UTO Verse

Modern humanity was dragged onto the galactic stage in a storm of plasma. One morning, alien ships took their positions above Earth, and sent down an army backed up by the orbital cannons laying waste to man's militaries. These lizardly, alien troops targeted various strategic objectives before rapidly hunkering down in cities around the world to avoid nuclear retaliation, trying to force a rapid surrender. This was not a war of genocide.   They gambled on one thing, believing it would bring a swift capitulation - a human could fit in the palm of their scaly hands. This strategy could have worked, but within three days a new alien force arrived to intervene. The United Treaty Organization, a union of a dozen species, had stepped in to evict the Rynar Collective from the small specie's home.   However, man's star, Sol, had an exceptionally rare fault - it couldn't charge erestal. The blue crystal was the foundation of all energy systems for every species, a fantastical material that humanity was forced to evolve without. Full scale fleet battling in orbit could leave ships debilitated and helpless in an extended fight. This unique situation lead to a protracted ground war, with both sides bringing in as many troops and supplies as they could muster, neither one wanting to escalate to a total war outside of the system.   In the end, it lasted a half solar year, with the war finally coming to a close when the UTO, with human aid, began decimating Rynar ships with nuclear weapons, something humans couldn't believe the aliens lacked. It turned out, the Rynar were after the only nuclear armed species in the galaxy and their weapons, trying to create a massive advantage over the UTO.   The UTO couldn't leave humanity to its own devices after such a brutal introduction to alien life, and humans were desperate for help now that they realized they faced a galaxy of literal giants. The UTO quickly inducted humanity into their union, and both man and alien were faced with the strange situation of trying to integrate such a tiny species into normal life. The one comfort in all this, was that the aliens not unlike humans in their psychology, and they were familiar in that they resembled Earth's animals. Humanity, uplifted by and aligned with giants, faces the galaxy knowing they were mere rodents in size. It takes a test of that indomitable human spirit to live among titans.