February, the year 2681.
It has been a
little over nine months since the end of the Cynium Campaign
(nicknamed "King of the Mountain") and the signing
of the Treaty of McAuliffe that brought the Second Kilrathi War
to a victorious conclusion. In the year afterwards, the collective
Terran Confederation Fleet has incorporated numerous changes
in its inventory, but the fact still remained that the Fleet
was facing peacetime service. New ships and new people came into
the Fleet, a new breed of people ready to do war... only there
wasn’t a war to be fought. Rules and regulations slackened,
people began to enjoy and cherish the hard-won era of peace.
No one trained for war anymore. Everyone thought that it was
really over for good.
A surprised alien
invasion originating from a wormhole gateway in the Kilrah System
had systematically destroyed all surrounding territory around
Kilrah. Systems of the Kilrathi Assembly of Clans, Union of Border
Worlds, and Confed territories were equally systematically destroyed
by these Aliens (known only by their TCIS codename, "Nephilim,"
stemming from the Hebrew legend) with the same ruthless efficiency
until the efforts of one Border Worlder admiral's Combined Fleet
(of both UBW and ConFleet ships) intervened during the "Holding
The Line"/HTL Campaign. It was then the TCS Midway,
on what was to be her shakedown cruise, fulfilled her task to
handle this Alien threat by cutting them off at the source. Using
skill, ingenuity, and the help of a few elite fighter pilots,
the Alien portal was destroyed in the Kilrah System and their
incursion into known space ceased.
They
thought it was over.
They thought
they were gone.
They thought
they won.
They thought
wrong.
For the time
being the Alien threat was over; the TCS Midway proudly
returns back to the Sol System for what is to be a victorious
celebration. Everyone was grateful at the conclusion of the hard
fought, yet short Alien debacle.
Little do the
men and women in charge within the Terran Confederation know
that another even greater threat is starting to brew throughout
the frontiers and through our very homeworlds. . .
