Deccan

It is widely accepted the dinosaurs perished a paleontological instant after the impact of a colossal asteroid, most likely in the Deccan Traps of India. That impact triggered catastrophic climatic changes, too great, in fact, for the plodding adaptive mechanisms of life to overcome. Sixty million years later, despite all the technical advances science has delivered, we sit idly by as our world is again shaped from space. This time, it is not a lifeless rock, but rather the will of extraterrestrials that is threatening all life on Earth. First, what we know: Over twenty-two thousand objects entered our atmosphere, striking the ocean above the Maxwell Fracture Zone at the intersection of the North America Tectonic Plate and the Eurasian Plate. What we surmise: They continued down into the rift, tunneling, we believe, into the mantle. There they released energy sufficient to cause enormous lava flows into the sea. Within a week, by radar measurements, a landmass of nearly five thousand square miles rose above the surface, reaching heights of several thousand feet. In short, a new micro continent between North America and Europe. By infrared measurement, we know it is still hot but cooling with unexplainable rapidity. At this rate, it could be habitable, by any creature with our temperature tolerances, in a few weeks. Calculations have disclosed the energy required for such a feat. They represent three orders of magnitude above the total combined armaments, including nuclear, of all the armies of the world. America’s new President, who admits he’s been off the planet and is betrothed to an alien, has vanished, presumably with fore-knowledge of this crisis. World leaders are without guiding precedent. A world congress has been proposed, perhaps in washington, D.C. where another alien presence hangs menacingly over the Monument of the same name. In two short weeks, the world has changed immeasurably, scientists as absent of answers as our spiritual or political leaders.