The War Of a Thousand Dead Planets

Chapter 1: All that Earth Knew Was Wrong

All that Earth knew was wrong. The Earthlings with their closed little minds in their antisocial, overpopulated lives knew very little about their universe. The beleived sending the first human to Mars was an incredible feat. They beleived they were the only intelligent life in the universe, simply because nobody cared enough to answer the signals they sent into space for us to find. They thought it was impossible to move faster than light. How very, very foolish they must have felt when they were proved wrong.

For one day, around 50 Earth years ago, something happened that changed all that. We call it The Battle Of The Crash Of The Starsaver Mission. The Starsaver Mission was not headed for Earth. Our destination was Jupiter, to seek help from the only ones within three galaxies who could possibly help us. The Jovians are ageless, timeless, wise, & powerfull beings much like the Earth pteradactals of old. They have weopons of propostrous power, harnessing the infinite gravity of black holes, creating suns & planets & galaxies before settling down in a largish gas planet orbiting the star Sol.

However, going to the Jovians for help would not be easy. These powerfull creatures did not speak as we do, but communicate through a telekinetic interface. For this, we would require a telepathic. Fortunately, we had not far to look, as a diskship pilot I knew was mildly psychic. Her name is Tish.

The crash of the diskship was no accident. We were ambushed by The Unknown Enemy's little sidekicks, the people of Craldax. The Craldax had us outnumbered, & attacked us as we rounded Mars. They were very poor aim, & only hit us three times, but the damage was done. Three things they knocked out. They smashed a rocket engine, one of the sixteenth escape pods, & the sheild dome over the navigation room.

The navigation room is a cilindar at the center of the diskship. The control pannels are in the shape of a ring, with holographic display coming from progectors, that the diskship pilot stands in the center of. The holographic displays show what is going on to 4 sides of the room The floor is clear, & The ceiling is a dome of transparent energy sheild. Energy sheild is indestructable, but when the Craldax ion beam hit it, the sheild dome fell down & landed directly on top of the controll panel ring, trapping Tish beneath it.

Tish had to watch many of the crew be sucked away into the infinate blackness of space. Everyone else who remained on the ship died by lack of air within a few minutes. The other three rocket engines, untouched by the Craldax ion beams, functioned properly, but without the fourth rocket, the tragectory of the diskship was wrong & it went tumbling through space. The Craldax left it for dead.

As Tish tumbled through space, amid a chorus of beeping alarms & flashing yellow lights, she became aware that her tragectory was being modified by a nearby sorce of gravity. With the wild swinging of the diskship, it was very hard to tell what the gravity sorce was, but she could tell it was one of Sol's four solid planets.

Earth. The planet was Earth. This was not going to end well. If she survived entry, she would likely fall into deep water, & the water pressure would crush the controlls panels in on her. If by some miracle she fell to land, the people of Earth would likely attack her, primitive & fearfull as they were. She could now see that she was going to fall on land, & from the look of things, it was a densly polulated Earth city. No, sir, this was not going to end well at all.

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The people of the Earth city Seattle looked up in fear as a massive object, enveloped in a ball of fire, came roaring across the sky, swerving & skidding as it bounced off of a penthouse apartment. The Earthlings didn't know what to do. Some ran after the falling object exitedly taking photos on the "smart"-phones, jabbering to one another & trying to keep up. Some ran away from it screaming in terror that the world was ending, the sky falling, & that everyone needed to flee. Others simply stood there with their mouths hanging open, gawking at the unusual spectacle before them. The diskship plowed into the ground, half embedding itself in the concrete of a wide intersection. Cars slammed into it & glanced off, so that the ship quickly because surrounded by a crown of people & dented cars.

The police arrived to hold the crowds back, stretching lines of police tape around the "flying saucer" & setting up detour signs to keep more people from crashing into the ship. The people were posting pictures & videos on their social networking pages & blogs, word of the UFO going viral, withing 30 seconds over a thousand people had seen it. The news channels sent their reporters to the site of the crash, & the police had to call in reinforcements to keep the people back.

It was red alert at area 51. No way to cover this one up with some story about a weather balloon. Too many witnesses had seen it, too many pictures & videos had been posted online. Their helicopters soared into the sky & across the nation at top speed to Seattle. They had to get there before things got too out of hand.