Stephen Hawking is quoted saying " If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the American Indians." Mankind thought itself ready for contact with extraterrestrial beings. But nothing could've prepared them for when the Xyclonians invaded. Now on the brink of extinction humans need something extraordinary to save them from being driven to extinction by the Xyclonians.