2nd of January, 2025. The festivity was still very much in the air, and everyone was busy celebrating the entry into a new year, but they had no idea how bloody the year was about to become for all of them.
In a random amusement park in the city of California, an energetic kid who looks to be five years of age was being chased around by his mother.
The park was noisy as it was filled with people, ranging from little children to old adults. Everyone was having fun, and just like everyone around the world, they were sharing in the festivity of the new year.
"Jason, stop running around!" The mother said in an out-of-breath voice as she tried to catch up to her child.
Abruptly, the boy stopped and slowly raised his head to look up at the sky.
"There, I got you. No more running around, ok? You nearly killed me," the mother said with an exhausted voice after finally catching up to her child.
The mother saw that her child wasn't paying any attention to her but instead was looking intently at the sky, and curious to know what he was looking at, she raised her head to the sky.
"What the hell is that?" The mother asked in surprise when she saw multiple massive dark objects in the sky.
She immediately and instinctively felt a sense of dread, and as a mother, she knew she had to act on it immediately. And that was what she did.
She picked up her child and started running out of the amusement park. She and her child weren't the only ones that saw the massive black objects in the sky, as everyone else in the park did, but her action of running was what reminded everyone of what needed to be done.
And with that, pandemonium ensued as everyone started running helter-skelter, looking for where to hide from the things in the sky.
No one has any idea what those black objects were, but with just a look at it, they got a very ominous feeling from it, and this was enough for them to act.
They prefer to be safe and for everything to be alright later than to be standing around and having themselves to blame for their inactions later.
And as if to prove their decision right, a sharp, intense whining hiss was heard, and the next moment, a red streak of light shot out from one of the black objects in the sky and hit a skyscraper in the distance.
*Boom!*
What everyone heard was a thunderous boom as the skyscraper exploded from the point of impact and started collapsing to the ground.
As the previously tall and towering skyscraper collapsed to the ground, a loud rumbling sound was heard, and a very intense reverberation was felt by those in the surrounding area.
The collapse of the skyscraper marked the beginning of the Naxari invasion on Earth. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were about to be wiped out of existence by the same alien creatures we have always someday wanted to come in contact with.
The invasion of the Naxari on Earth forced the world's governments for the first time in history to set aside their differences and join arms together to repel the creatures that seek to wipe them off the surface of their world.
With that, a devastating war between humanity and the Naxari ensued. The war lasted a whole year, and after so much sacrifice on humanity's side, we were barely able to repel the invaders and send them back to wherever they came from.
The war left the Earth and humanity in a very fragile state. They started rebuilding and trying to stand back up on their feet, but it was extremely difficult when there was still a possibility of the invaders returning.
The world leaders came together and finally came to the decision to continuously set aside their differences and, in a joint effort, speed up humanity's development in preparation for any possible invasion from their alien enemies. And if possible, take the fight to them, wherever they are in the vastness of deep space and the universe.
With this, the program Star Legion was created. It was a program created to produce the best of the best in every military field in preparation to face a potential second invasion of the Naxari.
30 years later, after salvaging technology from the enemy's ships that were taken down during the war and extracting information from some of the Naxariis that were taken prisoners, humanity finally took the fight to the doorstep of their enemy, to their home world.
And that was the beginning of a never-ending war that has raged for over a century and has continued to rage till this day.
During the earlier years of the war, the goal of the Star Legion program was to create as many soldiers and as quickly as possible to replace those that had died.
But as time went on and humanity seemed to be losing, they decided to change their goal to producing the best of the best, a group of soldiers that would end the war once and for all.
This was how the Legion Academy was created, and 80 years later, it has continued to produce excellent soldiers that have continued to make a difference in the war. And the quality of these soldiers continued to improve with each year.
But even with this, the war between humanity and the Naxari has continued to rage and is now at a stalemate, with neither side having an upper hand.
The improvement and advancement of humanity has left the Naxariis baffled. As for humanity, they were shocked by just how powerful their invaders actually are and this surprised them as they don't understand how they were successfully able to repel them when they invaded Earth.
Even though humanity had this question, they couldn't ask them due to the blood feud between the two races.
As the war raged on, humanity was equally advancing and colonizing habitable worlds close and far from Earth.
The invasion of the Naxariis on Earth was the beginning of a new era for humanity, an era of opportunities and endless possibilities thanks to the advanced science and technology they were able to scavenge.