I'm just a little optimistic of their chances of being, as I said before, metal ninjas that can infiltrate any Yeerk complex, smash a kandrona generator without harming anyone, and leave without a trace.
and, in leaving no trace, leaving a fingerprint of a very different sort.
The Yeerks wouldn't just leave. Given Andalite technology, we'd be too big a threat to leave alone.
agreed. we'd be toast. this is basic sun tzu theory, too- never leave an enemy at your back.
Eric changed his programming to take down the Yeerk battalion and seemed to have no trouble whatsoever changing it back. I think they could have impacted the outcome of the war without this having longterm implications in warfare.
yes- more realistically (and like chad's been getting at), we'd be talking about a handful of chee acting as a guerilla force, stealthily taking out the yeerk empire. they'd be the
competent animorphs. ideally, they'd reduce time spent at war, minimize war casualties, get home in time to walk the dogs.
....ehhhh.
what would the chee wish to accomplish by going after the yeerks? if they shift that line of morality between what they would then be programmed to consider as 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' action, then where would it land? and with what goal in mind - with what motive - would they finally join the war? it wouldn't be only to end the war on earth. it could never end that way. ending the war on earth would only ever have been a stopgap.
see, if the chee engage to end the war on earth, there are two outcomes: a) the local yeerks are destroyed or b) the yeerks' earth program is immobilized. in 'a', the yeerks would take so sudden an interest in earth that- reappropriating chad's line of thought- they'd be back to fry us or with reinforcements for mass infestation. i mean, what else does an ambitious species do when a quarter of its population suddenly drops off the map? ...investigate. with nukes.
in 'b', we'd suddenly have millions (billions?) of host-less yeerks as hostage.
...did i mention yeerk interest? and nukes? you
could would set things up so that it'd take some years before the empire was fully aware of the situation, but we'd
then be engaged in active,
prolonged warfare with the entire yeerk empire... if we were smart enough to adopt yeerk technology in that time and could survive the initial onslaught (back to the ironic weapons advancements... not mentioning the logistics of revealing yeerk presence to world powers and getting them to cooperate and work toward that end and argh-not-happening).
assuming that works, we still wouldn't be able to defeat the entire yeerk empire (and really, no guarantees that we'd get help from andalites or another species). do we go back to the chee and ask for help- again? how do they engage? against the empire?
anonymously?i don't think that you could immobilize the entire yeerk empire anonymously. you'd have to destroy them and i just.... auuuuugh. did i mention the xenocide thing? such a
bad idea. that's an immeasurable loss. and the universe is not going to believe that humans managed to destroy the entire yeerk empire. hello, new frenemies.
that's another interesting thing- how differently can these androids process thoughts such that
one android thinks to himself, "i'm going to change my programming!" and all of the other, identically-programmed androids say, "you are bats*t crazy"? total tangent. but that's evidence of some very sophisticated (and/or flawed) technology.
