Whoa... im sorry? You totally lost me on that... 
/OOC I am assuming you are talking about May 23rd 2002, the date the Rikti invaded. If I am mistaken, well than, chalk it up me being a dumbarse...
/OOC
Physics Department, Doctor George speaking.
Edwin, this is Gilbert Kane over in the laboratory. I have
something you need to see.
Doctor Kane, now I am sure there is nothing I can help one of the countrys foremost specialist in extradimensional portal technology with at his own laboratory, but I have some lab reports to read before my classes start at noon
I remember the days when Doctor George would jump at the chance to explore something new
nevertheless
its kind of an emergency. One that requires your special
umm, talents.
I will be over in a little bit
Doctor George said begrudgingly.
***
I started getting these readings last night. I have a device called an Extradimensional Receiver. It basically can pick up the energy caused by portal openings up to a week before the portal actually opens, a clearly sleep deprived and frazzled Doctor Kane stammered.
How is that possible? Doctor George wondered looking at all of myriad devices and consoles chaotically arrayed throughout the dark lab. Doctor Kane was looked at as something of a pariah by the science departments at Paragon University. Extradimensional technology had always had a bad connotation in the scientific community, especially after the destruction of Portal Corp twelve years ago.
Travel between dimensions fundamentally relies on a view of the various realities being connected by a great sea of energy, like an archipelago of islands in a giant sea. However, unlike the water in this analogy, when a portal opens first the wake arrives and then the body making it. By attuning this device to the energy fields created by extradimensional travel, I can receive reading on portals opening up in our dimensional vicinity, Doctor Kane explained.
Well it doesnt seem to be working very well, Doctor George said smugly, pointing to the inert device that Doctor Kane indicated was the ED Receiver.
Well it was last night. It was right up until I got the highest energy reading ever recorded by this device. The energy overloaded the device and it short circuited.
So what does this mean, Doctor Kane?
According to my extrapolations, it means that approximately 10,000 portals will shortly open around our planet
a clearly frightened Doctor Kane said, and according to my calculations it will happen on in two days
do you understand what this means, Doctor George?
Doctor Edwin George understood exactly what his colleague meant and what had to be done, but in two days? Could he possibly be ready? Well then Doctor, lets start to warn anyone who will believe us that May 23rd could be the beginning of an event that would imperil the Earth itself. I will be in my lab, if you need me. There is something I need to finish.
*Stumbling over to nearby dumpster Valkyura held her head. As the throbbing in her temple began to finally subside, her bleary eyes focused on the date that marked a discarded newspaper from the day before at her feet
May 4th, 2004.*
*Valkyura halts on a side street holding the static dissipaters that cover her ears. The aerials that were ment to safeguard her from random static discharges, now strangely seem to be causing feedback at regular intervals in her ears...*
Ach! That sound!! Seems like a pattern.... *she notes the cycle*
*Quickly checking her chronocom/PDA, she calculates the interval and does some quick math... Her lips begin to move more slowly... With measure, her eyes slowly focus up toward the skies above....*
May 23rd? *she says softly and with great foreboding*