[ WP ] New Horizon speeds past Pluto and into the abyss of unexplored space . Very suddenly , the craft collides into the dome barrier that keeps humanity isolated from the rest of the universe .

`` We've lost contact sir!'' 
 
 `` Patch me, what are we getting from New Horizon? What was the last thing received?'' 
 The room fell silent and the large projector screen in the front of NASA HQ was nothing but black. Someone was spinning the video backwards, it seemed to have been dead for hours and they were only just getting the feed. 
 
 `` Sir we're getting calls from the EU. They're seeing something.'' 
 
 `` I wan na see what the EU is seeing and I want to know what happened to my craft! Right now!'' Steve yelled and pointed without direction. What was one to do when your only project you've ever worked on suddenly disappeared. 
 
 It did n't take them long to give him what he demanded however, it was NASA after all. The screen was split, the last picture from New Horizon showed blackness with this odd halo like shape getting closer. It had the slightest tint of orange to it and then static. 
 
 The pictures from the EU were similar, an orange tint to the sky. It was n't the nice halo rounded shape as New Horizon saw, it was a bunch of cracks. `` Oh... shit...'' Steve said. `` Someone extrapolate that crack out, is it done? Where is it going? And what... on Earth... is it?'' 
 
 `` It's not on Earth sir.'' 
 
 `` Oh shut up Jeremy, that joke was old the first time you used it.'' Steve replied, `` Anyone? Come on this a room of the smartest people in the United States we should have an answer by now.'' 
 
 `` Uh... sir? If my math is correct, its already finished cracking.'' Steve did n't turn to the intern but watched the cracks expand through the updates from the telescope. 
 
 `` Can I get a visual on the radio spectrum?'' Steve asked. 
 
 That was the last of NASA, the screen flashed as bright and clear as it could. The universe had been blocking radio signals for decades, Earth was n't ready for the onslaught of signals but the galaxy had been waiting for them. It did n't take long for the slavers to arrive, they'd been lurking. We could barely fend them off until the Intergalactic Council stepped in to set up a blockade around the planet as an archaelogical dig, apparently there were millions of other planets with developing life protected by these orange galaxy halos. The intergalactic council had set them up and once your society broke through, and you survived either the radiation or the massive information upload the universe simply sent out, you were welcomed into the Intergalactic Council. 
 
 Most society's did n't make it. They'd crack the hull and want to have their isolation back, Earth though... Earth was different. They wanted everything. Every piece of information and technology they could grasp, the council workers on Earth started nicknaming the inhabitants `` The Curious''. Every member of the planet would touch any alien technology they could find. Even simple food was stolen and found to be studied in rundown homes on Earth. We still wanted to know, we wanted to survive- that's how Earth became the Presidential Planet of the galaxy so many centuries later. It all started with a crack.
