Saturday, September 6, 2008

THe Reformation

Quietly and slowly, Josh and Ryan creep towards the nearest town, Newcastle.

Newcastle was a small tungsten mining colony which have the same name of a city on Earth that had similar origins. It had been largely neglected ever since the rise of the trading community in New Eropagnis. The rapid expansion of human influence across space, brought about by the discovery of precious gold in the outer periphery had transform New Eropagnis from a frontier outpost into a important transient node between the new frontiers and the home planet of Earth. Miners were turned into shipping crews, joining in the action that promised much. Traders and shippers ply the space route, which had enriched the lives of those before who had walked in it.

The sudden appearance of the Reptilians had taken everyone by surprise. No one knew where they came from, their motives and their plans. Reports of colonies being under attack and communications cut off were initially thought to be done by pirates, until a paramilitary space fleet sent to confront them were destroyed.

Scattered reports of a insignia of a crocodile on their spacecraft lead a reporter to write the headlines 'Reptilians: Humans or not'. Later contact established that the invaders were in fact humans, but the name stuck. The human world that had originated from Earth collided with the mysterious force from nowhere. Now this was a fight for survival in space.