The apocalyptic spectacle in the night sky turned celebration into panic.
News soon spread that meteorites and unidentified falling objects had struck locations around the world. At the same time, images of fallen alien spacecraft wreckage and alien corpses began appearing online.
Aliens? What did that mean?
The internet erupted completely. The news could no longer be contained. Plenty of spacecraft wreckage had fallen, with discoveries reported all over the world. Through the internet, the news spread across the globe at once.
At first, countless people scoffed at it. Aliens? That was ridiculous. Computer-generated imagery was so advanced now—anyone could throw together a few pictures and call them aliens. Spacecraft wreckage? There had been far too many rumors like that before. It was utterly unbelievable.
But as more and more photos of spacecraft wreckage surfaced online, and eventually, a hibernation pod containing an alien corpse crashed into a busy district, causing massive casualties and a huge sensation, the skeptics began to doubt themselves.
Even if governments wanted to conceal it, they could not.
Governments around the world remained silent, and the news was confirmed.
Panic spread. The revelation that aliens existed left everyone deeply uneasy.
Before long, all kinds of speculation emerged. The most plausible theory was that an alien spacecraft drifting through Orion had been struck by the massive meteor stream there. The ship was destroyed, everyone aboard died, and in the end, some of its wreckage had been carried by the meteor stream on this journey toward the Solar System.
All the discovered aliens were dead. That was good news, yet no one could bring themselves to celebrate.
The greatest impact of the news was that the world descended into chaos.
Dense spacecraft wreckage and meteor showers fell into heavily populated areas, causing enormous casualties. Reports of falling