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What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« on: December 13, 2017, 12:56:40 AM »
You're a high ranking Yeerk.  The Council of Thirteen has discovered a new planet: Earth.  Your task is to plan the invasion of Earth.  You have superior technological prowess and can overwhelm the inhabitants militarily, but in doing so will kill many of the population and render their planets' resources unusable.  You can take over in stealth, as Yeerks are wont to do, but it will take some time, and you may not want to commit too many high-ranking Yeerks to the planet for that long.  You can also try to appeal to the masses, by creating a cult or religion worshiping the Yeerks.  Whatever the case is, what is your plan?

I have 5 plans to submit.

Plan 1

Start by taking over North Korea.  Use military might to take Kim Jong Un and his top officers and advisors as Controllers.  Then, leave.  Appear as if the North Korean military has defeated you.  Use their Cult of Personality to take control of the masses.  Appear to the rest of the world like he is a little less trigger-happy, and that the civil rights in his country are improving.

Meanwhile, rely on the rest of the world to trust that you have defeated an alien invasion, which means one or both of the following:  1) the North Korean military is very powerful, and/or 2) the aliens are weak.  This makes the people of Earth think to fear North Korea, but not fear the aliens, so no strategies will be built against the aliens.  Meanwhile, as North Korea is getting more friendly, nations are willing to send envoys and ambassadors, even political leaders.

Well, the Yeerks that were "defeated" have stayed, either in cloaked ships in orbit or under the guise of holograms on Earth.  These Yeerks can quickly take over anyone that comes to North Korea.  Much like a plague in Plague Inc., where North Korea is solid red, and the rest of the world starts to be infested.  As governments are taken over by the Yeerks, it becomes easier to take over the population.

On the other hand, if the rest of the world does not trust North Korea, then use the country as a base to start a military campaign.  Use German WW2 tactics with Yeerk technology to quickly take over countries.  Start off with smaller countries, and ask for forgiveness after taking them over.  Once the rest of the world finally decides it's time to go to war, use cloaked Yeerk ships to take out military sites, especially nuclear launch sites and aircraft bases.  Spread like wildfire.  Like a zombie apocalypse, every human that is controlled not only takes one enemy away, but adds one more to your ranks.  Spread like a Zerg infestation, with Yeerk Pools taking the place of Creep Tumors or Creep Colonies, and Creep being easy access to a Yeerk Pool.  You might have some destroyed land, but most of Earth's resources should remain intact.

This counters the Animorphs in the original Yeerk plan because people would be a lot more likely to report strange things to the government.

Plan 2

This plan is similar to the first plan in that you spread from location to location, but it starts in a different place.  This time, we are not starting as the leader of a country.  This time, we are starting by taking over a small town, say a town of around 300 people.  Once again, we start with military might, and take the entire town at once.  This way, you don't have to worry TOO much about hiding schedules, behaviors, and infrastructure. 

Now that you have an entire town, you start enslaving families at a time.  People in your town have friends and family in other places.  When you go over for a house party, bring a jar of Yeerks with you.  (Leave them in the car).  Drug everyone where you are going, and then bring in the Yeerks.  Taking over families at a time instead of onesie-twosies is not only more efficient, but now that family can talk freely when they're at home.  No situations like the Chapmans and Melissa, where the parents have to act robotic and she worries about her parents.  Nope.  Just a whole family of Controllers.  Then that family goes to a house party, and the cycle continues.

Once a town has enough people, build a Yeerk Pool in secret there, so they don't have to commute to get their Kadrona rays, and the takeover can be more efficient.  Once you hit critical mass in a town, take over the rest of the town by force overnight, and move on to the next one.

Where the previous plan used Blitzkrieg tactics or a top-down approach, this plan uses more subterfuge.  You wouldn't even need to worry about world leaders.  Once you have a critical mass of people, the world should be easy to conquer with few casualties.

This counters the original Animorphs in that if an Andalite crashed, there would likely be no Controllers living near the crash site, and thus no reason for the Animorphs to fight, or the entire town would be Controllers, and there would be nobody to turn into Animorphs.

Plan 3

Don't keep controllers on Earth.  Simply do alien abductions to take people off the planet in droves.  Start off with a conservative amount, say 100 people a night for a few weeks.  As you get more Controllers, you can build more infrastructure and use more resources on the alien abductions.  You should have an exponential boom in how many humans can be taken each night.

Start with 100 a day for a few weeks, and then jump to 250 a day, and jump again to 400 a day.  In a matter of 2 months, you should have a force of around 13,000 people.  Remember, we're building infrastructure at this point.  After 400 comes 500, and then 750, 1000, 1250, and 1650.  After 6 months, there should be around 125,000 controllers. 

By this point, you should have enough personnel to separate into separate divisions.  You have those in charge of building more infrastructure to house additional controllers, and those in charge of continuing the alien abductions to bring more and more humans in droves.  Earth will know something is up at this point, but be powerless to stop the Yeerks.  They wouldn't be able to track cloaked ships, nor would they be prepared to fight back.

As the amount of human Controllers grows, the system runs more efficient, and more people can be taken control of every night.  Now you see exponential growth, a quick jump up to 10,000 a night for a week, and then jumping over and over again in a scale of 1-2.5-5-10 repeat (i.e. 25k, 50k, 100k, 250k, etc).  Every week, you control more and more people.  Within another 2.5 months, you have over 300 million Controllers and are taking another 50 million every night.  Most are Chinese and Indian, but a lot are Russian and American as well. 

Once again you hit critical mass.  But this time, instead of critical mass to separate into infrastructure and abduction divisions, you move back to Earth and take over countries at a time.  Every country on Earth may have lost 5-10% of its population to the Yeerks, but now its time to take over the entire country at once.  Start with the smaller countries.  With hundreds of millions of controllers, it should be easy to take over a country or even several countries at once.  You have thousands of leaders planning invasions.  Dozens work on each country, so that while one invasion is happening, the next several are already being planned.

This counters the original Animorphs by not basing the Yeerks on Earth, and hitting random locations around the globe, so the Animorphs don't know where to go in order to fight.

Plan 4

Large-scale sleeping gas attacks.  Like Plan 2, hit whole towns at a time, but this time do so one after the other.

Counters the original Animorphs the same way Plan 2 does.

Plan 5

Find a forum dedicated to Animorphs discussion and make a thread asking for invasion strategies.

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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2017, 03:44:41 PM »

Plan 5

Find a forum dedicated to Animorphs discussion and make a thread asking for invasion strategies.

Nice

I never understood the covert thing on Earth. They could have put on a display, burnt down all off Europe or something, and still have more than enough people left to be hosts, people that now saw an overwhelming threat. I honestly think they could a sizable amount from just submission after a display like that.

I honestly makes me wonder how many people could be brought on board just by saying "We are intergalactic beings, join of if you will".
Plenty of people will ignore it, but no one's going to stop a stranger from joining the aliens on their own (in a lot of the world at least), and then, if you're so inclined you have the making of a solid invasion force.

So I don't know if it's what I'd do, but I'd certainly like to try:
Open broadcast, the aliens are here, if you want to join us, here's how; we'll going on a six week tour for human-alien symbionants volunteers at these locations worldwide, taking all comers.

Get 1 percent of the population and you have 70,000,000 hosts. I could see that working.
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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2018, 03:36:25 PM »
Phase 1:

Locate isolated pockets of humanity and ship them enmasse to the Pool Ship. Infest them for breeding purposes and begin raising the new generations in captivity. If it becomes necessary to cut our losses, we now have a fair percentage of the population to cultivate on another planet for the purposes of the Empire.

Phase 2:

Offer technology to key leaders of the world in exchange for their population of prisoners, death row felons, mentally ill and transients. These humans will be sorted and invariably experimented on to determine how best to deploy the human species in battle with the Andalites and other important operations.

Phase 3:

Appeal to humanity's lowest common denominator by offering them quick fixes to financial problems. These humans will go to the foot soldiers and grunt workers of the Yeerk Empire.

Phase 4: Offer the significantly intelligent humans a chance to work with advanced technology and explore new environments, meet new species. These recruits will go to Sub-Vissers and those promising yeerks with ambitions of leadership.

Phase 5: When a significant portion of the population has been infested through divisiveness and cunning, make plans to continue using the Earth as a breeding ground for the galaxy's only Class 5 species.
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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2018, 04:01:47 PM »
With all respect, but Yeerk need not just host bodies. They are at war, after all; the war in space, against technically & industrially superior Andalite civilization. The war, that wasn't going particulary well for Yeerks.

To fight the space war, they need industry, capable of building spacecrafts, weapon systems & other equipment. Without such, they could have literally trillions of host bodies - stranded on the planets, they are basically no concern for Andalites. So the main goal is not just to control Earth humans, but to control and use Earth industry.

That's why such solutions -

Phase 1:
Appeal to humanity's lowest common denominator by offering them quick fixes to financial problems. These humans will go to the foot soldiers and grunt workers of the Yeerk Empire.


I never understood the covert thing on Earth. They could have put on a display, burnt down all off Europe or something, and still have more than enough people left to be hosts, people that now saw an overwhelming threat. I honestly think they could a sizable amount from just submission after a display like that.


Simply unworkable for them. They could not "put on display" - this would basically provoke the all-out war with humans, and humans are nuclear-capable species. Which means, that the probable outcome would be nearly devastated planet with no industry to speak about. And the "hiring" scenario also did not solve their problem - Yeerks needed not just humans, but industrial output of Earth. Which is, obviously, not for sale.

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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2018, 06:51:04 PM »
How do you figure it wouldn't work?

The whole point of The Sharing is that it proves that a segment of humanity could be easily convinced to being infested. Do you know how Hitler came to power? It wasn't by military force but by promising a bunch of quick and easy fixes that he delivered on.

The Sharing appealed to one small segment of easily convincible humans. Now if they had expanded their operation into other areas of the most vulnerable sections of humanity, they would have gotten even more hosts and eventually they would have moved well beyond their pithy little California pool. They might well have taken over the entirety of North America just by promising to eliminate the financial debts of their hosts.

They need industry, you say? Well why do you think they were trying to get influential hosts like a governer bound for the presidency?

Why only try that once? Why didn't they make numberous attempts to get a human host inside the White House?
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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2018, 11:56:27 AM »
How do you figure it wouldn't work?

The whole point of The Sharing is that it proves that a segment of humanity could be easily convinced to being infested.

And exactly how many humans this could provide? Moreover, if they "came clear", it would be pretty hard for them to hide their war with Andalites; and humanity hardly would like to be involved into the interstellar conflict, especially on the losing side.

Human governments may agree to allow Yeerks to obtian volunteers in exchange for technology; but under no circumstances the human governments would allow Earth industry to produce military hardware for Yeerks. Because it would mean involvement into the war - which is NOT the humankind war! - on the scale, that other side (Andalites) may easily consider as "siding with enemy".

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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2018, 01:47:35 PM »
The Andalites made one pithy attempt to thwart the Yeerks. They sent one ship that got roundly pummeled.

If Elfangor never made it to Earth and the Animorphs never got their powers, Megamorphs 3 painted a pretty accurate picture of how quickly the war would be over. And that was by force. The Andalites took their sweet time sending another fleet of ships to Earth and that was only after the battle of Leera. It's fair to say that Leera was only the second biggest defeat that turned the tide of the war against the Yeerks and it wouldn't have happened without the Animorphs.

Yeerks take Leera. Yeerks take Earth. Yeerks win, how many humans are living with a crushing debt they can't overcome and how many more humans are currently living in impoverished conditions.

As to your question: How many people are currently living in impoverished conditions? How many people are finding it difficult to stay fed and pay all of their bills?

Theres a reason why the wealthy are called the 1%. 99% of humanity would be surprisingly easy to infest. And who says the Yeerks have to be completely upfront with humanity about the Andalites? Again, I draw parallels to the Nazis, who used lies and deceit to convince the majority of their followers to go with whatever demented plan they had for defeating the Allies and attempting to win WW2. The main difference beween the Yeerks and the Nazis is that WW2 was about different factions of fighting each other for various reasons. The Yeerks have one all consuming goal and they don't give a steaming pile of Dapsen what they have to do to get control of an unlimited supply of hosts.

Visser Three preferred an all out attack but he was doing the bare minimum of following orders in keeping up the passive invasion. However, if he had actually seriously considered Visser Ones plan of the passive invasion, he could have had the entire planet under control.
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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2018, 02:06:28 PM »
The Andalites made one pithy attempt to thwart the Yeerks. They sent one ship that got roundly pummeled.


It was stated that the only reason why they were defeated over Earth was because Elfangor rather stupidly send his mothership into the Earth gravity well thus allowing it to be ambushed. Otherwise the situation would not be so great for Yeerks; the
Dome Ship was, simply speaking, more massive & powerfull.

So it was not some superior strategy, it was rather desperate plan on Visser Three side, which, amazingly, worked. His whole strategy was "let's hope that Andalites would not think that somebody could be so idiotic to try and hide behind the Moon, considering that just one fighter/probe send to the other orbital point would reveal everything".

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Yeerks take Leera.

And then Andalites came and wreck the planet from orbit. They already have warships nearby; they could destroy the planet basically any time.

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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2018, 03:50:38 PM »
It didn't seem like the Yeerks were losing, to me.  If anything, the majority of what we heard were successes with Hork-Bajir and Taxxons, and the Andalites were spread thin trying to contain them.  The fact the Andalites weren't on Earth and didn't know much about it proves that as far as the Earth campaign goes, the Andalites were not a primary concern (until Elfangor came and the Andalite Bandits started their guerrilla war).

As far as industry - what good is human industry for creating Z-Space ships with energy weapons?  However, a large amount of hosts could build a Yeerk industry on Earth capable of producing such ships.

That's what I'm talking about:  getting the bodies that can do the grunt work, that can build the industry to cement Earth as a prime Yeerk posting.

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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2018, 06:40:28 PM »
The Andalites made one pithy attempt to thwart the Yeerks. They sent one ship that got roundly pummeled.


It was stated that the only reason why they were defeated over Earth was because Elfangor rather stupidly send his mothership into the Earth gravity well thus allowing it to be ambushed. Otherwise the situation would not be so great for Yeerks; the
Dome Ship was, simply speaking, more massive & powerfull.


Elfangor wasn't the captain of the Galaxy Tree. And the Yeerks were in full force on Earth with a mother ship and a blade ship, not to mention a compliment of bug fighters.

The Andalites are arrogant by nature and overestimated their abilities, not to mention they had little knowledge of the nature of the Yeerk presence on Earth, as evidenced by Ax's transmission in The Alien. (BTW, it's not a hard rule but it's suggested that if you're going to say something was "stated" you need to provide a reasonable amount of detail about where it was stated. IE: Book number, title, page etc.) But if the Galaxy Tree was as powerful as you say it is, it shouldn't have been overpowered by the Blade Ship.

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So it was not some superior strategy, it was rather desperate plan on Visser Three side, which, amazingly, worked

You're just speculating. We never see Visser Three's point of view during the counter strike. But Visser Three did have Alloran's body and unlike the Andalites, the Yeerks had plenty of knowledge on how the Andalites operate. We even see Ax using that same strategy in the last half of The Beginning; sending two fighters around the curve of the planet to make the potential enemy lower their guard.

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. His whole strategy was "let's hope that Andalites would not think that somebody could be so idiotic to try and hide behind the Moon, considering that just one fighter/probe send to the other orbital point would reveal everything".

Visser Three didn't have to hope anything. He had advanced knowledge of Andalite battle tactics. He was aware of their arrogance and he knew how to use it to his advantage. 

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And then Andalites came and wreck the planet from orbit. They already have warships nearby; they could destroy the planet basically any time.
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They're spread thin and the Yeerks were already shipping Leeran hosts off planet. One was with Visser One in Book 15. It nearly blew Marco's cover.
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Re: What would your plan for the Yeerk invasion be?
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2018, 04:19:19 PM »
Not to pile on, but
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Simply unworkable for them. They could not "put on display" - this would basically provoke the all-out war with humans, and humans are nuclear-capable species. Which means, that the probable outcome would be nearly devastated planet with no industry to speak about.
I don't think this is true.
Humans can nuke the planet, Yeerks can light the atmosphere on fire; nukes aren't the end all of weapons in Ani-verses.
More to the point. Humans have nukes, but Yeerks have interplanetary space vehicles, that can go undetected by human tech on planet. We don't have a means to stop, or retaliate from, an attack that occurs from off planet. We couldn't start a war, we could only engage in one that the Yeerks saw fit to, by coming to the planet. Worst case scenario the lose what they put on the ground, but unless humanity really does go kamikize, Yeerks could easily start picking off targets until we submit or die out.
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