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ALIENS, AT LAST!
THEY LOOK LIKE US!
WORLD SHAKEN TO CORE
"According to the heretics, and we all know who we’re talking about, there is a door– a portal to another dimension– that leads to a whole other universe, but with people just like us on an earth just like ours. Now, I don’t know what they’re all smoking up there in them elite colleges up north, but it should be banned if that’s what it’s doing to young minds. Everyone knows what aliens look like-- they're dark, lizardy things, that want to take our jobs." -Sen. Vernon Thump (TR-AR)
While it has been confirmed from multiple sources within the Band of 7 Nations that “high-ranking specialists” have used a portal to visit another universe, they are otherwise maintaining a strict media blackout on all matters relating to it. When asked about its veracity, Executive Secretary Clymor Granite refused all questions on the matter, and has yet to get back to me with a comment. Meanwhile, footage has been filtering through the net allegedly showing this portal in operation, with a man bearing a strong resemblance to Secretary Granite about to step through....
Civil liberties unions and rights groups around the world have made publicly known their deep dissatisfaction with the so-called "interview" process that will determine whether we can join the rest of humanity or not. They are claiming that as we have no voice in the decision, the Five Primes have no credibility, and therefore we should have the same unhindered access to the multiverse as anyone else. Others are simply outraged that a bunch of other-world foreigners think they have the right to tell us what group we can or can’t join. This view in particular is held by a small, but increasingly vocal strain of xenophobes calling themselves the EarthZero Fundamentalists. Even though there are supposedly millions of other earths and earth-like worlds in this so-called New Humanuum, they firmly believe that our earth is the original earth from which all others grew. All of which is based on a short speech by a secondary character in a third-rate sci-fi novel that I refuse to name.