A war has been going on in space, unbeknownst to those of us on earth. An imperialistic race of aliens had set out to claim all they could, leaving every race they displaced either dead, dying, or out for blood. The imperial aliens discover earth, setting out to capture it, only to have their first contact be foiled by the earth's' defenses- not only the natural ones, like the magnetic field, but also the man-made ones, like missiles and emp waves. We start out with one character, who lives at least on the edge of nowhere, with the other character crashing down in their property.