Despite a successful air campaign, the ground invasion goes poorly

Earth’s first line of starships were disabled within 30 minutes of the alien fleet appearing in system in a flash of light from their warp jump. Their fleet moved into Earth orbit and disabled all defensive platforms, satellites and took command of the stations in orbit in a blitz attack that we were just not ready for.

Our atmosphere defenses were just as weak and they disabled everything we had flying within 5 hours of them sending their shuttles, fighters, bombers and troop transports down from their ships.

And this is where they screwed up big time.

Their main weapons were all energy based and were fantastic to use on computers and complicated ships and planes that couldn’t operate without all their computer assisted components.

But on the ground, our weapons weren’t smartguns; energy based weapons that could think for you and pick out targets within sight with just a click of a button. No, we still had simple, slug throwers that relied on centuries old technology of explosions and physics.

So when their troopers started to land and spread out, they suddenly started to drop in droves as humanities soldiers and armed civilians all aimed with their optical scoped rifles or iron sights and started to pick them off from hiding.

And there were a lot of targets, so many that we had to fall back because they would just keep on coming no matter how many of them were dropping.

So we took to the trees, and the forests we had replanted and nurtured for so long, now because our hunting grounds.

They set up camps outside the cities because the concrete jungles were just as deadly as the natural ones and their aim wasn’t to destroy everything, but to force us to capitulate and join their conglomerate as the lowest on the pyramid. No way were we going to become slaves in anything but name.

So we started hunting and they keep trying to hunt us but we knew our forests, natural and concrete and their losses kept mounting. So they threw more and more troops into the hunt, as if they couldn’t think of anything else to do.

And every one of them that dropped gave us a bundle of technology we could play with, and with that, our weapons got better even if we still kept to the basics.

Now our bullets would easily penetrate any of their armor on their biggest vehicles. We were learning even more every day and soon we would be teaching them lessons.

They already knew the most basic lessons like when the trees start speaking Human, they were already dead.

Soon, they will learn the most important lesson of all. Humans are persistence hunters.

===End===