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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 284751" data-attributes="member: 630">I had this idea a long time ago, back when Alternity was fresh off the stands...  (Ahh, nostalgia...)Earth, 800 A.D.  In Europe, humanity is, under the reign of Charlemagne , beginning a recovery from the collapse of the Roman Empire.  The caliphate of Haroun al'Raschid, centered in Babylon, is one of the cultural and scientific centers of the world.  In China, the enlightened T'ang dynasty has ended centuries of warfare.All this advancement proves useless when the aliens come down, and add Earth to their interstellar empire.It's now twenty years later.  Humanity is enslaved.  Small pockets of resistance exist, but  they are few and scattered.  Earth is being flooded by aliens, come to aid the Empire in its conquest, rule over small sections, run the bureaucracy, or simply to get rich.  Of course this insignificant backwater might prove very handy to some people...</blockquote>