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There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« on: July 10, 2008, 11:25:35 AM »
Not just the one in Northern CA where the Animorphs fought.

When the book series was released in 1996, there were 5 billion people plus and counting.

It would have taken years or even decades for yeerks to conquer the human race either completely or enough of a percentage of humans to take over the world with relative ease.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2008, 11:28:52 AM »
I'd think it would've been smart to start infesting China and India. Both of them combined have about 1/5 of the world's population, and they probably would've been relatively easy for the Yeerks to infiltrate.

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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2008, 11:49:09 AM »
The books never really committed themselves either way. Their town was the first, but perhaps they were building up, how long would it take for the Sharing to go global.

I'm sure like most of of us I've wondered what it would be like if the invasion was in my hometown, which for me would lead to a sort of Animorphs UK. It may emerge one day as a fanfic.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2008, 12:03:12 PM »
As stated in Visser, the Yeerks decided to start with America because it was seen as the most powerful Earth nation. They could have kept going in secret until all or most of the US were Controllers before declaring open war on the rest of the world. Doesn't sound so stupid to me.

It's possible that there were Yeerk forces in other countries, but think about the vast amount of time and resources it would have taken to build an underground Yeerk Pool and an Earth-based Kandrona generator in secret. To do that in multiple in countries would take a long time and be mostly unnecessary since they had access to Kandrona rays on the Pool Ship. And if we assume that the only Earth based Pool was in California, then it wouldn't make sense to start infesting humans in other countries if they had no easy access to Kandrona rays.

EDIT: I like the idea of an Animorphs fic based in the UK though. Good luck with that.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2008, 12:28:41 PM »
America, even alien with superior alien technology, making open war on the world? No way. The Yeerks were kind of like the Russians in "Red Dawn." No nuclear attacks because they wanted it intact. Also, a war would easily escalet to nuclear proportions and Yeerks would lose billions of potential hosts.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2008, 12:35:38 PM »
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And if we assume that the only Earth based Pool was in California, then it wouldn't make sense to start infesting humans in other countries if they had no easy access to Kandrona rays.

Yeah, but why would the Animorphs always say, "Anyone can be a Controller."? I mean, not everyone lives in California.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2008, 01:21:10 PM »
Well we know they had worked on some other countries

At least one of the world leaders was already a controller-David Trilogy, and seeing how badly they wanted the CA governor who was running for president in book six, I doubt that the president was it.
America's power was  not referring strictly to military, but economic and influential powers. They must have had other pools, but it was centered in California
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2008, 02:08:35 PM »
russia is a good one.

namely it still heavy courrpt, power rests in the hand of the few, largely modernized, and a lot of resoruces for you to use.

and let's not meantion the nukes that you can through around..
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2008, 04:29:54 PM »
russia is a good one.

namely it still heavy courrpt, power rests in the hand of the few, largely modernized, and a lot of resoruces for you to use.

and let's not meantion the nukes that you can through around..

Russia wasn't that "corrupt" when Animorphs was written. Before Gorbachev? Definitely. Before Putin? Not so much. You could also argue the largely modernized part because the average Soviet/Russian doesn't have the same technology as the average Frenchman or American, but that's a bit nitpicky and I won't go into it.

But yeah, it would definitely be a Yeerk target. Large amount of territory, natural resources, large population, you name it.

All of these countries are extremely diverse, however. (India has like 25 national languages.) Do any of you think that would pose a problem?

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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2008, 04:55:58 PM »
I've always assumed that Yeerks had small pools in other countries. I mean, Controllers need to travel, too, right? Especially to keep their cover? It would only make sense for the Yeerks to arrange something in the capitol cities of major countries.

I thought it was pretty stupid of the Animorphs to assume that just because someone's been out of the country for more then three days would mean that they aren't controllers. Remember in the final arc, when they trusted that one guy who'd been to France for a week? What if he'd been an important Controller with access to portable Kandrona generators? Or, what if there was a small pool in Paris? They never got any evidence against it.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2008, 12:40:04 AM »
It'd be a smart thing for the Yeerks to put Yeerk Pools on each continent...


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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2008, 12:53:41 AM »
what would they need a pool in Antarctica for?

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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2008, 01:57:16 AM »
what would they need a pool in Antarctica for?

i meant the main ones.......obviousl y.

that is kind of obvious
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2008, 09:40:11 AM »
Well, I know this isn't exactly stated in the book, but it is very possible that the Chee gave Animorphs information in what exact countries the Yeerks exist as well.. and either France isn't a Yeerk hotspot or the Animorphs were too desperate in the final arc.
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Re: There must have been other Yeerk invasion spots
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2008, 12:42:10 PM »
What about France? O_o

Anyway, I think they began in the city where the Animorphs live, but continue around the world for many reasons (some you already said):
- Military aren't concentrated to their city or their state... and they were close to begin a WW3
- They need to travel as Humans for their cover, so they needa have Pools about everywhere, particulary in the big/important cities
- In David trilogy, some Presidents or Prime Ministers must be Controllers... what if they don't have any Yeerk Pool at home? Will they go to the USA every 3 days? lol
- In the last books, Andalites tell to Ax "How can they (the Animorphs) imagine to hurt Yeerks in destroying only ONE Yeerk Pool?!" or something like that: that means there is many Yeerk Pools all around Earth...
(- When they have the Pool Ship, they ask to other ships and I imagined easily there are other ships (not only Bug ships) from other Pools... don't you think?)

I think step by step, they took one city, another and another... China, Japan, Europa, Brasil, Mexico... may be Australia and other ones... The most important places for them.
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