[PBEM News] Blinded Earth.

From: bodiorm@online-dot-no.no-spam.invalid (Shadow)

Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:05:22 +0000

For decades, centuries-- the Earth has been watched by factions of
extraterrestrials. Some relatively friendly, others interested only
in manipulating humankind and their resources, and yet others taking
the role as the aloof watchers-- only interfering when the others
overstepped their bounds. And their existence was kept a strict
secret, only known or guessed by a very few among the humans
throughout the planet.

Then catastrophe struck..

Far away, a war began between a number of influencal races and
factions, the effects of which was almost immediately felt by those
watching Earth. As part of the network of wormholes was collapsed,
the two local Gates shut down, but the oldest one not quite in time.
The resulting surge of energy was considerable, and though several of
the ships currently stationed in the system were successfull in
containing the blast, although many substained heavy damage.

However, while the loss of the wormholes meant that they had lost
communications with their homes and might be facing decades of
traveling homewards through normal space if they decided not to wait
for a new wormhole to be connected to the Sol system, the factions
concentrated about the damages they had substained.

But soon things turned far more severe, as a few hour later, one of
the damaged ships exploded when it was approaching Mars. Whether it
was sabotage or an accident was uncertain, but the resulting
electromagnetic pulse struck Earth before anyone could move to block
it-- taking out a great deal of the planet's electronics. And the
blast was certainly noticed by a great number of humans even as the
pulse reached them.

Crippled, many of the countries at Earth reeled, some even
degenerating into external or civil war. Neither did things improve
when the neutral faction began receiving distrubing reports from
their agents at the planet-- of that extraterrestrials and their
ships had been seen out in the open. A few offering genuine help, but
even more moving to gain control over human governments and
resources-- either through force or dangling the lure of power in
front of the leaders of a country...

To begin with, the neutrals did what they could to deal with an
contain the situation on their own, but it soon became obvious that
they did not have the numbers or resources to do much on their own.
And so, after a heated debate, it was decided that the only way to
save the natives of the planet from destruction or from becoming mere
servants of an alien race, was to turn to the humans for help.

And so a few hundred humans judged capable of handling the knowledge
of that extraterrestrials were real, and to be able to deal with
dangerous situations, were chosen and brought up to the principal
ship of the neutrals. Not all of those chosen made it of-course, not
being mentally or physically capable of handling the knowledge or
what would be expected of them, those getting their memories erased
and returned to where they came from.

Those that remained were put through a short, but rigorous training
including both physical training and certain mental programs given to
them telepathicaly-- to help protect their minds and giving them
certain information needed in their work. In the end, those that
remained were seperated into ninety teams consisting of one human
teamleader and a extraterrestrial supervisor, and thirty operatives
each.

Equiped with both advanced terran technology and disguised offworld
technology, the teams were then returned to Earth-- their task being
to detain the rogue extreaterrestrials, or kill them when given no
other choice.

Join team 11, currently operating in Europe.

Do you have what it takes to deal with extraterrestrials, some of
which are mildly put-- terrifying?

Or humans who are quite fond of their newfound power, and certainly
not willing to give it up easily?

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