Are we alone in the universe? Is there life among the stars? Are we being watched by some extraterrestrial intelligence?
These are questions that have been asked icnreasingly since the nineteenth century. Human minds have run wild with possibilities about aliens, friend or foe. But now these questions are about to be answered, forever; and the world will be changed.
An alien starship enters the atmosphere above a city, its advanced stealth technology cloaking it from all terrestrial observers. It is here with one purpose: conquest. But whether due to lack of numbers or resources, or perhaps aversion to violence, the crew are not about to launch a frontal attack. Instead, they drop something on the city, a sinister payload; a device that will corrupt the citty from within. When the time is right -- so the invaders hope -- the denizens will not fight but rather welcome them open arms.
The device lands unobtrusively and activates without issue. The starship withdraws to a safe place to observe the ensuing changes to the town's populace; the crew eagerly awaiting the moment to launch the next stage of their takeover.