5:15 am, Monday, July 22, 2004 AD. - Griffith Observatory, Los Angelas, California.
It was a normal night for Doctor Webber. She had identified several new stars that might have planetary sytems and observed a particularly large solar flare.
'Not too bad for a Monday,' she thought chuckling.' Ah well, time to call it a nigh- er, day'
She was just about to retract the telescope and shut-off the recording equipment when something caught her attention. In the general direction of the Southern Cross constellation, space seemed to ripple and twist. The bright stars in the sky and the black space between them seemed to momentarily blend together.
Then it happenned. An expanding transluscent white sphere appeared in the center of the disturbance. Multi-colored lightning bolts of various configurations seemed to crackle around the sphere in an angry fashion, before the sphere seemed to 'pop' like a soap bubble in an enormous flash.
But all that paled in comparison to what had been left in the sphere's place.
An object, larger than even the asteroid Ceres, and resembling an asteroid itself in some ways, but with obviously constructed angles and putrusions, was now sitting in Earth's fifth LaGrange point.
Webber swallowed.
"Johnson!" she called. "Johnson, get off your lazy ass and get me NASA's chief supervisor on my private line, NOW!!"
A voice from the next room called back, "Why? Didn't you hear enough of him at that seminar in Dallas last week?"
"EITHER YOU GET ME DOCTOR ELIJAH ON THE PHONE IN TWENTY SECONDS OR I RIP OFF YOUR BALLS, GOT IT JOHNSON?!?!"
A particularly mousey squeek was her only reply. Seventeen seconds later, one more light joined the multiple others to appear over the last several minutes on the NASA switcboard.
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Several Minutes Earlier - Earth Orbit - LaGrange Point Five.
On the the X-303 Prometheus, former Colonel, now General, Jack O'Neil sat in the command chair of the newly refurbished bridge, which, by his command, was designed to resemble that of a Starfleet ship from Star Trek, much to the chagrin of the leaders of the US Air Force.
It had been a mere two days ago that the Atlantis Expedition had got the green, and everyone was preparing. Plans for the long-term mission were being carefully thought out so as to take in every possible scenario. Nevertheless, to him it still felt like something particularly bad was going to happen.
"Sir?" said one of those faceless techs that he DID honestly try to remember the names of. "Those new sensors we installed are picking up something."
"Really? Imagine that! Something that is made to detect something has detected something! Could you maybe be a little more specific crewman?"
The tech turned beet red. "Uh, well, it almost looks like local Hyperspace is, um,... melting."
Jack blinked. 'OK. I'm no Carter, but I somehow doubt "melting" is a proper term for what he just said'.
He was about to ask someone else to check the obviously confused guy's console when what looked like a second sun appeared in front of the ship and, conseqently, on the forward viewer. Everyone on the bridge had to cover their eyes or risk being blinded. When they opened them, they saw something that most definitly HADN'T been there before. They were also on a direct coures for it.
The bridge crew's words pretty much summed it up.
"Oh, shit."
"Oh, great."
"Oh, brother."
"Oh, crap."
"Oh, God."
"Oh, boy."
One of the nuclear armed nations panics and launches ICBMs.
At a heavily armed, technologically superior, battle ready force.
Can you see where this is going?
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