Survival War

The Survival War (also known as the First Somakian War) began in 2123 when the Somakians discovered humanity and attempted to annex them into their vast interstellar empire. The first attack was on the human colonists living on Luna, all three-hundred colonists were killed. The UN Military fought hard against their invaders, but it was clear they were losing. The South American offensive in 2125 was humanity's last stand, they threw all of their combined forces at the aliens, but they were crushed and the Somakians advanced on Earth's capital city of London. Then, a stroke of luck as two other alien species, the Gylarians and the Tarvarkians discovered Earth as well. They helped the humans repel the Somakian invasion. With the combined military might of the three species, the Somakians were driven off-world and their fleet jumped back to their own territory. The Gylarians and Tarvarkians gifted to humans the SL drive, the primary mode of faster-than-light travel in the galaxy, in turn given to them by the Trondytes. The three species agreed to form a mutual defence pact and government, and in early 2126, the Alliance of Planets and Moons was created. Two years later nine more alien species had joined the Alliance. The name of the war was coined by journalists after Secretary-General Miles Walker gave a speech in Earth's capital of London in 2123, declaring the conflict to be a 'war for survival against an alien menace'. About a year before the war the colonists on Mars were prepared to declare independence from Earth, and the UN was prepared to go to war. However all talk of revolution disappeared after the Somakians invaded. The Martians and Earthers worked together to fight off the aliens, and were ultimately successful.