Especially when they're fifty feet tall and eating your city. With new weapons, new units, and even giants of our own, humanity is ready to go another round, and by the time we're done, they'll never want to come back again. Fortunately, EDF has stayed vigilant all this time, and they've put those eight years to good use. The Ravagers are back, with new enhanced creatures and machines. But now, eight short years later, humanity's worst nightmare has come true: What we'd faced had only been the first wave. Finally, after the bloodiest war in history, EDF blasted the last Ravager off the planet. Only EDF, with their specialized weapons and training, stood a chance. We called the aliens Ravagers, and across the globe, they lived up to that name. Not just from the sky, with their starships and battle machines, but from underneath the ground as well, with swarms and swarms of giant mutant insects. Not knowing what to expect, we ran EDF through every sci-fi scenario we could imagine.
By the time all the petty politics were out of the way, we scarcely had time to train the troops. It took four years to corral the world's militaries into assembling and equipping a joint task force. We all hoped that, really, but some of us had the foresight to plan for other possibilities, and that's how Earth Defense Force was born. Some of us hoped they were elder beings, coming to share their wisdom or take us to a better place. We had no way of knowing what they were back then just blips and warbles on the scanners, far out in space, slowly heading our way. Official Website Plot: Bugs, Bugs EverywhereĢ013 was the first year we spotted them. Some believed that humanity had endured its final trial, and that the reward would be everlasting peace and prosperity.īut on June 28th, 2025, an emergency warning rang out all over the world.ĭeep underground, a new plague had just been born. Reconstruction was nearly complete worldwide. United by the outside threat, the people of the world joined together in a time of peace.Įight years passed. Though the scars of battle were deep indeed, the Ravagers' technology ironically gave humanity the tools it needed to rebuild quickly. With their extermination, the world rejoiced again, and reconstruction of humanity's great cities began. Over the next year, the EDF regrouped with the remains of the world's national militaries and collaborated to root out the last of the giant creatures from underground. All over the world, survivors sung a hymn of victory. With the loss of their mothership, the Ravagers were forced to retreat. Slowly, it plummeted to the ground and exploded.
The elite unit Storm Team, against all odds, delivered a fatal strike to the mothership's only weak point. In desperation, the EDF launched a suicidal infantry attack directly against the enemy mothership.Īnd on that day, humanity won its greatest victory ever. The whole world was dying, blast by blast, and humanity was going extinct. Humanity was clearly losing, with no hope in sight. Every time the EDF attempted to counterattack, the Ravagers deployed a new weapon deadlier and more cunning than the last. Throughout the Earth's crust, they planted nests for hideous overgrown creatures, which bred underground before burrowing up to swarm human cities from below. Until that fateful day in June of 2017.Īn armada of spaceships appeared at the edge of the solar system, surrounding the Earth and attacked all humanity. Most people hoped that the extraterrestrials would be wise and benevolent beings, and that humanity should welcome them with open arms. 1.2 Official Website Plot: Bugs, Bugs EverywhereĢ013-An unknown signal came from outer space, confirming the existence of extraterrestrials.Ģ015-To prepare for a potential emergency, humanity establishes the Earth Defense Force (EDF).