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Arrival
From leaked government documents we know that nine days prior to their appearance on Earth a dark ship appeared in geostationary orbit above the north Pole it's exact dimensions were unclear due to its stealth qualities however it was very big indeed. The ISS spotted it first and some conspiracy theorists point to an interruption of signal as evidence of NASA trying to hide its existence.The first three appeared hovering some nine meters above the ground in Parliament square, London, the lawn where Marine One lands by the Whitehouse in Washington DC and Moscow square. There was no displacement of air which would of caused a significant wind, they just appeared out of thin air. Nine mile high ships for their exact dimensions see below. Nine days later another three appeared in Syria, Israel and China. Nine days later the last of the nine appeared partly submerged in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
The reason for the lack of air displacement was due to the fact they were not quite solid.
Reaction to the Nine
When the first three appeared money & stock markets crashed. Then crashed twice more during the nine day intervals of appearance. The world held its breath waiting for the Nine to make the first move. Nothing happened.Dimensions and Initial Analysis
Each of the Nine were nine miles high, 90 meters square with a nine meter high boot like projection at the bottom and top of what was considered to be the ships. When all nine had appeared the ones that were hovering above the land, touched down with no impact tremors.The UK contact team sent in a mini tank drone to only discover that the ships were not actually solid. The drone passed straight through the ship and appeared on the other side. Whilst inside the video and audio was pure static although the contact team had no problems with the GPS signals coming from the drone.
At night one of the ships would glow blue with a vein like structure across the surface of ship whilst during the day it was completely dark. Each night the blue glow moved to a different ship.
The UK contact team sent their drone through a second time when their ship was blue. They lost their signal connection to the drone nine seconds after it crossed the threshold. Fortunately the drone was programmed to retrace it's path if it received no commands after five minutes. The drone that came back was almost frozen solid it did not completely make it over threshold. It had to be lassoed with a iron cable and pulled back. One of team members received ice burns when he touched it without gloves. It was several hours before they managed to recovered any data from the camera.
The video recorded showed a small crater covered in what looked like a white powder and off in distance in the sky was the Earth. The drone had traveled to the Moon.
The ship was not a ship it was a gateway to the Moon!
Further Analysis
The other ships proved to be gateways to planets within our solar system however the ninth Gate the one in Israel showed a binary star system which was eventually matched up with a star system some 20 million light years towards the galactic center of the Milky Way.Israel's aerial drone discovered another series of Gates on the exoplanet and that the air was breathable therefore habitable by humans.
The Gates stayed on with bidirectional travel for nine hours and then shut off instantly. The distance to travel was nine meters in any direction after crossing the threshold. A number of experiments were conducted to see what happens to organic and non-organic materials left within the travel zone (TZ). All items left in the TZ just vanished never to return.
Shifting Powers
Israel realised that the power that shifted dramatically in their favor and that the old geopolitical power-bases would be circumvented through the use of the Nine. However Israel were in for a serious shock, fortunately nobody was killed during the planned manned excursion through their Gate.It was discovered that every nine days each Gate's destination shifted to a different location, so that when Israel's excursion occurred they found themselves to be on the surface Europa one of Jupiter's moons instead of in a different star system. The recon team were wearing pressurised environment suits in case of infection or usual phenomenon although one member nearly broke her leg on a giant ice fissure that opened upon their arrival.
Basically this meant no one country had exclusive access to a particular Gate's destination. For three years the international community argued and in a couple of cases attacked science stations established on Mars. Eventually however a new World Government body called the Janus Gateway Foundation was set up to manage all travel through the Gates.
Medical Benefits
Passage through the Gates removed all biological infectious agents, it also appeared to cure or stop the spread of various diseases throughout a person's body including cancer. This was discovered by chance when a dying but extremely rich man traveled to the exoplanet. This man now runs the Non Profit Medical organisation Nightingale in partnership with the Janus governing body.Jetsam
Religious Reactions
Many different faiths collapsed under the revelations of the Nine whilst a couple renewed their faith and several new religions were formed including the End Times cult or to various intelligence agencies just ETC.The ETC bombed the China Gate whilst it was active, no one barring ETC members were hurt. It is assumed that the bomb went off prematurely whilst two ETC members were in the TZ. The other seven members were shot dead whilst defending the Bombers passage through the threshold. The Gate shut off instantly and stayed off for seven hundred and twenty nine hours just over thirty days. There was no secondary indicators external to the threshold that the bomb had exploded.
ETC believed that the Nine were sent from the Devil to make way for his armies of demons. They used the book of Revelations to explain that the Nine are in fact the Beasts of Earth & Sea:
"John saw it "rise up out of the sea, having seven heads..."
"two horns like a lamb.."
Other religions and conspiracy theorists used the number nine as so called evidence that the Makers of the Gates had visited Earth previously and embedded the significance of the number so that we would recognise the coming of the Nine as a good thing. Many however ascribed to the more obvious and simple answer in that it was just a coincidence.
Later Analysis
The Gate system on the exoplanet has eighteen gates and the sequencing of the gates proved to be far more complex than those on Earth. Instead of just a blue glow there were two other colours: Green and Red. This Gate system has two interstellar destinations whilst the other sixteen were local to the binary system.Makers
It has been speculated that the Gates were created by an extremely advanced civilisation that are possibly extinct however until the entire Galactic network has been explored nothing is certain.It has also been postulated that the network is still being built as evidence of their arrival upon Earth. Possibly by self-replicating machines traveling at sub-light speeds to each habitable system slowly expanding the network through the Milky Way.
At present there has been no communications with the Gates or their creators
Is the future ours or we being subtly nudged down a new path?
