Cage is sent to the invasion base at Heathrow Airport, from where he is to deploy with airborne troops the following morning. When Cage tries to blackmail the General, he is arrested and stripped of rank. Brigham orders Cage to cover combat on the beaches of Northwestern France, to which Cage objects, stating that he is not a soldier. The UDF, inspired by the victory at Verdun, intends to launch Operation Downfall, a multi-front invasion of Mimic-controlled Europe which will relieve pressure on Russian and Chinese forces in Eastern Europe. Major William Cage, a UDF spokesman and officer in the United States military, is summoned to London to meet with General Brigham, commander of the UDF. As the Mimics tighten their grip on Continental Europe, the introduction of armed mechanized exoskeletons called Jackets allows the UDF to achieve a decisive victory at Verdun. NATO militaries have federated to create the United Defense Forces (UDF), with defeats escalating as the war continues.

Few days after landing in Europe, they started the invasion.įor 5 years, humanity has been at war with an alien species called Mimics. Mimics came to Earth from interstellar space utilizing asteroids- which dropped all around Europe. Destroying the Omega results in the loss of the hive mind itself, leaving the rest of the Mimics vulnerable and easy to take down. The Omega itself is a massive spherical organism and seemingly needs to be contained in water. It is telepathically connected to all Mimics, and may also establish psychic links to other creatures who have been in contact with Alpha blood. The Omega is the core of the Mimic superorganism, and acts as its central intelligence, as well as the source of its temporal abilities. However, this ability will not last if the Human's own blood is replaced later, such as in the occurrence of an accident that leads to a medical transfusion. From that point on, every time the Human is killed, time will be reset to the day before they were killed originally. In this way, the Mimics learn about the enemy's strategy and have a chance of responding preemptively, as well as resetting time continuously until reaching a favorable outcome.īeing in contact with the blood of an Alpha Mimic may cause a Human being to enter this same loop as well. Whenever an Alpha is killed, it triggers the Omega's chronokinetic response to reset time to one day before that occurrence, while retaining memories of it. They are larger than Drones, and have light blue luminescence, rather than orange but are most notable for acting like the hive's nervous system, connecting the Drones to the Omega (which is the brain). Carter estimated that just 1 in every 6.18 million Mimics is an Alpha. As their name implies, Mimics' primary tactic is to charge the enemy in massive swarms and utilize their ability to move at rapid speeds, being able to alter their very physiology to from massive tendrils and the ability to fire missile like projectiles known as Mimic javelins add to their danger in combat.Īlphas, in contrast, are extremely rare. They can be identifed by their small size standing only around 4 feet tall and their bright orange bioluminescence. and lack the chronokenetic abilites of the Alpha and Omega and serve as primary soldiers for the Mimic. It's not known how many of them are in the universe, but it's been speculated that there might be numerous asteroids carrying Mimic hives, waiting to land on suitable planets for them to colonize. They are all part of a single hive mind, which consists of three castes: the common Drones, the commanding Alphas, and a single gigantic Omega, which acts as the colony's central brain. Mimics are extremely fast and agile creatures with numerous tentacles, which can be used for moving on land, climbing, or digging through the soil to emerge and ambush unsuspecting prey.

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