The Millennium Gate seen from high altitude
No Millennium Gate
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A poster advertising the Millennium Gate
The Millennium Gate was built on Earth in the 21st century in Portage Creek, Indiana, United States of America. Its construction was finished around the year 2012.
The Millennium Gate was one kilometer high, had a base width of 3.2 kilometers and could be seen from space. The Gate itself was covered in highly-reflective solar panels and was built as a self-contained biosphere with its own ecosystem. It would, among other things, contain more than six hundred stores. Eventually, the Millennium Gate would serve as a model for the first colony on Mars.
The building of this immense project was scheduled to start in 2001 after the necessary legalities were finished before midnight on the last day of 2000. The Texas company behind the project appointed Gerald Moss as the Millennium Gate spokesman. The reason for building the Gate in Portage Creek was that its city administrators offered the company free building permits, deferred local taxes and new roads. The local citizens were offered a price twenty percent above the current market value for their properties. The catch was that all citizens needed to agree to sell; if even one of them refused, the whole project would be terminated and the Millennium Gate would be built on its alternate location in Canton, Ohio.
In general, the people of Portage Creek welcomed the building of the Millennium Gate. However, although Gerald Moss stated before 3 Action News that everyone was cooperating to make the building of the Millennium Gate possible, he still had to deal with the opposition of one citizen, Henry Janeway. If Janeway succeeded in his resistance, Moss would need to start building the Gate on its alternate location. The deadline for Portage Creek would pass at midnight, December 31, 2000.
Moss and Shannon O'Donnell managed to convince Henry Janeway to leave his bookstore before midnight and on the first day of January 2001, the building of the Millennium Gate commenced. (VOY: "11:59")