Synopsis: Beyond the Veil

World War Three has raged on for twenty-two years leaving more than five billion people dead, several hundred square miles of land throught the world unliviable due to radiation levels, and civilization in poor shape. To end the war, to deter the other side from continuing, the newest generation of doomsday weapon had been created. A bomb capable of tearing the very fabric of space, of causing everything in the blast radius to cease to exist.

Small scale tests had been perfect. The size of the tears matched what was expected and the universe always healed the damage within minutes. And so the green light was given for a full sized bomb to be built and tested. That's when everything went wrong. The bomb didn't function as expected. Everything within fifty miles of the test site was gone in an instant. And then began The Silencing. The skies blazed red, nothing electric would function, and all sounds ceased for ten days.

On the eleventh day it ended. The skies shone red, electricty flowed, and sounds could be heard once more. The war, too, ended, though neither side won. It only stopped because those fighting it were too scared to continue, too scared that next time they wouldn't just stare extinction in the face but meet it. And so the world began to rebuild, old hates and fears and dislikes were put aside, though not easily, and the healing began.

But the damage had already been done. A tear the universe could not heal had formed at the blast site. A tear that lead to another world, another Earth. An Earth were the violence and the wars had never stopped. Where the fighting had continued until the world was little more than a dead husk and the humans that remained were no longer human. Where mankind had never learned its lesson, where fighting and violence had bred a new race far more vicious, blood thirsty, and deadly than anything we had ever seen.

It is now 2045 and for the last fourteen years mankind has once again been at war with itself, but itself from another universe. They have come to be known as "Nephilim" and they have come to our world in force. Their world is dead, our world still has a chance, and they want it. For fourteen years we have fought them while searching for a way to close the tear, to close the path between our worlds. Now, at last, a way has been found.

But there is a catch. The tear must be closed from both sides. Ours and theirs.