Episode 2

BOWMAN is the second episode of the series Obsolete.

Episode Description
"It is 2015, one year since the aliens appeared. The rapid growth of EXOFRAMES in developing countries oppose the attempts by first-world countries at implementing regulations. Lieutenant Bowman of the U.S. Marine Corps LAR Battalion comes under attack by EXOFRAMES during a stability operation in Angola, Africa. From this day on the battlefield will never be the same."

Summary
The extraterrestrials are dubbed peddlers or aliens. Their first contact in 2014 was taken as a joke. They reached out to humanity via radio, television, any device connected to satellite.

They emphasized that they do not wish to interfere with any basis of discrimination such as nationality, politics and culture. They only wish to trade for limestone.

The first to collect enough limestone for the exchange had not truly expected the peddlers to follow through. To their surprise, peddlers did just that.

EXOFRAMES started off as just strong, lean extensions of the human body. Many rumors swarmed the machines, hypothesizing that they brainwashed humans and were made of various spines from lifeforms to tap into the human psyche. U.S. soldiers Bowman and his Company Commander were overseeing Angolan farmers using EXOFRAMES as they were in the middle of the Third Cabinda Conflict, with the soldiers being heavily armed with tanks and other forms of weaponry.

The soldiers bickered back to one another about the future of EXOFRAMES and even pointed out that despite conversing with life outside of earth, humanity is still neck deep in its own chaos. Locals of the region put up a resistance to the soldiers, using EXOFRAMES. They wiped out armed soldiers in an instant. That day, of 2015, carved its way that EXOFRAMES had a place in battle.

Bowman pointed out that battle was restored to an art long forgotten, face to face combat with your opponent. No more hiding in tanks or other machinery, but shooting, battering and gutting your opponent when toe-to-toe has returned on a mass scale, thanks to peddler technology.

Characters

 * Bowman
 * Company Commander