I wrote this for a media assignment in 2007. Unfortunately, this plot is not a story I intend to complete at the moment. I should appologise in advance for all the grammar errors.
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In 2048, it leaked out that the Earthen governments possessed ships. Ships that could carry us beyond the stars. But they assured us we would be safe. No one believed. A year later in 2049 a group called Aten Equitas formed. They produced ships and weapons rivalling that of the officials. And one evening, in 2051… They came… They were not prepared…
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They came, unprepared for what lie before them. Their great ships descended from our skies above our great cities. Their ships we far greater and destructive than we had ever imagined they could be. Their dark shadows spread across vast areas of our cities casting us into darkness. All we were shown was the base of dark and terrifying ships that were cast into darkness.
Any of our attempts to shoot them down with what weapons we had, had failed. The government’s weapons had failed within seconds of their coming. The only thing standing between us and them, was a bright emerald energy field that flared to life whenever something got too close. Fire rained from the sky, destroying any visible defence we had. Tearing symbolic buildings and statues to the ground, they aggravated our government. Their obnoxious nature suppressed by fear, the government claimed to enter ‘negotiations’, but nothing came of it. And before we knew it, our government had crumbled. Many of our officials dead, other fleeing and hiding.
This is what they wanted. A planet with no leader. Venerable. With chaos breaking out and our planet tearing itself apart at the seams. It became apparent what they wanted. Their great voices echoed through our streets. And everything stopped. No more looting. No more killing. No more fighting. Everyone had stopped dead as night, to listen to the cruel voice and its attempt at English.
The deafening voice boomed down upon us proclaiming our planet as their own. They claimed they would let us live. They claimed we would not be harmed. They claimed that all we had to do to be left alone is provide them with resources they needed to expand their empire. The people were not impressed. And then, from beneath the ground, a bright blue light shot through anyone and anything in it’s way and bared towards the alien ships.
And that, is where everything changed.
The bright light did not impact the shield. But with a small green flash passed straight through it. And then, it began. The ship above this city started to lean in towards the building and slowly descended towards the Earth. And as people ran for their lives more came. Bright blue light lighting up the dark skies impacting the great black voids above our cities. And as the first few ships came crashing down to earth many that littered the skies bore down upon the sources of the disruption. Their efforts were futile.
As the first ship approached a hole in the foundations of the city, it saw it’s last moments. With a great overpowering crash a great craft erupted from beneath the ground and with a great wave of yellow protecting it, it thrust upwards through the invaders ship. And as the craft and all others around the world erupted from their sub-earthen docks the invaders ships were repeatedly broken into two. And with mighty roars they fell to the earth with great force and destruction.
And as the enormous craft ascended into the heavens more and more invading vessels bore down upon them. And with great flashes of glorious blue light erupting from the craft each vessel in turn ploughed into the ground beneath them. The craft glided through the skies of the planet destroying all that laid in their way, until the few that remained fled. Trailing fires behind them with great masses of their vessel missing they ascended back into the heavens from whence they came.
Unfortunately. That was just the beginning.
Over the next few days the Aten Equitas secured themselves is a position of power. Proudly replacing the government that had crumbled so easily before them. They immediately acknowledged that they had hundreds of ships ready for a crew and that they were merely a group of a several thousand. They encouraged people to come forward and take arms against any who would return once more to annihilate us. Stating that each ship had enough room to house at least 1000 families, they immediately received people in recruitment centres that had been set up across the planet. The Aten Equitas set up a militarised division, anyone serving on such a vessel be they anything from combatants to pilots, playing a key role in the vessels functionality, would be placed into a military chain of command. The many different divisions of armies on the planet were dissolved and all recruits, officers, and soldiers were placed within the ranks of a ship. Many new offices were opened to provide the Aten Equitas with a more ‘official’ method of processing commands.
The elite vessels being the ones manned almost entirely by Aten Equitas Imperials were always ready and always bustling with interest. No “How do you think we could do this?” or “how do we prevent that fire?”. It was swift, effective, and efficient. In such busy and active ships, there wasn’t time to worry or ask questions.
And when they returned, we were ready. There was no delay. They came and we were there. In our full numbers ready and waiting. But what the people didn’t know, is Aten Equitas has anticipated such an attack to begin with. A great portal capable of sending people across the stars near instantaneously buried deep within the Aten Equitas’s main bunker, and classified to anyone but their most trusted Imperials. It would change the tide of the war, and with the relations between the off world races at their strongest united against the invading Valthen. Their was another race, joined with us in war. And when they came, we were revealed to how small and undifferentiated the galaxy really was. Their tall posture and ears made them look like elves in appearance, and to their dismay, people immediately took to calling them such. Very similar to humans their advanced medical knowledge and ability to manipulate the universe however they wished, made them very desirable friends.
And as both races settled in among each other, and with transport readily available between their planets and ours, the difference between us became more apparent. They were peaceful and would do all they could to live in peace, whereas we were a violent people, determined to defend our selves by any cost. But the combined resources of scientific development between us made us deadly to any that opposed us. Unfortunately, they just kept coming. The Valthen were determined. They would not have us exist while we posed a threat.
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