WorldWar: Earth's Alien History

This is an Alternate Universe of the main *Earth 2.* Its point of Divergence is the invasion by the aliens known as The Race is far more devastating, leading to the Earth Nations ceasing World War II indefinitely to combat them. This leads to a Cold War like tension between Earth's nations and the Race. It is thus the universe of Turtledove's *World War* and the alternatehistory.com collaborative timeline *Earth's Alien History.*

## **Timeline**

1879: The Torchwood Institute is founded after an attack on Queen Victoria (Doctor Who).

1898: Martian Invasion (War of the Worlds) Humanity is soundly trounced by the Martians who are subsequently defeated by a biological weapon created by Dr.Moreau, but passed off as the common cold. Various great powers get a hold of Martian technology. Life goes on.

1942-1944: The Race Invasion of Tosev-3, also known as Earth (Worldwar). The Race have more luck in their landings than they did on *Earth 2* and manage to become a serious threat to the Allies and Axis. In South America, Hugo Hercules's superhuman army is defeated much earlier by Arn Munro, resulting in the Race taking over South America without their presence. The Race also defeat the Draka, wiping them out and taking Africa excluding Wakanda, which reveals its existence due to the war and remain unconquered. The Race also take Australia. The war ends in a draw. A tense period of Cold War tensions are entered as the human nations do not fight among themselves. The race are headed by Fleetlord Atvar. Several alien invasions still occur. Stephen Wayne dies and is succeeded by Cordell Hull instead of Mike Thingmaker

By the 1960's, there are different leaders for the remaining human nations, including the US, Soviet Union, Japan, and Ireland. Heinrich Kemmler rules Nazi Germany. Paul Renault's Free France remains. while French occupied France and a French resistance movement still exists, including those led by Peng Tse Tung and Ayotollah Khomeini.

Other alien invasions either attack one of the races or both. The Chimera and Kanamids, invade both, Klaatu warns both races about their fighting. Superheroes still exist but the Race atomic bombs limit their usefulness and the only ones that might still exist are those that appeared prior to 1942. Since the government realized their important there is no Keane act or forced resignation. No conflicts between human nations occur.

1960: Earl Warren wins the Presidency of the US

1963: The Race Colonization Fleet arrives and is attacked by the United States under President Earl Warren (Worldwar). The Race begin searching for the suspect.

1964: Kemmler unexpectedly dies due to magical forces opposing him and is replaced by a new furher, Ernst Kaltenbrunner. In the US, Earl Warren defeats Herbert Humphrey in the 1964 election.

1965: The Race-Reich War breaks out when Ernst Kaltenbrunner attacks the Race. The Germans lose and this leads to the end of Nazi Germany. Kaltenbrunner is killed and replaced by Walter Dornberger, who negotiates surrender terms. The US is revealed to be responsible for destroying the Race Colonization fleet, and President Earl Warren negotiates the nuking of Seatle as a form of appeasement and commits suicide, leading to Harold Stassen becoming President.

1973: The United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Empire of Japan agree on the division of Mars between them. This marks the beginning of the siting of major base complexes, industrial/extraction facilities and the first settlements. The process will be a long and difficult one, but over the next ten years, commercial mining will begin and civilian workers and - eventually - families will arrive.

1979: USSR tests 'Czar Skelka', the first military laser. Although the weapon is somewhat demanding of power, and needs to be mounted on a large spacecraft, it can do a great deal of damage to a space-borne target.

1980: A Japanese mission to Venus under Captain Nakamura Nobuhito finds, shockingly, that the planet is not only inhabitable, but inhabited by a race called the Treens.

What follows is a three-month war as the Treens' ruler, the Mekon of Mekonta, seeks to invade Earth with the help of an array of vicious superweapons and armies of Treens. However, Captain Nakamura succeeds in defeating the Treen invasion and - apparently - destroying the Mekon's flagship (Dan Dare).

With the death of the Mekon, the highly obedient, initiative-less Treens surrender instantly. Venus is placed under the protection of the three major powers of Earth and the Race on Earth, with different 'protection zones' on different parts of the planet. All nations also get a share of all technology found in the Mekon's abandoned labs.

1982:A joint Human/Race team encounters a polymorphic shapeshifting entity capable of mimicking humans and Race in a crashed spacecraft. The entity is later killed by a second team but as none of the teams make it back to civilization, it is decades before this incident is discovered (The Thing).

Human and Race settlements begin to spring up on Venus. The habitable nature of the planet will lead to over 50,000 settlers by 1990.

 A ship of sick alien known as the Prawns lands in Africa and they are taken in by the Race (District 9)

1983 : The alien Visitors from Sirius IV arrive in a fleet of 50 ships. They state they have come in peace to get Humanity's help in solving an environmental issue on their world. In exchange they will provide Humanity with the limits of their science and technology. In reality they have come to launch a covert takeover of Earth to steal its water and human beings who are to be used as a source of cannon fodder and food (V).

6,000 civilians in total on Mars.

1984: After a year long resistance Terran forces mange to push the Visitors off Earth (V: the Final Battle).

1987: A group of US Special forces defeat a Yautja hunter in Val Verde. (Predator)

1988: The Visitors are discovered to have infiltrated Earth and exposed.(They Live)

1990: Another Yautja hunter is defeated in Los Santos. (Predator 2)

On October 6th, 1990 a ship from the planet Tencton crashed outside Los Santos CA. The ship was a slave ship carrying 250,000 Tenctonese specially bred and genetically engineered for hard labor. The slaves were controlled and dominated by a small group of their fellow Tenctonese known as Overseers. They were identified by jagged wrist tattoos. These Overseers were discovered to be actively trying to contact the unknown alien power that the Tenctonese slaves were meant for with the news that they had survived the crash along with the promise of " 4 billion more slaves ". (Alien Nation)

1992: David Coffey is Elected President of the United States.

1995: The Fithp Invasion. The Fithp invasion of Earth is devestating as they drop the Foot in the Indian Ocean practically destroying India and giving Race occupied Afica a tough fight. Coffey is removed in a bloodless coup when he considers allowing the Fithp to flee. He is replaced by Thomas J.Whitmore(an in spite of a nail moment purposefully manipulated by Q so Whitmore can lead the battle against the Harvesters).The Fithp surrender and settle on Earth after the flight of the *Michael* (Footfall).

1996: The First Harvester Invasion. (Independence Day) Harvester invasion bypasses Mars, apparently not realizing it to be inhabited. Two saucers are destroyed by Mars-based spacecraft before the Harvesters realize their mistake...but they are unable to target Mars before their final defeat. First noted collaboration between all Earth powers, human and and Race, population centers decimated, but invasion defeated via computer virus. President Thomas Whitmore steps down but his successor Jack Dale is killed in a Martian invasion. His daughter Joan Dale presides until the 1996 election.

1997: The American Spacecraft *Admiral Peary* is launched toward Home (Worldwar)

2004:Lucas Jacobs wins the US Presidential election with Elizabeth Lanford as his running mate.

2000-2008: A race known as the Taelons from the Meruva galaxy make contact with Earth and claim to be on a benevolent mission. At first this seems to be the case, but it is later revealed that the Taelons wish to dominate Humanity and the Race. A long resistance which involves contact with the Jeridans and ultimately a final conflict with the Atavus. (Earth: Final Conflict)

2004:An expedition to Antarctica headed by the Weyland corporation to study recently uncovered ruins is slaughtered save for a single person when a group of extraterrestrial hunters clashes with a species of hostile parasites. Following the crash of the hunters' ship pieces of their technology is recovered by the Yutani corporation.(Alien vs Predator)

2007: Gunnison Colorado is nuked to clean up a mess involving Yautja and Xenomorphs (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

2012: Elizabeth Lanford is elected President of the United States(Independence Day:Resurgence), succeeding Lucas Jacobs. Not including Joan Dale, she is the first Female US President in this universe.

2016: The Second Harvester Invasion. The Harvesters once again arrive at Earth in force and are narrowly defeated an alien VI offers Humanity and the Race new technology in exchange for being the leaders in a resistance against the Harvesters. Elizabeth Lanford is killed and replaced by Joshua Adams, due to the line of Secession being decimated (Independence Day: Resurgence).

**In progress**

2019: A fleet of craft from the dying planet Gamilas identify Earth as a potential target for colonization, their attention having been drawn by the Harvester attacks (Space Battleship Yamato).

2020: The First Formic War (Ender's Game) A Formic Scout ship not recognizing that Earth was inhabited by Sentient beings attempts to Terraform Earth it is destroyed by Earth forces.

2021: The Second Formic War (Ender's Game) The Full Formic Colonization Fleet arrives in Sol in a battle around the rings of Saturn, Mazer Rackham noticed a weak point in the seemingly random formation of the Formic ships. He fired one of the two missiles his ship had at a certain Formic spacecraft, destroying it and killing a Hive Queen. As it was destroyed, the other Formic fighter ships stopped functioning as all their pilots became brain-dead, for they no longer had a Hive Queen to control them. Afterwards, the humans began to launch ships to the Formic Homeworld, as well as sending Mazer into relativistic flight so he would still be alive when the ships reached their destination and teach the next great strategist to destroy the Formics.

2024: Gamilan attack on Sol System is defeated in the Battle of Jupiter, at the hands of an international human/Race fleet centred around the Japanese space battleships *Yamato* and *Musashi* - both heavily augmented with tech from the Harvesters and the Mekon.

2031: The *Commodore Peary* Earth's first Warp Capable ship is launched with Home as its destination. This attracts the attention of the Vulcans who make contact with Earth. The Vulcans are obviously distrusted despite their stated intentions of peace, Humanity doesn't want to be duped *again*after the Taelons and the Visitors. Though it is eventually realized that the Vulcans mean no harm. (Worldwar/Star Trek)

2039: The Roxolani Invasion. A race of Teddy bear like aliens with anti-grav FTL and sail age weapons in invade Earth. Several ships are defeated by Martian spacecraft. The invasion is destroyed by Terran forces who take the anti-grav tech for their own.

2058: American colony K-2L is wiped out by the Space Pirates. Unknown to any human a single colonist a three year old girl by the name Samus Aran was rescued and adopted by the aliens known as the Chozo. Samus would later be infused with Chozo DNA which would give her superhuman abilities and greatly retard her aging process. She would go on to make a name for herself as a bounty hunter whose favorite target is Space Pirates. Earth couldn't track down those responsible at the time. (Metroid)

2074: Earth forces marshal for war and liberate the Prawn home world and Tecton from the slavers.

2091: The Third Formic War. (Ender's Game) After 60 years of searching Ender Wiggin is chosen to lead humanity's war against the Formics. The War ends in a crushing human victory nearly genociding the Formics, much to the horror of the Vulcans.

2093: Earth explorers discover the Prothean archive on Mars and thus Mass Effect Physics. (Mass Effect)

2094 Humanity/Race first use the Charon Relay. (Mass Effect)