Alien Encounters

The Arrival has ended. A swarm of small spacecraft depart their huge mothership, and hover in our atmosphere. The ships open their hatches, and deposit thousands of mysterious pods on the earth's surface. Are they a message, a gift or a weapon?

A mothership the size of Texas is hovering over Earth and we are tired of waiting. We send a rover to explore, and what we find makes us question the definition of life. On Earth, the pods multiply and get smaller, making contact with them unavoidable.

Ten years after the Mothership exploded, a space-trash mining industry is reaping profits, the Pentagon wants to turn the "Birds" into super soldiers, and a Turkish physicist finds blueprints for a quantum computer.

Based on found alien instructions, a powerful quantum supercomputer is built, and it turns out that "Birds" - human children with Alien DNA - can connect to it using only their thoughts.

As more Brids connect to the quantum computer, they grow more powerful and the computer becomes more self-aware. The combined brainpower is able to crunch unprecedented data and calculate the future. Some will use it toward evil ends.

Being a human-alien hybrid has its advantages in this new world order, and more humans try to join the hybrid network. The US launches an attack on the pervasive quantum computer Quincy in hopes that its own version can take Quincy's place.