What exactly is the lore to darius series?

[Unseen]

I mean I been playing this game since saturn and other than vague different endings in gaiden I have no idea what this games storyline is about. What the aliens motives are, or why they seem to have a strong interest in making all their ships look like marine animals. Is anyone more well learned on the lore and what the aliens motives are cause I don't know anything besides, battles happened.

[Powersword]

G Darius and Darius Gaiden both give you a background in the intros. But to be honest its just an unknown enemy that pretty much always wipes all but a few of the defenders (player).

[AkumaOuja]

Originally posted by Unseen:

I mean I been playing this game since saturn and other than vague different endings in gaiden I have no idea what this games storyline is about. What the aliens motives are, or why they seem to have a strong interest in making all their ships look like marine animals. Is anyone more well learned on the lore and what the aliens motives are cause I don't know anything besides, battles happened.

Well the simple version is:

Humanity lived on a planet named Amnelia, and during a war with a former colony of the moon of Blazar, worked with its allies on another of its moons to create a weapon known as the All-Nothing, a planet busting energy of some kind. Accidentally destroying Blazar entirely, the Amnerians sealed the All-Nothing away in horror.

This attracted the attention of a machine race who decided to cull humanity for being so destructive, and many centuries later they invaded and came to be called the Thiima, the Messengers of Death. The All-Nothing was unleashed once more to power the first Silver Hawk fighter, and the Thiima were defeated. The Thiima used aquatic life based ships, presumably, because of their mandate about preserving the universes life and it was symbolic of that, but that's a guess. Amnelia was devastated however and many left for a distant new world, the planet Darius, and from there would spread across to countless other worlds such as Earth, Olga, and Vadis. A race known as the Belsar [technically a distant, possibly insectoid, human offshoot if you did deep into the lore and shared universe of Taito's other connected games] however would recover the Thiima command ship, the G.T., and reverse engineer it, ensuring that the ship, now known as the Great Thing, would face the Silver Hawk again.

Ever since, the Belsar have waged war on and off against countless human civilizations, from Earth to of course Darius itself on a galactic scale, with the planet Darius even needing to be recolonized at one point, and the Belsar armadas seemingly never being entirely defeated despite the efforts of countless pilots, most famous of all those who fly incarnations of the legendary Silver Hawk fighters, over thousands of years. Chronicles Saviors however represents for the first time a period where the people of Darius and other worlds don't merely fight the enemy off, but rather launch a galaxy wide counter offensive, deploying an elite squadron called the "Planet Saviours" to rampage through the Belsar armadas, liberate each and every conquered sector, and reach their home world, revealed to now be the long abandoned and later conquered Amnelia, and bring an end to them once and for all using a mixed force of both the newest and most advanced Burst series Silver Hawks, and past Silver Hawks that served in prior wars over the last several thousand years, including a reconstructed [though slightly altered] Amnerian Silver Hawk, bringing things full circle.

[Unseen]

Thanks man that was a lot easier to understand than reading the actual game lore from dozens of games.