History Main / StrandedInvader

* TabletopGame/HeavyGear: After the CEF forces were driven off Terra Nova, many of their armies were left behind as they could not be evacuated. The now stranded Earthers then settled in and integrated with the Terra Novans. They then form the New Coalition, composed of former CEF personnel, and Terra Novan refugees.

** Certain Catachan (the original DeathWorld, covered entirely in HungryJungle) organisms are believed to be the remains of a Tyranid swarm that invaded the planet in the distant past, millennia before the known Hive Fleets reached the galaxy.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' takes place 20 years after a successful [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown alien invasion]] resulted in a VichyEarth scenario, and five years after [[VideoGame/XCOM2 humanity rose up to retake their planet.]] While the aliens' leader caste, the "Elders," have been killed or driven off, their various BattleThralls - the [[TheGreys Sectoids]], [[SnakePeople Vipers]], [[GeniusBruiser Mutons]], stranger aliens, as well as the HalfHumanHybrid soldiers created to supplement the alien occupation force - are all still around. The game takes place in City 31, where humans, hybrids and various aliens live in an uneasy peace, while the titular Chimera Squad is an experimental counter-terrorism unit drawn from multiple species. And while one of the criminal organizations the squad opposes, Sacred Coil, is a [[TheRemnant Remnant]] group trying to somehow restore the Elders' regime, most "exoterrestrials" just want to make new lives for themselves on Earth as best they can. [[spoiler:Another of the hostile factions, Gray Phoenix, consists of aliens who have concluded that it's impossible for them to live alongside humans, and they're desperately trying to hijack some spacecraft so they can leave the planet and find a new home.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just yesterday they were invading the Earth, and look at them now...]]

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'': Yet another Zeon remnant unit (armed with obsolete OYW machines) joins forces with the Sleeves. They famously attack Torrington Base (which coincidentally was mostly defended by similarly obsolete Federation MS). This is quite a bit more egregious, since this Zeon remnant has somehow been hiding out on Earth and keeping their war machines operation despite lack of any support for ''16 years''.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons:'' The githyanki, a race of psionic SpacePirates from the Astral Plane, once invaded the DeathWorld of Athas, home of the ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' setting. Unfortunately for them, something went wrong - depending on the telling, either their githzerai rivals hit the githyanki with a psionic superweapon that scourged their bodies and minds, or the githyanki's transport was wrecked by the Gray, a planar phenomenon that isolates Athas from the Outer Planes. At any rate, the githyanki became trapped on Athas and devolved into hunched and gaunt creatures simply known as gith, just another band of desert nomads with psychic powers. According to their 4th Edition lore, some Athasian gith still remember their origins and are trying to rebuild their transport so they can get the hell off the planet.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' takes place 20 years after a successful [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown alien invasion]] resulted in a VichyEarth scenario, and five years after [[VideoGame/XCOM2 humanity rose up to retake their planet.]] While the aliens' leader caste, the "Elders," have been killed or driven off, their various BattleThralls - the [[TheGreys Sectoids]], [[SnakePeople Vipers]], [[GeniusBruiser Mutons]], and more - as well as the HalfHumanHybrid soldiers created to supplement the alien occupation force, are all still around. The game takes place in City 31, a city where humans, hybrids and various aliens live in an uneasy peace, while the titular Chimera Squad is an experimental counter-terrorism unit drawn from multiple species. And while one of the criminal organizations the squad opposes, Sacred Coil, is a [[TheRemnant Remnant]] group trying to somehow restore the Elders' regime, most "exoterrestrials" just want to make new lives for themselves on Earth as best they can. [[spoiler:Another of the hostile factions, Gray Phoenix, consists of aliens who have concluded that it's impossible for them to live alongside humans, and they're desperately trying to hijack some spacecraft so they can leave the planet and find a new home.]]

** Certain Catachan (the original DeathWorld, covered entirely in HungryJungle) organisms are believed to be the remains of a Tyranid swarm that invaded the planet.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' takes place 20 years after a successful [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown alien invasion]] resulted in a VichyEarth scenario, and five years after [[VideoGame/XCOM2 humanity rose up to retake their planet.]] While the aliens' leader caste, the "Elders," have been killed or driven off, their various BattleThralls - the [[TheGreys Sectoids]], [[SnakePeople Vipers]], [[GeniusBruiser Mutons]], and more - as well as the HalfHumanHybrid soldiers created to supplement the alien occupation force, are all still around. The game takes place in City 31, a city where humans, hybrids and various aliens live in an uneasy peace, while the titular Chimera Squad is an experimental counter-terrorism unit drawn from multiple species. And while one of the criminal organizations the squad opposes, Sacred Coil, is a [[TheRemnant Remnant]] group trying to somehow restore the Elders' regime, most "exoterrestrials" just want to make new lives for themselves on Earth as best they can. [[spoiler:Another of the hostile factions, Gray Phoenix, consists of aliens who have concluded that it's impossible for them to live alongside humans, and is desperately trying to hijack some spacecraft so they can leave the planet and find a new home.]]

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': After the end of the war, some of the tens of thousands of Yeerks who are now prisoners of war are given the opportunity to become [[ShapeshifterModeLock nothlits]] in lieu of traveling all the way back to the Yeerk homeworld. The Taxxons on Earth also took this option, becoming anacondas to escape their HorrorHunger. The free Hork-Bajir are more akin to escaped slaves, but they also show no inclination to return to their home planet.