So, why were they all there? The launch of a new agency certainly wouldn’t be the central topic of the event. They also knew that the creation of that institution, as well as the President’s presence at the announcement, were probably connected to the Stellarium-12 mission in some way.
With her hands clenched, Elizabeth continued:
But that’s not why we’re here today. In fact, the creation of this joint endeavor is the result of something we will announce in just a few minutes.
But first, I want to emphasize that the discovery we’re about to announce here is, unequivocally, the greatest finding in the history of mankind. It will change the way in which we view the world from now on. It will also change the nature of our efforts in space exploration. Furthermore, it will change what we learn in books on history, biology, and even religion.
At that moment, no one applauded. Everyone present was completely silent and attentive. The same thing happened in the homes of each and every person who had decided to watch the event on TV.
We discovered that the technology we use to jump through wormholes under the Stellarium Space Program was invented millions of years ago.
On their way back from the Stellarium-12 mission, Commander Scott Russell, as well as astronauts Allison Scheffer and Frank Wood, had to land on the moon, where they were rescued by another ship.
They landed in a place that we knew very little about. Many years ago, we had detected an intense magnetic force coming from that location, which indicated a strong presence of metallic materials.
At first, we thought that it was just interference caused by objects left behind by the Chinese exploration a few years earlier. Nonetheless, those three astronauts discovered that we were wrong.
As I announce the following three important discoveries, we will project images captured by the crew of the Orion-II on the moon, as well as those captured by the other two manned missions we sent in the months that followed, so that you can see it all with your own eyes.
The FIRST finding is that the moon is not just a satellite. The moon is also a ship. Inside, it has a huge structure capable of transporting the population of an entire city. And its technology is very similar to that used by the Orion-II. It is capable of creating wormholes and jumping to faraway places in space. It has 36 rings, whereas, for example, our Orion-II only had two. Upon entering one of the ship’s domes, located in and built into the interior part of the satellite, the first astronauts found an object similar to a book. It was written in a previously unknown language, but seemed to have been left there with the sole purpose of being found and decoded—something we began to do months later.
The SECOND discovery, which was made after we partially decoded the book, is that the moon jumped to its current location through a wormhole created in Draco. We discovered there was a problem when activating the acceleration device, causing an immense gravitational field to remain active for hours before the wormhole was created and the moon was able to jump through. This led to a serious disturbance in that region, causing the Valkiria star to be thrown out of balance and pick up speed, a velocity which it maintains today. The moon jumped from Draco more than 200,000 years ago, arriving at its current position in the Earth’s orbit.
An interesting point worth mentioning here: we believe that this ship, our moon, was used by a civilization that likely lived on the planet Sater, which orbits Valkiria. This civilization arrived on that planet the same way that it left it, by traveling on a huge ship, probably the same ship, and jumping through a wormhole. The book included a drawing of three planets. One is Earth. The other is Sater, in the Draco Galaxy. And the third planet, we believe, must be the one that civilization came from, where they lived before arriving in Draco, millions of years ago. A planet much like Earth.
The THIRD finding is something I already mentioned about the star in Draco. For a short while, more than 200,000 years ago, the Valkiria star followed a trajectory outside of its orbit. For us, here on Earth, that change was perceived between the years 2000 and 2015, due to the amount of time it takes light to get here. When we look at that star, we are looking at the past… and we saw it move due to a gravitational anomaly. We now know that this anomaly was created by the moon when it jumped from Draco and traveled toward Earth.
Finally, my friends, we have one big question to answer: if a civilization arrived here more than 200,000 years ago, in a huge ship which we later named the moon, where is that civilization now?
Elizabeth remained silent for a few seconds. She drank a bit of water. The television cameras, broadcasting live, focused in on the President of the United States. As usual, he was not smiling. It was clear that he was feeling somewhat nervous, and he looked distant.
The head of NASA let out a sigh. She looked into the camera confidently. With a calm voice and well-articulated speech, she continued her presentation, purposefully omitting the information that was still classified by the agency: the “S.O.S. ORION” message on Sater’s surface, captured in a photograph, and the Christian symbol on the alien book found on the moon. Those two elements aside, Elizabeth focused on the civilization that had lived in Draco:
We don’t have any conclusive answers about what happened to them. There is still a lot of material left to analyze. But our suspicions are anything but orthodox: we know that the first fossil of a homo sapiens, the modern human, was found on Earth approximately 200,000 years ago. There is nothing before that. There isn’t even a link connecting us, evolutionarily, to primates or earlier species. We also know that Neanderthals lived on Earth at that time. The homo sapiens, which appeared here about 200,000 years ago without any previous evolutionary traits, lived with the Neanderthals, which had been here long before that, until the latter went extinct.
Thus, there is evidence that we, homo sapiens, who appeared on this planet at the same time the moon arrived here, coming from Draco, could possibly be the children of that civilization.
We humans may be much older than we originally thought… and the origin of our species may not have anything to do with this planet. Earth may just be another planet that humans have inhabited throughout our existence.
Then…
A profound silence took hold of the planet…
The moon remained full, static, hovering in the sky…
And the Universe had never been so unknown.
To be continued…
Image 21 – Earth as seen from the moon.
(credits and details on the final page)
About the Author
Fabricio Simoes is a Mechatronics Engineer with a Master's Degree in Aeronautics. He works as a Marketing Director at a large multinational technology company. He is passionate about science, innovation and great human achievements.
He writes fiction and non-fiction, and published his first book fifteen years ago with a publisher based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Born and raised in São Paulo—but also living many years in Porto Alegre—he now resides in Texas, United States, with his wife and children.
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About the Images
Images were used throughout this book to illustrate different situations and set the stage for the story. Some of them were taken out of their original context.
Below is a list of all the images used, with credits, as well their real-life context in cases where said context was altered in the book:
IMG 01 – Credits: Marty Harris / McDonald Observatory.
IMG 02 – Credits: John Moore.
IMG 03 – Used under license from Shutterstock.com.
IMG 04 – Credits: NASA; Artistic illustration of the SLS.
IMG 05 – Credits: NASA; Depiction of the Orion in space.
IMG 06 – Credits: NASA / Robert Markowitz.
IMG 07 – Credits: NASA / Bill Stafford.
IMG 08 –
Credits: Topwalls.net; Image of a planet.
IMG 09 – Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight / Wiessinger; Artistic illustration of the DG CVn binary system. The image was altered with the addition of an illustration (also altered) of the Orion spacecraft.
IMG 10 – Used under license from Shutterstock.com. The original image was altered to include the Orion-II spaceship as per the author’s description.
IMG 11 – Credits: NASA; Adapted from original image: Astronaut Chris Cassidy, EVA #23 on the ISS.
IMG 12 – Credits: NASA; Image of the NGC 4414 galaxy, a typical spiral galaxy approximately 60 million light years from Earth.
IMG 13 – Used under license from Shutterstock.com. The original image was altered to include the Orion-II spaceship as per the author’s description.
IMG 14 – Credits: NASA; The ISS control room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
IMG 15 – Used under license from Shutterstock.com.
IMG 16 – Credits: unknown; Available at Goista.com.
IMG 17 – Collage created by the author with images from NASA.
IMG 18 – Credits: NASA; Illustration of the Orion spacecraft arriving on the moon.
IMG 19 – Credits: ESA / Foster & Partners; Illustration of a lunar base on the moon.
IMG 20 – Used under license from Shutterstock.com.
IMG 21 – Credits: NASA / Apollo 8.
Cover – Credits: adapted from an image by NASA (astronaut Chris Cassidy) and Brandon Schurtz (blue rays adapted from his work “Blue Rays”).
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