Portal Globalia | Must Read

At first, it was exploration. Teams of scientists and exo-biologists stepped through, returning with seeds that cured blight, crystals that stored a terawatt of power, and stories of breathtaking wonder. Then came the entrepreneurs. A mining corporation opened a gate to a planet whose “soil” was pure lithium. A pharmaceutical giant found a reef of organisms that excreted a perfect, non-addictive painkiller.

Aris stood at the original Nexus gate as the walls dissolved. He saw Tokyo layered over a crystalline fortress. Lagos bleeding into a fungal jungle. London flickering between drizzle and a perpetual, blood-red sunset. And through it all, the people—billions of people, all of them human, all of them refugees from the worlds their own greed had punctured. portal globalia

The Nexus scientists called it “quantum bleed.” Opening so many gates, they theorized, was thinning the membrane between all realities. Our world was becoming porous. And worse, something was leaking in . At first, it was exploration

“You have to close it,” the other Elena gasped, collapsing. “You’re not taking from empty worlds. You’re taking from our worlds. Every gate… every gate is a wound. And we… the rest of us… are bleeding out.” A mining corporation opened a gate to a

But Aris Thorne, now a gray-haired relic on the oversight committee, noticed the silence.