![]() Three weapons systems matching this criterion are currently provisionally available under CASE DYSPEPTIC FLARE, representing extremal response cases to otherwise uncontrollable excessionary-level existential threats. The ultimate sanction available to the Existential Threats Primary Working Group at this time remains the use of weapons in contravention to Chapter I of the Ley Accords, to wit, weapons inducing severe uncontrolled stellar perturbation up to and including sequence change. ![]() SPECIAL SECURITY PROCEDURE BASILISK FIDELIS MOST SECRET (ULTRAVIOLET) / EYES ONLY DYSPEPTIC FLARE This causes hard feelings, but unfortunately the westerners have something else called "automatic rifles". The westerners tell the tribesmen that the dirt is called "Coltain", from which they can extract something called "Tantalum", which is absolutely vital for something called a "Cell Phone." But to the tribesmen, it looks just like the same dirt that is everywhere else, and more specifically, in places that are not under their beloved village. Then us poor humans will find ourselves in the same spot as a primitive African tribe who does not understand why these Western stranger want to bulldoze their village in order to dig up the dirt. But what if we hand-wave an unknown resource, something that our scientists have not even discovered yet? (Wow, Zzazel! Their planet is incredibly rich in polka-dotted quarks!) The same goes for gold, uranium, or our women. TERRAGEN FOGGY ATMOSPHERE TVI don't care what you saw in the TV show V, Markus Baur points out that aliens invading Terra to steal our water makes about as much sense as Eskimos invading Central America to steal their ice. If one must have aliens invading because they want some crucial resource, I like to use an analogy. The new imperium rose from the ashes, grimly determined that such wars will not happen ever again, and all human worlds must be incorporated into the empire with no exceptions. ![]() In that novel, there once was a loosely allied human interstellar empire that collapsed in a bloody secession war. This is actually the motivation in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Mote In God's Eye. The motivation of the empire can be something stupidly human like "gotta collect 'em all!". ![]() Some of the motivational questions can be side-stepped by assuming the invasion is not an alien one, but instead a hypothetical human interstellar empire attempting to invade a human colony world. The lack of a logical reason for invasion is up to the author to devise a solution for. ![]()
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