Description
When Installation 09 departed from the Ark, it's travel through slipspace went relatively well, however the destination was far different from Professor Ellen Anders had expected. Trapped in a new reality, Anders struggles to understand what has changed, and fears what will happen to the Spirit of Fire without support. - The battle for the Ark has been one of intense destruction and battle, with the troops of the UNSC Spirit of Fire fighting a desperate tug of war against the forces of the Banished, even with Atriox leaving the Ark, fighting to wrestle control of the ring with their resources slowly dwindling. In a desperate act to find help, Captain James Cutter orders Isabel to prepare a team to open the slipspace portal which Anders went through aboard the ring. But when their mission succeeds, they find themselves in a strange mimicry of their reality, with an Earth subjugated by a force they had not even recognized. - XCOM was losing. It lost the first contact war, and now it was losing the resistance war. Even with the Commander to lead them, they had made little progress in destabilizing the aliens regime. But this would change with a new factor being added to the game, as what can only be described as Fire From Above.
Prologue: A Ring In Reality
