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The source, the infinite potential of all worlds, the roiling chaos that is the heart of all existences, the place where all space and time and realities meet and coexist is one.

A place that is not a place, in a time that is not a time.

Some years ago, a climatologist in the employ of the Institute for Stellar Propulsion, Huristics,

and Aeronautics wrote a paper about the effects of the Earth's magnetosphere on flora and

fauna, and the potential consequences of geomagnetic reversal.

Few paved the paper much mind, except for one Dr. Daniela Caldwell, then heard of experimental

projects, and she saw in that paper Apocalypse, and so she commissioned the construction of a base in the Antarctic to

precisely map and monitor fluctuations in the magnetic field. And in time, that base became known

as Andromeda Station. There were many scientists who came and went in the station's time,

and many more who might have, many branches in the road shaped by choice and chance in the unsteady hand of fate.

But out of all of those possible futures, this one worries me most deeply.

I cannot say if it is the future of the world I knew or just one like it, but still, it intrigues me. The

The The

The Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, this is Antarctic Research Station Andromeda.

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