My First Legitimate Post

So, after some reflection, I've chosen a topic for my first real post: a summary of the story I'm currently working on.  Although the story is still in the earliest of developmental stages, I've got a lot of faith in this emerging colony of plot bunnies.  :D 

And now, without further ado: the summary, written in diary form.


Date: November 5, 2015
Setting: Washington, DC. 

They came from a far away planet, bringing tidings of peace, harmony and cooperation.  They sent their finest diplomats and translators, communicating with our leaders in human language.  The message they gave was clear: all they wanted was friendly contact, trade, and alliance with us.  They wanted our natural resources, and we wanted their technology.  Their technology was superior to ours, but they didn't use it to dominate.  Not at first.

At first it was all politics and diplomacy.  They wanted to settle on our planet to solidify peace terms.  Naturally there were some objections, but legislation passed and they got what they wanted.  They started their small colonies wherever they were granted territory.  Everything seemed fine, but it wasn't... it really wasn't.

We noticed things going awry when our own laws started turning strange.  We'd traded with them for their technology; now our own governments were forbidding us to use that technology.  We'd thought they had wanted peaceful coexistence; now we were slowly becoming second-class citizens on our own planet.  They started acting hostile toward us.

Our thinkers and academics noticed it first.  They were the first to go missing.  Then anyone who openly spoke out was taken.

Our militaries have begun to make war against them.  It's become chaos - nowhere is safe anymore.  They wanted our planet for its natural resources; they're taking what they want by force, using us as free labor, destroying any dissenters.  Everything is in ruins now. 

There's no such thing as hiding anymore - now we have to take sides and make hard choices.  Either we let ourselves be used like workhorses, or we fight back against the aliens.  We have to fight back, and we are fighting back....but we're losing. 

We can't lose.  We refuse to lose.  I refuse to lose.