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Book Concept: A Realistic Alien Invasion
Topic Started: Feb 14 2012, 04:12 PM (1,440 Views)
dialforthedevil
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I am so bored of the cliche alien Invasion and I hope to present one which makes some sort of sense.

1. Thousands of vessels turn up in the atmosphere above Earth across the globe. Immediately vast amounts of drones pour out of drop ships but they seem to only attack Africa and the Middle East. Meanwhile they constantly harass the Air Forces of all nations, it seems that in terms of Air Power a modern combat jet can actually match an alien craft. Africa and the Middle East are hit incredibly hard, thousands of alien ground drones pour into the nations and begin a program of extermination. Oddly no viral nor large scale bombs are really used unless they are on large civilian groups.

2. After two months of fighting Africa and the Middle East are left absolutely devastated, more so from human weapons rather than alien ones. Although strange bombs were dropped on nearly all the cities in these nations, but only after all military targets had been wiped out. In the two months countries such as the USA suddenly find that their oil supplies had been cut off, the jets which had once protected these countries now lay dormant as thousands of alien dropships begin descending and start what happened in the Middle East. Low on supplies these nations crumble. Militia learn that the aliens only bomb the cities, but in the countryside the sheer speed of the drones and their firepower tear apart human tanks and infantry.

3. An emergency UN meeting is called, nearly all of the human militaries lie in ruin. Operation Tartarus is put into play. If mankind cannot have the Earth Nobody will. Every single missile mankind has is launched at the alien ships in orbit. Entire nuclear salvos are unleashed. THe last remaining humans retreat into bunkers. After a week mankind emerges, finding that alot of the bombs did not explode being old duds from the cold war. But the vast alien fleet was gone, the whole Earth covered in the carcasses of the ships. The skies were scorched red and, much of Earth was left devastated. But the drones no longer worked...

4. The great fight back began. Humanity rallied its forces and discovered the drones masters, which came to be known as 'squiddies'. No where near as resilient as their drone warriors the squiddies could not withstand such an assault. Used to living cooped up in their spacecraft the tanks and guns of mankind quickly slaughtered them. The great fight back though took 6 years of fighting across the irradiated wastes of Earth.

5. As mankind celebrated the Phyrric Victory briefly the skies once again burst with activity. A new vast fleet of different design appears in the skies. A message is sent to mankind. It is a simple choice, fight for us and we will fix your world, or we shall exterminate you. Humanity has no choice. The species which has made contact is known as the Fathers. The fathers sent the Squiddies as a test to mankind, the fathers need soldiers for the eternal war against something they simply call the foe. The fathers are godlike beings which go on these recruitment drives to find races which can fight in these wars. Mankind passed with flying colours, Operation Tartarus was not expected by anyone, at all.

6. If you guys like the sound of this I shall explain what happens when mankind joins the thousands of other sophonts which 'passed the test' ....
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hm...why dose that sound familiar...was this brought up before. anyway, sounds interesting.
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I might have done I am not sure.
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well, the theme is quite familiar for me, I read some stories which had similar ending
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Really, thats awesome! Could I have some links :) ?

The aftermath of the Fathers message.

1. The Fathers immediately begin demanding tithes of humans to be sent to battlefields spread out across the galaxy. The remaining human populations begin to set about gearing their entire economy to producing guns,tanks and planes. The Fathers install orbital outposts which help heal Earth and allow humans to walk around unassisted but also act as their strongholds keeping control of human populations.

2. The story goes on to follow two brothers, one brother is sent as part of the tithe to fight in the gigantic wars. The other is disabled and so is not taken up and provides a picture of what Earth is like.

3. The brother which is sent off is deployed in it's first battle. Grouped in with other Oxygen breathing life forms humanity is put in balls deep. As the dropships containing mankind land, they quickly discover that nearly all human tactics are worthless. Its just a mass charge alongside millions of other sophonts, sheer chaos. They find that their enemies are also vast amounts of sophonts, many speculate that they are actually embroiled in a civil war between the fathers. Once can barely tell who is enemy but eventually battle lines are set up as each species trys to grind each other into the dirt with billions of strange weapons. For 10 years humans fight these seemingly pointless battles never knowing what they are fighting for or why they fight. All mankind knows is that they have no choice but to fight.

4. Eventually humanity is called up to perform a test on another species. It turns out that if the tester fails to win, they themselves are exterminated. The squiddies of the initial invasion were exterminated briefly afterwards. Humanity fears that it may meet a species more powerful than itself. The humans are ordered to only destroy cities and not the local ecosystems, thus after extermination allowing another group of sophonts to eventually arise, so the process can be repeated.

5. As the first wave of human invaders land and begin the systematic slaughter of a species which come to be known as 'Toc- Tocs' due to the noise they make when frightened. Humanity quickly finds that before the Toc-Tocs had no concept of warfare, all disputes were resolved by whichever female had the more impressive plumage. Of course mankind rapidly exterminates the species. But the marines who participate in this begin to doubt the wisdom of the fathers...
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I dont know what it is dial but I absolutly love this, keep going.
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Well, humanity is rather proficient at slaughtering things.
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Are the Arabs really the low on the totem pole? I ask because As far as I know Canada supplies quite a bit of oil to the United States, and the Saudis are their number one supplier in the Middle East.
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I couldn't be bothered to name all of the countries which supplied oil, but yes oil facilities in Canada and Russia are hit as well. But most Western nations are left alone until the mass ground invasion. The aliens knew they could not actually face the human air forces which were numerically and tactically superior.
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There are a few problems with your story.

One of the big problems is in oil supply, America produces 36% of their oil and they get another 22% from Canada and after Saudi Arabia their next largest provider is Mexico. The USA would feel the pinch if they lost access to African and Middle Eastern oil, but they would have plenty left for military.

I doubt many nuclear weapons would be duds. Perhaps a few Russian ones but people generally keen an eye on their ace in a hole.

I am somewhat doubtful that we could overwhelm a fleet of a thousand ships with our fairly small stockpiles. They would be launched from all over the place and likely be poorly coordinated. I imagine the aliens would have plenty of time to intercept the missiles. We could probably launch a maximum of 30,000 missiles at the enemy ships, which would mean each one would only have to deal with 30.
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Okay so perhaps the US lasts far longer, or nations such as Mexico refuse to give oil to the US and stockpile it for their own militaries. Although with its own oil at 36% that still isn't going to last that long. Do not forget riots occuring due to the populace demanding oil for heating etc.

Okay so some are intercepted, I highly doubt anything could intercept all of them at once.
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They are going to have a good couple of minutes to respond and launch counter missiles, decoys, prepare CIWS and manoeuvres.

This won't be one big salvo, it's going to be lots of dribs and drabs all over the place launching at a thousand mobile targets.
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The whole point is that its meant to be coordinated.

The official number of nukes on Earth is apparently 23,375. But mysteriously this number has declined since 1986 which was reported at 70,000. I am at the belief that both figures are bullshit and the true number is in between. The sheer is number is too much to intercept when a species is sent in not having much clue on anothers combat capabilities.
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Well of course it's declined. Every so often Russia and America announce they are scrapping a few hundred as a show of good faith.

Also note there is a difference between a warhead and a ICBM. 70,000 nuclear weapons does not mean 70,000 that can reach orbit.

What I mean is, even if you launch them all at 0800 hours GMT, they are going to be launched from all over the world in all directions around the earth. Different rockets will have different speeds, different latitudes will reach orbit faster so it won't be single wave of missiles. Modern warships can track and engage hundreds of targets. The alien's space ships would have to deal with under 70 each.

You also have to remember ICBMs are intended to destroy cities and other large static targets on earth, meaning that if the alien fleet in a high orbit the missiles will have to go ballistic to reach them, making them very easy to shoot down.

If you are sent in blind, with failure meaning extinction, you are going to send your very best. So you need to come up with a reason why they don't have good missile defences available.
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Perhaps the squiddies relied on shielding technology rather than point defence, thus a concentrated attack on their shields may overwhelm their ships?

I don't know any suggestions?
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