We’re All Stranded Now

Today, the Coalition of Ordered Governments ceased to exist. Chairman Prescott? He abandoned us some time ago. We can’t pretend we’re a government any longer.

It all began on E-Day. When the Locust emerged and overran us. We tried to stop them with the Hammer of Dawn—incinerating our own cities, killing millions of our own people. But the Locust kept coming.

The survivors from the Hammer strikes—the Stranded—didn’t want anything to do with a government that sacrificed civilians. And after fifteen years of fighting, we even had to sacrifice the last human stronghold: Jacinto. We sank the city and finally stopped the Locust army. The war was finally over.

Reduced to refugees, we found a remote island where we could start again. But some things could never be rebuilt. The broken hearts… the broken minds.

Then a new enemy came after us, even worse than the last: the Lambent. Now they’re spreading across Sera, killing everything in their path. We’ve held them off as long as we can, but we’re out of options!

Our only hope now is to abandon the island and split up. Some of us are going to live on the remaining ships. Others want to risk going back to the mainland. Godspeed, Colonel.

Signing off.

The Former Lieutenant,

Anya Stroud