First Contact
Let me take you back… before the war. Before the skies rained fire and whole worlds burned. Let me take you back to when brotherhood was not forged in blood.
We never saw it coming. The older ones always said they’d return, but we never paid them heed. We should have listened. We should have been prepared. But how can you prepare for something as terrible as war. A war more terrible than any before.
The first signs were dismissed as anomalies and irregularities in the readings. Long range radio sensors picked up their movements just outside our solar system. It wasn’t long afterwards that we picked them up again, closer this time. Several recon ships were sent up to investigate but they slipped right by them. That’s when first contact was made, not in space, but here. On the ground. We didn’t see their cruisers until later on, the first were their drop ships. They dropped screaming from the sky, they swooped in low, their engines picking up the dust and throwing it into the air. Lines dropped from the underside and soldiers repelled down rapidly. As soon as the troops hit the ground the ships took off, the lines cutting away. It took them hardly a moment at all to deploy. And just as swiftly as they hit the ground they had us against the wall. Soldiers rushed everyone in site, grabbing some, knocking others to the ground with no hesitation. One cop tried to resist. He was shot in the head the moment he took a step forward. His body dropped like a stone. I couldn’t see him well from where I was, all I could see was the blood spilling over the dirt. No one else resisted.
They gathered us up and moved us all into this one building and threw us in this room. There were no windows, but I could hear them talking outside the door. The way they talked was so foreign to me. The cackle of their radios distorted their voices, but I could discern a few words but nothing more. A young girl sat huddled in the corner on my left. I recognized her. She was only a few years younger than me. I couldn’t place where I had seen her, but I was sure I knew her from somewhere. I waited until the guards weren’t looking and then quickly scooted across the room to her. I touched her arm gently, startling her. She looked up at me with a look of shock on her face but it melted away slowly. I guess she recognized me too. I stayed there with her. They kept us down there for three or four hours from what I can tell. And then they were just gone. I ran to the door and peered out carefully but there was nothing in sight. They had just vanished. As I went to leave the room I felt a tug at my arm. That girl was holding onto me, I could see the fear on her face. So I stayed.
The Armada occupation was short but brutal. Shock troopers seized control of all the major cities in the western hemisphere. GPDF defence forces never even fired a shot. Three hours after touchdown orders came down for all Armada forces to pull out. The Armada had expected little to no resistance and had achieved full surprise in their attack. And so had the Karan’Ak, a ruthless and unforgiving alien race no one had ever encountered before. Catching the Armada’s fleet completely unawares they swept down even faster than the Armada had and nearly wiped out the Armada’s entire fleet. Confronted by this new enemy the Armada was forced to pull out and regroup
We never saw it coming. The older ones always said they’d return, but we never paid them heed. We should have listened. We should have been prepared. But how can you prepare for something as terrible as war. A war more terrible than any before.
The first signs were dismissed as anomalies and irregularities in the readings. Long range radio sensors picked up their movements just outside our solar system. It wasn’t long afterwards that we picked them up again, closer this time. Several recon ships were sent up to investigate but they slipped right by them. That’s when first contact was made, not in space, but here. On the ground. We didn’t see their cruisers until later on, the first were their drop ships. They dropped screaming from the sky, they swooped in low, their engines picking up the dust and throwing it into the air. Lines dropped from the underside and soldiers repelled down rapidly. As soon as the troops hit the ground the ships took off, the lines cutting away. It took them hardly a moment at all to deploy. And just as swiftly as they hit the ground they had us against the wall. Soldiers rushed everyone in site, grabbing some, knocking others to the ground with no hesitation. One cop tried to resist. He was shot in the head the moment he took a step forward. His body dropped like a stone. I couldn’t see him well from where I was, all I could see was the blood spilling over the dirt. No one else resisted.
They gathered us up and moved us all into this one building and threw us in this room. There were no windows, but I could hear them talking outside the door. The way they talked was so foreign to me. The cackle of their radios distorted their voices, but I could discern a few words but nothing more. A young girl sat huddled in the corner on my left. I recognized her. She was only a few years younger than me. I couldn’t place where I had seen her, but I was sure I knew her from somewhere. I waited until the guards weren’t looking and then quickly scooted across the room to her. I touched her arm gently, startling her. She looked up at me with a look of shock on her face but it melted away slowly. I guess she recognized me too. I stayed there with her. They kept us down there for three or four hours from what I can tell. And then they were just gone. I ran to the door and peered out carefully but there was nothing in sight. They had just vanished. As I went to leave the room I felt a tug at my arm. That girl was holding onto me, I could see the fear on her face. So I stayed.
The Armada occupation was short but brutal. Shock troopers seized control of all the major cities in the western hemisphere. GPDF defence forces never even fired a shot. Three hours after touchdown orders came down for all Armada forces to pull out. The Armada had expected little to no resistance and had achieved full surprise in their attack. And so had the Karan’Ak, a ruthless and unforgiving alien race no one had ever encountered before. Catching the Armada’s fleet completely unawares they swept down even faster than the Armada had and nearly wiped out the Armada’s entire fleet. Confronted by this new enemy the Armada was forced to pull out and regroup