Lost in Magadan: Extraterrestrials on Earth

Nox stood before the seated men. He was not nervous. He was hopeful, hopeful that he could convince 173 of these men to go to Antarctica to start over. The room was silent; you could hear a pen drop as he turned to face the group.

“Most of you have seen me around this base. Some of you have worked with me on developing new technologies for the war effort. If you have not seen or worked with me, you are here because I believe you are important to my mission.

For those of you that do not know me: I am Nox Bellator. I am not of this planet. The planet I come from circles a star that is over thirty thousand light years from Earth. We refer to ourselves as Ondagra, and our home world is called Botacoure. There are hundreds like me, right here on Earth, many of myfellow Ondagra are colonizing Antarctica.

“This war is almost over. The British and Americans have surrounded what remains of this city. They have us outnumbered and outgunned. The Soviets are advancing on Berlin, and it will fall in the next few days. The British, French, Soviets, and Americans will want revenge for the millions slaughtered by the Nazis. German soldiers and officers will be executed by the thousands; millions of your women will be violated and tortured. This is not a hypothetical; this is here, at our doorstep, right now.

I am offering to each one of you an opportunity to escape the penance of the fallen; but it comes with a price, a steep price. I have four U-boats sitting in the pen at this moment; each one has been retrofitted to carry 100 seamen and passengers to Antarctica, where we will start over, building a new world.

Many of you believe that Antarctica is nothing but millions of square miles of ice and sub-zero temperatures. You may even believe that humans could not survive the cold climate of Antarctica, but you would be wrong. Several years ago, we discovered a vast underground cavern, larger than the entire country of Germany. In the center of this massive underground cavern we discovered a warm water lake, as big as a sea. It was heated by an underground geothermal energy source. This huge lake radiates heat throughout the cavern and warms it to a comfortable temperature.

We have been exploring and mapping this cavern and the many underwater tunnel passages that lead to it. We have been building a city, a place we can seek refuge from our enemies, and where we can rebuild a new and stronger civilization.