dracon beams

[wolfev]

But they do use Dracon beams. Marco and Eva attach one to a cottage in the Valley of the Hork Bajir near the end. Well, actually its a Dracon Cannon, but still it counts.

[Darth Revan]

But they don't use them often. That's the issue in the off topic point.

[Fwahm]

They use them when they're in a morph that can use them, and there are extras laying around like in #49.

They don't actively go looking for or collecting Dracon Beams, but that's a minor issue, imho.

[voodooqueen126]

Yeerk scientist, Human scientist host? I don't understand why hosts cried and  yelled all the time, I mean an intellligent person should start trying to find out about yeerk technology and intelligence as soon they stopped "OMG alienz haz taken over my body" panic and actually started to observe learn and develop a stiff upper lip, but then i guess the yeerks sort of recruited people who were pathetic to begin with (ie the sort of person who joins cults in real life)... How alien are the resources? could an innovative imaginative person learn to substitute? etc. When people are under pressure they think better.

[morfowt]

really? I thought people think better when they were calm and relaxed, not panicking...

[Darth Revan]

Good lord, you're not seeing the operative word here are you?

RESOURCES. Not resources of the mind, but physical resources. The raw materials are made from alien planets. Using minerals not available here. We don't know how to create the parts that creates the beam.

And again, the power source. that sort of power in a handheld device? It's way beyond us. We can barely control the atom, the Andalites have moved beyond the nuclear power for centuries. We don't have the capabilities.

[adeon222]

It's not gettin through, Parker... 

[Darth Revan]

Apparently.

[adeon222]

Speakin' a yodellin...

Anyone like my Dracon beam song???

[Darth Revan]

Without a tone, I can't really get a feel for it.

[adeon222]

Oh...    That's sad... :'(

I kinda made up my own in my head, so, yeah... can't really type that out...

But you could try singing it to the Spiderman theme song... And after every verse, just insert "Oh no! Here come the Dracon Beams!!!"

And, this totally belongs in another thread... Perhaps... This one?

[voodooqueen126]

Well if the resources (metals power sources)  are from another planet would the technology have ever been possible? seriously would the poor little humans be stuck forever on earth because boo hoo we don't have any unobtanium as unobtanium/ramonite is only only on the yeerk/taxxon/whatever home world?
The answer is no: an innovative mind can adapt to the physical circumstances and find local equivalents: it is like you're cooking a recipe from another country and it asks for an obscure ingredient that isn't available in yours: so you do a little research and substitute with something local, it wouldn't be the same, but it would be innovative and original and originality and innovation are what distinguishes humans from Yeerk parasites. and sure you or I might not be able to so but you're acting like all humans are equal: we're not, we have equal rights but some of us are smarter then others and such geniuses might well (especially after the controller experience) be able to copy yeerk technology. and whilst nuclear power might not power a dome ship, i am certain it could power a dracon beam, perhaps a battery (as in a resource that doesn't sterilise the user) could as well...

[Darth Revan]

Okay, this is turning into an athiest and a priest debating about God.

I'm done, I'm out.

[Tim Bruening]

The Afghan villager does not want to rely on future Russian/Yeerk invasions, and therefore creates his own kalashnikov/dracon beam by dissassembling the original, figuring out how it was made and then making more for himself and others to use in conflicts.
Buy a man a fish or teach him to go fishing? Who wants to be relient on the chance of finding a create full of kalashnikovs/dracon beams when you could learn to make your own (which you would then be able to modify to your own requirements as well).
Implicit in this idea is having access to the original weapon, studying it, dissassembling it and making more yourself. or to rephrase in more obvious terms
1. find or capture one original kalashnikov/dracon beam
2. take back to workshop, study, practise with, dissassemble.
3. re assemble etc until you understand how it works.
4. make your own
5. make even more
6. modify to  suit your own circumstances.
7. produce even more of the modified version.
8. widespread de-centralised distribution of dracon beams leads to even more deaths/choas in Africa,Middle East etc.
Notably the yeerks themselves basically did this with the Andalite shredder and ongachic weaponry thus creating the dracon beam.

Now we would have ISIS cutting off people's heads with Dracon beams, and Hamas vaporizing Israel troops and carving out terror tunnels with Dracon beams!

However, I defy a simple Afghan villager to reverse engineer an alien energy weapon!