Welcome to XCOM, You are in the army now.
The year: 2015
The United States Space Navy (USSN) has finally made the new and top secret satellite (code name "Sky-Eye") fully operational. This satellite uses quantum physics cameras instead of the usual cameras based on regular visible light. It was designed to locate traces of illegal nuclear activity all around the Earth- just one more step in the "information war" between the 5 big powers (US, China, Kwazulu, Nordeth and Chimalli*).
New images from the satellite at first puzzled and then alarmed the specialists.
At first, they assumed the objects seen were errors in picture analysis computation, than they realized the cameras were correct.
Earth is being... surveyed?... by a group of moving objects, as big as small meteors. They appear to move (propulsion unknown) in the sky and space, occasionally land, and then depart... all too fast for regular radar and airplanes to even see, let alone approach.
Stories of visits from outer space have been around for years, but always laughed at as superstitions and urban myths.
Up until now.
In an unusual move the USSN canceled its original plan to use the satellite for espionage. It programmed the satellite to stay at a geosynchronic orbit, watching only the US, and set up a special computing unit to study the objects (now termed "Unidentified foreign objects -UFOs) trajectories and landing patterns. As the algorithms for predicting the patterns of the UFOs improve, the other 4 world powers try their best to discover the reasons for the USSN seemingly odd decision.
At last the prediction and the UFO seem to agree, the USSN has managed to identify the landing site enough in advance to send a unit to investigate on the ground.
You and your unit are flown there by F-117 nighthawk the best stealth aircraft the USSN has.
Your mission: investigate the landing area, obtain the UFO and discover what it was doing there.
Welcome to XCOM, You are in the army now.
* corresponding to north america, asia, africa, europe and south america.
this corresponds to a few major changes in human history: the zulu won over the british and went on to conquer africa, the vikings took over all of europe, the aztec still control south america and australia is still an aborigine place, now officially named Amaroo (lit. Beautiful place)- more "spiritual", less technological, not enough resources to justify conquest, serves as the world's holy place, usually used for global meetings between the 5 powers = neutral ground.
The year: 2015
The United States Space Navy (USSN) has finally made the new and top secret satellite (code name "Sky-Eye") fully operational. This satellite uses quantum physics cameras instead of the usual cameras based on regular visible light. It was designed to locate traces of illegal nuclear activity all around the Earth- just one more step in the "information war" between the 5 big powers (US, China, Kwazulu, Nordeth and Chimalli*).
New images from the satellite at first puzzled and then alarmed the specialists.
At first, they assumed the objects seen were errors in picture analysis computation, than they realized the cameras were correct.
Earth is being... surveyed?... by a group of moving objects, as big as small meteors. They appear to move (propulsion unknown) in the sky and space, occasionally land, and then depart... all too fast for regular radar and airplanes to even see, let alone approach.
Stories of visits from outer space have been around for years, but always laughed at as superstitions and urban myths.
Up until now.
In an unusual move the USSN canceled its original plan to use the satellite for espionage. It programmed the satellite to stay at a geosynchronic orbit, watching only the US, and set up a special computing unit to study the objects (now termed "Unidentified foreign objects -UFOs) trajectories and landing patterns. As the algorithms for predicting the patterns of the UFOs improve, the other 4 world powers try their best to discover the reasons for the USSN seemingly odd decision.
At last the prediction and the UFO seem to agree, the USSN has managed to identify the landing site enough in advance to send a unit to investigate on the ground.
You and your unit are flown there by F-117 nighthawk the best stealth aircraft the USSN has.
Your mission: investigate the landing area, obtain the UFO and discover what it was doing there.
Welcome to XCOM, You are in the army now.
* corresponding to north america, asia, africa, europe and south america.
this corresponds to a few major changes in human history: the zulu won over the british and went on to conquer africa, the vikings took over all of europe, the aztec still control south america and australia is still an aborigine place, now officially named Amaroo (lit. Beautiful place)- more "spiritual", less technological, not enough resources to justify conquest, serves as the world's holy place, usually used for global meetings between the 5 powers = neutral ground.
