There is also the idea of Stargate, SG1. Humanity fighting off a symbiotic race that uses humans as life support systems. Although the biology is rather mind boggling that we and the sybiote could both use O2, water, and the different terran amino acids.

Who do you shoot?

Granted, if they are marching in with their armor and staff weapons, backed up by (seemingly) few FTL mother ships, then, yeah, the target is obvious...

But what if they wise up?? Take off the armor. Pick up Uzi's or MAC-10;s and start blazing away. The symbiote gives the warrior greater strength, agilty and survivability on the battlefield.

It seems to me that if you get a head shot, the warrior is dead anyway. BTW, note to terran warriors. Take no prisoners or try to treat enemy wounded. THe symbiote might just jump into you!!!

My $0.02

Mike

You know, I wasn't even thinking about that when I wrote it - District 9 was in the back of my mind at the time.

Been watching this for a while, and I have to admit the best point I ever read about an 'Alien Invasion' was given by John Ringo: "Once a species "owns" the gravity well, there isn't much you can do about it." Its a good valid point, if anyone has the tech to get here, well... thats it. And it applies as much to the here and now, as it would in any sort of situation, be it a 1000 years ago or a 1000 years from now.

Despite a few certain other books he has written, Ringo's Posleen series is actually a pretty good riff on it, since he figured if there was any hope for humanity, there would have to be handicaps to the bad guys, and that we would have to have some sort of help from the 'good guys'. And it would all have to be logically consistent.


Just ignore the cover art: Baen books seems to miss (and miss big) more than hit when it comes to that sort of thing.

*laughs*

Now that would be interesting: I can't even start to imagine the chaos that would ensue if next week the fleet showed up in orbit around us.

One: Aliens!
Two: Wait.. they are humans....
Three: Wait, WTF?!? They are humans!
Four: And who is gonna talk to them and get them to come down on their country?
Five: Wait: Not all of you are humans, but you all look and physically are humans? WTF?!?
And Six: And you guys think Nukes are everyday weapons?!?