Total Assault was brought into existence when in 2010, on November 29, the book, simply titled, 'A Total Assault' was released by American writer Ambrose Compton. The book was about a ship and her crew going to recover an alien weapon shipment from an alien ship of aliens known as the Zodiac. Supposedly, humanity has been at war with them for 15 years, and the war started in 2081, making the book take place in the year 2096. The ship is known as the Blood Well, and the story is about the crew encountering an alien creature up until this day, July 3, 2096, was considered only to be a myth.