The Martial Unity

RUMBLE

Far outside of Gaia, along the perimeter of the solar system, the fabric of space and time quaked. It shook.

Then, it settled once more.

Before shaking again.

RUMBLE

This time, more persistently.

This time, more intensely.

RUMBLE!

The fabric of space-time along the boundary of the edge of the solar system.

At the boundary of the heliosphere.

Just like planets, the sun had its own electromagnetic field, generated by the rotating plasma that comprised the sun’s body. It created a giant bubble, protecting the solar system from interstellar radiation and cosmic rays.

Now, the entirety of the heliosphere quivered.

It shook as the very fabric of space and time shook. RUMBLE

It shook, before tearing open.

RUMBLE!!!

A Giant hole.

The size of a planet.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The very fabric of space and time shook violently as an astronomically titanic hole ruptured through the fabric of reality.

RUMBLE!!!!!

Minutes passed as the wormhole began stabilizing. RUMBLE!!!!

It began forming a fixed shape.

RUMBLE!!!

The edges of the tunnel through reality began calming down as the ripples through space and time began relaxing.

RUMBLE!!

The astronomical amount of negatron matter that held it open oscillated in the opposite direction of the destabilizing space-time reverberations, ensuring that the wormhole was kept open.

RUMBLE!

The light emerging from it grew clearer, no longer warped by volatile gravitational lensing. Consequently, the light passing through space from distant stars warped around it in an extremely significant manner, making it clear from afar.

RUMBLE…

The wormhole fully stabilized after a total of five minutes.

And only five minutes later did the sensors of the countless satellites, space telescopes, and space observatories planted in space and exoplanets by Gaian civilizations, actually detect the unfathomably massive wormhole in the very fabric of space and time.

After all, both light and gravitational waves traveled at the speed of light. By the time the information reached them, traveling for several minutes through the solar system, the wormhole had already stabilized.

The alarms almost exploded in the face of the astronaut crew manning the telescopes, satellites, and observatories.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!

[Unknown space-time anomaly detected at space-time coordinates {A614, L213, Y742}]

[Automated preliminary analysis confirms the space-time geometry is consistent with that of a wormhole.]

[Probability of anomaly being a natural phenomenon: zero.]

Within the depths of a biotechnological organic observatory shaped like a flower, several elves gathered together as they studied the phenomenon with a horrified expression. “Sister, what is this?!” “How can there be a wormhole this massive?!”

“This… we must transmit an emergency report to the Council of Mothers immediately!”

It wasn’t just the elves who detected and panicked when they saw the sheer scale of the anomalous wormhole register on the sensory apparatuses of their space telescopes and observatories.

Each and every single one of the six civilizations of the true world had detected the anomaly, sending each of their people into a complete spiral of panic and fear at the sheer scale of the anomaly.

They didn’t need an analysis to know that this was no ordinary phenomenon.

They could tell with a single glance.

They could tell that this was an action.

A decision.

Taken by a conscious mind. One that possessed more power than they could even imagine.

Wormholes had rapidly entered the capability of Gaian civilization in the past century and especially over the past seven years as the negatron mines and vents at the bottom of the Great Void Ocean in Gaia supplied them with a virtually limitless amount of negatron matter.

They could create large wormholes that could even cover large distances.

And yet, even with all of the negatron matter they possessed, creating a wormhole the size of a planet was far, far beyond even their wildest ability. And the distance that it bridged was even more unfathomable.

The anomaly had come out of nowhere.

And it completely shook each and every single person who witnessed it. Within minutes, the entirety of the highest upper echelons of the political class was utterly shaken to the very core as they learned of the titanic wormhole that had emerged at the very edge of their solar system.

Countless leaders, countless Martial Artists, countless elites that occupied the very highest echelons of human civilization were completely shaken to the very core of their existence as they broke out into a panic.

And yet, before they could even gather their wits, the situation had already changed.

RUMBLE…

The very fabric of space and time quivered as the planet-sized wormhole seemed to tremor.

RUMBLE…

It tremored as an object passed through it.

An object only slightly smaller than the wormhole itself.

A sphere.

RUMBLE…

As if dragging space and time itself, the titanic sphere emerged from within the depths of the wormhole in a domineering fashion. The sphere was unlike anything that the astronauts in the many space stations, spaceships, and observatories in the solar system had ever seen.

The surface of the sphere was a shifting iridescence, resembling the oily film of a soap bubble, but scaled to the size of a continent. It didn’t reflect light so much as refract it, turning the distant sun into a smeared, spectral halo that danced across the ship’s curve.

To the touch, the border of the anomalous object would not have been a cold steel, but a viscous high-tension film. Shifting and shearing the way a bubble would. It yielded under pressure like heavy silk stretched over deep water, pulsating with a low-frequency thrum that felt more like a heartbeat than an engine.

It was not a natural construct.

It was a manmade structure.

The size of a planet.

“This…” A whisper of horror and amazement emerged from an evosapien astronaut in space, gazing at the massive structure from within his observatory. “This is a ship.”

It was a world ship.

RUMBLE…

The titanic world ship dragged through the very fabric of space, emerging from within the depths of the wormhole, fully entering the solar system.

WHOOSH

The wormhole collapsed, having served its purpose.

RUMBLE

It sent tremors across the space and time that made even planets quiver with the sheer amplitude. RUMBLE…

The world ship ominously moved.

It moved in the direction of Gaia.