"In an instant, everything I cared about was gone." - Jack Archer remembering the Rain of Death The Rain of Death was an event in April 2011 when the Zentraedi Imperial Grand Fleet, consisting of nearly five million warships, appeared in orbit around the Earth. Commanded by Dolza, Supreme Commander of the Zentraedi, they are ordered to incinerate the planet's surface, which they do. 70% of the Earth is utterly destroyed according to the staff at Alaska Base. Dolza initially believes this to be total victory, until a massive energy pulse began to form on the Earth's surface. This was the Grand Cannon, a weapon of incredible destructive power that the the Zentraedi were unaware of, and it disintegrated a good deal of the armada that was hanging over the Northern Hemisphere. While the Zentrae