2089. They came out of the sea.
They came out of the dark between the stars and fell into our oceans. We called them the Kraken. In one night they rose from the sea and took the coasts, the cities and the sky, and every dawn their master, XUL, speaks to what is left of us.
They never found the Underground: hangars cut into mountains and buried under cities all over the world. In the one inside Preikestolen stood a prototype, the FF-9 NORDLYS, and its pilot, Captain Jeanne Irina, callsign VALKYRIE. Operation Nordlys starts in Lysefjorden, where she learned to fly below the rim.