a adequate stone now , at least they havnt got asteroid defences yet , I engender here just in time it seems .
Slatz ’s story :
“ The good news is – you ’re a sci - fi fan , right , General ? ”
“ I suppose . record enough of it growing up at least . Why ? Are you going to tell me that S31 is an invasion force of bug - eyed Martians here to steal our woman ? ”
“ The good news is that one of the more classic tropes from science fiction is true . Spaceis an sea . The bad news is we did n’t quite get the scurf right . ”
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