Brussels UFO

Timeline

Undefined

Common Designation

The Brussels UFO

Other Designation

Aragthonian ship

Observed Type

Armed extraterrestrial craft

Affiliation

Unknown at the time of its first appearance

First Appearance

July 15, 2024, above Brussels

Linked Craft

USS Mercator, USS Enterprise, USS Washington

The UFO first appears as an object impossible to classify. It emerges near the Mercator minutes before the nuclear impact on Brussels, evades conventional sensors, destroys a reconnaissance drone, and neutralizes the city's anti-air defenses without identifying itself.

For Agnes Rodriguez, the danger is immediate: the ship is neither Russian nor Chinese, and its power exceeds anything human technology in 2024 can account for. She therefore chooses evasion, restraint, and bunker lockdown over a confrontation the Mercator probably would not have survived.

Its Aragthonian nickname comes later, when Agnes recognizes a silhouette close to the craft seen in Brussels in a 1960s science-fiction series. That resemblance does not solve the mystery: it deepens it, placing the ship at the crossroads of military secrecy, popular fiction, and a temporal history that is still impossible to read.

The UFO appears at the worst possible moment: the Mercator is evacuating Brussels, Angie is still trying to secure a damaged module, Russian missiles are approaching, and the countdown to nuclear impact is almost over.

The first contact is not really contact at all. Vitos launches a DX to gather information, but the craft destroys it almost immediately. It then attacks ground defenses before turning toward the Mercator. Agnes refuses to activate the weapons, avoiding the transformation of a hostile observation into a duel lost in advance.

This scene gives the ship its true initial function: it is not merely one more threat in the apocalypse, but the element that forces Agnes to make an impossible decision. By ordering Hamilton to lock down the bunker, she protects the entire underground system against an intrusion no one understands yet.

Read after Book I - Episode 30.

Once the Mercator reaches the starbase, Agnes and Angie deliver their analysis to Admiral Michaux. The recordings remain poor, but several points emerge: the craft is comparable to the Mercator in size, has a robust shield, and possesses enough firepower to pulverize a Special Fleet ship.

Agnes almost immediately rules out a human origin. NATO has progressed thanks to decades of secret research, but the UFO shows too clear an advance in design, response speed, and weaponry. Michaux then understands that the fleet, already weakened after the evacuation, is facing a factor no crisis scenario had anticipated.

Read after Book I - Episode 34.

In the Enterprise quarters, Agnes and Angie watch Galaxy Patrol while looking, almost despite themselves, for matches with NATO's secret files. Agnes then recognizes a ship from the series: its silhouette recalls the UFO filmed in Brussels.

Angie identifies it in the fiction as an Aragthonian ship. For the crew from the Schak'Irra Timeline, that name therefore becomes a way to talk about the craft before its real origin can be understood. This profile preserves that designation because it reflects the characters' perception at this stage of the story.

Read after Book I - Episode 41.

The craft reappears during the Enterprise's first official mission, while several Nauvoo ships regain control of Earth's satellites. It begins by destroying the USS Washington with an invisible shot, without warning and without giving its crew the slightest chance to react.

Against the Enterprise, the ship confirms its initial advantage: it is more maneuverable, protected by a shield that is hard to breach, and capable of absorbing torpedoes, mines, and direct fire. Agnes nevertheless understands that this shield can be pierced briefly if several attacks are coordinated with enough precision.

The Rodriguez Maneuver-001 is born from that tactical reading. The torpedoes open a breach, Vitos' DXS rush into it, then the mini-DXS strike from inside the energy field. The craft is neutralized but not destroyed: it restarts, dives into Earth's radioactive atmosphere, and disappears.

The communication attempt also reveals an unexpected danger. The alien signal affects Emilie Flores violently enough to send her to sickbay. By the end of Episode 41, the UFO has not reappeared, but its shield has now been identified as vulnerable to the Enterprise's weapons when they are combined with the DXS.

Read after Book I - Episode 87.

During the attack on the NATO starbase, the Enterprise discovers an armada of ships that Tarsi immediately recognizes as Tholian. The connection with the Brussels UFO then becomes much stronger: the isolated craft of 2024 was probably not a unique appearance, but one form of a larger threat.

The battle confirms several points already glimpsed during the Satellites mission. The Rodriguez Maneuver-001 can surprise some attackers, but it is no longer enough against their numbers. The smaller ships, identified by Tarsi as Widow Fighters and Web Weavers, become priorities, while the Enterprise is overwhelmed by the swarm's maneuverability and density.

T'Met adds an important nuance: the ships' signatures do not fully match what she knows of the Tholians. The fleet seems both present and absent, capable of inflicting real damage while remaining incoherent to the sensors. This paradox recalls the phenomena observed in Moscow and preserves some uncertainty about the armada's exact nature.

The story does not yet provide a complete technical profile for the craft. Reliable data mostly comes from the Mercator's observation, Agnes and Angie's analysis, then the battle fought by the Enterprise.

The confirmed elements are limited but telling: size close to a Mercator-type Nauvoo, heavy energy weapons, robust shielding, concealment or presence difficult for sensors to interpret, strong maneuverability, and a transmission dangerous to human communications.

Read after Book I - Episode 87.

After the attack on the starbase, the craft can be linked more cautiously to the family of Tholian ships, and more specifically to a presumed Iktomi / Orb Weaver class. This identification remains an interpretation based on silhouette, behavior, and observed capabilities: the characters in Book I do not yet have a complete file on its origin, crew, or chain of command.

The Brussels UFO is the first threat that completely escapes the human frames of the story. The Russian missiles belong to an identifiable political and military catastrophe; this craft follows another logic. It intervenes in the middle of the apocalypse, then reappears in orbit as if the nuclear crisis were only part of a larger problem.

Its strength comes from its ambiguity. It seems hostile, but its objective remains obscure. It destroys, observes, disappears, returns, then withdraws without the Enterprise obtaining an answer. Even when later episodes narrow the hypotheses, it still works as a silhouette of war: concrete enough to kill the Washington, mysterious enough to open the door to temporal revelations.