Not a single person out of the near 10 billion human beings scattered across the globe expected their arrival. They seemed to simply emerge into humanity’s existence. Disrupt its calm reality like a pebble being tossed haphazardly across a pond. No. Like a boulder tumbling into a puddle. Nobody ever expected man’s first encounter with other intelligent beings to come without even the slightest warning. No one anticipated those beings to come, not from a distant planet in our own galaxy, but from a separate realm entirely. One completely unlike humanity’s own. One that once flourished with those very beings that bombarded bil