(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv251/nightsketcher1/Final%20Fantasy/Fires_of_Heaven_by_Orikon-Copy-1.jpg)<br/><br/><em>Space...the final frontier. For Humanity, that might be truer than anyone thinks, for as a shadow looms ever larger across the star filled voids, destruction follows. At first, the attacks are small. Tests only to see whether the prey even notices the small bites that are inflicted upon it. Then after a few months of successful nips, the attacks grow in magnitude at a very quick pace. The intelligence behind the curtain does not reveal itself and doesn't leave survivors. Nothing with which for anyone to draw any conclusions about who might be responsible. The attacks are hard and fast and overpowering as they draw ever closer to their goal. The Milky Way System and the annihilation of the human race, one way or the other. The humans warned via a satelite that was fortunate to pick up their movement, and transmit a few images seconds before it was destroyed somewhere out of the Milky Way System, begin to make preparations for an all out war but hope for the best. Though they don't know the vastness of the army about to beset them, the reasons for the massacres on their outer systems or even who is responsible, humanity is prepared to die in defending their race by any means necessary. A multi step plan is set in motion quickly. A satellite is launched from NASA's station in Houston, Texas. It broadcasts on multiple frequencies and in all the languages, human and alien alike, they know. The message? One of peace and welcome and polite inquiry. Now, all that humanity can do is wait and hope the aliens understand the message's intent and thus make possible a friendship between the races. <br/><br/>(http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv251/nightsketcher1/Final%20Fantasy/tarasque_battle_cruiser_by_darklorddc-d2xmj4s-1.jpg)<br/><br/>A week after the satellite is launched, the Battle Crusier Hercules is sent out to patrol the edges of the system on the course the satellite was sent on, in hopes of making first contact and attaining a peaceful relationship with their new neighbors.</em>