The visitors

The visitors is the name given to a highly advanced alien race that visits the earth in a vast ship. They have never landed on the planet, or been seen in their physical form, but they have sent drones and other devices to the surface. As of right now humanity has no idea what the visitors want, but they seem to be content to be in orbit watching from above.

While their presence throws the earth into chaos for a short while it quickly become apparent the visitors are trying to communicate. Though advanced the visitors are so different and so alien that they seem to lack an understanding of how humanity uses language. Governments around the world launch massive campaigns to both detect their means of communication and then decipher it. A breakthrough comes when the visitors finally discover how our satellites work and begin to broadcast garbled messages via the internet. Despite having actual text to read the messages make no sense and are still being worked on to this day.

After a year of being in orbit the first true signs of activity begin as the visitors drop a series of pods to the surface of the planet, scattering them around the world. These pods are the nexus, gateways into a world they have created and that the people call New Eden. It is discovered via special terminals on these pods that New Eden is based on our fantasy games and the visitors have borrowed elements of every game they saw humanity playing over the internet.

The visitors then broadcast the first true message that humanity can understand, inviting them to enter New Eden so they can learn.

Since then the visitors have remained silently in orbit. Further efforts at communication have resulted in nothing but leaders believe New Eden is a means to establish a better form of communication. The world went on with its life, slowly growing comfortable with the alien presence above that seems content to run this fantasy world.

Hostile acts:

The only act of hostility the visitors seem to have visited on the earth are the chosen. These are rare humans who are abducted by drones dropped by the visitor ships. They use advanced stealth to kidnap certain individuals and force them to enter New Eden. Nobody knows why, or what purpose these chosen play, but the victims of these abductions are given preferential treatment inside the world.