Eh, where was this? I think I might have missed one of your posts earlier. A reminder would be much appreciated.
Speaking of whom, I had a "weapon" idea that we should see if we can make. It's a launcher that shoots the the teleporter thingies, that stick to the target and then teleport it into a hold-cell at base (or where ever else)
I apologize, but quoting block by block is a pain.
Seems rather easy to me. Find a bit that you want to reply to, highlight it, hit the reply button, and then type your response. Also makes it easier to keep track of what you are talking about, when you are talking about several subjects. But oh well.
Normal: Yes. 13 million of them. It's specifically a "much larger invasion force than normal".
Just because there's more of them doesn't make them a problem. Back on their planet, there were probably a few billion of them, but they didn't completely revolutionize science every few months, don't see how 13 million of them could without something new to study.
Hell they could've chosen to colonize the moon and then establish trade. They didn't do that.
No they couldn't. Most of them would have starved if they tried to support themselves. If you meant "trade for food", our food probably wouldn't work for them, different biologies and all, even if we had enough to support them all. Normal Earth doesn't have access to our advance Star Craft tech after all, and as such it's a fair assumption to think that Earth's indigenous species couldn't support them.
They don't know what we're fully capable of, and neither do we. It's fair to say they're likely improvising, and this expedition is out to partly test us.
We know a lot more of what they are capable of then they know of us. Again, "we" fought off a full on invasion, so any tricks that would be conductive to killing/conquering people, probably were already used.
As for the attacks: That isn't how war works. You don't go "our killcounts are even, so let's all go home". That's not how it works.
Why not? They don't have anything we want, so why do we want to continue fighting? Because we like killing them, for revenge or otherwise? They are fighting us, because they think that's their current best option, they don't think peace is even a option good or otherwise. We just have to tell them that that ain't true. If they decide to stop fighting us, why should we continue on fighting them?
They're going to start hostilities with or without us being deployed.
Why are you so sure? What would they even be hostile against? Are they going to bombard some random city form orbit? Because if you mean they are going to fly guys down to do some more kidnapping, we can interrupt them before they get that far, for that takes time, while us deploying doesn't.
At least if we deploy, we're not only doing our jobs, but redirecting any fire to us and not at civilians.
Again, they are in orbit. The only possible civilian they can shoot barring orbital strikes (which even if we deploy right now, we wouldn't be able to stop, considering our guys still have to get in their bear before being teleported up) might be the ISS, if it just so happens to be over there.
I'll just say this much. I know what the aliens have planned (vaguely) and I'm laughing my ass off at all your random stumbling around in the dark if only because of just how wrong it all is.
Are both of us wrong?
maaayyybeee ever heard of an Alien Harvest mission?
