On June 2, the Explorer IV was sent for launch to visit a galaxy outside our own making it the most sought out space trip in history. They needed to at least visit one of the distant planets and collect data and collect material from the planet. The goal of this team is to discover if there is other habitable planets to visit. The launch was successful carrying 12 astronauts through space. For four weeks they journeyed through our own galaxy, so the crew mainly just kept up to date with all the maintenance of the ship and entertained themselves with anything they could find on the ship.

At the end of the fourth week they came to the end of our galaxy and everyone in central command watched vigilantly and anxiously as they left and entered the dark of space.

It was pitch black and the only guide they had was the set course to follow that would lead them to the next galaxy. Everything was going fine until they saw a bright stream of light, it came closer to the ship and the central command frantically tried to identify it, but there was nothing they could find about it. And command watched as the light practically touched the ship and right then all intercoms and communications were cut. Central command tried their best to gain connection with the ship, but there was no improvement. Command didn’t hear from the ship for two years. The mission was dropped the first year of the disappearance.

It wasn’t until two years later in the late of July that the comms all lit up. Technicians came and other government agents came as they thought it must be a malfunction. They concluded that everything lined up, the Explorer IV was close to Earth. The ship was under the return home protocol and would land the next day. Hundreds of Navy ships surrounded the landing spot of the ship that was towards the outskirts of the Gulf of Mexico. The ship was heavily damaged.

Once they opened the ship, there were all kinds of strange plants growing within the ship. The ship also took a lot of damage on the inside as if there was a struggle within the ship. Once they got to the control bay they came to find no one was there. They were all confused because it takes a crew member to activate the return home protocol. They checked the video logs to see that the trip all the way up to landing on the bright strange planet was fine. They fast-forwarded to when they returned to the ship and that’s when it all went downhill.

One of the crew members was acting weird and they weren’t walking right. When all the crew members were in the medical bay to check him out there was nothing inside the suit but a tentacle mass-like creature that started causing chaos within the bay. That’s when the surveillance cut out.

At the end it showed a crew member in the control bay frantically saying, “This is Unit 77 sending a distress signal, it’s too late for me and we have already sent out the return protocol! Whatever it is, it has taken all of the crew. I am the only one left. It won’t be too long now. But whatever you do don’t open the ship, you have to destroy it.”

That’s when the video violently cut out. This is when Earth changed forever and would never be the same.