The Story so Far
The Scinfaxi Sovereignty had long since been the dominant power in local space. It controlled hundreds of worlds and billions of Scinfaxi. However, in Earth’s 1200’s the Scinfaxi government calculated that at its rate of expansion, the sovreignty would run out of food in 400 years. The Scinfaxi had always planned far in advance for such disasters but this was the gravest one they had faced. Finally, after decades of deliberation they began the plans for an invasion of 17 alien worlds ripe with animals and plants. 400 years passed and the food shortage they had been expecting was pushed out of mind for a short time. The first invasions had plugged the gap, but it would only last so long. The phase 2 invasions were planned for a further 34 planets. One of which, was Earth.
The Scinfaxi were meticulous in their plans, with painstaking detail they laid out the groundwork for the invasion. The Conquest fleet was prepared, and its crews put in an automated cryogenic freeze. After planning the attack for nearly 500 years the Scinfaxi armada was sent to the Sol System.. When they arrived in 1941 they were stunned to discover that in a period of only 800 years the indigenous people of Earth had advanced from bows and arrows to airplanes, tanks and nuclear research.
Scinfaxi society by comparison hadn’t changed in over 10,000 years nor had the alien races they conquered. After months of additional study the Scinfaxi Fleetlord commenced the attack. Scinfaxi spaceships landed on every continent and established bases from which alien machinery, and soldiers marched towards the capitals of every major power on Earth. At first the invasion was a huge success, by the time the Soviet Union, Germany, America, Britain and Japan had allied against their common aggressor nearly all of the southern hemisphere was in Scinfaxi hands. Furthermore, they had well established bases in France, Poland, Siberia and North America. The turning point of the war came when a German Artillery battery destroyed 3 Scinfaxi spaceships that had landed in Poland.
In the aftermath of the explosion, Soviet partisans observed Scinfaxi troops handling an unknown substance in what appeared to be an overly protective manner. A joint German/Soviet strike group stole this material and transported it to Berlin, Moscow and Washington. Months later the Scinfaxi push to Moscow was obliterated as a nuclear device was set of in their main staging area. It was the beginning of the end for the Scinfaxi invasion. Having analyzed and identified the material captured from the Scinfaxi, the powers of Earth now had the means to develop a variety of new technologies at an extremely fast pace. Almost monthly a new city was destroyed by the advanced atomic weapons developed through the research of the new substance. The Scinfaxi were unable to ensure the human population would be fit for harvesting and retreated to the Southern Hemisphere.
As the decades passed, humanity harnessed the knowledge they gained from the Scinfaxi artifact, as well as other remnants of Scinfaxi technology that had been salvaged. Soon, the humanity had developed methods of travel through space at speeds beyond that of light itself, a technology the Scinfaxi had just begun to master.
The Scinfaxi became more and more agitated as the nations of Earth advanced. By 2273 Earth itself had an interstellar empire separated into many different nations; most powerful among these were The Soviet Union, the Greater German Reich, and the Democratic Federation. If the Scinfaxi allow the humans to advance for another hundred years the Scinfaxi Sovereignty will be eclipsed by the three developing powers of Earth. Scinfaxi fleets have been positioned on the frontier of each power and for the past century have begun preparations for their final war against Earth, a war of extermination.
