Monolith
Monolith 20XX The popular name for it was the "Stargate" or "Monolith", neither movie reference properly described the 'interstellar debris/bomb/starship', but it did a good job of making it much less frightening. Nicknames weren't the only thing people used to cope; movies/television fictionalized the 'object', never-ending hordes of monsters pouring out of the 'wormhole' or the 'device' was the modern day burning bush were book ends of our story spectrum. Unfortunately for earth...