The Sol Ascendancy

The Sol Ascendancy

HUMANITY HAS MADE FIRST CONTACT<br />On a sunny, cloudless day, a massive starship descends from the sky and hovers above the United Nations building in New York City. As jet fighters advance, it quickly retreats to one of the deep maria on the far side of the Moon, going dormant. The public dubs this ship “Ivan.”<br /> <br />MORE ALIENS ARE COMING<br />After two years and developing a plan for sending a workable drone to the Moon to make contact with Ivan, MEO (the Mars Express Orbiter) detects a wrecked ship and two stranded creatures in the Amanthes Quadrangle on Mars.<br /> <br />THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS FILLING UP<br />Just as Captain Trent Ramsey, Commander Cassandra Gomez, and the rest of their crew launch aboard the Space Shuttle Eternity to investigate these new neighbors, a satellite passing Jupiter detects a large colony developing on Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon.<br /> <br />AN INTERSTELLAR MYSTERY COMES TO OUR DOORSTEP<br />Massive, ten-mile-wide objects are detected by Hubble coming out of the Oort Cloud that surrounds the Solar System. Long, chevron-shaped ships are detected low in the atmosphere of Titan, the only moon in the Solar System with an atmosphere. What do they all want? Are all these aliens fleeing something? If so, have they led it here, to Earth’s doorstep?