Collision over Siberia
On 10. February 2009 inactive Russian Kosmos 2251 and US Iridium 33 communication satellites collide over Taymyr peninsula, northern Russia. The collision causes their reactors to explode and combined effect crating a disruption in time fabric. As a result debris are thrown back in time to 1908, where debris cloud crashes to the ground near the river Tunguska, resulting in massive explosion that can be seen from a long distance away and shockwaves causing damage in settlements hundreds of kilometers away. Due to remoteness of the region there is little interest in Russian government. However in 1927 Soviet government dispatches a team made from scientists from various fields, among them bright young student from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Sergey Korolyov. Team discovers various items they can't explain, describing them as »unknown metal or metal alloy«. Items are shipped to Moscow where they are stored in government facility under NKVD control. Final report is classified as well and few people actually see it, the event and findings slowly drift into oblivion. During the chaos of Great Patriotic War items are inadvertently dispersed into various locations while some items are lost.
After the war as part of Soviet team examining V-2 ballistic missile technology Korolyov notices certain resemblances between captured German technology and what he can remember from items dug up at Tunguska 20 years earlier. A state-wide search is initiated to locate either so called “Tunguska items” or final report about the event. After months of search some parts are located, composing around 60% of items, while report is not found. Newly founded NII-88 institute located outside Moscow is tasked with trying to determine what “Tunguska items” actually are, if they are actual missile technology and if so to learn as much as possible from them. New team is dispatched to Tunguska but return more or less empty handed, 4 decades have result in items being buried, eroded or otherwise damaged beyond recognition.
NII-88 institute with help of captured German missile scientists manage to reverse engineer some technology, paving the way for both 1957 Sputnik and 1961 Soyuz-1 (Gagarin) flights, giving Soviet Union a significant advantage in emerging space race. However the 1950s and 1960s Soviet technology and knowledge doesn’t allow for items, now identified as two separate satellites, to be completely reversed engineered. Still, knowledge and technology gained from them allow to create a self sustaining cycle where existing technology allows for more information to be gained by examining the items, such information then improves technology which in turn allows more information to be gained from items. The “Tunguska items”, still a highly secret subject through the Cold War, fuel development of Soviet space program and although not directly related, creation of first orbital station, Mir. Financial troubles following collapse of Soviet Union slow down the research, but even so by early 1990s Russian scientists believe they have learned everything they can from the items. Final analysis is used to create new generation of Kosmos satellites. However knowledge gained is not complete and some troubles still persist. In 1993 one satellite is launched and communication with it is lost. As it doesn’t have maneuvering systems it orbits the Earth for more than a decade, that is until 10. February 2009 when it collides with US Iridium 33 communication satellite over Taymyr peninsula, northern Russia.
The collision causes their reactors to explode and combined effect crating a disruption in time fabric. As a result debris are thrown back in time to 1908, where debris cloud crashes to the ground near the river Tunguska, resulting in massive explosion that can be seen from a long distance away and shockwaves causing damage in settlements hundreds of kilometers away.
After the war as part of Soviet team examining V-2 ballistic missile technology Korolyov notices certain resemblances between captured German technology and what he can remember from items dug up at Tunguska 20 years earlier. A state-wide search is initiated to locate either so called “Tunguska items” or final report about the event. After months of search some parts are located, composing around 60% of items, while report is not found. Newly founded NII-88 institute located outside Moscow is tasked with trying to determine what “Tunguska items” actually are, if they are actual missile technology and if so to learn as much as possible from them. New team is dispatched to Tunguska but return more or less empty handed, 4 decades have result in items being buried, eroded or otherwise damaged beyond recognition.
NII-88 institute with help of captured German missile scientists manage to reverse engineer some technology, paving the way for both 1957 Sputnik and 1961 Soyuz-1 (Gagarin) flights, giving Soviet Union a significant advantage in emerging space race. However the 1950s and 1960s Soviet technology and knowledge doesn’t allow for items, now identified as two separate satellites, to be completely reversed engineered. Still, knowledge and technology gained from them allow to create a self sustaining cycle where existing technology allows for more information to be gained by examining the items, such information then improves technology which in turn allows more information to be gained from items. The “Tunguska items”, still a highly secret subject through the Cold War, fuel development of Soviet space program and although not directly related, creation of first orbital station, Mir. Financial troubles following collapse of Soviet Union slow down the research, but even so by early 1990s Russian scientists believe they have learned everything they can from the items. Final analysis is used to create new generation of Kosmos satellites. However knowledge gained is not complete and some troubles still persist. In 1993 one satellite is launched and communication with it is lost. As it doesn’t have maneuvering systems it orbits the Earth for more than a decade, that is until 10. February 2009 when it collides with US Iridium 33 communication satellite over Taymyr peninsula, northern Russia.
The collision causes their reactors to explode and combined effect crating a disruption in time fabric. As a result debris are thrown back in time to 1908, where debris cloud crashes to the ground near the river Tunguska, resulting in massive explosion that can be seen from a long distance away and shockwaves causing damage in settlements hundreds of kilometers away.