Prologue:

A moment before the Resonance cascade, I was a doctor at a local hospital. I was doing my daily routine, see a patient, prescribe something, teach interns, go home, and repeat. But that day changed everything. All of a sudden, aliens barged right in and took over the world in a matter of hours. I was trying to hide from some of these aliens when I ran into one. The creature had one red eye, an arm on his stomach, and wore some sort of green collar. It attacked me, but I was able to get out of the way and grabbed a scalpel to kill the alien. But I hit the collar and it broke off. The Alien looked at the broken collar, then looked at me. Just then, the thing shot me with some weird purple lightning bolt that threw me back. When I came to, the alien was dead and I had a scar on my hand in the shape of the Lambda symbol. It felt like that happened yesterday, but it didn’t…

Now, the world is under control by the Combine. The aliens, I now know are called Vortigaunts, are now slaves, like us. The Combine has the Human race at their knees. They killed nearly 80% of the population and are now working this planet to death. If that deranged psychopath, Dr. Breen, didn’t make Earth surrender, we would’ve won. But, he did. Now, he is now the ruler of the World.

My name is Robert. I’m like everyone else in City 17, a civilian living in an apartment that goes under constant raids from the Civil Protection. I obey the laws, but no one says I have to like them. I hate these Genocides as much as the next guy.

This is my story…