lol. "a longer post", he says. xD
so. i still agree with
your big picture. give humans alien technology and they will figure out how to make use of it, no problem.
and be dangerous with it? oh, yeah. absolutely. humans can make just about anything dangerous. and anyone who can see that would be a fool not to try to cultivate and manipulate that.
i
still don't believe that humans can figure the pool ship and all built-in technologies out overnight. not even in a week. not even in a month. i give it at least
five years before a pool ship can be taken apart and put back together by human hands: hands belonging to someone who understands the theory behind their origin well enough that he can replicate and even improve upon what he has. (or she. given as i'm a 'she', makes sense to throw that in there.) i mean... prove otherwise, really, is what i'm getting at.
mmmm... yes. the pool ship
would have a listing of all infested humans, addresses, phone numbers, close relations, feeding history, etc. Absolutely.
....you might (might?) not have gotten my original point. tl;dr: i
dare you to tell a lieutenant commander to lock his commander up somewhere. to even
try.
if three american generals out of, say, six are infested, how do you lock up those three generals? do you tell the entire military (well, maybe just the army) that these three generals need to be held captive or put under house arrest for "a mere" three days? because they are a threat to national security? ...well, first: who would you have to be to give the order that anyone would listen to you? general 'a' can't tell those under general 'b' to just lock their commander up. general 'a' would be cited for mutiny and perhaps locked up himself. i can only think of mr. commander-in-chief potus, and he'd have his hands full with other things (like, he also has to deal with the andalites, get the information "there are aliens out there and this is what happened" scrubbed and out to the american public, get jake and the scooby gang taken care of in politically correct ways without allowing them to undermine his authority, take care of the remaining controllers and the other nations with controllers, their governments, blablah... no. this is game-changer. it isn't just one piece and it can't be taken care of in a week). how would you prioritize this mission to him/her? ....and when was the last time obama made a decision in a week? about anything? lol. (but then, this president is something of an odd duck... in that he tends to reach out for expertise from other sources- sometimes, too many sources- before he makes a decision. imo, that costs him time, and i haven't seen him make any better decisions for his having delayed an answer to wait on responses from his hoardes of resident wonks. ...but that's my opinion.)
question: how well do you know the US military? because i work with marines on a daily basis and can give you an idea of how rigid that line of command is.
plus, as i said before, it would take a long time before a human could figure out how to even find the equivalent of a "start menu" on a pool ship, let alone locate this list of infested persons. jake doesn't know how to hack a pool ship computer. marco wouldn't, either. and would either of them cooperate, in any case? or approve of the andalites with that knowledge doing the same? imo: absolutely not. and ax and alloran aren't doing diddly against jake's wishes.
1. but as for human-controllers: if yeerks die inside their hosts' heads (as my post inferred by "successful but not"), those memories would travel from yeerk to human and give the human enough information to allow him/her to at least take advantage of this knowledge and sell it to a corporation. (if you're getting at anything else there, i don't know what it is, lol.) an idea alone can sell for plenty of money, depending on who your buyer is. i doubt that anyone would have to explain z-space to get the point "we had faster-than-light travel and this is what i remember doing with it" to really get non-controllers on board with these ideas.
2. why would jake do this? i don't think that he would. he'd see the plan from 'a' to 'z' and disagree with it fundamentally. this is a cruel plan- an unnecessary plan. he would never agree to it. he might even go so far as to sabotage it. he's done with killing. this is crossing the line.
3. >________> .... i.... i don't understand your answer. personally, i think that 'a' of my point is more likely: i.e., yeerks would
never try to turn themselves in. ergo, we wouldn't have the scenario of "human-controller locked up in family home". at all. simply put: i believe that if the military were stupid enough to go door-to-door to round up controllers, they'd end up with riots on their hands. humans simply wouldn't give their family members into the hands of a notoriously violent, antagonistic, and
enigmatic (or "shadowy", as you put it) military. so: the human-controller yeerks would prioritize finding a way to escape without alerting their families or the alien (human) military. and i sincerely doubt that the yeerks would wait until they were unable to control themselves to do something about their situation, but they'd have plenty of time to find a way out. ....most of them, anyway.
i doubt that
all of them would have the resources to hijack skrit na ships or bug fighters. still, given as it's going to take the military a while to locate those earthside kandronas, i don't think that the yeerks have too much to fear.... right away. (i get back to: no one is decrypting a pool ship in 24 hours. or a week. or even a month.)
4. herp. i also don't know what this is responding to. i happen to agree with it from a human POV: no human military goes into a fight against such unknown odds / an unknown enemy unless the military leaders are insane. it's very sun tzu. very basic, imo. i wouldn't blame the andalites for doing the same. it'd be very bad pr otherwise, at the least.
i'm still not disagreeing with your hypothesis- just how you get about getting there, haha.
LMAO. okay, i put my foot down. ish. "
shadowy". (enter dramatic finger-wriggling here.) i need to know: which government conspiracies have
you fallen for? tell me: do you think that we've landed on the moon? was the invasion of iraq all about oil? where do the illuminati come into this? exactly how much do you know about these agencies?
psshh. crackers in the government? naw- not the kind who could hack a completely alien OS. i mean, i assume that the yeerks are running something better than linux or an iOS, lmao. for that gross assumption, you need to be speaking with better authority than someone who reads CNN or huffpost or wapo and decides that "NSA spies on people" (not that it's not true, but: tangent alert.). no offense, but "what about those unknown but super-powerful super-abilities that the humans in NSA have?" doesn't stand as an argument. these people don't exist.
namely- as i swear that i keep monotonously reiterating- humans wouldn't figure out a pool ship in a day. or a week. or even a month. these anime-esque cracker abilities that you assume the NSA possesses don't exist. there is no hyper-powered sixteen-year-old working undercover for the NSA or CIA or FBI to hack computers or foreign servers, etc. And said kid would never understand something completely, totally, utterly alien (i.e., was not programmed by steve jobs or bill gates) and hundreds of years advanced over human technology and hack it in a day. or a week. or even a month.
K.A. makes this sort of hacking sound very easy because she's got some aristh and a human kid taking down the yeerk empire with materials picked up from the local radio shack. ...this isn't realistic. don't let an author / authors with no computer programming/hacking experience fool you. if ax can hack a yeerk computer, the kid's got serious programming moxie. he's not an ordinary aristh (distracting females in class aside). no, you aren't going to fabricate z-space transponders with old computer parts. :| it's not
remotely realistic. (yay for the obvious: children's book series.)
...i hope that i wasn't too patronizing, but i get irked when i have to repeat myself. :| but given as perhaps i wasn't clear enough the first time around, perhaps this post illuminates my thought process.
your plan's success is contingent on the US executive branch agencies already having within it- at this point in time- someone who is willing to hack / access a ridiculously advanced and completely alien computer to sell out an entire race to slavery or death- a race with which this person may or may not have had any dealings or to which s/he may or may not have a relation or friend subjugated. ...that's a "no" on the probability scale for me. you just aren't going to find that person.
and... lol. that response was so random that i don't foresee myself adding anything to my arguments - not unless you can directly address the existing ones.
it just kinda... is what it is, for me.
also... this was a bit rushed and off-the-wall. i'm exhausted and five minutes from falling asleep- which also just is what it is. xD but given as this is the internet and what on earth do i care? ....well, yeah. that's what you're stuck with: rushed and off-the-wall.