Globalia |link| — Portal

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.

“We didn't find a new world,” he whispered, as the last of the barriers fell and the Great Convergence began. “We just learned to pick our own pocket.” portal globalia

Today, Aris proved him right. But he also proved something far more terrifying. Aris stood at the original Nexus gate as the walls dissolved

The world celebrated. The Globalia Consortium was born. London flickering between drizzle and a perpetual, blood-red

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 .

He looked into the shimmering void of the Globalia Gate and saw not a pathway, but a mirror. It showed him the face of a species that had learned to steal from itself.

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.