In the year of 2015, NASA and the ESA join efforts to launch a radio-telescope capable of detecting radio frequencies from distant galaxies, in hopes of finding a signal of intelligent life out there in the Universe.

In 2017, the radio-telescope picked up a faint signal from the outskirts of our own solar system, this news baffled the entire world, but no one was prepared for the message it brought.

In the year of 2018, the message was finally decoded, it stated the following, "SOS Danger SOS, it is dire for you to evacuate your world, 042933964230", the message was set on repeat. The numbers that the message contained were a set of coordinates, but no one really found to where they pointed. People tried on Earth, but they got directed to the middle of the Pacific. So, people started looking on the Moon and Mars, but still no solid results, until a young boy named Yamato, tried searching for the coordinates on the night sky and made a discovery. The coordinates pointed to Orion, later discovered to be the home planet of the Primordials, an extinct race that was thought of being the first space faring civilization.

In the following years, while the most powerful searched for ways to prepare mankind for what was to come, the world fell into chaos and was ravaged by war.

2025, the threat arrived like a disease. Humanity, worn out from it's inner conflicts, fell quickly to what was later discovered to be a mere scouting party, composed of a hand full of destroyers and a single capital-ship, belonging to an intergalactic alien race called… The Reapers!

The First Contact War, as it would be known, was quick and swift. Their attacks were erratic, random, unpredictable, the world governments used everything humanity had, but to no use, nothing seemed to stop them, or even scratch their surface. Millions died before the Reaper forces left, they made it clear that we are insignificant beings before them.

As the years passed, mankind recovered from the war and began receiving more signals from outer space, but these signals were different, they were messages from other races offering help.

It is now the year of 2180, and as Humanity, now fully recovered, expanded its boundaries along side other powerful races, so did the Reaper threat…

Now it's up to me to be the saviour of mankind in the upcoming war… or so I thought.

My name is Yamato Suzumoto, descendant of that boy that decoded the coordinates, and this is my story.