Introduction

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The year is 2035. 20 years ago, aliens attacked the planet Earth, planing to taking us into a slave race. Many of the powerful nations of the world banded together and formed the XCOM Project. This collection of engineers, scientists, and soldiers turned defenders of Earth somehow turned the tides against the alien forces, and the invaders left. But the cost of peace was high. The Volunteer, our greatest soldier, perished for all of mankind, as some kind of psionic messiah. XCOM stayed active for 3 years, dealing with alien stragglers. However, the main squad faced it toughest challenge when they took the last stand against the full complement of two fully staffed battleship. Main Squad took massively devastating losses that day, and XCOM formally disbanded not long after.

But humanity is ruled by greed. Not long after XCOM’s dissolution, the secret of the alien element, Elerium, was leaked to the world. Eager to gain what seemed to be a unlimited power source, nations attacked each other for the elerium storages left by XCOM across the planet. These wars raged for 15 years, before the nations regained their heads, and put their efforts together to build a “elerium generator.” While disproved by experts on the element, the world was greedy, and built it anyways. It failed horribly, and the whole supply of elerium was almost dissipated. However, while humanity as a whole tried to get itself back up on it’s feet, another group tried to exploit the situation.

EXALT, an old foe of XCOM’s, had risen from the grave XCOM had dug for it and began to become a serious threat. They’re calling back all the old guard, just to restart the project. They even asked me if I wanted to come back. I’m too old for this now, though. They’ll need someone quicker, more resilient, more focused. I’ll stay on as advisor, but I can’t be Commander again.

This was Commander Ω, and now, I’m merely µ. I give my approval to start PROJECT: REBIRTH, and revive the XCOM Project. -µ