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Offline Starsword

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Center of Invasion
« on: August 19, 2008, 08:46:03 PM »
I have not seen this pass by in any post before, so I apologize if it was once brought up, but does anyone find it weird that the massive scale invasion was so localized? I mean, it seems that the leader of the invasion literally lived in one town/city. Wouldn't he want to go to different areas and cities to start his conquest?
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2008, 08:48:14 PM »
You would think so. I'm assuming it's just for convenience purposes. In an actual invasion if there are as many Yeerks as the books make us believe you would think they would have various headquarters set up around the world. Not just in one suburb in California.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2008, 09:14:38 PM »
They didn't really seem too worried about all the other people of Earth though.  I guess they figured that they could capture a single city and have enough hosts to last them for quite a while.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2008, 09:25:09 PM »
Just because it's never mentioned in detail, doesn't mean that there aren't other Yeerk bases in other states or countries. And Visser Three did move around sometimes. During the David saga they had forces on the island which housed the world leaders, and in #25 they have an Arctic base.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2008, 10:45:32 PM »
Yeah. *I asked this question before.

It would have taken years even decades to slowly invade the Earth. I'm guessing there were other Yeerk invasion spots on Earth

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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2008, 10:52:20 PM »
I concur.  Not that I know a thing about war or invasions.  But that's one thing that I've always wondered.  Of course, that means that there could still Yeerks on Earth after their defeat, doesn't it?  Or did they scour the Earth looking for Yeerk Pools and Controllers?  Perhaps only scour America?

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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2008, 11:19:00 PM »
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Or did they scour the Earth looking for Yeerk Pools and Controllers?

Of course. I'm betting they left no stone unturned.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2008, 11:49:57 PM »
I kind of assumed from Visser that they believed they didn't have the means to take Los Angeles directly, or even subtly, finding it easier to build a strong core of followers in one of the nearby outlying towns/small cities and working up.

Although that doesn't really make sense with the later books.  But whatever.

We don't know the town they were in, but it seems like it was of significant size (major hospitals and business districts, Mariott Hotel etc).  Probably big enough to provide the Yeerks with the infrastructure they needed, but small enough to comfortably infiltrate to the extent that they could build the pool etc.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2008, 12:11:31 AM »
the yeerks under visser one were not trying to suceed. She didn't want a completely successful invasion because of her children. So thats one reason. The other is that no one would notice if it started in a suburb. It has to start quietly and out of the way. If you think about an invasion you think about cities but in this case no one would suspect that alien parasites were taking over the world from moderately large city in California. Its what you read in the national enquirer.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2008, 04:26:53 AM »
Um, just because Visser 1 wanted to protect her children, doesn't mean she wasn't 100% for the enslavement and subjugation of all other humans...

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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2008, 01:08:17 PM »
Granted, I know Visser 3 was an idiot, and I think the Animorphs were dumb continually trying to get rid of him, he was an ally. But I don't really see the benefit of an outright invasion if they don't have the strength to overpower one city.
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2008, 06:13:12 PM »
It was more about the attention that would draw.  They could have forcefully taken a large town or city, but then they'd have the US Feds and United Nations and NATO and the European Union and just about everyone on their asses.  The Yeerks could defeat humanity by razing cities from on high, they just couldn't win while keeping enough of us alive to be profitable.

V3's final plan wasn't really idiotic, he probably just didn't care so much about taking all 6 billion humans, he was probably willing to make do with 1 or 2 billion (more than enough) and slay the rest.  Visser 1 wanted all or nothing.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2008, 06:47:52 PM »
Look if visser 3 was not incharge but rather visser 1 they would all be dead. She knew quite well what she was doing. The only reason they animorph's succeeded was because Visser 3 took excessive risks. The animorph's couldn't stop slow infestation while if a full out war was declared they could themselves wage full out war. Really They were always at a stalemate when visser 1 was incharge and eventually she would have taken them down.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2008, 10:15:39 PM »
I know WHY the invasion was secret. Why a huge war where many potential hosts would not only die but would beat them thanks to their numbers and lack of Kandrona rays.

But it seemed really silly that the Yeerks were actually hoping to slowly invade the Earth by only one location and waiting for it to spread like the slowest plague ever outward.
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Re: Center of Invasion
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2009, 09:48:14 PM »
They would have definitely had other Invasion spots. Wasn't one of the main leaders at that summit meeting in the Animorphs town?!
Really, really, really wish we knew which one of them was infested.
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