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2019 An office, within a huge building, clearly marked ‘restricted access’ signs on the gates to the site. Stop and search was compulsory beit going in or leaving.
Heavily patrolled by security guards.
Kegan and Roz were in conversation over some recent revelations?
The latest site imaging had been forwarded to those in the Scientifica illumina.
Set up an International consortium of secret investors, that monitored all deep sea diving where such sites were concerned.
The ‘government’ had limited access to any and all that their diving teams found, reviewed and recovered artefact's AND more from.
Stone statures, marble statues, gold and more treasures were regarded as ‘trinkets.
That, did NOT take priority over the what was deemed ALIEN. . Working for iJin deep sea diving and research.
A government subsidiary that used their services.
Underwater sites; ones that were deemed unusual, strange phenomena.
Off the coast of Africa and the crew fully armed with weapons, to use against pirates, were watching the divers dropping back into the waters. Below them what had been identified from space as being ‘Alien’?
Why that site? Reported sightings of Alien craft vanishing into the ocean. Their vessel had experienced some strange anomalies. Electronic instruments shutting down or malfunctioning.
Communication and other functions dead. The divers had to rely on simpler forms of coms. A pipe lowered into the water that gave them underwater fibre optic links.
Secured to a buoy, hanging in the water the terminals were plug and play and only to be used in an emergency. Funnels picked up sound and relayed it to those onboard.
Yan, Trevor, were experienced deep sea divers, with over 200 hours in various places across the globe. Ship wrecks, corral reefs, stranger than fiction, weird places.
Paid as independent and free lance their work had netted a decent income. Over the years their technology had also been upgraded with quality cameras, recording visual and audio to perfection.
iJin, had recognised their capabilities. Previous work had produced enough riches; treasures to pay ten times over, for all that had been invested in those dives.
Su iJin the daughter of the owner, was also an experienced diver. Trained in emergency procedures, she was on deck, kitted out, with all the gear necessary to join those below should she be needed.
Below them, the dive continued. Ancient rock formations, leading into a chasm of some size.
What took them by surprise, was the light streaming through the water above them to illuminate the area.
Looking on the others were seeing the sea appearing to shimmer beneath the sun, the beauty of those colours never ceased to have Su iJin in love with the ocean.
Some decent imaging, unaware of their equipment, in some areas malfunctioning?
Around them, objects that were parts of statues.
Nothing unusual but these?
The tingle, they both were feeling, as they reached out to touch them, was unpleasant. Unsettling.
The area with the STEPS? Carved out of one solid lump, not sections or individual, the fusing of the granite probably caused that.
The end of the steps caught their attention.
Symbols, badly worn in places and barely legible?
Shining a light across them did almost nothing.
Diffused light which actually made reading them worse. Too many shadows.
Yan had noted the ones she could read were almost COPTIC.. a truly ancient language BUT also she had noted the ones from the Sumerian discoveries had very similar ones.
Handbags.. two of them, close to each other. Some wear, but the distinct outlines, were there to witness. It would not be until 2028 before the true significance of them and the symbols would be understood.
The oceans were never going to give up all of their secrets. The mass of knowledge, the data they had archived now stored online and unknown to them stolen.
The deep into the Marianas trench sub well a babyspherica - all new and carbon fibre with a host of other constructs including graphene...capable of staying safe against the terrifying pressures had managed safely to reach the depth they wanted.
The imaging, was OK until, the final lowest point. Where the imaging had captured shapes of structures, tall columns, hidden caverns.. Instruments started to fail or were behaving erratically re the readings?
Recording was poor. Shapes and shadows not much more. The strange figure that appeared to swim towards them. stop, look at the camera apparatus, before it moved; torn from its bracket.
Elsewhere..
Si iJin had been resting. The hatch slid open as she looked up to see Trevor. We’ve got an assignment. Marianas.
They are building a base with new materials, new technologies.
Half way down the trench. IT when fully completed will allow them to operate craft, to take a closer look at the bottom of the trench. Those strange structures, caverns.
An intermediate relay station. New communication equipment, state of the art. Non magnetic core of the powered generators. We are to drop down and check the outer as per the normal parameters for sub stack submerged stanchions.
Bit like that oil drilling platform we did last summer. A hefty bonus for all three of us.” Si smiled.. The bonus would be welcomed. She wanted to retire and invest, in her boyfriends restaurant.
The rig, had been positioned, over the main substruct that provided materials and other necessities for the oversight of the under water base. It was a warm summers day when the met up. Yan had been the last to arrive.
Aboard the rig, the instruments, were causing those looking on, to wonder what the hell was going on?
A murmur, a growing rumble... a harmonic pitch, that even those stood on shore, could now hear appearing to be amplified across the rig? Those on it were covering their ears..
Then it happened. A massive flare of light as though a rocket had been launched, up from the rig into the heavens..
On board the space stations it could be seen tearing through from the atmospheric layers until it now entered space.
A vacuum in space that appeared to accelerate the beam of light.
The space stations lit up.. used by it to boost its intensity. On and on into space and towards Mars?
The monitoring satellite in orbit around it now lighting up.
NOT before the signal sent from it, harmonics not 0s and 1s but a light frequency, beyond any human(a) comprehension.
The satellite jerked, as it became a moving object, one that shifted at speed before it a deep dark black hole opening up to swallow it before it closed behind the fading light.
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