COMMANDER Goddamnit, we're under attack! ELDER ANNEALID We intercepted a distress transmission We could not allow you to fulfill your mission You planned to invade an unarmed planet To obliterate the beings that live within it You were no match for us! We had heard the tales of Earthman selfishness And of their hunger for heartless violence We had to stop you before you succeeded Rendering you utterly defeated You were no match for us! (Piano solo “The Skies Alight with Violence”) COMMANDER’S BROADCAST “People of Earth, this is the voice of your Commander. Our warships have all been scuttled; vanquished and scattered to the far reaches of this galaxy by a foe with a technological prowess that far surpasses our own, and a fleet... a fleet the likes of which I have never before seen. Citizens of the Interplanetary Republic of Earth, as your leader I have devoted my life to keeping such disasters from our doorstep… but all in vain. In my final act as Commander of Earth's Armies, I implore you now: strengthen whatever defenses we have left and prepare one and all for a fight for existence itself. The enemy has breached our air-lock. I can hear them in the passage ways. They're at the door…”