Scientific Interludes are not romantic outtakes

I know that there may be a few scientists who were surfing out there for some astronomical soft core porn and saw slipgate and thought- finally a nerd who knows how to misrepresent!
But
it's not.
And I know there are going to be some Hard Science Fiction readers who are going to scoff at what they will describe as not scientifically correct usages and so on.
Let me say this.
I am trying.
For those uninitiated readers who are wondering what I am babbling about. It's Arthur C. Clarke vs. the State of George Lucas. Hard vs. Soft/fantasy Sci-Fi.
I think of myself in the middle. I know enough and keep up with enough science to be dangerous or as Douglas Adams would reference me, "Mostly Harmless except on Sundays."
I like scientific speculation and thus what this story is going to propose is complete scientific speculation.

So like that guy from Dragnet would say to me at this point here are the facts so far in the Slipgate Exiles Storyline (as we humans know them).

• Approxiamately 4 weeks ago, a listening station at the University of Berkley (CA) picked up a radio report like the ones that are picked up from Pulsars and similar phenomena out there in the Universe.
• The reason they found a radio frequency is because that is what they were looking with. The Ripple is my own description of a sub-space (string theory- Catherine Asaro hypothesis) that I am using here to describe as a long range form of transportation from another place in the Universe. All that you need to know right now is that it is alien and by alien I am aiming for utterly alien.
• Utterly alien will be clearer shortly as I open the real story unto you who have decided I am sad quack and gone back to reading "Scientific American, Harper's Weakly, and The New Science Times (which is really just old Science newly reprinted).
• Again, like Clarke in Rama was doing I am approaching this as what we humans would see when faced with alien technology and capabilities that we don't currently have the science or knowledge or language to accurately describe.
• So if you haven't passed out from boredom then Read ON MacDuff!