Volume 7: After the Sky Opens: Life in the First Days of Disclosure
Disclosure will not be the end of a mystery; it will be the beginning of a reckoning. And what follows in the days, weeks, and months after will test the very soul of humanity.
Life in the First Days of Disclosure
The moment humanity has waited for will not arrive with fanfare or fireworks. It will come with silence broken by a collective gasp, a shockwave of realization that spreads not from governments or generals, but from the people who look to the sky and understand that everything has changed. Disclosure will not be the end of a mystery; it will be the beginning of a reckoning. And what follows in the days, weeks, and months after will test the very soul of humanity.
The First Days: Awe and Fear
When the moment arrives, it will not come with a press release neatly prepared by officials. It will come suddenly, undeniably, like lightning breaking across the still sky. A fleet of craft is hovering in silence above a major city. A shimmering presence caught live on international broadcasts. A display so precise and deliberate that it cannot be written off as weather, drones, or illusions. Humanity will be confronted, not by rumor, but by reality.
The first reaction will be awe. Entire crowds will gather, phones raised in trembling hands, as shapes never before seen with such clarity fill the horizon. The reports will cascade across every platform, millions of videos, angles, and witnesses, all confirming the same thing. No longer will skeptics be able to dismiss the phenomenon as a hallucination or a hoax. For the first time in modern history, humanity will know together, in a single heartbeat, that we are not alone. And yet, alongside awe, fear will spread like fire. Some will fall to their knees in prayer, believing prophecy has arrived. Others will scream of invasion, their survival instincts turning wonder into panic. Newsrooms will break into confusion, anchors speaking too quickly, their practiced calm cracking as they try to find words for the inexplicable. Scientists will scramble for theories, speaking of plasma anomalies or classified technology. Still, their voices will carry hesitation, for even they will feel the truth pressing at the edges of their certainty.
Governments will not move as one. Some leaders will attempt reassurance, delivering statements crafted to calm the masses. Others will lean into fear, issuing warnings, deploying jets, and framing the event as a threat. Militaries across the world will quietly mobilize, their weapons aimed skyward, though their commanders know they are powerless against such technology. Beneath the surface, the hidden factions, those who have always known, will argue among themselves, deciding whether to allow the event to unfold or attempt to seize control of the narrative.
