Center of Attention

Another dystopia science fiction show made its appearance on television last Sunday night. It is the typical in vogue plot. A family man leading a small group trying to survive against an alien invasion, and along the way, reaping destruction upon the aliens. I get so tired of this. It is narcissism. 

I imagine a real alien appearance will unfold differently. 

An object enters the domain of the outer planets at a sizable percentage of the speed of light. Initially it is a big secret. Its purposefulness is immediately apparent, meaning intelligence. Soon amateur astronomers pick it up and it springs from blogs to images on “YouTube”. More observers join the watch. The object loops inside earth’s orbit on the far side of the sun and executes a tight swing just inside the sun’s Corona. It blisters back out of the solar system. It fades from the news. 

It returns some months later.  It is considerably slowed. It executes the sun maneuver again. Leisurely it drifts out from the sun to take up an orbit around the earth. Indiscriminately it clears out satellites and debris in its path. Ultra secret spy, weather and communication satellites instantly disappear in a puff of vapor. 

The American government considers this a hostile act and fires missiles. The object easily destroys the incoming missiles. But it sends back along the firing path a bolt of pure energy. One wipes out several square miles of a military base, the surrounding civilian habitats and businesses. The second bolt not only destroys a military base, but ignites a large weapons storage area. Rockets and explosions can be seen for miles. The entire surrounding sky is crimson. From high up the  military chain of command  comes orders to stand down.

Nothing seems to happen for a few months. The intelligence community suspects a detailed survey is being accomplished. The government  monitored a broad speculum of radiation emanating from the object playing over the surface of the earth. Unexpectedly the object belches forth a flotilla of smaller ships that take up station at various places on the planet.

The military fires a missile from a nuclear submarine at one of the incoming objects. A beam from the smaller ship destroys the missile. Then a plasma bolt from the heavens vaporizes the submarine. The military stands down. The aliens seen to have embraced the Powell Doctrine of using overwhelming force to create shock and awe.

In the Washington Metropolitan area, part of the beltway transverses  Virginia. It is interstate 395 and a major artery. It is visible from the Pentagon. One of the smaller ships about the size a large dump truck comes down just 10 yards off the road way. Traffic comes to a halt. Sirens and flashing lights appear with vehicles performing kamikaze maneuvers to get to the scene. The standing orders are to secure any area and wait. 

A haze of mosquito size objects spray from the object.  They aggregate around the base. A major group peals off and alights on surrounding things. Some on the ground, on stones, guard rails, branches, and just about everything. They create a continuous loop of comings and goings.

After several months and years of activity the object at the site has morphed into what looks like an inverted Empire State building.  One day all activity stops and there is a localized 10.0 earthquake. The object disappears down the hole it has created. It has gone deeper in the mantle than anything man has been able to accomplish. A high pressure stream of vapor issues from the hole. It is so powerful it shoots all the way into space.  The Larger object in space seems to be extracting something from the stream. 

Years go by of activity. There is never any communication or any real acknowledgment of the presence of man by the objects. Nor is any real understanding obtained of what they are doing. Man has been unable to effect what is happening. All attempts are met with devastating force. Eventually the activities of the objects becomes just the background of our human existence.