ARMISTICE DAY
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2013.04.15
A Not-So-Ragtag Fleet of colonial ships from a system of seven affiliated alien races -- some, but not all, of them of the "bumpy-head humanoid" variety, which if that's going to be a problem you should just eject now -- arrived on Earth sometime around 2013, thinking it was an empty world big enough for the remnants of their culture (collectively called Votans) to start over. Arks full of survivors, tech and terraforming equipment traveled for like 5000 years and when they got here… well, we were here.
After six years of troubled negotiations, a war began that caused massive trauma to the planet, including some terraforming stuff that left civilization all jacked up but the environment more welcoming for our visitors. Joshua Nolan, played by my very favorite dude Grant Bowler, was sixteen when the Votan arrived, and he eventually enlisted in the conflict, called the Pale Wars. I think the Votan held onto a unified front during this time, although there are plenty of resentments and weirdnesses waiting to erupt between the alien races once the war was over.
At some point, Josh's unit (the Ninth) decided -- along with soldiers on the other side -- that the war was stupid, mutually assured destruction being a non-starter, plus the fact that everybody is now here, for good or ill. So they decided to start saving civilians instead. These Defiant Few inspired a movement that ended the war, starting in his hometown of St. Louis and we join him about 30 years later with his adopted alien daughter, a war orphan named Irisa.
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