Humanity's first contact with intelligent alien life did not go well. What we thought was a chance meeting of a lifetime turned into a long and bloody war.
The Third World War had not taken kindly to us. We almost destroyed ourselves, and the Earth. Decades of nuclear war had nearly annihilated our race. Even after years of living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, we we still at each other's throats. It was almost a hundred years later when we realised our mistake. We began to pick up the pieces and rebuild, re-terraforming our home. Eventually, we restored the Earth to its natural state, and we swore nothing like this will ever happen again.
Now is the year 2844. Humanity has long since expanded to the stars, with technology enabling us to go at faster-than-light speeds, thus letting us go interstellar. With thousands of planets united under one banner, you would think the United Earth Government Naval Command would have no problem controlling them.
However, war has become a constant factor in everyday life. Rebels and insurgents are a constant threat to the UEGNC, with battles in space and on land happening almost daily. But the UEGNC was almost victorious. They had killed the leader of the rebels, and his fleet was in shambles. We thought they were going to win.
Turns out we were wrong.
A year ago, a hostile alien race attacked a colony world known as Cascade in the Epsilon Eridani System, mere lightyears away from Earth. Thanks to the efforts of the Marines stationed there, we managed to push them off the planet. We won the battle, but we started a new war.
Now, the UEGNC and the elf-like race of aliens known only as the Vaskrans are at full-out war, and the UEGNC finds out that they are more of a threat than we thought.
Pick your side. Fight for the militaristic UEGNC or the honourable Vaskrans.
Choose your standing. Be a soldier on the ground or the captain of a warship in space.
Decide what you fight for. Justice, or vengeance.
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