Sparks in the Ashes

After the War to End All Wars, humanity was poised to enter its next decade and heal from it grievous wounds - but its recovery was halted when the skies opened up and great ships came in to assault its people. Though the people of the world banded together in a desperate attempt to defend themselves from this alien threat, they were still weak, and the creatures known as the Quintessons began their systematic subjugation, experimentation, and harvesting of Earth and its resources...including those very people.   But Earth's history is rich with stories of those who never gave up the hope of freedom. The question is, will history repeat itself and the world rise up to shake off its shackles? And if so, will it be in time to prevent the world from becoming an empty husk of what it once was?   A spinoff of Ties That Bind set in the era of the Quintesson Occupation and the Thirteen.