Fan Fiction: Battleship - Essay Example

Teacher Fan Fiction: Battleship In the movie Battleship, the aliens came here angry and ready to invade and destroy us. It did not show any initial meeting between mankind and alien before the attack in the pacific rim. The movie is also considered a cliche and almost predictable because mankind always win in the end albeit started as an underdog. What if there was an initial meeting with the alien and we lost the battle? That would make the story more interesting. It would also be interesting if the story will center on the scientist since it is a sci-fi movie instead of Lieutenant Alex Hopper. First chapter: The first coming Who would have thought that life beyond our planet and solar system exists? Since time immemorial, it has always been the fascination of mankind to see an intelligent being from another planet. Yet, aside from rumors that extra territestrials had been caught or found, nothing was ever proven that almost all scientist abandoned the idea of finding one, except for Dr. Nogrady, the eccentric scientist of NASA. So Professor X send a signal to the goldilocks planet Gliese 581 g hoping to prove that an intelligent being exists out there. Nobody took Dr. Nogrady effort seriously dismissing that the Professor has been chasing a pipe dream of looking for something that does not exist. A wasted genius they say. But the signal was still sent into that goldilock region of the universe. Then suddenly, a response. Dr. Nogradywas ecstatic, he himself cannot believe that his transmission were returned. For the first time in the history of science, a contact was made with an intelligent creature light years away. Through the help of a team of expert of linguists, Dr. Nogradyteam were able to understand the language of the alien. The creature’s name was Apex. He was a male and an astronaut from planet Gliese 581 g who just like Dr. Nogrady, has also been scouring through the stars for a possible contact with an intelligent being. They are as excited to have made a contact from another planet just as the people of the Earth and no, they do not intend to make an enemy out of us. After months of exchanges of information about each other’s planet and civilization, it was finally decided that an official meet up and physical contact should be made. Earth does not have the technology yet to visit Planet Gliese 581 g so it was agreed that it will be Apex’s team who would be visiting the Earth. According to Dr. Nogrady’s estimate, the aliens will be arriving on earth six months from now. Necessary preparations were made for the arrival of Apex’s party. All honors were conferred to Dr. Nogrady who rose to sudden popularity due to his recent contact with an extra terrestrial being. He also received unlimited funding from the United Nation’s for his research and was made in-charge of the receiving party since it was only Professor X who was privy in communicating with Apex’s party. The initial contact will be made in the vast desert of Sahara desert in Africa since it was anticipated that Apex’s ship will be huge since it has to travel in space. The day arrived. Apex made an excited announcement that his ship has already landed in the designated landing field which Dr. Nogrady prepared for Apex’s arrival. Yet Dr. Nogrady cannot find the ship. He asked for confirmation from Apex who replied they have landed as confirmed by the engineer of Dr. Nogrady’s triangulation that they are already in the designated landing field. But they cannot be found. Suddenly the communication made a blip with Apex’s cry, why are you attacking us? We came in good faith and friendship! Dr. Nogrady replied, attack what? It’s getting dark, why are you sending your monsters to attack us! A series of cry was heard from the radio of Apex, yet nothing can be found in the landing field. Until finally, a distress call was heard from com of Apex, with a call “this is Captain Apex of Ship Amegdala on exploration to Earth, we are under attack and cannot survive, please send in rescue immediately! Receiving party hostile, come armed! And screaming was heard afterwards and the com went dead. Second Chapter: The attack Instead of coming in with few huge ships with its communicator destroyed during the landing, a twist will be added that the ships were not that big, that its communicator was not destroyed and it did not land on the Pacific ocean but rather on Manhattan, New York and the attack was sudden. Bewildered, Dr. Nogrady ordered his engineer to check the triangulated area where Apex might have landed. Upon heeding, the engineers examine the soil from the area and they discovered that Apex’s ship was a tiny dot which landed near an ant mound where the ants have mistaken their ship for food. A hysteria ensued, accusations went out of proportion that Dr. Nogrady was a hoax and invented the whole thing to gain popularity and obtain funding. Dr. Nogrady was divested of all the honors and funding and convicted for defrauding the government. Months later, a swarm of mosquito like space ships came from outer space and attacked Earth. The attack begun in Manhattan, New York and it was swift and brutal without any warning. Earth was defenseless because the ships were too small to be hit by its armaments. Its missiles cannot locate it because there was no enough heat to seek it. It cannot be hit by bullets also because the space ships were smaller than a bullet. Nuclear weapon also will not work because the aliens are too small to attack and they are resistant to chemical weapons. Lieutenant Alex Hopper was helpless. Despite his bravery, he cannot attack a small enemy and his ship was among the first to be destroyed. The mosquito like swarm of spaceships that can incinerate whatever it shoot is unstoppable. In less than an hour, New York was incinerated. In just few hours that passed, United States ceased to be a civilization. Europe followed, then Middle East, then Asia until the whole world was destroyed. They did not came for our resouces but only to avenge Apex who was killed by an ant. Read More