a very interesting topic and interesting replies everyone.
hrrmm. What would humans in animorphs universe be like 50 - 100 years post #54. I think first of all, that humans would certainly be very advanced. As a previous poster above said, the andalites reckon humans learn very fast. It is mentioned alot in Ax's first narrator book -'#8 the alien' where the after reading the world almanac cassie gives him, he comments on something about how humans did something like how short a while ago in history we built our first flying machine, and then a mere 50 or so years later we've managed to land on our moon. Ax said that it took andalites twice as long. Too lazy to look for page reference atm, but its in there. Then I think he goes on to say that we would be capable of faster then light travel soon, near the end of the book I think. Actually, he is surprisingly quite flattering towards humans in this book.
On humans in general, I saddens me to say that I don't think its very far fetched to imagine us as the bad guys replacing or even outdoing the yeerks. History proves that humans are capable of being just plain evil mofos -and historically, alot of these poeple were major leaders! Hitler and Stalin comes to mind. I think humans are capable of being much more evil than the yeerks, and an evil person actually comes around to exist. Us, our history as a race, a species, has been tarnished by attempts and accomplishments in genocide. We don't even see ourselves and one united singular species. It is as if we see people of different color skin, ethnicity and from different nations and cultures as another total different species altogether, based on the racism, prejudice and discrimination that has and still do exist.
Hitler was willing to kill millions of innocent people of his species - humans, the jewish people. Even yeerks such as visser three - who as we've seen has no qualms about lopping of the heads and limps of those poor human and hork-bajir controllers who happened to pissed him off by questioning his orders - showed that he still cared for his own kind and wasn't capable of just letting alot of them die (TAC, HBC and #54). In incidences that I've seen in those books, he shows concern about the possibility of having the thousands of his yeerk comrades who were still in the yeerk pool above the ships getting flushed into space. Hitler, on the other hand, a human, I'm sure would actually enjoy having thousands if not millions of jews getting flushed into the vacuum if space. He'd probably want to do it himself.
Humans it seems, have more free will, more individualism, more differentiating and conflicting views, visions, hopes, dreams and ideas from each other on how things should be on just about everything. One guy may have an idea that is good and moral. the next person might have his own agenda and views which he would think is right and justified, but is in fact, immoral. There is too much difference amongst us in terms of mental thought, ideas, interpretation, standards of ethics and morality that it is easy for evil humans to come into existence. We are capable of inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder amongst/towards our own species. So how can we expect to get along for long with something that is a total different species altogether?
The andalites I assume would be wary of humans. By then, in the 50-100 years and from Aximilli's reports if he had made any on humans - (I would assume he did, since he said that when the war was over, he would write a book about humans cuz he considered himself an expert, with due reason as we all know) the andalites would know both our potential to be a superpower and also our potential and capability to be evil. Of unspeakable evil. An andalite need just to pick up a book on hitler and I would bet he would have second thoughts on looking at us as a peaceful, harmony and tolerant race.
I think the andalites would definitely try to control us, have some kind of leverage or advantage over us. And I think this would clash with humans, as we are naturally curious and always willing to explore, jump into the unknown and advance. I don't think we would get along with the andalites and be faithful & sincere buddies for long.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the andalites were secretly quarantining earth, you know, always keeping a close eye on earth and making a fuss about everything getting to do with earths attempts in interstellar activities. I think this was posted in a post i forgot which one, but post #54 earth is a melting pot of former yeerks, yeerk nothlits, former controllers, taxxon nothlits and hork-bajirs. The knowledge and know how of how to build and operate advance crafts and weapons are still there with them. The possibilities and potentials of people using these resources for evil is high, to 'in your face' for them to ignore/tolerate imo.
