No one saw it coming. People had always thought Humans May not be alone in the galaxy, but by 2049, without any proof, most people just called belief in aliens crazy. Clinging to the old ways.
Technology had advanced over the last few decades. Cybernetics have become legal, but heavily regulated to prevent cyber terrorism. Bioengineering and Cloning has since become legal, but is still in its infancy.
All that aside, the world isn’t what it was. Everyone has a story of where they were when they arrived. Four years ago. The 12th of April, 2054. The first wave hit the hardest, because we were caught unprepared.
First, there were impacts globally. Glowing white steaks coming from the sky. They bypassed every defence we had. We didn’t even know they were coming until the first one hit the ground.
The impact itself wasn’t much, but it was the fallout that got most people. Each device that fell to Earth emitted a pulse. The effects were catastrophic. Each pulse caused a different effect, and each was unpredictable. Later this technology would come to be known as the Chaos Drive, and become instrumental in turning the tide of war, but that wasn’t three years.
The Chaos Drive changed the earth. Humans no longer had the home ground advantage as they were hunted by aliens.
The laws of physics no longer acted as they should around the drop sites.
However, Humanity doesn’t give up. We didn’t give up. Two years ago, a group of people managed to get a military installation back online. They formed the Crisis Control Unit. The CCU began researching on a way to give Humanity an Advantage.