Joe meets Shauna Jarrett and they have a sexual relationship. During three weeks of training, they are introduced to the weapons they would be using much to disappointment of troops they are normal military issue with armor piercing explosive rounds. The newly formed UNEF is taken to a planet called ' Camp Alpha', a seventeen day trip from Earth, to train in atmospheric and non-atmospheric military tactics. Joe learns about the Rules of Engagement that all species must follow. The humans lack any sort of faster than light space travel FTL capability and they are entirely dependent on the Kristang (and the Thuranin) for interstellar travel. Joe and many other service personnel are called back into military service by the United Nations Expeditionary Force, they are ordered to report to Ecuador where the Kristang had constructed a Space Elevator provided by the Thuranin, the Kristang's patron species, on top of Mount Chimborazo. The Kristang enlist the humans as a client-species in an on-going intergalactic war against the Ruhar and other species. Army.Īnother alien species, The Kristang, arrive and fight off the Ruhar on behalf of the humans. Using an Super Softie ice cream truck with a crudely painted Barney the Dinosaur they manage to injure one Ruhar and capture another.Īfter performing first aid, they hand this Ruhar soldier over to the U.S. Army Specialist organizes a few of the fellow residents of Thompson Corners, Maine after seeing a Ruhar dropship crash into a farm. The human response is negligible due to the overwhelming technological capabilities of the Ruhar.ĭuring said raid Joseph Bishop a U.S. On Columbus Day (circa 2030), an alien civilization, named the Ruhar, attack earth without warning, destroying critical infrastructure. The section(s) below SCHMAYBE includes Spoilers. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren't our enemy, our allies are." So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other.
There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. "We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win.
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