The Facility

Ten years have gone by now and the population of the moon’s alien facility, and earth’s constructed moon city, have grown to almost ten thousand with another five thousand daily visitors meandering in and out of the area. The alien teleportation device and remote control have functioned flawlessly until now. Without warning a failed transport resulted in the loss of a famed astronaut and caused a halt in travel to and from the moon to earth. This was only the beginning of minor disruptions that made the occupants realize that they did not know enough, even after ten years of investigation, to fix these alien equipment problems. Unknown at the time, there was something on the horizon that would make the minor problems they were experiencing unimportant in most cases.