Further scans revealed that at the heart of each gate was a concentrated energy source. An entity that controlled the surrounding ecosystem.
Later, they would be classified as Gate Bosses.
If the entity died, the gate would collapse, so the military began sending soldiers through in small teams. None of them were prepared for what would be waiting for them on the other side.
The air alone was hostile to the human body. It carried unstable particles that wreaked havoc on normal cells. Soldiers who survived their missions often returned gravely ill with organ failure, neurological damage, and rapid cellular decay. Quite a few never recovered, while others didn't make it back at all.
For a time, humanity didn't know what to do. Gates continued to appear unpredictably across the world, and every attempt to clear them came at a devastating cost.
Then one scientist proposed something radical. Dr. Eliot Woods.
