More adventures in alien worlds?

[Chad32]

Sometimes I wonder if there weren't more opportunities for the Animorphs to go to other alien worlds. To do other things, and maybe bring back some useful stuff to help them win the war on Earth. They went to the Leeran and Iskoort worlds, and helped out there, but they were never able to bring back anything to help themselves.

Like book 11. Do you think it would be cool if Ax accidentally activated the Z-space thrusters, and sent them to another world for an adventure, instead of the sario rip thing? Let's talk about the possibilities.

[Terenia]

I think it would have been cool to see more of alien worlds, but not necessarily by the Animorphs eyes. The Iskoort and Leeran books worked, but by the time they went to the Hork-Bajir world it seemed as if the concept was a bit....strained. After all, the Animorphs war was on Earth, for Earth and because of Earth.

I would, however, have loved to see more of alien worlds, perhaps through Chronicles type books. I would have liked to see the Anati, and maybe a few other worlds.

[RYTX]

I can't belief that in the whole of the series, no one got a good look at the Andalite and Yeerk worlds. All there was were brief overviews at best.
I like that most of it was on Earth, I'm a fan of Earth, but still, I would have like to see them end up on either of those worlds at least once

[Chad32]

The Andalite and Yeerk worlds would be cool. They could go to the Andalite world to root out spies that alloran mentioned in book 8. Or to the Yeerk worlds because something big is happening that they need to sabatoge.

Though it is true that the war was on Earth, for Earth, because of Earth.

[Brad the Brit]

yer i would have liked to see more of the andalite home world... but then agai it was mostley fields and grass anyway wasent it?

[ThinkAgain]

I agree with Terenia. Just seeing the other worlds would be nice, perhaps through a Chronicles book. Still though, the war is on earth for earth.

My major conniption as far as other worlds go is why didn't they salvage dracons. I mean, it's suspicious to keep them on person, but to stick them in Ax's scoop would be smart. He could better protect himself in the event of an ambush, and Marco's gorilla morph could use it more often. Especially towards the end with the family members, I'd have liked to see a bit more sense when it came to weapons - Hork-Bajir spears, or dracons. Of course, it would override the purpose of Animorphs if they used a different weapon, but still, for Marco, Ax, and the family members at the end, stockpiling captured dracons would have been pretty smart.

[Brad the Brit]

  i had never even thought of that... nice concept but none of them could have carryed them esily. besides i always got the frrling the dracon beams would have been finger print recognition

[Chad32]

KA purposefully had them not use dracon beams, though I'm not sure why. Ax probably has basic shredder training, just like basic tail fighting training. Marco should be able to use a weapon built for a Hork, but his hands may be too big for one built for a Human.

[ThinkAgain]

I know they could have, should have used them.

I know in the beginning, with the morality issues and the fear of becoming the enemy, they would never use them, and here I agree.

If you're willing to blow up the pool and flush thousands of Yeerks, I think smuggling some extra Dracons into the Colony wouldn't have been to hard to do.

As for hiding them, put them in Ax's scoop. He'd take two into combat, one for him and one for Marco. The only problem I see would be carrying them, but if it were something that far and serious, they could just pick one up off of a downed Hork-Bajir and use that. That could have been done countless times. I can't count how many times Maro was bleeding to death and still punching, when dracons layed at his feet.

I mean, especially towards the end, morallity was collapsing. They'd use them by that point.

[DinosaurNothlit]

I think KA was trying to send an anti-gun message in the books, and that was why they never used Dracons or guns.  I dunno, that's a pretty weak defense, though, and Think is right, they should have used Dracons more often.

All I can say is, maybe they did use Dracons, and it was simply never mentioned in the books because of KA's reasons?  Is there anywhere where usage and/or storage of Dracon beams is maybe subtly implied?  I dunno, probably not, but I'd be cool with it if that were the case.  Otherwise . . . I suppose maybe the Animorphs just didn't think of it.  They've done sillier things . . .

Anyway, as for the original topic of the thread, it always seemed sort of surprising that they'd been to so few alien world.  Just Leera, Iskoort, and Hork-Bajir.  For some reason, it always seemed to me like they'd been off-planet more than that.  Although maybe that's just because they're fighting aliens all the time.

And I agree that they should have gone more in-depth with the Yeerk, Andalite, and Anati worlds, even if they didn't outright visit them.

[JFalcon]

I'd love to see Anati just to know if it was a world or a strategic location, a race on the planet or just rescources. But then again I'd love to see the Yeerk home world, somehow I doubt Visser Three's image of it was all that accurate, since really, when would he have lived on it or seen it with his eyes? He didn't inhabit a Gedd on the world, he became a controller later, I think he just envisioned it as something harsh and horrible because that might have been what he was told, it might have been Yeerk military doctrine, in order to soften the blow of having lost their own home world, to imply that it wasn't that great anyway. Just a thought at least.

And while I agree that the Animorphs should have tried using and obtaining Dracon beams there might be better excuses within their world than we're allowing, morality and anti-gun messages are all well and good in our world but what justifiable reason did they have? Were they so anti-guns that they'd set a hot tub full of yeerks to a boil but never pull a trigger? I doubt it. But these kids refused to speak to the yeerks for ages out of fear they might guess they were humans because of something they'd say, they're clearly very careful.

So what if the Yeerk dracon beams had tracking chips or something? True Ax could probably find and disable them but I personally doubt it because he might lack the equipment, knowledge or worse the tracking device might well be an essential part of the weapon.

In book 19 Atran freaks out about losing her issued dracon beam, she says she'll be punished for losing it but clearly she doesnt get killed for it . . . why not?

Why would an alien species trying to very secretly take over the planet and hide their own existence from us be okay with a high powered beam weapon floating around out in the woods for any hiker to find? They probably had a way of finding the weapon again, otherwise why spare the one who lost it? Controllers were killed for far lesser crimes. That the controllers looking for her knew the general area to look in kind of adds to this line of thought, at least for me, Aftran didn't tell anyone where she was going and Cassie's farm wasn't described as being that close to where the Sharing meeting took place which would have been the more logical place for a search party to be looking for her.

Then again it's been a while since I read that book, maybe there was some great excuse, still to me it makes sense that they would have been homing in on her dracon beam, not her personally, and if Ax knew there was no way to remove the tracking device in the beam he wouldn't take them to his home.

Of course later in the series when the Yeerks know where the hork bajir colony is, this is harder to justify and indeed in the heat of battle when the enemy knows where you are anyway, it's almost pointless not to take up a weapon, maybe Marco just felt more comfortable using his own two hands, and maybe Ax had some sort of reason for not using a dracon beam himself, I'll go out on a limb and say he might not have been able to bend over and lift it off the ground . . . yeah, I know that doesnt really work, but maybe it was seen as a dishonorable act instead.

[Chad32]

I don't think the homeworlds described in TAC may have been too accurate either. "Yeah, we're the good guys. So our world looks peaceful and green. Like parts of your world. They're evil, so their skies are dark and stormy. And their land is ugly." It's a cliche in kids movies, and possibly other places, that the home of evil is always dark and foreboding. Though I do imagine that Yeerks like swampy wet areas more than rolling plans and such. An aquatic race is bound to.

[Terenia]

We do see the Yeerk Homeworld briefly in HBC, and it seems to be a fairly similar rendering as in TAC. We do know it rains acid rain every night. Ick.

[Brad the Brit]

yeerks are evil= evil home world.... simple

[JFalcon]

Too simple and in fact downright inacurate, the Yeerks weren't evil, they were just the enemy. Maybe their leaders were cruel and perhaps a little evil but as a species Yeerks weren't evil, they were just the other side in the war.

As for their homeworld I hold out that Visser Three still wouldn't have seen it and it therefore still might not be as bad as he made it out to be, a little acid rain doesnt totally ruin a location, some people enjoy that kind of thing