[ WP ] A reverse alien invasion . Humanity invades a alien planet from the point of view the aliens .

This is a story I came up with long ago while playing MOO 3 inspired by an actual event in the game, so it's really old, but I hope you like it. 
 
 The landing craft whistled out of the sky, pushed far beyond the terminal velocity while twiting and turning in such a way that even the inertial and gravity dampeners couldn ’ t account for amidst a cloud of Electronic countermeasures that were mimicing the craft to make the idea of tracking, much less actually hitting the actual craft minimal at best. Inside the red illuminated bay a detachment from the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe moved and swayed as much as their shock restraints would allow. A few emptied their stomachs into masks designed to catch such. Combat landings were never easy. 
 
 After what felt like an age the red light started flashing. On cue, the 150 people of the detachment tore the bags away from their face, the bags self sealed and immediately fell to the floor. Facemasks went down to protect the soldier and booted to provide soldiers better vision and battlefield accuity. 
 
 Suddenly the ship lurched up and hard to the right as it prepared to enter it ’ s drop pattern. Suddenly a series of small whumps vibrated through the ship as it deployed troop decoys to the ground and launched more decoys into the air along with drones to provide organic air reconaissance and communications. The light turned green and the bay doors at the rear of the craft swung open. The shock restraints clamps unleasehed and magnetic pulses began sending them out of the craft. The restraints began steering the knights down corksrewing near freefall before slowing their descent and dropping them on the ground. The drop ship and it ’ s crew moved off to a determined “ safe ” distance ready to provide air/artillery support and extraction as the situation required. 
 
 There was nothing special about the planet. According to the best estimated of the High Security Council, this planet was just another that the Silicoids had colonized and had to be taken before any chance existed of bringing them to the negotiating table. The planet circled a red star named RD-1135467 in the astronomical charts. The planet was considered to be Terran with breathable air, however the Silicoids did not care about such and the pollution on the planet from their mining activities was horrible. The only thing unique about their target, and why they were there, is that this camp had the Silicoid equivalent of guard towers, and was one of several such facilities on the planet that the Council decided had to be taken immediately and with minimal damage. 
 
 Gunther Fuchs, Knight-Commander of the detachment, looked in his visor, accessing the commanders function to check his troops health and position. 
 
 “ Albers, tighten up squad three and four, they are out of mutual fire support! ”, he called to his third knight lieutenant 
 
 “ Already on it, sir ”, which Fuchs already knew as the troops were moving at the same time he spoke. 
 
 “ Khuldan, Get ready for bounding overwatch ”, as he watched his first lietenant start moving his troops. 
 
 “ Gagne ”, the second lietenant ’ s platoon had been the last down, in some ways, they were the best trained knights in the detacment. Mistakes still happen with paiges, however. 
 
 “ Sir! ” 
 
 “ Keep your troops heads down. ” He had seen one moving a little too upright, a little too close to the firepower those towers might possess. 
 
 “ All troops, laser designate the towers ” 
 
 Almost instantly, Points lit up displaying each of the towers that were visible to a trooper were designated as precisely as technologically possible. Commander Fuchs sent a command to the recon drone, and a few more towers were indicated. He would have rather that the Drop ship handle this on the way in, but high command suspected something useful at the base and wanted to rapidly take it, and it might take to long if his troops were n't already on the ground. 
 
 Fuchs opened a channel to the Drop Ship, who had already received the updated targeting data, “ Oscar, if you would, please? ” 
 
 “ Fire Support inbound ” came the terse reply two seconds later. Six Seconds later the towers exploded near simultaneously in a show of rapidly and expertly planned fire support destroyed the outter defenses. 
 
 “ Takami, remind me to buy that guy a drink when we get back. ” Fuchs said to his Senior Sergeant. 
 
 The senior sergeant didn ’ t respond, as they were both suddenly busy watching their detachment execute the pre-planned assault. Second and third platoons moved rapidly into the compound from nearly opposite sides while first approached slower, providing cover for the other two. 
 
 There was some fire from the silicoids, much less than Fuchs would have guessed based on the outlay of the compound. His men rapidly ended that. 
 
 “ Uh, sir! ”, Gagne called over the radio. 
 
 “ Report! ” 
 
 “ Sir, I think you have to see this. ” 
 
 Fuchs dropped the tactical map overlay and pulled up the video feed from Cagne ’ s helmet. What he saw would haunt him until the day he died. Gaunt skeletal figures, bluish skinned humanoids. Little more than walking skeletons. The living ones were at the point of starvation and there were piles of the dead everywhere. They were running, shuffling really, clearly frightened by the humans in the armor suits that in some ways resembled the silicoids, themselves. For the first time since Fuchs had been a paige himself, he was struck silent on the battlefield. 
 
 Finally, he keyed in the command to reach his designated support lurking overhead, “ This is Knight Commander Fuchs. I need a full medical transport, ASAP! We need medical, food, and clothes. Transmitting camera data. ” Instead of Captain Kowalskis voice he heard the voice of the High Admiral of the Task Force. 
 
 “ Acknowledged, Fuchs ” Admiral Soto replied, “ Do what you can for now, there are thirteen other camps like that one so far. We will have to prioritize after we wrap up combat operations. ” 
 
 “ Takami, I ’ m going in to the base, maintain command and control, let me know if anything comes this way. ” 
 
 “ Yes, sir! ” 
 
 He walked in toward the camp from his command post position. He turned up his helmet and everything his eyes and ears could never tell him, his nose and tongue, did. The acrid burning smoke of the towers and the overwhelming stench of excrement, mixed with the stink of death that even covered up the foulness of the atmosphere. It was so strong that he dry heaved as he walked in. 
 
 He went to one of the tall skeletal female aliens, “ I am knight commander Gunther Fuchs of the order of the Golden Horseshoe from Terra. You are under our protection, now! ” 
 
 The alien replied in a language that his communicator did not know. “ Oh, great! ”, Fuchs thought. The protocol for first contact was forgotten because one had not occured in so long. He covered his chest with his right hand and said, “ Human. ” He pointed at one of his troops and repeated, “ Human! ” 
 
 The alien paused and something of a smile touched her face, she repeated the gesture, “ Elerian ” and pointed at another alien and repeated, “ Elerian. ” 

