The war for Earth had not begun with a single explosion, nor had it been announced by the sound of a trumpet or the raising of a flag. It had crept into the world like a storm forming behind distant mountains, a gathering pressure that many had sensed but few had truly understood until the moment the sky itself seemed to change color.
When the first fleets of Nexus appeared and the Sovereign Protocol soldiers began descending across continents, humanity had felt something it had not felt for generations. Fear that was raw and ancient. Fear that whispered that perhaps, for the first time in history, mankind had encountered something that it could not overcome.
In those first hours the world had nearly collapsed into chaos. Governments struggled to coordinate responses while cities filled with sirens and frightened voices.
