With the game’s release inching ever closer we want to share with you some details of the game’s world in a series of short lore drops. Today’s topic - Earth:
In the year 2029, a satellite of unquestionably alien origin and design were found passing through Earth’s solar-airspace, its trajectory aimed to Earth’s orbit and Venus’s. It was intercepted and brought to Earth, where it was found to contain technology that mimicked the passage of Earth’s technological evolutions – some older, blockier cartridges and devices had a similar design to Betamax cassette tapes and VHSs, all the way up to modern devices similar to touchscreen tablets, up to light-emitting devices that existed only in science fiction. Although each device also contained pictographic instructions on how to view them, and the satellite itself was designed to act as a power source for them, it nonetheless took weeks to understand how they functioned and what contents the devices contained.
Six years later, Earth was visited by a benevolent species known as the Ghians, Hailing from the planet Ghi in the Andromeda galaxy, a trip they made with warp-speed technology in just five years. The Ghians landed off the coast of Tokyo, Japan, and with their arrival, humanity’s progress as a star-faring, interplanetary species was jumpstarted.
Earthlings and Ghians enjoyed a prosperous relationship: whereas Ghians had more advanced interplanetary capabilities, humans had a more thorough grasp of medical sciences, to name just two among the myriads of differences between them. Their shared knowledge advanced each other further than either could achieve alone.
Like the Earthlings, the Ghians had not found any trace of other alien life throughout the universe; that they had found each other was a miracle to both species. Ghians enjoyed Earth’s hospitality and it wasn’t long until Ghians were finding homes on Earth just as earthlings were finding homes on Ghi.
On March 28th, 2311, the Earth was attacked.