A New Era Is About to Begin

August 1. The weather was bright and clear that day, without a cloud for miles beneath the vast, azure sky that refreshed the spirit. The saucer-shaped spacecraft that had originally hovered in the sky had also been raised by Zero into Earth's interstellar space, where it remained among the stars like a space station. At the former Capitol Building square in Canberra, Australia, reporters from all over the world flooded in.