OT: Alien invasion

[Targan]

Let me state first that I'm not trying to gainsay anybody's ideas or display how clever I am. I like Wes' and Army SGT's ideas and I'm just running a critical eye over them.

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Terrestrial life as food sources. There is a one in four chance that the proteins would be edible to a extra terrestrial traveler.

Once again, the high technology of a species that can cross interstellar space makes this idea redundant. You're absolutely right about the proteins though. Maybe if the aliens were like those in the Predator films this could be a factor (the aliens have a racial imperative to hunt and devour other sentient species).

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Miners. Taking humans to be miners in belt colonies.

Collecting or harvesting specimens for inter galactic zoos.

I can totally dig these ideas. If genetic engineering was an area of technology the invading aliens weren't so good at maybe subjugating a slave species would be a valuable outcome for them.

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Water.

Why? There are incredibly vast amounts of water in space that would be much easier to access than the water at the bottom of the Earth's gravity well. The Oort Cloud (where the comets come from) contains untold trillions of gigalitres of water. And frankly if you can cross interstellar space you can most likely manufacture water cheaply and efficiently from hydrogen and oxygen.