The Alien War

The Alien War lasted a year and a half.  Amazing brutality was practiced by both sides, with no quarter given.  No aliens have ever been captured alive.  The war began with alien landers dropping off their spider bio-mechs that left a trail of destruction behind them.  Using their powerful beam weapons, they ravaged the countryside around them in a scorched earth type campaign.  They did not attempt to occupy ground, but just destroyed human population centres and infrastructure.  Manufacturing facilities, bridges, military bases, power stations, refineries and more were targeted.  Their role was to knock out the human race as an organized force.  Mankind dropped its differences and formed the Human Alliance under the leadership of the United States.

A single bio-mech could take on a regular army battalion and only the heaviest gun weapons could hurt it.  The bio-mechs have a type of energy enhanced armour, called active molecular armour, that can regenerate the surface and make it denser.  Each bio-mech has a supporting set of mini-bugs – drones that fly and crawlers for close support / small space work. Nuclear weapons were used in a limited fashion against them, but it was major overkill.  The alien energy weapons made attacking aircraft obsolete as they could be easily shot down. Massed fire with supporting artillery could take down the bio-mechs, but the mechas are fast and move out of the kill zone quickly.

At the beginning of the Alien War the aliens started out with a vastly superior hand.  It was a desperate war of attrition for humanity as vast amounts of equipment and soldiers were expended to just blunt the alien advances. The tide began to turn in the eighth month  with the development of tank mountable coil guns that could defeat the alien armour and the mass combat deployment of HARM units in the tenth month to use them.  Within the next six months the aliens were driven back to their enclaves and the war was at a stalemate.  Initial onslaughts and gains by the Blue Newts were mostly taken back or being fought over still. 

The Newts had taken their primary territories in the subtropical and tropical areas of the world which suited them.  At one point, they pretty much owned both Africa and South America, but lost territory in the second half of the war.  They ruled New Guinea, a swath of Africa from the central Congo to the Indian Ocean, Central America, and a large portion of the Amazon Basin.  In many of the areas around their territory there was lawlessness due to governmental collapse.  The pirates of the Caribbean became a reality again. Warlords and other pirates flourished in the aftermath.

NEWT FACTS

The colony fleet had one large mother ship or master vessel with 12 other smaller colony vessels.  This master vessel stayed clear of the action out at one of the L4 points and only sent planetary shuttles down.

The Blue Newts sent in their smaller colony ships which had atmospheric entry capability.  Three landed in Brazil, three landed in Africa, two in Borneo, two in Guatemala, and two in New Guinea.  These ships became colony hubs and were used as administration centers and also as a source of raw materials for colony expansion.

This was never a combat fleet.  It was a colony fleet.  Nukes were launched by the Human Alliance against these foothold colonies, but they were easily destroyed by the Newt orbital defences and their landing shuttles.  Missiles were easy to kill in the boost phase and were still good targets in space. 

It is suspected the Newts may have some deep space ships left, but none have been seen since the Alien War.  One wonders if there is another invasion wave coming from their home world.

In the closing weeks of the Alien War, the Human Alliance, hatched a desperate scheme to destroy the alien mothership.  The Americans, Russians, and Chinese seized orbital space back from the aliens with a combination of space attack drones and massive ground based laser cannon.  They then launched a fleet of nuclear armed drone shuttles after mothership.

The attack worked as a number of the drone shuttles were actually powerful, single use, x-ray laser weapons.  They utilized nuclear bomb pumped x-ray lasers to cripple the defenses of the mothership and allow the remaining nuclear armed drones to finish it off.  It was the Human Alliance’s last unified response as the aliens used fusion bombs on Beijing, Washington D.C., and Moscow.  It was a very clear and calculated response to the nuclear armed powers that was accompanied by the first communicated message of the war.  "Destroy our most valuable asset and we destroy yours.  We are here to stay on our terms."  This was the only use of nuclear weapons by the aliens and the world has been in a cold war state since.  The destruction of the capital cities killed the President of the United States and the Chinese Premier along with much of the central government.  Both nations were already stressed to the breaking point and were plunged into chaos and civil war.  The Russian Federation survived in a much better state as the President had been in a different location.

The crippling of the alien mothership provided just enough warning for the a massive evacuation of the vessel.  Shuttles and escape sections scattered from the mothership until the drones hit with their nuclear payloads.  The escape sections of the ship were lifeboats.  Sections and pieces of  debris came crashing to Earth all over the equatorial band from the mid-Atlantic all the way to the middle of the Indian Ocean.  Orbital space became a no mans land with neither side in total control.

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