[Daigoro]

Rumours & Conspiracies #1

Time for a history lesson, you algae sucking asteroid jockeys! Planet Earth, the ancestral home, the cradle of humanity for 1 million years- one day its magnetic field goes bollocks. The sun, source all of life, starts cracking off coronal mass ejections, right at the Earth. Life on Earth becomes untenable for 120 billion souls. And then... a star ship collecting alien races from around the galaxy shows up saying, "We will save you!"

So what do you think? Three events, each of infinitesimal probability, never happened in all the thousands of years of recorded history… all come together in the space of three decades… by coincidence?

No, friends. This was the Collectors' plan. How could they make a planet-wide civilisation want to abandon their home world? They engineered its destruction and then gave us the tools to escape.

And how? I'll tell you. A monopole cannon. They bombarded the Sun with relativistic magnetic monopoles from light years away, and when they'd tracked the Earth's orbit, they hit it too. You talk to one of the Geo-Reform lads, and they'll tell you there's still something weird orbiting around inside the Earth's mantle.

And that's why the Cicads were so quick to take Jupiter! They're sitting on the Collectors' most powerful weapon, waiting for who knows when to use it. That's why we have to take back Jupiter, and soon!