Welcome to Gaia! ::

A lone desert world, orbiting a triple sun system, devoid of green life floats listlissly through space. It is a harsh climat, yet one very near to our own. There is no record of trying to terraform this world, for it simply lacked the resorses nessisary to support life. Too much silicone.

However, many people have tried and failed to colenize this world on it's own. Building compounds on top of each successive failier. They thrive for a while, then suddenly die out. What the people of each attempt did not know, is that they share this world with another.

A completly seperate species of creature. Their ship landed here Eons ago, and the race has slowly begun to awaken from their stasis. What the human's don't know, (Not that they know about this race anyway.) is that there are two seperate factions in this species. One, dedicated to the elavation of the human race to the status of GodHood.

And the other dedicated to the eradication of the humans.

Their ship has been covered by the sands of the world for many hundreds of years, before the humans even began to fly in their rickety wooden planes. Even so, their tech remains a force to be wrekoned with. Yet, still they remain hidden.

They remain hidden until the day when Humans will once again grace their world with their footsteps. Until the day their sensors pick up the human ships approching.

"Copy that. Valkyrie Rose burning a trail. Over."

Higher in the atmosphere, a single ship slowed, her distinktive twin prow design flickering with an orange light as the friction turned into flame. At her controls, her captain and Pilot sat, fighting to keep the ungainly ship stable in the atmosphere.

"She wasn't designed to be as graceful in the atmo."

Quickly, the ship burned her way past the pelican, leaving a smoky trail.

"Follow us in Pelican one. Just not to close to our slip stream."

"Rodger."

With a sudden burst of flame sprouting from the underside of the Rose, as well as the twin engines mounted with the plasma guns, she slowed her decent. Inside the ship, the wind screen was red hot and the inside was lit with orange as she bruned her way through the atmo. Rasa keyed the controls to adjust the entry bur, so that they would settle in right over the base.

On the inside of the prows, two flames burst into life. Below the spin drive, two more burst into being, keeping the ship ballanced on it's way in. A few monutes later, a soft bump announced the safe landing of the ship and the flames died away, allowing the dust to settle before the people could disembark.

"We're down. Come on in."

Rasa clambered out of his seat to adress the bridge crew as well as the people waiting in the lounge area.

"Okay everyone. We should be acceptable to disembark. Everybody off!"

Rose, the second in comand, laughed as the captain joked around with his crew as well as his passengers. For some, this would remain their home. For others, this would be their transport, as she was designed to be.

"Okay! This is for everyone here. You all have been selected from both rosters to accompany us here. This base was once teaming with human life. Fifty years ago, it vanished without a trace. Now, we are here to find out why. Pilots, tend to your ships. All others, go exploring. Find out what went on here if you can. Everyone else, to your posts."

Rasa steps down from his little podium and makes his way over to Rose.

"So how was that?"

"One of your better ones sir."

Meanwhile, in another area, blinking lights flash in the darkness. A vent of steam hisses into the empyness, sounding off the first sound in over fourty years.