In this world
There was a time—fifty years ago—when humanity believed itself invincible, wrapped in the illusion that progress was limitless, resources endless, and survival guaranteed. Nations rose and fell, markets expanded like living shark which kept growing, and mankind drained the Earth with the appetite of a starving titan.
But every feast must have its reckoning. ''end''
The end of this feast is a era which is also known as *The Fracture era*—the era where the balance of power shattered like thin glass. Some nations clung to their dying resources like dragons guarding their final treasure. Alliances collapsed. The weak were crushed beneath the boots of the powerful people.
> "The world has forgotten diplomacy. Now, only the fittest write history."
In this chaotic era , leaders searched for salvation.A hope for humanity
But They found something else.
The Void Gate
Scientists—pushed by desperation and funded by the last scraps of global budgets—began researching impossible ideas. Quantum rifts. Dimensional tears. Space-folding channels.
All attempts to find more resources.
And At last
They succeeded.
Or they thought they had succeeded.
They created a device that sliced open reality like a surgeon parting skin—the *Void Gate*. A shimmering wound in space, vibrating with colors the human eye could barely perceive. The first time it opened, the world held its breath.
That day became a holiday at first. A celebration..
but people regard this as a tragedy now which can not be described by words
Ten years ago, the first expedition team of twelve people entered the gate.
Only *one* person returned alive .
when he come out of portal. His body was nearly torn in half. His skin looked scorched, as if he had walked through the core of a dying sun. His voice cracked like broken glass when he spoke.
"There are other worlds…" he rasped, blood dripping between his teeth.He said "…endless resources. Rivers of metal. Forests of crystal. and many more things.
Hope sparked in the eyes of people who are surrounding around him
But then extinguished in the same breath.when he speak again
He tell peoples that there is also a civilizations there. Watchful. Ancient. Stronger than us. And they saw us. They can come at us through the breach… because we did not know how to concile our presence before opening the gate they will find us he talk about "
And the man died minutes later. and
His last words were:
> "Close it… or arm yourself… because war is coming."
Humanity centerless all there resources to protect itself from the danger they had seen in that dead person eyes.
But nothing could prepare them for what emerged next.
The alien civilization that attacked had overwhelming power. No diplomats, no warnings—only weapons that can bent the sky into spirals and burned cities in seconds.
They come out of the Void like locusts escaping a furnace. Their technology superesed humanity's strongest arsenals. Within twelve hours, seven countries around the world were obliterated over night .
It was humanity's darkest night.
Old rivalries died instantly. Nations that hated each other for decades suddenly fought side by side. Generals from different countries are united and start commanding the troupes for war:
> "In war, you win or lose, live or die the difference is only of an eyelash."
And humanity lost that eyelash.
Millions died.
Entire cultures vanished in smoke.
Finally—cornered and desperate—humanity did what it swore never to do again.
They unleashed nuclear fire.
The alien armada—despite their advanced shields—could not withstand the combined wrath of fifty warheads detonating directly within the Void Gate's threshold . the aliens can not survive in hot temperature because from where they come from there is only ice and snow with temperature in minus .
At last
The invasion ended.
But the cost…
The cost remains written into Earth's soil.
*Thirty percent of the planet became uninhabitable.*
Nuclear winter clouds scarred the skies for two years.
Billions suffered.
Civilization collapsed into one third of what it once was.
But from the ashes, humanity claimed their reward:
*Alien starship technology.*
The remnants of the defeated invaders gave humanity the key to rebuild…the key to the stars…the key to power.
New weapons.
New engines.
New dreams.
But also…
New orphans.
In a half-collapsed housing district of the Eurasian Frontier Zone—an area once called Tobastania —two children lived in the ruins.
One was *seven years old*.
The other—his sister—barely *five*.
Their names were:
*Aero *
and
*Lina *
Their parents had died ten years ago during the First Catastrophic Breach, when the alien invasion burned across the frontier like a living flame. Their home had been one of the first consumed in the initial strikes.
But fate saved them from death.
Aero and Lina.
Or cursed them to survive.
The sky above their settlement was always gray, always humming with radiation storms drifting from the *Dead Belt*, a wasteland glowing faintly at night—one of the many nuclear scars burned into Earth's crust.
Aero remembered nothing of his parents except flashes—his mother's arms wrapped around him during the evacuation, his father pushing them into a shelter, the roar of collapsing metal, the taste of ash.
Everything else was gone.
Sometimes, Aero wondered if forgetting was a gift.