THE FIRST CONTACT WAR
Earth's Warning Was Not Enough
DAY 1
First Arrival
Your warning reached Earth. They had 3 hours to prepare. It wasn't enough. Ships appeared simultaneously over every major city. Not to attack. To "offer ascension."
DAY 2
The Choice
Billions watched as the alien signal broadcasted directly into every electronic device. The offer was clear: join willingly or be integrated by force. Some accepted. Most resisted.
DAY 7
Global Defense
Every nation launched every weapon. Nuclear, conventional, experimental. The alien ships absorbed it all. Energy weapons, they called it. Free fuel.
DAY 14
The Harvest Begins
They stopped offering. They started taking. City by city. Person by person. Uploading consciousness. Leaving empty shells behind.
DAY 30
Final Resistance
Underground bunkers. Shielded facilities. EMP zones. Humanity's last strongholds. They fought not with weapons, but with silence. Electromagnetic dead zones where the signal couldn't reach.
DAY 100
The Stalemate
70% of humanity absorbed. The remaining 30% hidden, scattered, silent. The aliens move on to other systems. They'll return. They always return.
5.6 BILLION
Integrated Into The Collective
Earth survives, but it's not the same planet. Cities stand empty. Technology is feared. Humanity hides in the electromagnetic shadows.
Those who were taken aren't dead. They're out there. Among the stars. Part of something vast and ancient. They don't miss Earth. They don't miss being human.
The survivors call it the Harvesting. The taken call it Enlightenment.
Your warning saved 2.4 billion lives.
But it also doomed them to live in a world forever changed.
Was that mercy or cruelty?
History will decide.
In memory of the billions who chose to remain themselves,
and the billions who chose to become something else.