"Exactly 52 years ago, on October 25, 2025, we made contact with aliens. The moon Charon broke and released an ancient relic, a portal, and from it came alien spaceships. In our ease we invited them with joy and cordiality to land on our blue planet. but my dear fellow citizens, this was our biggest mistake we could make as a species.
Instead of coming in peace, they cruelly betrayed us. When they landed here in old London, they betrayed us and tried to kidnap one of our people who was peacefully and joyfully gathered to celebrate, but our brave police officers noticed this crime and tried to stop the criminal. In revenge, they fired indiscriminate shots at the crowd, as they are in front of me today, killing many of us and spilling the blood of the first of many people.
Many people died protecting our civilians as they ran to safety and unfortunately none of these heroes survived. The following alien attack on London was aimed at abducting more of our people and taking revenge on us. The losses were high due to the superior technologies the enemy used against us at the time, but as you all know, they were repulsed by our braver and valiant fighting soldiers with heavy losses. Only for the enemy to cowardly achieve victory. Their battleship once fired at the very spot where we now stand on firm feet and destroyed old London with the power of a nuclear weapon in the form of a kinetic projectile.
Millions died in this cowardly attack and old London was destroyed over a large area. They thought they had won, they thought they had bombed us into submission, they thought they had defeated us. But we too drew the blood of our enemies, unleashing our nuclear arsenal against them in revenge. We destroyed their ships, including their transporters in which our people, our fellow humans were to be abducted and taken away to slavery, and we destroyed the escorts of those transporters that were to bring death upon us. But the aliens at this point made us realize their true intentions, as they abducted the rural population in the far north of this island despite all attempts to the contrary.
We knew them now, we knew what they were up to and we prepared ourselves. And yet I must say with great sadness that all our efforts and supplies were not enough. Although we evacuated the rural areas and fortified the cities, we made a mistake, because every city that offered loyal and fierce resistance was destroyed. Old New York, Old Moscow, Old Tokyo, Old Beijing, and Old Sydney were the biggest and toughest losses. In our efforts to hold the great cities and protect the people inside them, we failed. Although the losses among the aliens were great and no one gave in, we failed because no city that offered great resistance survived. And there were many, even today half of them are only ruins.
They drove us out of our own cities like rats and chased us into the wilderness, forests and mountains, or forced us to live in the ruins of our old cities. They thought we would be an easier opponent, beaten up as we were and technically inferior, they were wrong again, for we are human beings and even if some of us sway and comrades have to support them, we are and never will fall. We fought them on every road, on every field, in every space and on every inch. We lurked in every shadow and every surface became a deadly trap. I won't lie, because it would only insult the dead, and we had many casualties. People who died defending the Earth, who died defending the people, and who died defending what little was left. They died lonely in their holes, painful and without hope of help, from their injuries, from hunger and from disease. The few who survive were kidnapped, and taken like cattle from this world that is home to us all. And yes, we too have been cruel to our own species, but this world is our world and we are not giving it up.
Our resistance has been disorganized, everyone has simply fought the aliens as communications and structures have largely broken down. The governments disappeared and anarchy and chaos reigned. It was this moment, however, where we built new systems and found new ways to organize ourselves. It was that moment when we chose our sign. It gave hope, because everywhere it was, it showed that there were still people here who were living, that there were people who were fighting and still holding on. The creators of this symbol of resistance must have fallen in the long struggle of resistance, because no one knows who first drew it or even from which zone it came. It was there all at once, adorning walls and tattered sheets that served as banners.
We built the zones to reorganize the defense, we abolished the old borders because there was no one to hold them. We waged war to every place and we couldn't afford to keep the borders, nor were there people who could govern these lands that had fallen into anarchy. We hit them hard and every time they attacked us more of them died, we learned to hide from their eyes in the sky and fought from the shadows.
One day they stopped coming, they were gone. No more soldiers came. We successfully drove them away.
The following reconstruction was hard, the life we had was hard and more people died. Died of hunger because we had no fields. Died of disease, because we had no medicine.
We fought through all the losses, toil and unbearable suffering. We rebuilt what was destroyed. We survived and reached this moment.
The destroyed ships of the xenos that attacked, killed and kidnapped us have left us something. They left us the instrument of our revenge. Here I stand, proudly pressing upon them the first spaceship of our species. I give you the Stardust. So that mankind may continue to exist and prosper."
Speech by First Grand Marshal Richard Haves on the 5th anniversary of the victory over the invaders.
Grand Marshal Richard Haves will go down in history as a great builder. Important infrastructure is rebuilt under his rule and he almost single-handedly establishes a new economy and society. His most important projects are considered to be the exploration of alien technology and the establishment of bases on the Moon and Mars.
The Stardust was contrary to the big words actually rather inconspicuous, no 60 meters long and had three tasks: the debris field that surrounds the earth now eliminated, important technology collect and shipwrecks brought safely to the ground so that they can then be examined and disassembled. Not a spectacular task, but one that will form the cornerstone of other spacecraft and projects in space.