With the advent of nuclear weapons and rising global tensions, who knew that World War Three would be the one to unite the world. The growing accounts of UFO sightings and very serious extraterrestrial considerations from even the most skeptical scientist hadn't prepared the world for it's first known alien invasion.
We were caught with our pants down. Multiple battleships blitzing into orbit with strange physics and impossible weapons caused a massive panic. Some thought this was the apocalypse, others likened it to a sort of biblical Armageddon, many had hoped that they were here with good intentions. When missiles rained, however, all hope was lost as panic swept the world. World leaders scrambled, military systems readied, and the populace prepared themselves as this may be last of our civilization.
However, what happened next surprised us all. Maybe we all instinctively knew. With all the infighting, nationalism, and racism that have plagued human existence maybe we should've known how fierce we are when attacked. "Us vs them" is very powerful when the 'us' is the entire human race and the 'them' is an attacking group of alien warlords threatening to end life as we know it.
The war lasted 5 long years as we fought with full power of the human race. World leaders finally putting there differences aside for the greater good. The alien scumbags weren't ready for the full force of human might. When the last of the warships were destroyed, there was a great celebration amongst all the races and people of the world and for the first time it may seem like the world might've finally come together as one.
A few years after the invasion another debate cropped up as the problem of the millions of hostile, stranded alien invaders that were left behind arose. There were many ideas floating around, some of the more extreme wanted to kill them all, but others opposed it as that would make us just as bad as them. There were many who wanted to talk with them, to learn from them, incorporate them into our way of life. That was a hard sell for those that lost family in the war. Also the language barrier as well as their unknown hostility towards human life would make that risky.
Someone had said, "Let's send them back to were they came from!" and for whatever reason that stuck. And so all the world's engineers collaborated together to re-engineer the alien spacecraft. It was a mighty feat, but after many years as the alien POW's were temporarily imprisoned, the engineers were able to get a few up and running. We packed in as many alien warriors in the vessels as we could and shipped them into the vastness of space. We had no idea where they had come from or where they were going, but it was our problem no longer. Our job was to boost our defenses, ready our troops, and hopefully human life may extend a little bit further.
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Reply to [WP] The alien invasion was defeated, and their spaceships reduced to rubble. The only thing putting a damper on things is the question of what should become of the millions of hostile, defeated extraterrestrials now stranded on Earth. by AccessTheMainframe
With the advent of nuclear weapons and rising global tensions, who knew that World War Three would be the one to unite the world. The growing accounts of UFO sightings and very serious extraterrestrial considerations from even the most skeptical scientist hadn't prepared the world for it's first known alien invasion.
We were caught with our pants down. Multiple battleships blitzing into orbit with strange physics and impossible weapons caused a massive panic. Some thought this was the apocalypse, others likened it to a sort of biblical Armageddon, many had hoped that they were here with good intentions. When missiles rained, however, all hope was lost as panic swept the world. World leaders scrambled, military systems readied, and the populace prepared themselves as this may be last of our civilization.
However, what happened next surprised us all. Maybe we all instinctively knew. With all the infighting, nationalism, and racism that have plagued human existence maybe we should've known how fierce we are when attacked. "Us vs them" is very powerful when the 'us' is the entire human race and the 'them' is an attacking group of alien warlords threatening to end life as we know it.
The war lasted 5 long years as we fought with full power of the human race. World leaders finally putting there differences aside for the greater good. The alien scumbags weren't ready for the full force of human might. When the last of the warships were destroyed, there was a great celebration amongst all the races and people of the world and for the first time it may seem like the world might've finally come together as one.
A few years after the invasion another debate cropped up as the problem of the millions of hostile, stranded alien invaders that were left behind arose. There were many ideas floating around, some of the more extreme wanted to kill them all, but others opposed it as that would make us just as bad as them. There were many who wanted to talk with them, to learn from them, incorporate them into our way of life. That was a hard sell for those that lost family in the war. Also the language barrier as well as their unknown hostility towards human life would make that risky.
Someone had said, "Let's send them back to were they came from!" and for whatever reason that stuck. And so all the world's engineers collaborated together to re-engineer the alien spacecraft. It was a mighty feat, but after many years as the alien POW's were temporarily imprisoned, the engineers were able to get a few up and running. We packed in as many alien warriors in the vessels as we could and shipped them into the vastness of space. We had no idea where they had come from or where they were going, but it was our problem no longer. Our job was to boost our defenses, ready our troops, and hopefully human life may extend a little bit further.