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Mirror is the current given title of a concept of science fiction concieved by Daniel Z. Chen (User:SArchangel) and is currently a young idea under development. It is a piece that is supposed to be partly an eye-opener on human nature as discussed in Judeo-Christian theology. The title of the concept is subject to change.

Mirror is set in our universe in the future. In the future, humanity underwent a second technological revolution in response to the growing scarcity of Earth's own resources. The revolution began with a mission to create a mining colony for helium-3-rich lunar soil on Earth's moon, and was ultimately successful. The energy produced using helium-3 allowed humanity to reach other parts of the Solar System, resulting in a second Space Age and allowed the domination of the entire Solar System. The Solar System's abundance of resources led to a Golden Age for humanity. During the Golden Age, scientific research of phenomenon occurring in the outer parts of the heliosphere led to the discovery of a wormhole at the edge of the Solar System.

Decades later after the discovery of this wormhole, the International Space Administration (ISA) launched the Emissary I, an intelligence probe designed to observe what was theoretically beyond the wormhole. To much surprise, the Emissary I successfully passed through the wormhole to an alternate universe on the other side, and was dominated by what was observed by an humanoid yet very different alien race (described as 'demonic' and devilish) with almost the same technology as humanity that had dominated their galaxy in the same manner in which humanity had dominated the Solar System. The ISA called the galaxy the Idemian galaxy, based on the Latin word for identical, idem.

Decades later, the ISA launched a manned mission to the Idemian galaxy, which was successful. However after miscommunication with the alien race, the alien's turned hostile and the human explorers committed self-termination. The aliens sent their own "Emissary I" to the human universe, but the United Nations ordered the destruction of the alien probe. The United Nations deemed the aliens a hostile race, and took control over the ISA with the intention to launch a military invasion of the Idemian galaxy. And so the invasion began.


 * The revelation in this science fiction tale is that the wormhole actually distorts the perspective of all things that pass through it. There are no aliens; both alternate universes are dominated by humans, and both universes are the same universe only in different but not-distant time periods. The galaxy of the group that took first action (sent the Emissary first) is the Future galaxy, as in ahead in time of the other galaxy, which is the Past galaxy. The wormhole distorted the view of each group of humans, causing the Past humans to see the Future humans as demonic aliens, and vice versa.