Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: NateSean on June 21, 2011, 02:48:22 PM
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Okay. You're a Visser. Any of the 47 Vissers. It doesn't matter which, but what does matter is that you are unique and you have a different idea of how things should be handled. Lets pretend that Visser One assigned you to the invasion of Earth. She has left it in your capable hands because unlike Visser Three, you might actually get it done in a timely fashion.
Start from scratch. Take Visser Three and posse completely out of the equation. You have a pool ship, a compliment of bug fighters and your own personal ship.
Throwing my own two cents in first:
I would begin by requesting as much information on all of the sparsely populated areas of the Earth. Yes, Visser One specified that America is to be my main area of concentration, as it is powerful and has a healthier population. I see that China is in fact larger, but their strict government makes it rather difficult to lay roots there.
Still, parts of Africa may be suitable for building new pools. Also parts of the planet where slavery and human trafficking are legal would be ideal for acquiring new hosts. Interesting...in parts of the world humans may "order" their mates. This can also be useful in host acquisition.
The Sharing definitely needs multiple locations. Portable Kandrona generators in New York, London, St. Petersberg, Sydney and South America will be strategically placed along with a few trusted sub vissers. Their jobs will be to obtain construction materials in the quickest way possible and to study the various subcultures to see if there are more efficient ways to obtain hosts.
Baptisms may ensure a fifty percent increase in hosts from North America.
Furthermore, I propose building a base on the dark side of Earth's Moon and an additional base on the planet called Mars. We can build these things with minimal attraction from the Andalites as their fleet will be focused primarily on the Leeran homeworld. They will also allow us to mine for vital resources and raw materials that will keep us from attracting too much attention on Earth as we slowly consolidate control the planet.
With these materials we will build a new wing of our fleet and restock our weapons without having to deplete the Empires warehouses. According to many Earth documentaries, there are tribes of primitive human beings living in remote areas. They can be overtaken easily and infested swiftly.
The human endeavor known as the International Space Station and the Hubble telescope can be covertly modified to our benefit. The Hubble, in addition to every other artificial satellite orbiting the Earth will be modified into space based Kandronas and weapons platforms. The Space Station will be used as a base to coordinate these satellites and will keep the focus of Earth governments on one another while we continue to increase our numbers along with our control of the masses.
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I think the Earth should be slowly controlled, but just a small area. After that, use the hosts to take others by forse and threat.
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First priority is continuing the sharing. It supplies a steady stream of mostly willing hosts
When Elfangor lands, since I have no personal beef with him, and no reason to kill him outright, I take him as my host body. His memories allow me to fairly quickly find and take the "Andalite Bandits." Two will go to my most loyal lieutenants, Marco is given to Visser 1, and the other 2 are sent to the council of 13 to bribe my way up the ranks.
Loyal lieutenant #1 is sent to Africa with food and technology to "give" to the locals. Infestation will go quickly, and while the tactical advantage is not very big, it is yet another good stream of hosts.
Word of Africa's rapid advancement will reach the news outlets, where it is tied to my shell corporation. I suddenly have support from other world governments for my "good will missions" to spread out into other continents, focusing on the poorer ones. India gets the most focus due to it's large population, but I make sure not to ignore the others. Without the Animorphs foiling my plans, I have no opposition to any of my plans, and my humanitarian standing gives me access to America's leaders, who get infested. The Andalites are likely still not paying attention to my operation. I can start shipping bodies to the homeworld and supply all of them with a body.
Hosts that won't be missed are shipped off world to do some menial labor, build ships and weapons now that we have the bodies to use them.
Launch a small overt invasion of a planet near the Andalite homeworld, while simultaneously shipping large numbers of Yeerks to Earth.
Start overt invasion of Earth, I have control of a large percentage of the population, and should meet with little problem resistance.
Set up breeding farms ala one of the bad futures shown in the series.
Send many troops to Leera to insure success of that invasion. Again, there are no Animorphs to get in the way and it likely goes smoothly. Likely pick up a few more Andalite hosts.
Tell the council of 13 of my incredibly clever plan of sending the newly captures Andalites in a few ships in an "assualt" on Kelbrid space.
Watch in glee as most of the Andalite fleet is destroyed by the retaliation strike.
(How many promotions have I earned?)
With the Andalites greatly weakened, launch an all out assault on them. Our human army is enough to overwhelm them with sheer numbers.
Retire in luxury on Risa, or its Animorphs equivalent.
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it kind of scares me how much thought went into that
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Infest Oprah.
Game over.
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There were so many opportunities for things the Yeerks could take over and turn into host farms that I have to wonder if they were laboring under serious logistical limitations. Churches, hospitals, dressing rooms at clothing stores, airplanes, schools... anywhere they could isolate people was a place they could bring a tub of slugs. (I know they tried the one hospital, but why didn't they keep trying? It was a good idea and the Andalite bandits can't be everywhere at once.)
One idea I had for a totally different strategy (in a crossover fanfic that I will probably never write) was to blow up some big, famous, symbolically important human city from orbit and then present the world with fabricated evidence that the atrocity was the doing of ruthless, genocidal Andalites who scour the galaxy exterminating anyone remotely associated with the kind and gentle symbiotic Yeerk race which has been peacefully observing humanity for some time now. (In the fanfic that I will never write this is part of Visser One's strategy after she retrieves her children, freeing her to be as brutal as she needs to be.)
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it kind of scares me how much thought went into that
after i realized that infesting elfangor meant also getting to infest the animorphs, it kinda wrote itself.
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if i had the job i would use shinning and other front organizations to find people that will not be missed and ship them off world to form new breeding population. (who wants to fight six billion crazy monkeys?) if i got outed to soon then hit every woman's prisons i could before humans could muster the force to hurt me then high tail it to space broadcasting "Andalite empire thanks you for the fertilizer!"
sit back grow the numbers and hope all the strange behaviors yeerks with human hosts start developing are nothing to worry about.
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Why only womens prison?
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Why only womens prison?
because 1 man and 100 women makes for better breeding stock than 100 men and 1 woman
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but still why not both?
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There were so many opportunities for things the Yeerks could take over and turn into host farms that I have to wonder if they were laboring under serious logistical limitations.
Yes. All throughout the series there are hints that the yeerks are under severe resource shortages. And they should be. They are in the middle of a long war, and it's safe to assume that Earth is a good distance away from yeerk controlled space. They probably can't ship supplies to Earth. That's the biggest flaw in all of these plans. They assume that the yeerks have the resources to support those operations.
The resources available are a pool ship, a blade ship (I'm assuming), and a "compliment" of bug fighters, which I would guess to be in the neighborhood of two dozen. It's safe to assume the sharing is running, since that was V1's project. The Earth-based kadrona is in the animorphs' home town (it would already have to be in place), and we know that no new kandronas will be available for a significant time, since more would be a high priority, yet it wasn't until around book 9 that another was brought in. There may be others on the planet that can't be moved for some reason or another, but in all likelihood, there aren't any other major yeerk operations. We know there are other operations around the world, since a world leader was infested by book 20, but it's likely that they were all small. From what I remember in the books, there are more yeerks on Earth than are hosts, but the yeerks only number in the tens of thousands at best.
The first priority is preparing a defense against the andalite fleet, since it looks like we took over instead of V3.
Second priority is to consolidate our position in the animorphs' home town. The yeerk pool is still under construction.
Third is to establish a financial base on Earth. This will involve taking wealthy hosts and taking control of large companies.
Fourth is to increase host production. Hopefully, at this point the new kandrona will be arriving. I would place it near the US/Mexican border and near California. I would also work to take control of INS to the point where we could grant citizenship to those we choose. A lot of people move across the border under the radar. With sensors on ships it would be easy to spot them and take them. No one would notice and we would push them through to be citizens and add them to our work force. If we could not gain enough control over INS, we could still use them although not to as great an extent. This would be in conjunction with other operations in whatever city we placed the second kandrona in or near. Smaller scale operations would include taking over homeless shelters, mass grabs of any group that goes away from populated areas (such as boyscout troops), basically focusing on any group that would not be missed, or could be easily taken as a whole. The is also the yeerk pool entrance in the highschool. Taking parents during an open house or similar event would be useful. We would take over clinics rather than hospitals, since they see higher through traffic and would be easier to gain control of than a hospital. As we developed we would work up to larger things, such as snatching ship crews and sinking the ship to cover our tracks. Cruise ships make the most inviting targets, and sinking the ship means that there is a built-in cover for the mass disappearance.
Fifth priority is to gain complete or almost complete control of a city. Gaining control of the entire city will make operations in the city much easier, and branching out to other areas on a large scale would still be difficult due to the lack of Earth-based kandronas (which is why using airports as areas to grab hosts is counterproductive at this point). This would also make it easier to ship hosts off world, since it’d be easier to conceal the disappearances. The biggest hindrance to this is the sheer number of yeerks that would be needed to take control of all of those hosts. The second biggest is facilities to handle feedings. By this time though, the yeerk pool should have been developed enough to handle this expansion.
Sixth priority is taking control of high-ranking government officials. It wouldn’t be too difficult provided that you have control of most of the city, or at least key areas. Invitations, political rallies, meetings, and even engineered disasters could lure government officials to the city. Their positions would justify spending the resources necessary to supply them with portable kandronas. Once government officials have been taken, federal funds could be diverted to support yeerk operations.
At this point, everything is dependent on how many yeerks are available to infest people. I don’t know how quickly yeerks could be bred or if more could easily be brought in from off world. If there are enough yeerks to continue grabbing people covertly, we would continue doing so. If there weren’t, we would begin to posture the world for an overt invasion. Various wars would be started to concentrate Earth’s militaries. Disrupting world communication is key. Destruction or capture of the world’s satellite network and severing of sealines would be the first step once the world has been set for an invasion. This would create the most confusion and prevent any organized response. Setting off space-based EMPs would likely be the way to do this, but it would have to be weighed against the destruction of all electronic infrastructure on Earth. If communications could be effectively cut off by another means, it would be done. The next step is the destruction of the world’s armed forces. In this case, it is too difficult to infest them. Since they are concentrated in areas, it would make it easier to destroy the majority of them. Stragglers aren’t a concern. This is more to break the world’s moral than anything. The military could not effectively counter ships in orbit.
We would then isolate and attack population centers. Ships and ground troops would be used in shock and awe campaigns to overwhelm people and break their spirit. They would then be offered the opportunity to surrender. Some would, some wouldn’t. Those that don’t would be destroyed. We would stick to this strategy to allow us to concentrate our forces and eliminate population centers as quickly as possible. Those that surrender would be rounded up and put in camps. They would be used as slave labor to produce food, water, and any supplies required to sustain the population until they could be infested or moved off world.
Start to finish, it would likely take 5-10 years to complete. It would be 1-3 before we were too dug in for the andalites to liberate without “sterilizing” the planet.
Priorities 1-3 could be worked on concurrently. 4 would have to wait until 2 and 3 are complete or nearly complete. 5 is a direct result of 4. 6 can be worked on before 5 is complete, but not much before. All 6 have to be complete before an overt invasion could be effective. Beginning an overt invasion before that would draw out the invasion and make it difficult to get enough hosts to justify the resources expended.
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Donut, if the Yeerks did exist, I would really hope the Yeerks wouldn't infest you.
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impressive plan but i think you are not taking into account that the yeerks were already loosing operational security before they got even one city under control the more yeerks on the ground the more chance for them to be outed to the rest of the world.
focusing on the US/Mexico is perfect placement the area is already in a bit of chaos from weak law enforcement so as illegals start disappearing many people will happily turn a blind eye to it.
and i would go for female prisons because they are ten times the value of men and i do not know how much time i would have before humans got set to counter attack. so got to max out of valuable hosts.
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yeerls can breed pretty fast if your lucky. Three genders come together and can produce numbers from 2 to 2000. But they die in the process so if your unlucky its counterproductive
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Yeerks don't have gender.
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Yes they do
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Hmmmm....interestin g thread. Alright I'll try my luck and begin making my invasion plan.
I must know the amount of resources I have though. I doubt they had an unlimited amount of yeerks.
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Yes they do
No they don't. It's been stated plenty of times in the series. They base their gender on their hosts, but Yeerks themselves don't have genders.
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Yes they do
No they don't. It's been stated plenty of times in the series. They base their gender on their hosts, but Yeerks themselves don't have genders.
Book 19, Aftran explains the Yeerk reproductive process, including mentioning that they have 5 genders. None of them really correlate to male or female though, so those pronouns typically come from the bost.
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see
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impressive plan but i think you are not taking into account that the yeerks were already loosing operational security before they got even one city under control the more yeerks on the ground the more chance for them to be outed to the rest of the world.
I'm not sure how much anyone knew about the yeerks. Yes there were leaks, but it would all be conspiracy theories at that point. However, it doesn't matter. If the we don't push forward, the operation will fail by default. That's just a risk that has to be accepted.
That's interesting about the sexes. I don't remember it being mentioned at all. It's interesting that there are 5 sexes, but it only takes 3 yeerks to reproduce.
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yeah i kinda question that
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pack things up, make America a skeleton crew operation, start operations in Russia, Iran, India, China.
problem solved barring Dues Ex machina.
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Simple, really.
Go for the hippies, farm-people, criminals, people nobody would listen to.
Stop focusing on america, go for London!
begin taking over orphanages, make disabled people "dissapear".
Infest a child psychologist and talk show host, convince parents to be stricter, and keep shorter leashes on their children.
Infest parents at gyms, coffee mornings, football stadiums, or any sports event.
Fully control all poor people.
Start a revolution, pretending to have the poor people do an uprising.
Have the rich people go to war with the poor people.
While all this insanity is taking up all news TVand talk-show time, infest other countries quickly. Nobody will care about a crackpot tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory, if there's a country at war with itself!
Have all other countries stop the war, imprisoning all non-controllers.
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It has already been said that a silent invasion is the best way to go. Randomly grabbing people might catch the attention of others. Besides, the Yeerks prefer that their hosts come voluntarily.
In my opinion, focus on Canada. And that has little to do with te fact that I'm a Canadian. I mean think about how many people of different cultures and faiths live here, compared to America. The Yeerks should have taken advantage of tolerance. And I always thought that K.A should have taken advantage of religion, as well--though I understand why she decided against it. The extremely devout are willing to buy anything if it promotes their faith. Especially if they decided to take a particularly large group (Christians and/or Muslims)
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The groundwork was already laid in the US. To pull out of the US would not only mean establishing full operations in those countries, it would also mean removing the operation in the US. All of the hosts would have to be relocated or killed, and all trace of the yeerk pool would have to be removed. That would take a lot of time and raise a lot of suspicion. All of this is assuming that the resources to establish full operations in those countries are available.
V1 stated that a silent invasion was the best way to go, but she had ulterior motives. This doesn't matter because V3 was under orders to keep the invasion covert if possible. There's no reason to think we wouldn't be under the same orders. Eventually the invasion has to turn overt though. It's a matter of how long the overt invasion lasts and how much damage is done by it.
Also keep in mind that the point of the invasion is not to conquer Earth. It's to get hosts quickly. The yeerks are losing the war, and they know it. Obviously we can't say exactly what effect that the influx of hosts would have on the war, but in several places in the series it's hinted that if the yeerks had more hosts, they would be able to overwhelm the andalites. Regardless, the yeerks *believe* that if they have the hosts from Earth, they will be able to overwhelm the andalites. They can't afford to wait 15-20 years to breed hosts (they could do that with the hosts they already have) and the longer an invasion takes, and the more people that die in the invasion, the less successful the invasion is by this criterion.
Keep in mind that everything has to be done with the resources available.
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Also keep in mind that the point of the invasion is not to conquer Earth. It's to get hosts quickly. The yeerks are losing the war, and they know it. Obviously we can't say exactly what effect that the influx of hosts would have on the war, but in several places in the series it's hinted that if the yeerks had more hosts, they would be able to overwhelm the andalites. Regardless, the yeerks *believe* that if they have the hosts from Earth, they will be able to overwhelm the andalites. They can't afford to wait 15-20 years to breed hosts (they could do that with the hosts they already have) and the longer an invasion takes, and the more people that die in the invasion, the less successful the invasion is by this criterion.
That's something I've always wondered about. Earth is a gold mine for the Yeerks, right? And the Yeerks are obviously losing the war against the Andalites; that comes through pretty clear in Visser. But if hundreds of thousands of humans just started vanishing, infested and drummed into the Yeerk war effort to hold back the Andalite leviathan, then people on Earth would notice. How could the Council insist on a covert infiltration strategy when that strategy means this gold mine of hosts which is your only hope against the Andalites can't really be exploited?
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Go for infesting those close to the famous.
As in managers for musicians and actors who will get them deals with promoting the sharing as a good place to go.
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The reason that they're sticking to covert invasions is that the andalite fleet shows up any time they go to an overt invasion. They need to be in a strong enough position to take Earth quickly once the overt invasion starts. If they could get dug in and take enough hosts before the andalite fleet arrives, the andalites may decide it's not worth it, or they might be able to get enough hosts off world to give them an advantage before the andalite fleet arrives and forces them out.
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I would use a fear campaign. I'm still finalizing my full plan, but my basic concept would be to use human psyche against them. Give them a reason to want infestation. Something I'm considering is some sort of virus outbreak (either rumors or exaggeration of fatality) and the cure involves being infested.
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how would that work? Would the yeerks have some kind of nutrients that cured brain cancer?
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No no nothing like that. I'm thinking of using a human virus (lets use H1N1 for example) when the human gets the vaccine they also get a yeerk. Like I said the plan is still in the planning stages.
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Maybe create a cure for aids and use that for a mass infestation in africa
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yea but I want to concentrate in America. The reason is because today America is the ONLY superpower left in the world. You take over America and the rest of the world will fall soon after.
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...China?
... Korea?
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russia, england. America is powerfull but again conquering africa gives you soldiers. Let it be noted that Africa has three times the population of the US so if force comes into play that would help
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America has good relations with Russia and England and China
Africa does have a lot of people, but they are not healthy hosts. They are all malnurished and weak. Therefore while you have a lot of hosts I would have to take extra time to make them good hosts.
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taking the world by force with a heavy number of soldiers would make up the time
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I perfer the silent take over to the forceful one you talk about. War has a chance to kill potential hosts, but having the host line up for a 'cure' is much more decieving. The humans are forced to 'willingly' accept infestation if they wish to survive the 'virus'
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I believe it was implied there wasn't enough yeerks to fill the population of earth. Some dead hosts wouldnt make a difference to yeerks who consider them to be "meat". As long as you dont completely knock every major city off the map once the wars over take the child population
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I believe it was implied there wasn't enough yeerks to fill the population of earth. Some dead hosts wouldnt make a difference to yeerks who consider them to be "meat". As long as you dont completely knock every major city off the map once the wars over take the child population
I believe it was implied that the entire Yeerk population numbers in the millions, as does the population of most species.
Also, the Yeerks did try a Vaccine scam in one of the books, it failed.
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yes but humans are in the billions so you could completely destroy over half the population and wstill have plenty left over (I recently heard were up to 7 billion)
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You know, with how clearly a bunch of random forum geeks have thought out the invasion of Earth....there's just no way they sucked that bad. I mean infest five or six nerds and some important people and you have enough ideas to take New York! XD
So there must have been seriously crap resources. Oh yes and Visser Three. Visser Three can ruin any plan. XDXD
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true dat
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You know, with how clearly a bunch of random forum geeks have thought out the invasion of Earth....there's just no way they sucked that bad. I mean infest five or six nerds and some important people and you have enough ideas to take New York! XD
So there must have been seriously crap resources. Oh yes and Visser Three. Visser Three can ruin any plan. XDXD
Of course, Echelons Above Reality could will always step in and hand out some random crap that screws everything up. ::)
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Proposal for the Open Invasion of Planet Earth:
- Prior to the open attack, mass infestation of human hosts will occur within the continents called Africa and Asia due to large numbers of host bodies and bad record-keeping by human officials there.
- Mining facilities in the Sol asteroid belt will bring in a steady supply of raw materials for future productions while gases from the human gas giants and their moons will provide fuel for ship.
- Thanks to excellent record-keeping and organization on account of the Human species, the sites of all nuclear weapons and nuclear facilities can be obtained from various factional computer systems which will prove easy to infiltrate. High-orbit bombardment of said facilities with both Dracon beams and quantum explosives will decimate the most threatening nuclear materials. While this happens fighters can attack and eliminate all major military installations in short order. This will be achieved via jamming all communications and utilizing our stealth technology to throw off Human radar and attacking in the confusion.
- CRITICAL TO ABOVE PHASE: Attacks MUST be launched during a meeting of the human faction leaders at their United Nations. After attacks in above phase, the UN meeting area will be destroyed along with the human leaders. In as short of time as possible the centers of government for the human superpowers will be likewise attacked.
- Ultimatum will be given to Humans who will likely attempt further resistance. If further resistance continues, the deployment of a local disease referred to as the Ebola Virus will be programmed to attack the DNA of a large, undetermined number on humans. The brutal work of the virus will doubtlessly demoralize the bulk of the humans and disorganize the rest.
- After the surrender of Earth resistance will doubtlessly continue, however on a rather small scale that will have scarce resources. Production of Human controllers will multiply to maximum potential to help reinforce the new position on the ground while production of kandrona generators and shield generators will begin en-masse. Meanwhile the conveniently created swimming pools made by humans will help serve as the base for hundreds of thousands of Yeerk pools complete with kandrona rays, all of which will be protected by shield generators and gleet bio filters.
- Once major permanent bases are established, smaller towns and cities will be stripped of anything useful before being left to rot. Major cities will be renovated and massively constructed upon to house the human hosts in smaller, much more manageable areas.
- All elements of human culture will be destroyed, all art, history, all identity as a species. Alternative history will be devised to teach the new generations of humans to condition them to the idea they are meant to be Yeerk hosts.
- With Earth and the Sol systems great amount of resources and the tremendous numbers of host bodies, construction of defenses and war ships will begin as soon as possible.
- With a great human army plus a massive fleet of ships, the campaign to destroy the Andalites will commence in earnest.
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That's the problem though, nobody would surrender. In America over a hundred million people a year buying hunting licences. That's more than a hundred million guns in each state along with ones bought for self defense and those guys down in Texas who collect them. It was even statedd in the series, humans fight against impossible odds and come out strong. And again it was implied that the number of hork bjair and taxons doesnt compar to humans. It was even stated that if every human in the world toook a shot at a yeerk and missed 90% of the time that would still completely cripple the yeerks.
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350 million guns estimated to be in United states many owned by rednecks that know how to use them.
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Yes and red necks in the spirit of red-neckinesswould share
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You are missing the part about DNA-seeking virus's released on the population. Target ten million random people all of whom die the horrible death of Ebola. Many will loose their will, many still will fight. But fifty million gun-nuts and gun collectors will not be much more than an irritation, especially since the Yeerks can jam and/or trace any electronic communications and almost all of the advanced military systems were obliterated in the initial assault.
As for number, the Yeerks would have enslaved a few million people prior to the attack due to infestations in third-world nations with over-population issues. After the attack Humans could be enslaved by the truck load. Women could be essentially used as breeding machines to create more hosts.
After such a show of power, the great chunk of humanity would be brought into submission and while resistance would continue, what good are a bunch of guys with rifles and trucks against technologically superior aliens? All the Yeerk strong points would be shielded, and any entrances guarded and with gleet biofilters.
The humans would fight bravely, and firecly, and futilely.
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I doubt that taking Africa would benefit the Yeerks, aside from giving them host bodies. How many people in Africa are ridden with disease and malnutrition? My guess is a significant amount. And it's been said, in the Ultimate, that the Yeerks prefer strong, healthy bodies as opposed to, say, the handicappable.
I agree that taking Asia would help the Yeerks.
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Yeah my friends been to india, the place isnt in very good shape
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Any human diseases could be cured quick enough along with any malnutrition issues.
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Yes but limb regrowth may be a little hard
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They wouldn't take cripples of course.
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thats a ton of cripples in india. ruling out cripples rules out probly half the population or more
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I highly doubt over five hundred million cripples reside in India. Anyway, limb regeneration is very possible with Yeerk technology from the looks of things.
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But do they have the resources?
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If they have limb regeneration tha they can easilly accept cripples, simply severe any faulty limb and regrow a good one.
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people seem to be forgetting that yeerks are for the most part untrained civilians given bodies, ray-guns, and orders. heck boyscouts have more military training then the average yeerk so any open invasions are going to get real bloody real fast and about 30 seconds after it starts you are going to have one of the most insane bloodthirsty highly intelligent species in the universe thinking about ways to kill you.
and 50 millions gun nuts are just the guys ready to fight in the first week and these are also the guys that would go kill a hork-bajir with nothing but hunting knife for bragging rights. week two you start to get the next 100 millions people that know how to shoot and getting thought basic training.
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then the actual military steps in with rpg's, tanks, and deathstars
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They wouldn't be beating the Andalites if they were so badly trained as you impose. They would have basic training, and since a dracon beam moves at light speed aiming wouldn't be much of an issue. Literally just point and shoot without worrying about compensating for the bullet drop or rise. The gun nuts? What about them? Annoying, dangerous if you're away from large groups, that's about it. Killing an HB with a hunting knife? They might try, but that would be unimaginably stupid due to the Hork-Bajir having faster reflexes, keen senses, being stronger, and being covered with blades.
The Yeerk bases would all be surrounded by shields and bio filters, leaving them invulnerable to anything short of a nuclear/Andalite attack. You can't just dump a bunch of guys with guns together and call them an army if they shoot well. The Yeerk's are organized and trained, many of them with combat experience and used to operating in units.
Tanks could be incinerated by Bug Fighters with absolute ease. And once mass-production of ships begins using humans as slave labor, the Yeerk power will only grow.
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Force fields CAN be depleted other wise the yeerks and andalites would be running around in invincible ships
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Depleted by high-yield energy weapons, nuclear devices, and/or countless HE explosives which a rag-tag resistance would not have.
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Let me point out how many nukes humans have. We could blow up nine planets. Or our on planet nine times. Yeah.
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We do have many nukes, and thanks to the UN, ALL of them are stored and listed properly. The Yeerks hack the network, find the location of all our nukes, and burn them at their leisure. Besides, they could just destroy the control centers. Without the arming codes, the nukes are just some really heavy paper weights.
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andalites are horrible at fighting wars, their level of fail at war is beyond even LBJ. so the yeerks beating them is like one pile of poop not smelling as bad as the next pile, their all poop. i ask you how many times did the Animorphs get missed by DBs? shooting anything is not a simple matter of point and shoot beside outside considerations there are a number of interal body factors you must control and account for. just try using one of those cheap walmart lazier pointers to hit a target on the first try.
and if annoying you mean never being able t step outside your deffences with out getting hammered then then your right. i'll also point out that all the animals the animorphs use in combat have been killed buy humans with hunting knives minus the elephant who need long pointed sticks to get at most of the important stuff. if these animals can take on multiple hork-bajir then the aliens are not beyond the abilities of humans to take one on one. they may not do it for fun but it can be done.
we saw how ground combat was waged on the x-frog homeworld the shields did not seem to be able to be used in that manor, interference i think. and again you are over stating the yeerks abilities they are a mob of bodies thrown together with guns and the natural organization human develop in groups beats the yeerks anyday. and that is with human without any idea as to what they are doing. gun nuts do have an idea what they are doing and while some things will not work they will learn fast and find what does. if i remeber right it was not till the end of the series that we start seeing trained and organized yeerks going into battle.
once it is realized that tanks can not even stand up to a hand held db the military will dismount. once they start killing the yeerks they are going to take weapons and other tech to use and study. it is not even funny how out matched their ground forces are in comparison to ours. the yeerks only response is going to be send in air power and we know that even a hand held db is able to damage a ship to say nothing about the bigger stuff humans will start making, in 6 months your forces are tapped out and driven off world a year later you are fleeing into z-space so the human space fighters and bombers don't get you.
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The Yeerks on Earth were lead by Visser 3 who was an idiot who only attained his rank through his host body and intimidation.
The Ani's got missed all those times for the book's sake. if they actually did most of what they did, they would have been burned to crisp if the Yeerks were lead by a competent commander, which I would be. I'ts MY invasion scenario after all.
There's a difference between aiming a laser pointer and a sophisticated energy weapon with a pistol grip. Take a toy pistol, aim it at something. Whatever you aimed at would die if that was a DB. The only affecting factor would be the recoil, which appears to be much lower than any human weapon.
No, by annoying I mean if you go out on a Rambo-style killing mission then you'll die. Under my command, Yeerks would travel in armed convoys with air cover through land that could be dangerous, although largely air-travel would be used outside of the mega cities.
The animals the Animorphs used to fight Hork-Bajir won due to superior reflexes and/or the ability to take plenty of cuts and keep on going. A human vs HB without weapons save a knife would be futile, unless the human got the HB secretly from behind or in his sleep. And since HBs are much bigger animals, it would take a deal longer for them to bleed to death than us. they are stronger, faster, and quick reflexes than us plus being covered with blades. That is not a fight.
You are going off the books, in which the Yeerks are incompetent idiots with barely any good military tactics. I'm talking from if I invaded and made good use of the existing technology. BTW, the Yeerks on Leera didn't use shields on the ground because they were on the constant offense and didn't need them. In this situation the shields would be around important area such as cities, Yeerk pools, kandrona generators, military/government complexes, etc.
Once the military dismounts they will be in a somewhat fair-ish fight. Urban and Jungle combat is where we would do the best, where air support can only do so much. But we would be cut down on the open field and in major engagements. The Yeerks could just burn through the building individually with hand-held beams and Dracon rifles, slow and tedious work, but effective.
A handheld DB can damage a shielded bug fighter in the sense a Glock 17 can damage and F-15. So an extent, but not much. Plus the fact that a supersonic target firing energy beams at you is not an easy target to hit.
What bigger stuff we'll be making? The bulk of our factories will be destroyed along with a great deal of our technology. PERHAPS a FEW jury-built energy weapons could be made, but not on a full-scale production.
In 6 months? In Six months the bulk of the human military will be annihilated and with scarce communication, making large-scale offensives impossible. All, if not all of our nukes will be gone and the Yeerks will be taking millions of controllers. Many of our factories will have been re-purposed for developing Yeerk weapons and vehicles, soon dry docks in space will be constructed to build bug Fighters and gunships. Human soldiers will be being trained in the tens of thousands.
Resistance will have continued as always in minor, small-scale attacks on occasional outposts and vehicles by small, scattered bands of ex-army and civilians armed with a variety of civilian and military weapons with few heavy-weapons or military vehicles at their disposal with the obvious exception of easy-to-make RPG-7s.
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competent commanders have competent troops a resource that will take you years to build to fill even the starting force. and once you do that you will find that your bosses will start taking them away everytime you start developing a solid force. really you can only count on the troops on you personal ship to stay with you.
your entire invasion scenario requires yeerk tech to do things it can not do, have an abundance of resources that are impossible for them, and humans to fold at your evil eyed glare.
on top of that earth is a honey trap, the andalites know of humans it is canon that they knew the yeerks were here, and while it is unclear when the planned was decided on we know that the andalite were waiting for the yeerks to comite to a open invasion so they could come in a smash them. leera was possibly the same, a competent commander will see this and try to keep the yeerks profile below the level were the andalite will find it worth while too step in at least till the andalite are tied up else where
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- Prior to the open attack, mass infestation of human hosts will occur within the continents called Africa and Asia due to large numbers of host bodies and bad record-keeping by human officials there.
This would take construction of new planetside yeerk pools (which you can't do because you don't have spare kandrona generators), mass abduction by ship (which would have to be done in small groups that could be held inside the ships), or camps to hold prisoners (which would require some ground troops, of which you have few, and would be visible).
- Mining facilities in the Sol asteroid belt will bring in a steady supply of raw materials for future productions while gases from the human gas giants and their moons will provide fuel for ship.
With what ships, construction materials, and personnel? Also, I could be wrong on this one, but I don't recall the books ever mentioning what the yeerk ships used as fuel. How do you know that you can extract it from the gas giants?
- Thanks to excellent record-keeping and organization on account of the Human species, the sites of all nuclear weapons and nuclear facilities can be obtained from various factional computer systems which will prove easy to infiltrate. High-orbit bombardment of said facilities with both Dracon beams and quantum explosives will decimate the most threatening nuclear materials. While this happens fighters can attack and eliminate all major military installations in short order. This will be achieved via jamming all communications and utilizing our stealth technology to throw off Human radar and attacking in the confusion.
The idea behind this one makes sense, but the execution isn't practical. A significant number of nuclear weapons are on board submarines, which wouldn't be able to be touched by dracon beams. Handheld beams malfunctioned in dense atmosphere; I doubt any dracon beam could be fired underwater, and their energy would be absorbed by water before reaching most subs. That's assuming that they could locate and keep track of the subs after the attack began.
You also have a lot of fighters attacking installations simultaneously. How many fighters do you have? I'd estimate around 25 are in the Sol system. You also have to consider that during peacetime, most of the U.S. armed forces aren't activated. They wouldn't be at military installations. It's a small portion of the world's military, but I'd like to think it's one of the more dangerous parts (I'm a little biased in this case).
- CRITICAL TO ABOVE PHASE: Attacks MUST be launched during a meeting of the human faction leaders at their United Nations. After attacks in above phase, the UN meeting area will be destroyed along with the human leaders. In as short of time as possible the centers of government for the human superpowers will be likewise attacked.
This makes perfect sense... except you will be waiting until there is a U.N. summit meeting.
- Ultimatum will be given to Humans who will likely attempt further resistance. If further resistance continues, the deployment of a local disease referred to as the Ebola Virus will be programmed to attack the DNA of a large, undetermined number on humans. The brutal work of the virus will doubtlessly demoralize the bulk of the humans and disorganize the rest.
You just released an uncontrolled, self-replicating weapon. Do you realize how dangerous that is? I'll get to feasibility of designing it to target specific people in a minute. For now, let's assume that you can. It will go through many generations before it finishes its job. It will have plenty of opportunities to mutate, and because once it's released you no longer have control over it, you can't correct for these mutations. There's a very good chance it can mutate to attack people you didn't intend for it to attack. Given that Ebola virus has an 80% lethality rate, this will be devastating to the goal of getting hosts.
Now for the feasibility, you have tens of thousands of yeerks on the planet to begin with. What percentage could you reasonably assume are scientists? What percentage of those scientists could you reasonably assume are biologists? How many of those could you reasonably assume study diseases? Do you see where I'm going with this?
You are assuming that the yeerks can do this. I know that the andalites targeted a species with the quantum virus and later targeted the yeerks with a different type of virus, but believed it would jump the species barrier and infect humans (which would be much harder to do than jump to a different subset within a species). I don't believe the yeerks ever did much in the way of engineering viruses.
I also don't even know if it's possible to target any subset of a species like you're talking about given any foreseeable technology. There are certain things within a species that make some groups more resistant to diseases than others, but if you targeted those differences, it would be very difficult to determine how many people you would be killing, not to mention that this is still no mean feat to pull off.
Production of Human controllers will multiply to maximum potential to help reinforce the new position on the ground while production of kandrona generators and shield generators will begin en-masse. Meanwhile the conveniently created swimming pools made by humans will help serve as the base for hundreds of thousands of Yeerk pools complete with kandrona rays, all of which will be protected by shield generators and gleet bio filters.
That's would require a lot of resources and time to accomplish. You'd have to build facilities to produce the kandrona generators and shield generators. Then you would have to actually build them. Until then, you wouldn't have those kandrona or shield generators.
- With Earth and the Sol systems great amount of resources and the tremendous numbers of host bodies, construction of defenses and war ships will begin as soon as possible.
- With a great human army plus a massive fleet of ships, the campaign to destroy the Andalites will commence in earnest.
Your biggest problem: time. It takes a very long time to establish a good infrastructure for constructing ships. The andalites will attack if they get wind of an overt invasion. (You won't be able to assemble a fleet that could hold off the andalite fleet that was mentioned in Visser.)
As for number, the Yeerks would have enslaved a few million people prior to the attack due to infestations in third-world nations with over-population issues. After the attack Humans could be enslaved by the truck load. Women could be essentially used as breeding machines to create more hosts.
You don't have the yeerks to take that many hosts initially, or the facilities to support that many. And breeding hosts? Really? How long would it take for a human to go from conception to being a viable worker?
The Yeerk bases would all be surrounded by shields and bio filters, leaving them invulnerable to anything short of a nuclear/Andalite attack.
You're using Gleet biofilters to keep humans out of entrances that human controllers are passing through. Think about that for a second.
Any human diseases could be cured quick enough along with any malnutrition issues.
See what I said about engineering diseases earlier.
I highly doubt over five hundred million cripples reside in India. Anyway, limb regeneration is very possible with Yeerk technology from the looks of things.
No. The only time I can recall a situation like this occurring, the yeerks used prosthetics.
They would have basic training, and since a dracon beam moves at light speed aiming wouldn't be much of an issue.
Dracon beams are particle beams, not lasers. They don't actually travel at the speed of light. And trust me, aiming is still a big issue. 50 m isn't far enough to have much of an effect of bullet drop, but see how many people can hit a target at 50 m with a pistol.
The Yeerk's are organized and trained, many of them with combat experience and used to operating in units.
The yeerk's doctrine seems to be similar to USSR doctrine (which doesn't make sense since they don't have the numbers for it).
You can't just dump a bunch of guys with guns together and call them an army if they shoot well.
The same goes for you too. Yeerks who had hosts before arriving would be combat trained, but any yeerks with new hosts would have to be trained on site.
and/or countless HE explosives which a rag-tag resistance would not have.
Exhibit A: Iraq
Exhibit B: Afghanistan
The Ani's got missed all those times for the book's sake. if they actually did most of what they did, they would have been burned to crisp if the Yeerks were lead by a competent commander, which I would be. I'ts MY invasion scenario after all.
Ahh, the part that set off my little tirade, you're saying that because you say so, it will happen? I don't have words to describe just what I think about that....
You are going off the books, in which the Yeerks are incompetent idiots with barely any good military tactics. I'm talking from if I invaded and made good use of the existing technology.
So either you're ignoring the books, in which case you might as well do whatever you want anyway since you're rewriting all of the rules of the scenario, or you're developing new doctrine, training all of your forces in the new doctrine, expecting them to move straight into it without any difficulty in adjusting, and doing it over precisely zero time.
A handheld DB can damage a shielded bug fighter in the sense a Glock 17 can damage and F-15. So an extent, but not much. Plus the fact that a supersonic target firing energy beams at you is not an easy target to hit.
I believe a bug fighter was disabled by a handheld dracon beam in the last Megamorphs book. I'll give you that the max firepower on the dracon beams varies through the series, having a range of as much firepower as a low caliber handgun to a stinger missile.
In 6 months? In Six months the bulk of the human military will be annihilated and with scarce communication, making large-scale offensives impossible. All, if not all of our nukes will be gone and the Yeerks will be taking millions of controllers. Many of our factories will have been re-purposed for developing Yeerk weapons and vehicles, soon dry docks in space will be constructed to build bug Fighters and gunships. Human soldiers will be being trained in the tens of thousands.
The yeerks must have the fastest working engineer corps in the galaxy. They couldn't pull that off on the hork bajir homeworld, where they had significantly more starting resources and less initial resistance.
My biggest problem is how fast you are moving through all of this. You do not have the logistical infrastructure to support that type of expansion. You have two capital ships, The Sharing, no movable kandrona generators, a few thousand human controllers at best, and are completely dependent on human infrastructure to get provisions to hosts planetside. You will be destroying most of that infrastructure in your attack.
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I am now officially scared. Seriously we could take over the world with the right rescources, ideas, and donuts fiendishly clever mind and tin foil hat
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This would take construction of new planetside yeerk pools (which you can't do because you don't have spare kandrona generators), mass abduction by ship (which would have to be done in small groups that could be held inside the ships), or camps to hold prisoners (which would require some ground troops, of which you have few, and would be visible).
Ground camps are highly plausible due to the Yeerks holographic projections and stealth technology. Just set one up in an obscure, remote part of Africa.
With what ships, construction materials, and personnel? Also, I could be wrong on this one, but I don't recall the books ever mentioning what the yeerk ships used as fuel. How do you know that you can extract it from the gas giants?
The Yeerks in the Hork Bajir Chronicles managed to mine, starting with nothing but a few fighters and skrit-na ships. Surely so can I. Using human mining equipment and human hosts inside of a projected force field to keep out the vacuum. As for the fuel, I was perhaps going a bit on assumption.
The idea behind this one makes sense, but the execution isn't practical. A significant number of nuclear weapons are on board submarines, which wouldn't be able to be touched by dracon beams. Handheld beams malfunctioned in dense atmosphere; I doubt any dracon beam could be fired underwater, and their energy would be absorbed by water before reaching most subs. That's assuming that they could locate and keep track of the subs after the attack began.
You also have a lot of fighters attacking installations simultaneously. How many fighters do you have? I'd estimate around 25 are in the Sol system. You also have to consider that during peacetime, most of the U.S. armed forces aren't activated. They wouldn't be at military installations. It's a small portion of the world's military, but I'd like to think it's one of the more dangerous parts (I'm a little biased in this case).
Megamorphs 4 shows Bug fighters having both underwater capability and firing dracon beams underwater. But yes, I considered the fact many nukes are on submarines. However they too would be being tracked the US Navy, which the Yeerks could hack. They would eventually have to surface or at least get close to the surface, and that's when they would be destroyed.
A Yeerk Pool Ship has a compliment of around fifty bug fighters I believe, and two would definitely be enough to wreck most military bases. Strongholds particularly troublesome could be destroyed by the bladeship if need be. Keep in mind with communications down they wouldn't really be capable of staying in touch or even warning one another about the attacks. Comms satellites can be shot down, radios jammed, and mostly any other electronics can be hit with EMPs.And while most of the military would be on standby, their bases and equipment would be there. Pilots are no use when the airbase has been destroyed.
This makes perfect sense... except you will be waiting until there is a U.N. summit meeting.
Better to be patient than to botch an attack.
You just released an uncontrolled, self-replicating weapon. Do you realize how dangerous that is? I'll get to feasibility of designing it to target specific people in a minute. For now, let's assume that you can. It will go through many generations before it finishes its job. It will have plenty of opportunities to mutate, and because once it's released you no longer have control over it, you can't correct for these mutations. There's a very good chance it can mutate to attack people you didn't intend for it to attack. Given that Ebola virus has an 80% lethality rate, this will be devastating to the goal of getting hosts.
Fair enough, I was half-asleep when I wrote it all anyway.
Now for the feasibility, you have tens of thousands of yeerks on the planet to begin with. What percentage could you reasonably assume are scientists? What percentage of those scientists could you reasonably assume are biologists? How many of those could you reasonably assume study diseases? Do you see where I'm going with this?
If I was a Visser setting out to conquer a species and their planet, I would be sure to bring a good science team that covers all fields plus computers capable of doing just that.
That's would require a lot of resources and time to accomplish. You'd have to build facilities to produce the kandrona generators and shield generators. Then you would have to actually build them. Until then, you wouldn't have those kandrona or shield generators.
Ah, but time before the invasion would have been spent creating said shield generators and kandrona's. In addition I would have several kandrona's before hand with me on the pool ship, if I'm taking over a planet a couple kandrona's seems like common sense to bring.
Your biggest problem: time. It takes a very long time to establish a good infrastructure for constructing ships. The andalites will attack if they get wind of an overt invasion.
Keep in mind that the Andalites consider Earth a rather low priority, I would at least three years to do this. in addition I would likely have much more time since the Animorphs would have never ended up warning the Andalites to any extent like they did in the books.
And since the Andalites idea of an overwhelming rescue force seems to be about three domeships, I think constructing just four bladeships and some bug fighters is well-within my reach.
You don't have the yeerks to take that many hosts initially, or the facilities to support that many.
Point there. But I could still have several hundred thousand to be quite sure. Facilities already exist on Earth to support the population.
Dracon beams are particle beams, not lasers. They don't actually travel at the speed of light. And trust me, aiming is still a big issue. 50 m isn't far enough to have much of an effect of bullet drop, but see how many people can hit a target at 50 m with a pistol.
True there, but they still travel far fasted than bullets. Unless they were badly made dracon beams, I do not see what could effect the aim of the user except just keeping the gun steady which could be majorly helped by modifying the dracon beams into rifle-versions. Unlike the bullet, the beam will travel in a very near if not complete straight line. Just aim and shoot.
You're using Gleet biofilters to keep humans out of entrances that human controllers are passing through. Think about that for a second.
It obviously detects both human and Yeerk DNA, otherwise Ax would have told the Ani's they just had to walk through the door to the Pool and then morph.
The yeerk's doctrine seems to be similar to USSR doctrine (which doesn't make sense since they don't have the numbers for it).
Even the USSR trained its soldiers to operate in units, maybe not like the Americans, but they still did. And if I saw it fit, I could implement more training for soldiers in the wait prior to the invasion.
Ahh, the part that set off my little tirade, you're saying that because you say so, it will happen? I don't have words to describe just what I think about that....
No, I'm saying so because if I was in charge of leading an invading army I would NOT send my limited soldiers into battle with god-awful aim.
Sorry I never made my invasion plan clear enough, I was too tired to write it down.
Prior to all of this my task force arrived in the Sol system. Upon this we would enter an extreme-long range orbit, waiting and building up. Keeping a very low profile, taking a few thousand human controllers as we went. Mining resources in the asteroid belt, constructing what we needed slowly and surely. Once the forces have been built up, we launch pinpoint strikes in pressure points globally. Hitting humanity where it hurts and hitting them hard.
So either you're ignoring the books, in which case you might as well do whatever you want anyway since you're rewriting all of the rules of the scenario, or you're developing new doctrine, training all of your forces in the new doctrine, expecting them to move straight into it without any difficulty in adjusting, and doing it over precisely zero time.
I'm just going by the rules. I am a Yeerk Visser, and I attained my rank through tactical abilities. I feel the pressure of the Council on me, I cannot and will not fail. I will take whatever precautions I need, as long as I am ultimately successful.
I believe a bug fighter was disabled by a handheld dracon beam in the last Megamorphs book. I'll give you that the max firepower on the dracon beams varies through the series, having a range of as much firepower as a low caliber handgun to a stinger missile.
I recall no such event. I know the settings change in the books due to ten or so power settings on the dracon beam. I presume they would use a medium setting most of the time to save the battery.
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Hold on, I don't think you can construct 4 blade ships. Those things are massive and powerfull, the rescources and space to build it would completely drain you and thats to just build 2
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They're not that large. And at the rate humans can build other massive things like aircraft carrier, four bladeships seems quite possible if much of the species is devoted to it.
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So your going to drop everything and focus on the ships?
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Er, no I'm just going to build some ships.
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Ground camps are highly plausible due to the Yeerks holographic projections and stealth technology. Just set one up in an obscure, remote part of Africa.
I'm more concerned about personnel. However, holographic projectors require a tremendous amount of energy to operate. I believe Ax mentioned it when he was talking about the chee's holographic emitters. The books have implied that making something invisible could cost less energy, but I don't think they ever mentioned the energy requirements of making something invisible. You only intend to have one? Or do you intend to have multiple facilities? Each would require a rather large stealth field generator and supporting power plants.
The Yeerks in the Hork Bajir Chronicles managed to mine, starting with nothing but a few fighters and skrit-na ships. Surely so can I. Using human mining equipment and human hosts inside of a projected force field to keep out the vacuum. As for the fuel, I was perhaps going a bit on assumption.
In HBC the yeerks had *all* of their forces there. They were all on the same planet, and the planet had an atmosphere that could support them and their hosts. They also had all of the food necessary to support their hosts growing all around them. Their ships included transport ships that the andalites engineered to allow the yeerks to travel, which means they have kandrona generators, and implies that they have machine shops within them to make necessary repairs and possibly manufacture small end items.
You’re going to use human mining equipment? You’re going to be transporting fuel to those machines, a lot of it. You’re also going to have to provide a large number of air scrubbers since those machines use internal-combustion engines, which will eat up O2 inside your forcefields.
Ax mentioned how much energy it takes to generate forcefields as well. He made it clear it took a lot of energy. To set up your mining facilities you'd need large power plants, the shield generators, you would need ships to ferry supplies to the facilities and take raw materials back from the facilities, and you would need the personnel to run those operations.
Megamorphs 4 shows Bug fighters having both underwater capability and firing dracon beams underwater. But yes, I considered the fact many nukes are on submarines. However they too would be being tracked the US Navy, which the Yeerks could hack. They would eventually have to surface or at least get close to the surface, and that's when they would be destroyed.
Well, there's a KASU in there since HBC had dracon beams malfunctioning and hurting the operator in thick fog. I'm going to say that the KASU was in the dracon beams operating underwater since it makes more sense. It would be especially bad to fire them underwater since the water will absorb the energy. Rapidly heating water tends to create pretty impressive steam explosions. (On a side note, I just learned what superheating means and realized what happened to a the liquid in one of my test tubes in a chemistry lab awhile back. It never sat right with me how quickly that liquid went from not boiling to completely gas.)
A Yeerk Pool Ship has a compliment of around fifty bug fighters I believe, and two would definitely be enough to wreck most military bases. Strongholds particularly troublesome could be destroyed by the bladeship if need be. Keep in mind with communications down they wouldn't really be capable of staying in touch or even warning one another about the attacks. Comms satellites can be shot down, radios jammed, and mostly any other electronics can be hit with EMPs.And while most of the military would be on standby, their bases and equipment would be there. Pilots are no use when the airbase has been destroyed.
Now you have me genuinely curious. I've been looking for awhile to find actual numbers in the series for the fighter compliments of ships. Where did you find that?
Regardless, the andalites are coming with a force capable of defeating a pool ship and everything organic to that pool ship. The only reason the andalites failed in the series was because the yeerks also had a blade ship. Expect heavy loses to your fighters.
SSBNs can actually stay submerged for a very long time. It's been a long time since I've looked up anything at all about submarines, but I don't see how it makes sense that they would be effectively tracked. Anything that allows actual tracking would be able to give the sub's position away to others. What you might be thinking is that they know the sub is in a certain area, but that area is hundreds of square miles.
Pilots don't matter. I'm talking about ground troops.
And I don't mean that the fighters wouldn't be capable of destroying any particular base. I mean that destroying every base would take a very long time. They're going figure out that they're under attack. They won't know from what for a little while, but communications will come around in some form.
Better to be patient than to botch an attack.
Sometimes, but I will again be referring to Echelons Above Reality here. They expect progress. As little sense as it makes, they will be looking at this and wondering why you aren't doing anything. You are also on the clock. You're expected to get hosts quickly. You aren't if you're waiting.
If I was a Visser setting out to conquer a species and their planet, I would be sure to bring a good science team that covers all fields plus computers capable of doing just that.
You're assuming those resources are widely available. You're competing against every other visser in the empire for limited resources. Can you really justify taking up assets to be able to do *everything*? (Hint: the answer is no)
Ah, but time before the invasion would have been spent creating said shield generators and kandrona's. In addition I would have several kandrona's before hand with me on the pool ship, if I'm taking over a planet a couple kandrona's seems like common sense to bring.
*sigh*
Ok, you aren't starting the invasion. You're inheriting it from Visser 1. You don't have extra kandronas. The destruction of *one* was a serious blow against the yeerks that crippled their operation. The ellimist was blunt with this point: if the animorphs hadn't destroyed the kandrona, the yeerks would have been successful. That destroying *one* was such a crippling blow confirms that you don't have spares, and implies that they are extremely difficult to manufacture.
Keep in mind that the Andalites consider Earth a rather low priority, I would at least three years to do this. in addition I would likely have much more time since the Animorphs would have never ended up warning the Andalites to any extent like they did in the books.
Elfangor was convinced that an andalite fleet would arrive in about a year, so he had reason to think the andalites would follow up after they realized the Galaxy Tree had been destroyed. Granted they didn't, but this wasn't because they were unaware.
The andalites considered Earth a low priority because the yeerks were invading by infiltration. It would be difficult to know what kind of progress was being made, and the andalites would figure that they had time. They would prioritize it low, because the yeerks were probably launching overt invasions. I highly suspect that the reason that the andalites didn't come within that year Elfangor mentioned was because the yeerks started an overt invasion of Leera.
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You don't have the yeerks to take that many hosts initially, or the facilities to support that many.
Point there. But I could still have several hundred thousand to be quite sure. Facilities already exist on Earth to support the population.
I'm fairly certain you only have a few tens of thousands of yeerks initially. (I'm assuming that more will be brought in as time goes on. This is one part of my plan that I wasn't comfortable with, but there's no reason to think that more yeerks wouldn't be brought in over time.) You can't rush the initial grabbing of host bodies.
Earth has its own supply of kandrona generators? You also have to provide food and water to those people. I believe you said that this would be set up in Africa. Africa is notoriously bad for distributing food and water, which means you'll either be constructing the infrastructure start to finish or transporting it by ship. Are they going to be sitting in their own filth? If not, you need to construct hygiene and sanitation facilities. You also need security set up to monitor them and keep them from rioting. While you could easily kill all of them, that’s self-defeating. You need to prevent them from being able to rebel, and be able to kill small portions if they do rebel, which requires compartmentalizatio n of the prisoners.
If you’re doing this over spread out areas, you have fewer problems with constructing facilities to support the hosts’ needs, but you have more problems with supporting the yeerks’ needs. You’d have to be able to supply every location with kandrona rays or provide transport to locations that have them.
True there, but they still travel far fasted than bullets. Unless they were badly made dracon beams, I do not see what could effect the aim of the user except just keeping the gun steady which could be majorly helped by modifying the dracon beams into rifle-versions. Unlike the bullet, the beam will travel in a very near if not complete straight line. Just aim and shoot.
You’ve never fired a gun. I’ll give you an example of one of the many things that can affect where you hit when you shoot. While looking down the sites, for whatever reason, your site picture is off by 3 millimeters. Let’s say that between your front sites and rear sights there is half a meter. Every half a meter your projectile travels, it will be 3 millimeters off. By the time it reaches a target 100 meters away, your projectile will be 600 millimeters away from where you aimed. That’s .6 meters (about 2 feet). That’s the difference between hitting and missing your target. I’m picking somewhat arbitrary numbers, but I think you get the concept of it. You also have to aim; considering that you’re mixing in running, diving, crawling, general fatigue from fighting, plus whatever alarm chemicals that your body is releasing, aiming isn’t an easy thing. BTW, your target is shooting back.
It obviously detects both human and Yeerk DNA, otherwise Ax would have told the Ani's they just had to walk through the door to the Pool and then morph.
I don’t think it does. The Ax walked right into the pool in one book in human morph, and the anis left the pool plenty of times as human.
Even the USSR trained its soldiers to operate in units, maybe not like the Americans, but they still did. And if I saw it fit, I could implement more training for soldiers in the wait prior to the invasion.
The USSR did break their soldiers into units, but in practice, those units were commanded by someone 17 echelons higher (Yes, I’m exaggerating. Deal with it.). Unit commanders had no ability to make decisions. This made them very inflexible as information had to be delivered up the chain of command, then orders had to be sent back down before units could adapt to developing situations. It also meant that killing the highest commander in an area would stun the entire group. Given how the yeerks were shown to operate, they seem to follow this doctrine.
The other part of that, which the yeerks also follow, is that they tend to throw masses of troops against something and grind it down rather than defeat a target with maneuver and, well, anything other than just wearing out their target. They’d then send elite troops in to actually destroy the target. Those troops would be trained to fight as a flexible, maneuvering force.
Prior to all of this my task force arrived in the Sol system. Upon this we would enter an extreme-long range orbit, waiting and building up. Keeping a very low profile, taking a few thousand human controllers as we went. Mining resources in the asteroid belt, constructing what we needed slowly and surely. Once the forces have been built up, we launch pinpoint strikes in pressure points globally. Hitting humanity where it hurts and hitting them hard.
I believe you already realize that this would take a very long time. I don’t think you realize how many resources this would take to accomplish though. I already covered setting up mines in the asteroid belt. You need to realize though, that the longer you take the worse your position gets. The andalites are winning. Your forces are assets that aren’t being used. That makes them a waste. They could be reassigned to something else that was actually working towards winning the war. Also realize that the andalites had assembled a fleet that could destroy anything that the yeerks had by the time of Visser.
I'm just going by the rules. I am a Yeerk Visser, and I attained my rank through tactical abilities. I feel the pressure of the Council on me, I cannot and will not fail. I will take whatever precautions I need, as long as I am ultimately successful.
What I mean is, either you’re changing the rules in that you have the yeerks following a different doctrine and set of tactics than they did in the book, or you’re rewriting and training them. If you’re doing the latter then it will take a very long time to implement effectively.
I recall no such event. I know the settings change in the books due to ten or so power settings on the dracon beam. I presume they would use a medium setting most of the time to save the battery.
I just checked it. They fired on it and it was visibly damaged. It still turned back and fired, but it was operating much more cautiously.
They're not that large. And at the rate humans can build other massive things like aircraft carrier, four bladeships seems quite possible if much of the species is devoted to it.
Aircraft carriers take years to build. I believe the latest one is scheduled to take 5 years to finish. I'm having a very hard time finding construction times for cruisers. The only one I found was a pre WW2 speed record of 1 year. I believe a cruiser would be equivilent to a blade ship. However, all of the necessary factories and skilled labor is already in place. You have to repurpose factories to be able to build these ships, which takes time, you also have to train workers on the tools and jobs they will be using, which will take time, and they will not become proficient at their tasks for some time even after being trained.
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officially scared now.
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Some points taken. I wrote it half-asleep anyway with a subconscious idea of a larger fleet.. Though I HAVE fired a gun before, several times. And the great assistant to a DB's accuracy is that you can see the nice red beam you're shooting and where its hitting. Then it's just a matter of moving it to the target.
Actually I have worked out a much more sinister, awesome plan that mixes the continued stealth invasion of Earth initiated by Visser One and revealing the Yeerks to the public. I'll post the details tonight when I have more time, but it revolves around the Yeerks exposing themselves to the public eye, not as murderous overlords but as benevolent protectors here to save us from the Andalite marauders.
Plan:
After taking over the Earth Conquest from Visser One, my plan to take it will be put into effect. The Yeerks will reveal themselves to the people of Earth, but not of their prior activities, and they will not reveal their true nature. Instead we shall pretend that Hork-Bajir are our natural form and we come under the guise of being newcomers to the system, and intrigued by our species ability to adapt, survive and thrive. We will be enthralled by such a successful and potential species, tied down it may be.
We shall explain that our reason for coming to Earth is to warn them of a grave threat. We are there to save such a tremendous species from the all-consuming species called the Andalites who battle savagely us to control space as a dominant power. They are arrogant, proud, and cruel and seek to stay as the top power of the universe and let the other species crawl beneath them.
We have noticed their interest in Earth, and are worried that they will conquer and decimate your great race like they have done to many. We shall expose their crimes, including the hideous evil of trying to destroy our entire species with a quantum virus. We refuse to let the andalites have their way with this planet, and we must help you prepare.
Here a risky move will be done, giving the humans Yeerk science. Under the guise of a helpful and caring nature, we will help the humans study science and learn it as we do. We will teach them about things such as dracon beams and zero space, shields and force fields. We will teach them about the deadly Andalites and their power, and we will talk about how they can save themselves with out help.
We will make good relations, meeting with their world leaders and helping exterminate their petty religious insurrectionists. During meetings with the world leaders they will be infested and return to their countries filled with zeal to defend Earth, learning about and constructing zero-space craft and energy weapons all the while promoting the Sharing which helps abolish human rivalry and bonding them together as one united race against the alien threat. Naturally, Sharing membership and infestation will increase monumentally.
When the Andalite Domeship Galaxy Tree popped out of Zero Space to engage us, it was a blessing to our purpose. We showed the Humans the Andalites, their enemy. We sent them messages asking them to surrender so we may spare them, and we did not fire first. The Humans saw the us try to negotiate with the Andalites, and defending ourselves when attacked.
They will believe that we have just saved them from a great threat, the Andalites came to destroy them and we the Yeerks saved them. By now the majority of key human political figures will be under Yeerk control and the humans will continue producing weapons and vessels they believe are needed for their defense, which of course will be used to our benefit.
The Campaign will continue. The humans believing us to be benevolent protectors, and this image will be enforced by a growing number of Human-controllers in seats of power.
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That is a nice plan, but you have to realize that humans are NOT an accepting species. Humans dont even accept other humans. If the yeerks reveal themselves in ANY form they will be tranquilized and autopsied.
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Yeah, please remeber the "Anti andalite terrorists" in the last book.
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I think that you can't really speak for six billion people like that, particularly the heads of governments like America which has sent greetings of peace to any ET life they may encounter.
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Adding to my plan. Hospitals.
Hospitals are a hot bed of potential hosts and it would require minimal resources to plant a few volunteers, a nurse or two and maybe even a doctor in a single hospital to watch out for and obtain valuable host bodies.
Whenever a very key host, like a recovering police officer and/or military personel, or someone with money or a position in a company for example, appears to be on the mends, a quick night trip down to the pool via a disused elevator shaft will allow us to place a yeerk in some sensitive areas.
Severe psychiatric patients, and patients in hospice may prove useful in testing a few concepts that might work on the general population. Concepts like viruses that numb freewill, chemical agents that would be detrimental to the host body but not to the Yeerk, weapons, etc.
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I think that you can't really speak for six billion people like that, particularly the heads of governments like America which has sent greetings of peace to any ET life they may encounter.
Actually I can speak for 6 billion humans because all you have to do is look at history. When Americans first saw Africans they thought ONE thing. SLAVES. A work force that didnt have to be paid because since they were a different color they were LESS than human. Another example is Hitler and everything he did. Another is KKK and their beliefs. Another is any religious fanatics who believe that ANYONE that dont believe as they do should be either converted or killed.
So if humans CANNOT accept other humans based on skin color or religious beliefs or sexual orientation than what in the world makes you think that humans will accept Hork-Bajir?!?!? Humans will do one of two things...Shoot them and autopsy the corpses OR Tranquilize them and perform all sorts of tests and experiments on them that will eventually lead to an autopsy.
The human race is NOT nice.
Plain and Simple.
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Its not that. Most people when they see things they don't understand they have one or two of several reactions. Reject it, kill it, eat it, use it for my monetary benefit. and remember what happened when a hrok bjair child was captured? It was put in a third class zoo. For the gain of money.
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ok you got a point there, but it is a garuntee that most if not ALL humans will NOT accept alien life.
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Thats exactly what imm saying. They wont except it because they dont understand
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Actually I can speak for 6 billion humans because all you have to do is look at history. When Americans first saw Africans they thought ONE thing. SLAVES. The human race is NOT nice.
I get what you're saying, but as a point of interest America as a nation didn't exist during much of the slave trade. And while American Colonists owned slaves after the Revolutionary War, up until the abolishment of slavery by Lincoln, Americans didn't invent the concept.
Slavery has been around for as long as we've existed and it still exists today. The point, as you mentioned, was to get free labor. Being from Africa doesn't ring into it, because many African nations used slavery as well. Those pyramids didn't get built by free masons and trade unionists.
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Yeah they got built by chee strong men
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That view of people was merely that, an ancient view influenced by society. Now our society is going up the wall with equality and fair treatment and whatnot, I'm quite sure the majority of the people would accept aliens.
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That view of people was merely that, an ancient view influenced by society. Now our society is going up the wall with equality and fair treatment and whatnot, I'm quite sure the majority of the people would accept aliens.
Because we totally no longer prosecute people for their race, religion, or sexuality anymore.
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We still do, but nowhere near the extent we used to, and it's not Government-sanctioned anymore.
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That view of people was merely that, an ancient view influenced by society. Now our society is going up the wall with equality and fair treatment and whatnot, I'm quite sure the majority of the people would accept aliens.
So, no one violently protests gay marriages? I live in Vermont, the pioneer of the whole Civil Rights movement. And I got to personally witness protests outside of the church and those stupid "Take Back Vermont" signs.
The KKK is one big Casper the Friendly Ghost fan club?
Maybe I don't agree with the polygamists, but this country basically turns them into a freak show with it's news crews and specials.
I assure you, we can barely tolerate differences among our own species, much less the various differences in creatures that weren't even born here.
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Yes, but the big important thing is that the Government tolerates it. Our Government is now supposed to be the face of tolerance and love for all and whatnot. And I strongly believe that curiosity would be the prevailing emotion for the first few months of the Human-Yeerk contact.
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1. Set up three bases: One in the US, just like Visser One did. Anything that mirrors her ideas is going to be a good idea. The second is in Japan, which seems to be replacing the US as the center of technological advancement. The third is in the United Kingdom, which is on good terms with just about every other country on the planet.
2. Make the humans think we're here for a good reason by fixing their biggest issue, apparently called "Global Warming", also known as "Climate Change". As good as sea-level rise is for us, it's equally bad for humans.
3. Stealthily establish a fourth base somewhere in Africa. AIDS will be a good cover for us.
4. Take advantage of the humans' fears, especially those revolving around December 21, 2012. The more they worry about "the end of the world", the less likely they will be to notice what we're doing.
5. Adjust the laws, rules and regulations in a matter that gives us more power, as long as the humans don't notice.
6. Exploit human diseases when possible. First matter of order on this: Autism, followed by diabetes and the various cancers.
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Let me point this out, first off practically nobody believes in 2012. And climaye change really isn't a problem so much as a minor inconvenience at the moment
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Let me point this out, first off practically nobody believes in 2012. And climaye change really isn't a problem so much as a minor inconvenience at the moment
12/21/12: Everyone knows there's a remote possibility something could happen, but no one believes anything will. The idea is to make it seem like there was a high chance of something happening, which would cause an increase in church attendance.
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2012 has nothing to do with religion it was predicted by ancient mayans you sacrificed people by ripping out their heart while it was still beating and then rolling them down the steps. And the only reason they believed the world would end is because they had a very special calender. The calender could be used over and over again due to a near perfect design but it would stop in 2012. Thats the only reason for the movie.
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2012 has nothing to do with religion it was predicted by ancient mayans you sacrificed people by ripping out their heart while it was still beating and then rolling them down the steps. And the only reason they believed the world would end is because they had a very special calender. The calender could be used over and over again due to a near perfect design but it would stop in 2012. Thats the only reason for the movie.
No. The movie was meant to capitalize off of 2012. Besides, if you bother to notice, the movie takes place in JULY, not DECEMBER.
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Yeah but they make all kinds of mistakes in movies.
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Angel, the Aztecs cut hearts out not the Mayans.
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We still do, but nowhere near the extent we used to, and it's not Government-sanctioned anymore.
Yes it is. Don't forget, the vast majority of this country (and world) are not Sci-Fi nerds. Aliens show up, and you'll have a whole slew of people rambling about how they don't have souls and need to be eradicated.
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What does being a sci-fi nerd have to do with it? I believe that the bulk of our population would be driven by curiosity first of all, at least the people is positions of power would as well as a great deal of the educated people. And keep in mind our governments have already sent a message to any potential alien lifeforms that may discover our Voyager space craft. There really is no doubt that the world leaders would meet with the Yeerk leaders eventually, upon which they would be infested.
By slew of people, do you mean red necks, religious nuts, and other people that are already held in a rather low regard? And would the human race really be so stupid as to screw up First Contact by opening fire on the technologically superior aliens?
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Yes. Yes we could.
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But I doubt we would.
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By slew of people, do you mean red necks, religious nuts, and other people that are already held in a rather low regard? And would the human race really be so stupid as to screw up First Contact by opening fire on the technologically superior aliens?
You've all ready proven our point by selecting a group of people whose beliefs and life styles you do not share, IE the "relgious nuts and rednecks" and degrading them to make your point.
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What does being a sci-fi nerd have to do with it?
Well as a sci fi nerd, you been exposed to stories where inteligent aliens/cyborgs/holograms/animals/whathaveyous have fought for equal right and were presented in a sympathetic light and been made clear that they deserve them. A good portion of Americans don't even want to give equal right to humans with a slightly darker skin color (let alone blue fur).
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Alright, I think we can say that SOME percentage of the human race will be interested/curious at the idea of first contact and have a peaceful reaction to such a thing. However, you also have to take into account that a much LARGER percentage of the world holds prejudices to one group of people, or more. Some of us will think, "Hey, cool. Aliens have reached Earth. Maybe they can teach us something. Give us a piece of thier technology. We can learn from them and, therefore, grow as a species."
Mankind is prejudiced, violent and paranoid by nature. We kill each other over land, money and minor differences in skin, religious belief and sexual preference. We've had wars started over rather ridiculous reasons. You take powerful world governments like the so called "super powers"--the same nations that have invaded other countries for oil (FREAKING OIL, FOR GOODNESS SAKE!)-- and expose them to aliens, they're most likely going to react in a rather violent way. They'll probably see aliens as they've been portrayed in H.G Well novels and Michael Bay films--bat sh*t crazy invaders that seek no more than to destroy us (ironic, eh?) And our response will be to fight back.
So I'm going to have to side with Newblaze, NateSean and RussianSpy on this one.
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But the point is, the bulk of the people in power will react peacefully. Our world leaders will have to consider the wisdom of dragging Earth into war against a intergalactic empire with superior technology. One Bladeship, a poolship and its fighters couldn't conquer Earth but they could sure destroy major resistance with ease. Our leaders would really have no choice but to go for friendly terms with the aliens.
And keep in mind the general populations reaction to aliens in book 54.
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uhhhhh dude. TMP just said that the 'super powers' which are the world leaders would react in a violent way. Please stop being so naive in thinking that world leaders want peace because guess what? THEY DON'T!!! If the yeerks appeared, in ANY form, the world leaders would launch countless nukes on them.
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Let's cool down this heated debate for a while :P I fear some more caps comments will be used.
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you say that like it's a bad thing :P
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If you remember the book their WERE ANTI ANDALITE TERRORISTS! They even blamed them for taking the ship that they used.
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uhhhhh dude. TMP just said that the 'super powers' which are the world leaders would react in a violent way. Please stop being so naive in thinking that world leaders want peace because guess what? THEY DON'T!!! If the yeerks appeared, in ANY form, the world leaders would launch countless nukes on them.
He said so? So he's right? All those governments fight each other on rather even odds when they do. they don't do stupid things like say, going to war with someone many times more powerful than you. The world leaders have an opportunity to gain massive amounts of technology, knowledge and whatnot that would massively benefit all of mankind. And you think their immediate reaction would be to not only get Earth into a war with a vastly more powerful alien race, but screw up first contact and making mankind look like the ****s of the galaxy? Unless our world leaders turn stupid, I don't think they would.
And BTW, of course there would be opposition, some violent. But nowhere near the scale you are hypothesizing.
Another thought I've considered is that the humans would be so busy arguing about the Yeerks, they wouldn't end up taking any action. Isn't democracy great like that?
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:facepalm: you know what? screw it. I'm done with this because you continue to be naive.
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Let's cool down this heated debate for a while :P I fear some more caps comments will be used.
Agreed. It was cool to debate the merits of peaceful vs aggressive invasion as that was the topic of the thread. But if you have to resort to high school debate team tactics then don't even bother getting involved.
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Yes, our world leaders would be likely to do something stupid.
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:facepalm: you know what? screw it. I'm done with this because you continue to be naive.
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Please enlighten me.
And angel, why would our leaders do something this stupid?
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Because they've done so in the past.
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Their human they make mistakes. Anyway I'm sure at least one of the nations in the world will respond with violence. And when the yeerks retaliate the other nations will see what their capable of and most likely respond with the universal language known as force.
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Yes, we make mistakes. But no modern nation will blindly attack advanced aliens, especially without international support. Most modern countries would have to have a vote in congress/Parliament before anything like that could ever happen unless the Yeerks came across as big and bad and raised the bar to DEFCON 1.
I'm in charge of the Yeerks, remember? We won't retaliate, we would do the bare minimum to defend ourselves and the other humans, nothing more. Missiles could be absorbed on the shielding and nukes could be vaporized. The UN would definitely pose a ban on attacking the aliens to avoid an intergalactic war.
In the meantime, these aliens are offering us tech and knowledge that could massively benefit human kind while they are trying to save us from the marauding Andalites. Really, firing nukes at them is just a stupid idea.
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Guess what? Humans ARE that stupid. :P
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my point exactly
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You're just saying lots of things that have no grounding. Yes humans make war for various reasons, but even thE stupid wars have a purpose. They need oil for money or machines, even Hitlers war was for living space for the Germans. What purpose would we have to commit all of our resources so we could wage a pointless war that would doubtlessly end in destruction? We've had no prior contact with the Yeerks, no reason to hate them. They come along offering s protection and grea gifts, and we decide tO jet attack them? That wouldn't be protocol for any other nation on earth why so for the Yeerks?
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How would you even communicate with them in advance? The technologies are on different levels, so unless you hijack the internet once the hork bjair and taxons land, their will be a massive click and a big bang. Then their will be janitors coming in to sweep up remains.
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...We would communicate with universal translators and by our knowledge of the human languages, especially English, we had prior to landing.
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I meant how would you send a message in the first place. You would purposely need to make a worse version of the technology that you have out of stuff that existed a long time ago in that section of the galazy but isnt in production anymore
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If the Yeerks could build a massive underground complex, I'm sure they could build a fairly powerful radio.
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All right, JS, yes you do have a point. Since Visser One has laid the groundwork for invading humanity, I believe she would admit that appealing to humanity's requirement of having someone else solve all of their problems would be an ideal way to go.
However, something as dramatic and risky as a world wide announcement would be too dangerous.
Remember, the whole trying to get Russia and China to start a war thing was the newly promoted Visser One's idea. And the reason the Council of Thirteen agreed with the old V1's policy of a passive invasion was that a major war on Earth would likely draw the attention of the Andalites, who were amassing their fleet and getting ready to make a decisive move.
You say that nations of the world would not be stupid enough to strike at an alien force. I could not disagree with you more on that part. Remember, at the time of 1990 when Visser One had the Sharing going, the US and Russia were all ready in a Cold War. The only reason we did not fire on each other with nukes was because of our mutually assured destruction. To quote WOPR: "The only way to win is not to play."
That does not mean we were not ready to push buttons when the time came. We all ready see what happened when a false news report of an alien invasion got taken the wrong way. It was right after World War One and people were jittery as all hell. It had nothing to do with aliens so much as it did the crippling fear that someone, from somewhere, with power and intentions that were too frightening to imagine, were getting ready to invade the country. That caused a massive panic among the masses.
Now, look at Russia and America. Both countries are filled with civilians who are being told that the other nation is poised to fire nukes at them. Tensions are as high.
Suddenly your announcement goes out. It doesn't matter what your intention is, people panic. Because while a handful of people might think, "Cool Star Trek." The rest of the population is freaking the hell out.
Riots in the cities as people hoard groceries and other toiletries. People stock piling ammunition and freaking out over the slightest sound, the glint of street light off of someone's approaching vehicle, or a helicopter in the air.
That riot causes a lot of noise. People are needlessly harmed, hospitals become overworked. Military efforts are pressed into service to control the crowds and are not watching the skies.
So, you might think, perfect. They won't be watching for our invasion. Except your passive invasion has pretty much just been flushed down the toilet. And any overt attack on your part could draw the kind of attention the Council doesn't want.
For the sake of safety, the passive nobody knows invasion is the best way to go. Even the Animorphs caught on that it wasn't such a good idea to expose the Yeerks for fear of a no kid's glove invasion.
Now, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a good idea to try and infest a government official. A mayor, or a councilman. Someone who can influence a vast number of people in a short amount of time.
One of my other minor plans is to financially back a candidate of my choice for election to high office. This way we now have someone in charge of zoning, distribution of finances, and the thing the Yeerks need most of all, access to hosts.
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You know Nate I wonder how the story of Animorphs would have ended if YOU had been Visser 3.
Vote NateSean for Ruler of the World. :P
(This candidate is sponsered by RAF)
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Hey if we're running to rule the world I hereby nominate myself. Vote for me, or I'll come to your house.
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You don't know where I live. :akanbe: Plus you can't nominate yourself, someone else has to nominate you. I have nominated NateSean.
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I totally can nominate myself
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A public riot could have terrible consequences, a modification to the plan would involve secretly contact/meeting several world leaders.
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Yes they do
No they don't. It's been stated plenty of times in the series. They base their gender on their hosts, but Yeerks themselves don't have genders.
Book 19, Aftran explains the Yeerk reproductive process, including mentioning that they have 5 genders. None of them really correlate to male or female though, so those pronouns typically come from the bost.
If Yeerks have 5 genders, why are only 3 needed for reproduction?
Once I got the Sharing set up, I would invite the President to meet with Sharing leaders and plug a Yeerk into his head. Then the President could help me Yeerkify the other world leaders! This should make it easy to consolidate the planet.