One Millenia in the distant future, space flight has become commercial, and cheap transport to any of the neighboring planets within our solar system takes just days as we've revolutionized space travel. Resorts on Mars, the Million Lightyear Resort on Pluto, tours of the innards of the Gas Giants. Space within our vicinity has been tamed. Why? Because we were the only ones. But how long would it stay that way?
As part of a recent decision by the NNASA, New National Aero Space Association, and its international collaborators grouped together and generated a series of missions operated by elite military personnel. The main men were apart of the solar systems best military force known as the 110th Space Battalion, or the Spaceboys as a nickname.
They are trained to use the newest in interstellar, and perhaps, intergalactic, travel. The ATLAS cruiser, equipped with the most advanced weaponry and scientifici equipment is known that this mission was going to have two purposes. The noble scientific one where it can finally be deemed that transport to neighboring solar systems is safe, hospitable, and hopefully luxurious. The second is to make contact with any found organisms, and if necessary, kill them.
Lieutenant Troy Berger, one of the lower commanders of the most elite of the force is somewhat apprehensive about the mission, for good reasons as it would turn out. They cross out of there solar system with radioed cheers from each planet they passed, like a parade for the troops beings sent off to war.
The speed at which they travel is unrivaled and they speed off to where no man has ever gone before, to the Alpha Centauri System, where the closest star, Proxima Centauri, stands sentinel and reining in its large companion. Not much was known about this system, as man has never stepped foot outside the system that far.
Because the trip was approximately six years due to advanced propulsions systems, they hook themselves up to IV catheters and sedate themselves for the ride. Upon reaching their destination a chemical is passed into the bloodstream and they awaken. After R&R and warming up the muscles and doing mandatory training exercises they target the planet coined as Babylon, because of its extremely muddy surface. They awe in the magnitude of the planet, which is approximately twice the size of Earth, the largest rock ball they've ever seen.
They clear a landing and test the atmosphere, which surprisingly, is breathable. And to their astonishment, trees, or at least tall vegetation, stood erect and untouched. The thick ozone layer clouded their imagers. But if trees resided their, what else could? What they hoped for was a primitive stage in development, much like the Ordivician period, but they got more than they could bargain for.
On Babylon they come into contact with human like beings who are friendly and offer them residence. They know their language and have revealed they have been monitoring their race for some time. They recount of a prophecy of a group of individuals who would come and provide assistance in a great war that was looming over them.
Who was the enemy? In a grande entrance a large cruiser like ship veers near the ATLAS and the crew remaining on board had to fight them off, letting the ship crash to Babylon. What they find is another species who were vicious and desired conquest.
Babylon was just their first stop, and they planned to devestate the Earth too. It isn't just a fight for the survival of Babylon, but the survival of the human race as well.
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