stryda429

Prologue I heard them coming. The attack began without warning, thousands died in mere seconds and thousands more seconds later. I was one of the few lucky ones, based far out from the cities, far from the initial attack but I saw it. A fleet of huge alien ships, creatures, whatever they were, descending from space spraying the cities with energy. I could feel the heat of the blasts from my distant vantage point, and I could swear that I heard screams on the heated shockwave. One word circulated around my garrison, a word that I had only heard once before when I picked up a broken transmission from Commander Shepard before the Normandy ent