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The Invasion, also known as The Global Attack, refers to the arrival of the Death Angels on Earth June 18, 2020, and their massacre of nearly all human and animal populations.
History[]
Pre-Invasion[]
Prior to the Invasion, the Death Angels' home planet was destroyed due to an unknown cataclysmic event, turning into a meteor shower and descending upon Earth. The Death Angels survived thanks to their indestructible armor.
Early Days[]
The Invasion began on June 18, 2020, when the Death Angels arrived on Earth on multiple meteors in the form of a meteor shower, along with dozens of smaller rocks before crashing into Mexico and several other places. According to Lee's newspaper clippings, there were 127 confirmed landing sites of Death Angels' meteors. According to a globe in A Quiet Place: Day One, and Lee's newspaper and picture clippings, several pieces of the meteor broke off and landed in multiple locations around the world such as New York and Shanghai, the creatures reached Millbrook within minutes after arriving on Earth, and the biggest fragment landed in Mexico with the force of an atomic bomb.
The Death Angels, immediately after arriving and emerging from the fragments, began to attack and slaughter the unprepared human and animal population as noises easily attracted them. The alien creatures quickly overwhelmed them with their extremely durable shells on their body and head to protect their ears and their flesh from any counterattacks. Their sharp claws and hypersensitive hearing further helped the creatures to hunt and hear even clearer and better, causing most people on the mainland to live in dreadful silence in order to avoid Death Angels. Due to the massive danger that the creatures pose, the U.S. Military warned the survivors not to make any noises from helicopters and radio, during the early days of the invasion.
While there is not much information about the battle against the aliens, it is implied through Lee's newspapers that the Earth's militaries, especially the U.S. Military, were unable to fight back against the Death Angels due to the creatures' tough armored skin. As a result, they could easily resist any kind of weapons such as guns and missiles. The U.S. Military, deployed at least on New York streets, along with the police, suffered severe casualties and were therefore unable to protect the rest of the population as stated. It is unknown if the soldiers managed to kill any aliens, despite their weaknesses at that time being unknown. The military in New York bombed the bridges that led to Manhattan to quarantine the island and prevent the Death Angels from attacking other regions.
Later the United States and other countries with their own Navy discovered that the creatures can't swim or quickly drowned in deep water, the US National Guard announced mass evacuations and began evacuating as many people as possible from the mainland to islands, separated from the mainland which were unaffected by the Invasion of the Death Angels (or made safe by destroying bridges and tunnels that connected from mainland to other islands). Despite that, some efforts achieved little success. In a lone port according to Henri who survived the Invasion in New York City and lived on the island, the US Military attempted to evacuate all people from the city to an island as soon as possible, but as everybody attempted to force their way onboard to the 12 boats and some began to attracting noise causing the creatures attacks and slaughters some survivors then some survivors screaming as they feared the creatures, thereby attracting the Death Angels nearby. Only two boats managed to depart from the city safely. It is implied that all the other people were slaughtered at the city/port or left abandoned on the mainland.
List of Continents/Countries/Cities affected by The Invasion[]
- North America
- Canada
- Vancouver
- United States
- Mexico
- Mexico City
- Canada
- South America
- Colombia
- Peru
- Europe
- United Kingdom
- England
- Scotland
- France
- Germany
- Berlin
- Sweden
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- Africa
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Lagos
- Egypt
- Asia
Aftermath[]
The Invasion of the Death Angels caused human society to rapidly crumble and collapse in almost every country around the world. Unfortunately, there is not much information about the island countries such as Australia, Cuba, Madagascar, and the Philippines or cities that were unaffected such as Las Vegas, Rome, Dubai, and other unaffected cities that weren't hit by the meteors. The Invasion resulted in immeasurable devastation to human and animal populations around the world, and caused most cities to become silent as the Death Angels hunt by tracking noise.
Roughly a year and a half later, the aliens apparently achieved total dominance over the Earth's mainland after devastating/wiping out militaries throughout the world, especially the US Military, and erasing the majority of creatures that made noise. Most animals went extinct and only aquatic animals such as fishes and very few terrestrial animals such as birds survived from the invasion. Humanity on the mainland, is now reduced to scattered survivors, mainly in small groups or families that hide out in isolated locations, such as the Abbott family, Marina Man's group, and the island colony. Most mainland human survivors live in silence and adapt to the Death Angels by using methods such as sign language to communicate or whisper extremely quiet. By the end of A Quiet Place, the Abbott family discovered another weakness of the Death Angels and how to kill them by causing them to twitch and hinder their movements. They even managed to crack open their armor, revealing their vulnerable organs through high-pitched frequencies from Regan's malfunctioning hearing aid and shooting/stabbing them to death while taking advantage of their stagger. The family begun broadcasting a high-pitched frequency through the radio at the island's Radio Station using Regan's malfunctioning hearing aid at the end of A Quiet Place Part II, but the consequences of the broadcast are yet to be revealed.
The survivors on the Island which are separated from the mainland lived normally because the Island was unaffected from the early days of the Invasion. Therefore, it was considered a safe area until one Death Angel managed to reach the colony. It arrived via a boat that drifted from the same port where Regan Abbott and Emmett found their own boat for the journey to the radio station. Subsequently, the creature slaughtered some of the island's survivors, before being killed.
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