Chaos Marine
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An alien race happens upon Earth and see a relatively speaking primitive species. Vehicles are largely combustion engine based. We've only made a handful of trips into space with a single trip to our planet's moon. Our planet is rich with resources and humans look like they'd make good slave labour. An invasion force lands outside one of the planet's cities, lets say Sydney. Government officials are rushed to the landing site along with civilians straining against barricades established to keep them back and already officials from other governments are all but being over-night delivered to Australia when the aliens start attacking.
The humans fall back in panic except for a handful of people, one is a guy who starts running at the aliens completely unarmed and unarmoured. The aliens look at him in surprise, so much so that they don't immediately shoot at him with their advanced weapons. They start to laugh until he abruptly forms a suite of armour around himself comprised of ice. Their amusement properly ends when beams of ice flash-freeze an alien tank and the surrounding troopers. What the hell is going on? What kind of technology is this? This is beyond what the humans should be capable of. Another human is charging at the aliens and the shock has worn off, their limbs elongate and extra joints start appearing giving it a disturbingly fast and increasingly agile gait that makes it hard to target them and they evade the incoming fire. When the second human reaches the front ranks, they're some ten feet tall and are able to throw the aliens around like toys.
The aliens are confused as all hell. They've never encountered other aliens with such strange abilities. They decide to cut their losses for the moment and their landing craft start to pull back only for a human to be abruptly there in the air, floating. They don't have any appendages for flight. No detectable technology to make them fly. There's no psychic powers that they can detect. They're just floating there making a mockery of science. The human then shoots forward and smashes through an engine nacelle that drops the alien ship back to the ground.
What looks like a holographic representation of another human appears in the sky, rapidly replaced by a human who generates another hologram and swaps places with it, using them for a flight of sorts. They start generating more holograms over the ships as they try retreating to orbit only for the holograms to be absolutely fixed in place and the ships crash into them in the much the same way they'd crash into the side of a mountain. Some ships manage to ram through the holograms but are left with gaping holes and others drop away and land.
A few hours later with the local military securing the aliens, a representative from the aliens is chosen and they have a handy dandy universal translator.
First contact with an alien species is made that can do things that are scientifically impossible to it. The alien demands to know how humans can fly, create ice armour etc. The human ambassador shrugs, tells the alien that no one knows. We just can. Countless different powers that can be passed down or modified depending on the powers of the parents.
There are no discernible sources of the powers, no genetic anomalies, no strange multidimensional creatures giving out powers, just seemingly random powers available. How would a galaxy react to a species suddenly appearing with strange, random powers?
The humans fall back in panic except for a handful of people, one is a guy who starts running at the aliens completely unarmed and unarmoured. The aliens look at him in surprise, so much so that they don't immediately shoot at him with their advanced weapons. They start to laugh until he abruptly forms a suite of armour around himself comprised of ice. Their amusement properly ends when beams of ice flash-freeze an alien tank and the surrounding troopers. What the hell is going on? What kind of technology is this? This is beyond what the humans should be capable of. Another human is charging at the aliens and the shock has worn off, their limbs elongate and extra joints start appearing giving it a disturbingly fast and increasingly agile gait that makes it hard to target them and they evade the incoming fire. When the second human reaches the front ranks, they're some ten feet tall and are able to throw the aliens around like toys.
The aliens are confused as all hell. They've never encountered other aliens with such strange abilities. They decide to cut their losses for the moment and their landing craft start to pull back only for a human to be abruptly there in the air, floating. They don't have any appendages for flight. No detectable technology to make them fly. There's no psychic powers that they can detect. They're just floating there making a mockery of science. The human then shoots forward and smashes through an engine nacelle that drops the alien ship back to the ground.
What looks like a holographic representation of another human appears in the sky, rapidly replaced by a human who generates another hologram and swaps places with it, using them for a flight of sorts. They start generating more holograms over the ships as they try retreating to orbit only for the holograms to be absolutely fixed in place and the ships crash into them in the much the same way they'd crash into the side of a mountain. Some ships manage to ram through the holograms but are left with gaping holes and others drop away and land.
A few hours later with the local military securing the aliens, a representative from the aliens is chosen and they have a handy dandy universal translator.
First contact with an alien species is made that can do things that are scientifically impossible to it. The alien demands to know how humans can fly, create ice armour etc. The human ambassador shrugs, tells the alien that no one knows. We just can. Countless different powers that can be passed down or modified depending on the powers of the parents.
There are no discernible sources of the powers, no genetic anomalies, no strange multidimensional creatures giving out powers, just seemingly random powers available. How would a galaxy react to a species suddenly appearing with strange, random powers?
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