Nov 10, 2006 23:23
Probes have been sent, but they never returned. One manned mission disappeared just as it passed the threshold. One minute we were watching it on T.V. and celebrating, just like I always imagined the moon landing, and then they went to commercial. Fourteen good men were lost on that mission, and the only explanation we ever heard was "Technical Complications". Ever since then nobody had been brave enough to return.
The far side of the sun remained a mystery despite numerous attempts to observe it. Of course, few people even cared anymore. It had been 10 years since those astronauts had mysteriously disappeared in that space beyond the sky and, as usual, few people spent any time considering the existance of anything beyond the ceiling of the room they were in. And this would have been our downfall, had it not been for one man who had become obsessed. His obsession would eventually change the fate of the Earth; and his name was Royce Malloy. . .