On a date marked as 2035.10.15 in the archives, humanity’s perception of its place in the cosmos was shattered. It began with the routine observation of comet 3I/ATLAS, a celestial wanderer known for its erratic orbit and anomalous energy signature.
For decades, the global scientific community, spearheaded by NASA and the newly formed US Space Force (USSF), had monitored this object with a mix of academic curiosity and subtle apprehension. What started as a blip on deep-space telescopes quickly escalated into an event of cosmic significance. At 20:03 PT, a transmission from the James Webb Space Telescope, rerouted through the clandestine ART50 quantum-linked array, confirmed the unthinkable.
3I/ATLAS was not a comet. The image broadcast across secure channels showed a symmetrical, metallic structure, its surface pulsating with an iridescent glow. The “hostile color” alarm, triggered by the USSF’s 3I/ATLAS analysis team, was a misnomer; it was not a color of aggression, but a spectrum of energy that our instruments could only translate as a warning. As the global mobilization alert, “WE HAVE TO MOBILIZE NOW!”, echoed through command centers, humanity was forced to confront an extraordinary truth: the lights in the sky, long dismissed as optical illusions or hoaxes, were real.
They were not from this Earth. The “unidentified” flying objects, or UAPs, were merely the advance guard of a far grander intelligence, one that had been observing us from within the veil of a celestial wanderer. The Atlas Directive was immediately enacted, a global protocol for first contact, a testament to decades of silent preparation for the day the stars finally answered back.