Tellus: January 2012

Background Stories

Alec

Age: 23 yrs

Height: 1.80 cm

Weight: 80 kilos

Alec could be an only child whose parents are rich and powerful. When the aliens revealed their true nature and took over the world, his parents feared for their lives and agreed to strike a deal with the aliens. They would use their wealth and their influence over the people to get the aliens what they want (i.e. resources, human slaves, etc.), and in return the aliens would spare their lives.

However, Alec was a noble young man and refused to condone what his parents were doing. Instead, he ran away from home and joined the army to fight against the aliens, behind his parents' backs. Alec keeps his identity a secret, because he fears that if the rebel humans find out his parents sold out on their own kind, he would not be accepted. In the army Alec becomes the technician. He is making his own prototypes of weapons he is also able to fix almost anything mechanical. He is a dark but mysterious man, with a shadow upon his face. He smokes cigarettes and keeps mostly to himself, even though he is caring and brave. Not scared to make sacrifice to save his friends. He has a special devotion to Chocó and secretly takes care of her.
Alec's parents are the human villains of the story. They would refer to themselves as the Mediators between the aliens and humans.

Blake

Age: 25 yrs

Heigh: 1.87 cm

Weight: 75 Kilos

Blake he is an orphan who was raised in a children's shelter his whole life, until the aliens began their invasion and the shelter was destroyed. Managed to survive he is left to wander the streets during the years of war and to fend for himself, he has grown to become cold and self-serving. He has never experienced being loved, or loving someone, so his actions can sometimes be selfish and uncaring. He doesn't really consider himself to be part of any group, because all his life he's been a lone wolf. He fights for himself, to satisfy his own needs, to fulfill his own desires. He becomes a master of disguises and turns out to be an excellent shot. He is the sniper of the group. He is rough and hard skinned but quick and high tempered. He also carries a sword he had stumbled upon.
He initially agrees to help Nova locate the 7 skulls, but secretly intends to betray the team and leak information to the aliens in exchange for a reward. But as he travels with the group he starts to grow fond of his new-found family, and even gradually develops feelings for Nova. Nova and Blake never agrees on anything but still they seem to have devotion for each other. In the end they end up having to make a sacrifice for each other. Blake saves Nova and then she understands the feelings she has for Blake.

-
Nova

Age:24 yrs

Height: 1,60 cm

Weight: 70 kilos

Nova, she lost her parents as a child when they both met with an unfortunate accident. Since then, her grandfather was her only kin left and looked after her. He was quite eccentric and not a very responsible caretaker, due to his obsession with his work, so Nova quickly learned how to be independent at a young age.

When her grandfather disappeared years ago without a trace, Nova barely had time to mourn, because shortly after that the alien invasion began. She joined the army (perhaps as a means of distracting herself from her grief) and fought in the war against them that lasted for years, and there she met Alec. When the humans were defeated, Nova was forced to return to an empty home, and was reminded once again that she was now all alone.

In an effort to erase the painful memories of her grandfather, she tried to get rid of all his accumulated possessions, and while doing so came across his journal with secret information about the alien race and the seven skulls. Thinking that this could be a clue as to her grandfather's whereabouts, she decides to embark on a mission to follow his trail and finish what he started. She is a caring person who puts everybody’s needs in front of her own. She is also a good leader even though she and Blake never agrees on anything. He still feels the need to listen to her, even though she is wrong. She has a hard shell but shows only her true feelings to Blake. Her and Chocó becomes best friends and Alec the protector of them all even though is don’t seem that way. She is not scared and always seem calm in stressed situations. Handling things when needed.

Chocó

Age: 24 yrs

Height: 1,58 cm

Weight: 60 Kilos

When the aliens rampage through the family restaurant, Chocó’s father immediately orders his wife to take Chocó and little sister down to the cellar to hide. He stays and tries to fight off the aliens, but he is overpowered and killed.

Chocó’s mother rushes both her daughters into the cellar and shuts the door behind her. She tells Chocó to get in a cabinet at one end of the room, and hides little sister in a trunk, telling them both to be very quiet. She then goes to the door, intending to go out and help her husband (they don't know he's already dead). But before she can open it, the aliens burst in and grab her.

Chocó is terrified, but she stays quiet. Little sister, however, lets out a cry and jumps out of the trunk. She runs toward her mom and tries to free her, but the aliens get her too. Chocó, too scared to do anything, watches helplessly as the aliens tear her mother and sister apart. They rip off their heads and exit the room, leaving the bodies behind.

Long after the aliens have left, Chocó is still quaking in shock in the cabinet. She can see the lifeless, bodies of her mother and sister, through the gap in the doors, lying in a dark pool of blood. Eventually she gets out and searches the restaurant desperately for her father, thinking he's still alive. As she rushes outside, Chocó is greeted by a gruesome sight. The whole restaurant is littered with dead customers. The entrance is barred by three long poles, jutting out from the ground. Pierced at the top of each pole are the decapitated heads of her family.

Choco now hunts aliens in an effort to avenge her fallen family, and to redeem herself of her cowardice. But no matter how many she kills, the guilt never goes away. Coco has turned a little crazy and when she sees the aliens she runs out to kill no matter how many they are. She would just keep on shooting them until they are turned into pieces. She is a small but funny person. She is always up to something. She is unable to sit still and she owns two GMS that she carries around everywhere. So she never misses a chance to kill something alien. She has a trusting relationship to Alec and they have a easy and lose way of acting around each other. When she is in a battle she turns into another person. She is super fast and kills with the speed of light. The others have to calm her down and drag her of the battlefield in order to calm her down.

Summary
All of the four characters will learn to overcome their own personal demons as the Tellus story progresses. Nova will eventually grieve properly over the loss of her grandfather after she finds out he was assassinated. Alec's true identity will be revealed later in the story and he will take a stand against his parents' betrayal. Blake will learn to put others before himself for a change, but will also suffer the consequences of having outed the team previously. Choco will finally stop blaming herself for the death of her family, and let go of her senseless thirst for revenge and forgiveness. All this will happen as the four of them work together to complete the quest of the 7 skulls.

Tellus

HISTORY OF THE SKULLS (Background story)

7 skulls represent 7 planets-mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, mercury, Neptune. Aliens divides earth to harvest minerals. The undercover human races are aliens left behind planets indicates the separate alien tribes on earth:

Mars-North-America
Venus-south America.
Jupiter- Africa
Saturn-Asia,
Uranus-Oceania
Mercury- Antarctica.
Neptune-Europe.

The different Aliens are picking sections on earth to harvest that would benefit their planet. All the planets need different minerals.
All the aliens have places 7 skulls on each separate planet and 7 identical skulls are on earth. These skulls create portals so the aliens can travel from their planet to earth.

The Jupiterians are getting greedy, starting to take more minerals; the Jupiterians is starting to take over more land than they are allowed to. The Aliens do not want to destroy or create war so they all decide to leave earth. All the leaders of the 7 different planets make an agreement to destroy the skulls and never return to earth again. To maintain the universal peace. They destroyed the skull on the mother planet and hides the once that's left on earth. Destroying the skulls will erase the memory of earth ever existing (to the Aliens)

Jupiter fakes the destruction of their skull, and keeps on harvesting the earth for minerals. As the aliens are slowly disappearing from earth, the humans forget that they were once aliens too. But there is still old traces from the aliens that once ruled the earth, the aliens where suppose to only take so much of the earth’s minerals still keeping the earth in its balance. Old ruins showing how they once obeyed the Gods who came from the sky. Buildings built in astronomical coordinates. But after thousands of years all the knowledge had vanished.

After all the aliens had left they abandon the workers on earth, erasing their memory. But not everybody had lost their memory. Professor Ira (Jupiterian) was a high though of star coordinator, having to do with the transportations back forth from earth at the time the Jupiterians started to take over. He saw the jupiterians destroy earth and he wanted to stop them. He never wanted the earth do die. He was starting to see how the jupiterians had taken advantage of the other planets as well. They had always lived in harmony. He could not stand seeing how his friends and earth was being destroyed.

Ira starts to hunt for the skulls collecting each skull from each planet and the one that was not destroyed belonging to the Jupiterians, the skull that was still keeping the portal open. The skull making it possible for the jupiterians to travel back to earth. He was seeing how the planet was dying, the oceans drying up and the forests slowly disappearing. He tries to hunt down the last skull (Jupiter’s skull) If he manage to put all of the skulls together they will open the portals to the other planets as well. So he could contact the other planets and tell them that the jupiterians never left earth as they said they would. The jupiterians are getting aware that the left over aliens (humans) are evolving, becoming more intelligent that they realized. They need to dispose of the humans.

Suddenly they understand that they have a mole in their group. They find Professor Ira and they understand that he is collecting the skulls to contact the other aliens. The professor is trying to stop the jupiterians. He is on the trace of the last skull, digging in the desert. He has to find the last skull so he can tell the other leaders from the other planets. The jupiterians finds him and kills him. The jupiterians decides that the humans are getting to strong and that this was too close of a call. Hey have to get rid of the humans quickly.

The jupiterians comes out of hiding showing their Alien Identity. The war of earth begins. The humans are many and they are fighting against the aliens. They are not strong enough. And the few who are left are takes hiding in remote places like desert and other remote place. The aliens are stationed in the big cities, starting to create new alien life to populate planet earth.

In the desert we find people who were fighting the aliens, normal people whom where just scared and flew. But still they manage to create small villages and outposts. It was now the fight for survival. They had the food collectors who went to the aliens cites to steal food, the water collectors and soldiers who were trying to protect against the alien mutant animals who where lurking around.

Among these people we meet two soldiers, Nova and Alec. Nova is Professor Ira's grandchild. She lives in his house far into the jungle where no alien would even bother looking for anything. Nova has found her grandfather’s journal after trying to clean the over stacked house. The professor is a hoarder and the diary is lost in his enormous pile of collective artifact. She finds it and she is starting to understand that there was something more about her grandfather than she ever knew. She is contacting her friend Alec and they decided to recruit a crew to find away to stop the aliens. Because Nova knows her grandfather knew how to stop them. They finally figure out that the skulls are the key to saving the earth. Nova and Alec have to contact the other planets. The only way to do that is to find the 7 skulls left on earth. They have to put them together and open the portal. Only is not as easy as it sounds like.

Summary

Professor Ira’s granddaughter is fighting the aliens, but the humans are forced to surrender, becoming outcasts in remote places on earth, the jupiterians are still stealing earths mineral and water, leaving big oceans dried out and food hard to find. The granddaughter still lives in her grandfather’s house and she returns there after fighting the war (where she meets Alec) she is home one day and she is tired and hungry she freaks out starting to throw all her grandfathers stuff around. Suddenly a book hits her on the top of her head she gets mad and throws it at the wall, then all the pictures (grandfather’s excavation finding the other skulls) falls out she opens the book seeing pictures of her family and her grandfather. She starts to read the book and she starts to remember all the talk about aliens and her grandfather always mentioning these portals and connection with the other planets, she starts to put the pieces together and she suddenly understands that her grandfather wasn’t crazy after all. Seeing that the world use to be a different place. She understands that her grandfather was trying to stop the Jupiterians from destroying the earth and erasing humankind forever.

She contacts the only person she trusts which is Alec, she tells her story and they decides to gather a crew to find the skulls and try and save earth. They start in the sub destination Russia, the dried out ocean had created a ship graveyard, which was not home for robber’s plunderers and people who needed jobs. They go there and they find a girl named Chocó, she is small, chews bubble gum all the time, long black hair and wearing big army boots. What is tricking with her it's her two hand automate guns on the side of her belt. Nova and Alec heard about her crazy alien killing sprees and they want her in their group. The rumor says she never backs down from a fight and she is quick with the knife. She joins after being promised an upgrade in food, not only potatoes and soup and the chance of killing some aliens. Her parents were killed under the big war.

Chocó’s eyes were dripping blood and her rage was uncontrollable. She was 18 years old and was a skinny little Asian girl. not unlike anybody else. But the thing was she was not like anybody else. She had just seen her parents and her sister getting killed in front of her. She crawled out, she was infuriated. She grabbed the knives she had just put on the counter and she ran straight for the Grundler, who still was chewing on the toy rabbit. She was swinging her knife and the beast was spraying the wall before it even knew he was dying. She jumped on top of one of the aliens who were confused and did not understand where this little creature had come from. She stabbed him in the eye and jumped down; she jumped and twirled her whole body cutting the hand he was trying to cover his face with of. She ran between the two, holding her knifes in each hand spilling their guts on the floor. The two big creatures tumbled on their knees and sank to the floor. All this happened in the speed of light. Her speed and her being so tinny had made it hard for the aliens to see where see was. It was amazing. A tinny girl only 18 had killed 2 alien soldiers and a Grundler all in a matter of minutes. She stood with the two knifes in her hands and seeing the remains of her baby sister in the Grundlers mouth. She decided there and then, to kill every single Alien she would ever come across. She took the two knives and walked out never looking back.