A Simple Matter of Perspective
Setting
Interstellar Space
In the deep of space a small ship cruised alone. The bluish grey craft was for exploration being this far away from the borders of its home. The craft, a large cone with a rounded point illuminated by the yellow engine flaring behind it had been in deep space for four months exploring the properties of interstellar space. It was then the craft detected ships, thousands upon thousands of ships moving toward it at an immense speed, suddenly they began to slow down. The craft had been detected; out of fear in the face of such a first contact the exploration vessel began transmitting signals back to its home planet. The giant grey ships in the rapidly moving fleet slowed to a stop, the exploration vessel sat opposite to a wall of metal in space. Without warning the grey boxes flashed with brilliant lights, the lights moved quickly and in a flash the exploration ship was gone. The wall of grey boxes waited for a moment and began to accelerate, across the side of one of the massive ships there were white letters, spelling “NEW HOPE 74”.
A white haired man in a grey uniform say in his chair, his gaze went to a screen playing the brilliant light of the oxygen within the enemy ship igniting. He waited and then flipped a switch, moved a microphone to his mouth and spoke, “This is New Hope 1 to fleet, we have eliminated what we believe to be an enemy scout. You are free to resume acceleration.”
A blonde woman in a crisp suit then walked up to the man’s chair and knelt down to his level, she asked in a low voice, “That… Wasn’t them was it? I have never seen their ships erupt into fire.”
The man turned to her and in a similarly low voice responded, “Who else could it have been Madam President?”
The man stood up and spoke in a still hushed but louder voice, “I don’t know Captain James, I don’t know.” With that she walked away.
Seventeen hours later, Human Exodus Fleet
The massive grey boxlike Human vessels, studded with details and small extrusions pushed on through interstellar space. Unknown to the Humans the exploration vessel they had thought was one of the enemies was actually that of a less advanced race who had recently begun interstellar colonization, a race with strikingly similar biological needs to that of Humanity. This race was the Unubi. So when their exploration ship was destroyed by unknown aggressors they became worried. So as any race would they launched a counter attack against the Human fleet.
The Unubi counterattack fleet had no clue the scale of the human fleet, merely pictures of one of their ships. So the vastly smaller and less advanced fleet was preparing to march unknowingly to their death. The ellipsoid ships of the Unubi had prominent guns and missile tubes as well as a massive single engine bulging out the behind the crafts. On board one such vessel a creature rested sitting on the floor in the middle of a large circular room. Screens covered the walls and many other creatures sat similarly to the one in the center but facing their screens. The creatures had three legs, their feet were hooves and their two three digit hands and arms were surprisingly long compared to their rather short stature. They were covered in a light fur over a thick skin and their somewhat circular torsos ended in dull toothed mouths and large eyes. The nostrils of these creatures were simply not present. The one in the center eventually spoke out when the Human fleet came into view, “Shanve be with us, target the closest ship and take it out, we must show these creatures we will not back down into submission.”
With that the ships of the Unubi force came into a dive on the closest human ship. The Unubi fired full volleys of their kinetic weapons even at range and deployed missiles in swaths. To their surprise the Human ships began firing on the incoming projectiles with great bursts of light with extreme precision and neutralized the Unubi swarms of missiles, however the arrogance of the Humans in their defense systems resulted in a few kinetic shots striking the targeting ship. Great waves of fire erupted out of several holes and then disappeared as the air in those sections penetrated ran out. The Human ships slowed their motion, and in their full number they stretched across space and they unleashed storm of fire and light upon the Unubi fleet. The Unubi had underestimated the human’s numbers and power and as ship after ship was reduced to debris the Unubi captain who commanded the strike gave a last order, “Take us into the beast.” With those words the last few Unubi ships began a hopeless plunge into the Human vessels. When most were destroyed one flew through the fire and the debris and impacted the originally targeted Human ship. In a magnificent show of blinding white light the two ships were atomized by the impact.
The Unubi counter attack was a failure, but aboard New Hope 1 of the Humans the President of the Human Emergency Task Force was rushed into a dark square room of screens. The president sat down as an older man of about sixty with light brown hair and a black, stretched due to the man’s girth suit. The man began, “We fled our destruction, but our analysis is the world we intended to begin again on has been colonized by those that attacked us and claimed the lives of so many today. We however have the advantages this time, our technology is more advanced than out enemies.”
The President, a blonde woman in her forties spoke up, “Are you recommending we invade the planet we intended to colonize? Become what we feared? What nearly destroyed us?”
The man retorted, “The next closest planet that likely isn’t colonized by the race we fought today is too far Madam President, we have to either retaliate to this attack or risk telling our people that we can’t go to the home they had prepared for? We won’t be the same as those we fled from; this is just a colony we intend to take not their homeworld!”
The President thought it over and then in a regretful voice responded, “And I was tired of war, but your right we don’t have a choice, and this attack that killed a million men women and children proves their intentions. War Minister Cane you have my blessing to begin organizing an invasion, god I hate that word…”
A few at the table held their heads in their hands and the war minister sat down and responded, “We will win this Madam President.”
So what do you play?
You will be playing as the front line soldiers partaking on either side in the invasion of the colony world of the Unubi by the Human fleet. Don't be cocky because character death will be a reality of this RP. Your going to be in the mud killing the enemy and thinking your saving your race. The point of this though is how people will change in the war and begin questioning if the propaganda is true and what they are really fighting for. Through POW camps and battle and everything else your char should begin to change in some way.
What are the Humans fleeing
A vastly Superior force invaded Earth and destroyed most of Humanity, the colonies banded together into the Human Emergency Task Force and evacuated into interstellar space with aim on a habitable planet far away so that the enemy that was killing humanity wouldn't be able to find them. Most Humans know this and it will be a shadow hanging over everyone's head once the aliens know, will they find Humanity> Wont they? Who knows.
So are you interested?
