From A NEW YORK MINUTE (Morning Edition)
NASA Reports Potential New Invaders Entering Solar System, Release Hubble Telescope Images
In the aftermath of the destruction in St. Louis over the weekend, NASA Administrator Paul Rubenstein in a press conference Tuesday released deep-space photographs of a collection of craft entering our solar system. The administrator indicated what Pentagon officials have confirmed are weapon placements on some of the craft and suggested these new arrivals could be “invaders, regardless of their intent.”
They wouldn’t be the first invaders. – Shown: Harbinger Comet Shard that brought the Planet Eaters to Earth.
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From the The St. Louis Daily Dispatch
Mayor of Council: St. Louis under attack, demands federal protection
Jefferson City — Mayor Teresa Everett (D), head of the Council of United Cities and mayor of St. Louis, took a hard stand this morning as the president’s Secretary of Planetary Defense waffled on the intent of the space force approaching Earth. “St. Louisians are not willing to be the new epicenter for this ongoing apocalyptic mess caused by the administration’s lack of preparedness,” she said. “Gorgahdra and its eaters have already done sufficient damage in the last week to flood Busch Stadium with the Mississippi. We’re not going to bear this burden alone the way Chicago did. We need federal aid instead of platitudes.”
Other mayors of major cities, including the former mayor of Chicago, have indicted the federal government for what they call “selective support” of cities with “geographical strategic value.”
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From Secretary of Defense Memorandum (DECLASSIFIED)
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DOD PERSONNEL
Subject: Response to Widespread Panic as Alien Fleet Approaches
Our United States Military is prepared to evacuate the residents of St. Louis, Missouri, beginning at Interstate 255 and proceeding north. Note that Interstate 55 from Illinois remains impassable. Additional military units will be dispatched to twenty-two major U.S. cities to coordinate with governors and local National Guard. All personnel are hereby put on notice regarding 10 U.S.C., Section 12302 (Activation of the Ready Reserve), which authorizes involuntary activation of the Ready Reserve, which includes members who, when mobilized, perform a federal mission at the direction of the secretary of defense.
G.U.A.R.D. Schematics
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From Refute.com
Are Panicked U.S. Citizens Fleeing the Country to Escape Invaders?
The numbers have actually been skewed to downplay the crisis.
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From The Washington Pulse
Monsterpocalypse in the Gateway to the West
Gorgahdra upon arrival.
Gorgahdra, reported to be one of the first extraterrestrials to launch the ongoing conflict colloquially referred to as the Monsterpocalypse, has continued to wreak havoc in St. Louis and its suburbs as a destructive force for the second time in a week. At present, an estimated two thousand locals have succumbed to the attacks of the armored beast and the parasites that follow in its wake; this is in addition to the casualties of the initial attack last weekend. U.S. Marine forces and the Missouri National Guard engaged the so-called “Planet Eaters” Wednesday evening with military rockets and armament. Additional forces are being routed from the East Coast to aid in the containment as Secretary of Planetary Defense Madsen indicated an early combined NASA/USAF report suggested the invading space force was on a trajectory for one of multiple locations, including St. Louis; Palermo, Italy; Shijiazhuang, China; or Sacramento, California. Experts now say St. Louis is the most logical destination, presumably to piggyback on Gorgahdra’s assault. Secretary Madsen’s office could not be reached for comment.
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From Opening Bell Review
UberCorp International Put a Price on Surviving the Monsterpocalypse—And St. Louis Is Paying
G.U.A.R.D. forces have been stretched thin to protect as many citizens of the world as possible, leaving large segments of the population to fend for themselves or to rely on the private sector for support. Enter UberCorp International. In January of this year, newly released documents indicate UberCorp entered into collective bargaining with local governments of at least seventy incorporated places with populations that exceed 100,000. These negotiations ended abruptly last week with the announcement of forces from space, prompting UberCorp to triple its asking prices.
St. Louis was among the largest of those cities left undefended in the aftermath of this failed venture.
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From GNN
Space Dragons Attack Planet Eaters in St. Louis
(CNN) — With thousands of onlookers braced for the worst, dragon-like creatures that had been approaching Earth for the last six days finally made landfall in the Midwest. The bipedal creatures that emerged to challenge the forces of Gorgahdra have been described as space dragons due to their resemblance to mythical Chinese dragons, but their advanced technology and scientific capabilities defy comparison. As Lambert International Airport served as a beachhead for the new arrivals, U.S. military forces withdrew, giving ground to the superior combat capabilities of the dragon creatures. Their leader, a large winged green creature one witness described as “a cross between a gecko and a nightmare,” engaged Gorgahdra, the armored giant believed to be the leader of the Planet Eaters, in a ferocious battle that damaged the historic St. Louis Cathedral, built in 1907. Gorgahdra retreated west in defeat, its forces withdrawing with it, and the space dragon leader signaled world leaders of its intent to communicate peaceably.
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From FBC News—Science
What we don’t understand: The return of magic
Some call it ‘super-science,’ but scholars at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge have taken a most liberal stance by referring to the capabilities the newcomers from space as ‘magic.’ This, according to Dr. Gao Wansu of Cambridge, is the most historically accurate definition for phenomena we as humans are not able to otherwise classify scientifically. It serves to underscore the incredible sights humankind has witnesses with the arrival of the Draken Armada, the Space Dragons. It would appear that Dr. Gao’s explanation has fallen on deaf ears, as scientists have begun to accede to explanations proposed by ‘mystics’ and other fortune-teller types that have previously been dubbed charlatans. ‘Magic,’ say these practitioners, ‘is the new science.’
Science rushes to explain recent horrors in our streets.
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From No Moss: Special Edition
Rastaban of the Draken Armada Has a Voice
Forget Smaug; the real dragons are here, and they’ve come to pull our fat from the fire.
“Hear me, Humanity,” he said to world leaders in New York City at the former Headquarters of the United Nations, “the Draken Armada has come to destroy the ones who would eat your planet. We seek an alliance.”
Operating under the principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, nearly every nation’s head of state readily joined in a coalition against the multiple factions seeking to destroy the planet. (Of note, Monaco, the second smallest nation in the world, abstained in the vote to form the alliance.)
Rastaban entered into private discussions with select world leaders, including the United States, but the pandemonium that had been gripping much of the world with the arrival of the Draken Armada seems to have calmed into an uneasy hopefulness for the moment.
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From Gossip of the Globe
ATTRACTIN’ DRAKEN!
Woman Says Rastaban Is Her Long-Lost Lover!
“I knew he’d come back for me!”
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