As long as man has inhabited this speck of dust in the infinite cosmos, he's been concerned with his meager existence and mortality. He's speculated about how life on Earth would end and wondered what catastrophic event would bring about his extinction. Not once did anyone in their wildest dreams envision the events that were now unfolding as possible threats to humanities existence -- yet it was happening. Beginning slowly at first and unusual in development, it was not considered the threat it was until it was nearly too late. The first hints of trouble were random and few, and didn't alarm the authorities or scientist, but continued to increase in global magnitude until they could no longer be ignored. It all began on a worldwide scale several days earlier with the appearance of millions, if not billions of strange objects innocuously descending from the heavens. When first viewed, everyone thought the objects were meteorites, possibly caused by the Earth passing through the remnants of a comet's tail. Many marveled at the beauty of the fireworks, while others were mortally frightened. Had they, the world's population and scientific community known the significance of the events that unfolded in the skies, everyone would have been very alarmed, indeed. The first hint that man was in trouble emerged in a small under developed village in the middle of nowhere on the plains of central Africa, and quickly manifest over the entire planet. It was after closer examination and then only after many bizarre, unprecedented, occurrences, was it discovered that these strange objects were anything but meteorites, and posed an undeniable threat to humankind and possibly all life on Earth.