When humanity first discovered that there was a dimension just beyond our own, one full of new life and mysterious energies, they became too preoccupied with whether or not they could reach it to wonder whether or not they should. On August 23rd, 2062, at a secure complex in Greenland spanning 100 square miles, a team of over 50,000 people from every industrialized nation in the world came together to perform the greatest scientific feat in human history. They opened the first rift. We've been paying the price ever since. I was 12 years old.