First contact
We first saw them as the warm wind of summer was starting to cool and become wet. At first they kept their distance in their strange enormous ships, but after a few days they made ground. The strangers looked like us but had things on their bodies we had never seen before.
The first time they landed we kept them away with our weapons but only for a few minutes before their technology overwhelmed us after killing my brother. We pulled back into the bush away from our homes and observed the aliens.
They moved around the local country taking samples of everything. It was only a matter of time before we personally encountered them. It was obvious their technology and ways were far different to ours.
After a few days they tried to make contact with us but we were very wary as news of the death spread quickly and we wanted nothing to do with the invaders. A week after they came they vanished and we were able to return back to our homes. We thought we'd never see then again and over time relaxed back into our normal lives.
Invasion
Eighteen summers later they were back, they once again landed but this time there were thousands of them. They quickly forced us right out of our homes, killed any that resisted and established their city.
It wasn't long before they brought their foreign beasts and planted their foods in our lands pushing us further and further back. Every contact involved death so we soon learned to avoid them no matter what. We were powerless.
Decimation
After a year of skirmishes with our warriors a strange sickness befell our people with nearly every family affected. We think they did it deliberately to get rid of us.
Spread
Over the coming years more and more of them arrive. They push is further and further inland taking the best lands for themselves. In time they start to take our people interrogating and imprisoning people at from their families.
War
The persecution age dispossesion became too much and for six long years we fight back. Gorilla fighters launched skirmish attacks on their weak points. For a time it seemed we might win until their warriors attacked and caused enormous death among our people.
Time
More and more arrived over time and it wasn't long before the best coastal land was all occupied and influx into the mountains and great flood plains pushed us further age further back. Through necessity we cooperated and started to work due by side with the invaders. This worked until they wanted something we had then death would again ensue.
After a time we were given identification and passports that allowed us to visit our homes and land but we were not allowed to return to our homes unless it was under the control of the invaders.
In the South they even tried to make a treaty but really it was just another way to take our land.
Life settled down as we settled into uneasy cooperation and in some cases servitude and accepted living at the whim of the invaders. We had little choice.
Assimilation
Some invaders were not as bad or violent and started to teach us their culture and ways. Even these people were uncompromising and we had to abandon our ways and take up theirs.
If only there was a way to get rid of the ivaders. The people were not strong as us but their technology and weapons kept us mostly at bay.
Eventually even those that seemed kind decided this was taking too long and worked towards destroying our way of life by busting up our families, stealing our children to take and indoctrinate into their ways. Our culture was down trodden.
Our scholars had always thought that aliens if we ever met them would be kindly because they had better technology and travelled so far to meet us. We were horribly wrong. Over the next couple of hundred years our society was all but destroyed by the alien invaders.
That first meeting was in 1770 in Botany Bay. Decolonise your mind.
