Prologue

Earth! The birthplace of the Human race. The beautiful blue planet, which was once a world full of life, is dead.

Before you blame the human race for the tragedy that befell the planet, know that there a few things you should know.

The majority of the Human race died defending their planet against the humanoid insect race, which the humans called "Bugmen."

The Bugmen were not alien in origin. Their ancestors were the same who the humans stepped on by accident or on purpose.

The same bugs were chosen to help in Mars's terraformation for various scientific reasons, but a genetic mutation and some gene-splicing experiments went horribly wrong.

It led to the creation of the Bugmen, who came in all shapes in sizes with carapaces that rendered conventional human weapons useless. A hivemind mentality and a high reproductive rate resulted in the Human race colony on Mars being overwhelmed and destroyed.

The Human race retreated back to Earth and abandoned mars for several centuries to the new insectoid race. Hoping they would eventually kill each other or destroy themselves given enough time. This was the mistake that destroyed the human race and the Earth itself.

The Bugmen created gigantic space-faring creatures who could carry their eggs within their hollow bodies that would hatch upon entering a planet's atmosphere.

The Earth did not stand a chance, nations fell, Humanity was hunted down to the verge of extinction. Even the prized nuclear weapons weren't able to kill the Bugmen, who seemed to mutate with every radiation bath.

Their evolution speed was too fast for human technology to exploit. In desperation, the last survivors of Humanity decided to abandon Earth for distant stars.

They couldn't build enough stasis pods, nor did they have the space ships to evacuate the human race's remainder. Thus, they provided their genetic samples, embryos, history, and scientific knowledge in several space ships known as the Cradles.

The cradle ships would explore the stars for Earth-like planets that already bore life and create human clones from the genetic stockpile to help in the colonization of the new worlds.

The human race would die along with the Earth, but somewhere in the distant future and in another sector of space, mankind will be reborn on a different world to regroup and prosper.

Unfortunately, the Bugmen inherited the memories of those they devoured and figured out Humanity's end game. Their hatred for the human race would not be sated until every trace of their arch enemy's existence is wholly wiped out.

Thus the race is on for the cradle ships to find habitable worlds to gather their strength before the final confrontation with the bugmen.

But the world which the cradle ships find is full of native intelligent life along with dangerous monsters.

These ships do not carry any nuclear arsenal, nor they have unlimited ballistic weapons to carry out a planet-wide extinction-level event to create a safe space for the human race.

All it has is a dozen 12 foot tall, heavy mechs capable of wielding various weapons from Sabres to Gattling Guns.

With twelve clones created from the most remarkable human warriors of Earth's late history as their pilots, the mechs are in good hands.

The 'Vanguard of Extinction' is headed down planetside to destroy all life to preserve mankind!

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