Research Log Record #47 - 6/23/2056
Smithstonian Institute of Volcanic Expeditions
Darvaza Gas Crater, Turkmenistan 40.2525° N, 58.4396° E6
*radio clatters* "DGC Crater Dematerializer Standby, all systems nominal, temperatures controlled, requesting activation authorization" says the controller seated at the control unit."Authorization granted, day six digging quota is 2500 km, all callsigns may proceed with operation" orders the operation lead.
Hours past, the machine reaches a depth of 2234 km, temperatures reaches about 2500 degree celcius, the drills rpm deducts from 3000 rpm to concerning 783 rpm, extremely steep temperature rise activates all the alarms. The operation lead orders full system shutdown.It was too late..
The onboard AI reads - "Drill blocked... Foreign Substance applying a counter force. Solution.... NULL, drill encapsulated... 68%"68% of the drill was covered by a foreign substance, the scientists had no visuals of the drill on those depths.
"68 percent???!!" screams the controller, "Its a 2000 km long drill, how can something engulf it so fa-", the controller gets breifly cutoff by horrid and gruesome screams of the drill maintenance engineers who were sent to check the drills exterior systems above the ground. Those terrific screams were followed by limbs and flesh tearing apart and blood splatters. The visual feed came online..
"The engineers.. what- *vomits*". Red fleshy vines grew out of the engineers, like they were a part of them, tearing through the flesh and hazmat radiation suits and elevated them in the air like a showcase.
Its not over yet.. the vines continue to grow in a circular outstretch and some are reaching the control station.
"Hello?? This is Dr. Elias Voss, DGC Drill Station, we have been compromised by a foreign substan-"
END OF STATION LOG
The crater was named correct indeed, "The Gates of Hell". For 47 Years humanity threw everything they had for survival against the demonic entities that emerged, something out of pure fiction but also stated in the ancient scriptures too. Humanity now hides in bunkers made to withstand cataclysm. Development of extremely potent high tech weaponry was done, all the governments united and found the Obsidian Accord, a final bastion of offense and defense against the terror. Earth was quarantined and Orbital Reinforcement Guns were installed in other planets where humanity was still fully functional to prevent spread. We renamed the Solar System to Solaris Prime adjacently conquering two more star systems named Solaris Ultima and Solaris Aeturnum.
With the founding of the Obsidian Accord, heavy research showed demons emerge from rifts in the fabric of space and time and the Gas Crater was just a cause due to the rift created inside Earth's crust. The drilling operation helped the foreign substances use the drill stucture as a support to expand its graps through the exposure created.
As a honour to the motherplanet, Earth is now designated as Super Earth, a barren deathworld devoid of any life signs. Life does exist, but inhumane.
As the masters of our star system we wont allow our motherplanet to go down in the hands of the abyss.
A place named the Gates of Hell, from where Hell itself emerged, how plain.