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Capsuleer invasion

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Gil Roland
Roma Aeterna
#21 - 2012-07-29 21:35:36 UTC
Leah Solo wrote:
What could we do to stop them? Could we stop them? Pirate


Define "We". According to your info you're Caldari.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#22 - 2012-07-29 21:38:20 UTC
If you don't control your orbitals, you lose.

To a space borne force, that is. They're the high ground.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter

JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#23 - 2012-07-29 21:47:57 UTC
I liked that docu.
DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
#24 - 2012-07-29 22:28:36 UTC
We would offer them 1 trit for their ships and bankrupt them
An' then Chicken@little.com, he come scramblin outta the    Terminal room screaming "The system's crashing! The system's    crashing!" -Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'
Raya Chandragupta
Observant Eye Inc
#25 - 2012-07-29 22:52:48 UTC
Their technological level is pretty pathetic for space faring people. Their cloning tech and their ability to use jump gates/warp jump are the only real technological advantages they have. Sure, they have big ships and space stations but basically that's nothing we couldn't built too if we focused on that stuff and put a couple of trillion dollars into it every year. They can't get here anyway because they have no jump gate for that purpose and are too stupid to figure out another way to travel long distances.

And even if they got the technology to travel here, they'd just murder each other long before they reached Earth, given what a bunch of narcissistic, whining, greedy, deceiving, backstabbing scumbags most of them are. It would be fairly easy to use their paranoia and psychopathic mentality to make them jump at each others throats. Then bribe Goons with beer, dope and gambling concessions and get the remains of their invasion fleet blobbed to Hell. Mission accomplished, Earth saved.

So, unless they just pop up without any kind of contact before and immediately start exterminating the population of their mother planet for no reason, our odds aren't that bad.
Jett0
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#26 - 2012-07-29 23:04:56 UTC
Tell them we have all their Quafe Zero.

Occasionally plays sober

Nylith Empyreal
Sutar Rein
#27 - 2012-07-29 23:18:09 UTC
Get them addicted to boosters.

Who's the more foolish the fool or the fool who replies to him?

Leah Solo
Lag No Use
#28 - 2012-07-29 23:31:37 UTC
Gil Roland wrote:
Leah Solo wrote:
What could we do to stop them? Could we stop them? Pirate


Define "We".


Why..you and me of course. P

Well, stopping the minmatar would be easy. Everyone knows minmatar's main weakness is they can't bear any more rust. So luring them to some rainy country like UK, and watch them crumble would be the obvious solution. Lol
Garreth Vlox
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2012-07-30 01:18:48 UTC
Cpt Gobla wrote:
leviticus ander wrote:
current day earth would be screwed. planetary bombardment.


Would be a suicide attack though.

I don't think EvE ships are capable of planetary flights since most of them lack wings and are crazy heavy.

They usually have a range of 200km or so. That's in low earth orbit meaning all the ships would slowly start to descend and crash.

They might be able to lay waste to a lot of cities, but eventually they'd crash and burn themselves.



You do realize a planetary bombardment is done from SPACE, with no need to enter the atmosphere?

And when you are shooting down at something on a planet gravity is your friend the bomb wont stop 50 km from target because it is to far, it will just keep falling...

*edit also on the main point we would be ******, period.

The LULZ Boat.

Shedling
Doomheim
#30 - 2012-07-30 01:49:13 UTC
Give them the internet.
Thor Kerrigan
Guardians of Asceticism
#31 - 2012-07-30 03:10:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Thor Kerrigan
I doubt they would know how to deal with gravitational fields, orbits, ships colliding, being kited past 249 KM etc, etc.

Our world is very much different.

...

And they would also fail at cloaking their ships. OH NO I DIDN'T Shocked
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#32 - 2012-07-30 04:21:29 UTC
Perfect idea, we wait until they hit downtime, then use said latex ballons to infiltrate their corps/alliances and steal a **** ton of supers, take all their isk, and then just to add insult to injury, disband them.

Special Note: If we go with Latex Ballons, I would advise MacGuyver...he should know how to make it work like a pro.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."

Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#33 - 2012-07-30 07:20:53 UTC
Raya Chandragupta wrote:
They can't get here anyway because they have no jump gate for that purpose and are too stupid to figure out another way to travel long distances.


Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Sol at 4.37 light years away.

One light year is 63241.1 AU.

Alpha Centauri is 276,363.607 AU away.

A Buzzard covops can travel at 13.5 AU/s at warp.

That Buzzard, equipped with a cynosural field, can make the distance between Alpha Centauri and Sol in just under six hours, not including acceleration or deceleration between warps, or capacitor capacity. There's some deeper math involved to factor in those - but it wouldn't take very long to go inter-system on warp drives alone.

You don't NEED stargates, but game mechanics and balance force us to. ... after all, how do you think those stargates got there in the first place?

Katrina Oniseki

rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#34 - 2012-07-30 07:23:04 UTC
Give them Africa, then watch them leave.

P.S. We won't be invaded anytime soon.

Signature removed for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne

Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#35 - 2012-07-30 09:39:30 UTC
rodyas wrote:
Give them Africa, then watch them leave.

P.S. We won't be invaded anytime soon.

Dude, dont you watch the movies!?

Theres totally a Megathron being kept sedated somewhere in the Nevada desert

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION

Otrebla Utrigas
Iberians
#36 - 2012-07-30 10:00:32 UTC
Could the Aztecs fight the spanish conquistadores? No, they couldn't.

Earth fighting against an invading enemy will be screwed.

Hard.

Because if you have the speed and height, you have the upper hand in combat. They can just bombard our cities or just unleash a viric disease to kill all humans (and reduce them to recycled goo like in the Crysis game)

Also, the DUST tech will wtfpwn our current military except if we use tactical nukes. Which in the end won't matter cos they don't lose soldiers (clones) and their production capabilities are way way superior to us (thousand of planets against just one)

Or they can just use an orca with Tractors and haul a small (15km wide) asteroid to earth.

They don't even need Warships!!
Spy 21
Doomheim
#37 - 2012-07-30 10:56:18 UTC
I don't think any of the empires would be intent to wipe out humanity. After all, they are Human.

The Amarr would enslave us allowing the converts to live with some freedom creating a religious dictatorship to replace the current governments.

The Galente would want to bring us into their .'Federation'.... that is after the destruction of existing planetary government.

The Caldari would buy up Manhattan and all the major exchanges and rule the planet from there and...

The Minmatar would only be interested in harvesting all the duct tape from Home Depots around the world.

The pirate factions would be something else though...

S

Obfuscation for the WIN on page 3...

Cloned S0ul
POCKOCMOC Inc.
#38 - 2012-07-30 11:14:20 UTC
Offer to them Planetary interaction free form tax, and infrastucture hub, just for relax like we do...
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#39 - 2012-07-30 11:15:39 UTC
Microwave that pod!
Microwave that pod!
Caitlyn Tufy
Perkone
Caldari State
#40 - 2012-07-30 11:46:23 UTC
Adam Junior wrote:
Earth could be exterminated by orbital bombardment in minutes.[/quote]

This. One study showed that using just 300 of russian strategic nukes, U.S. would suffer around 90 million casualties in half an hour - that's 1.5x the total amount of casualties in WW2. A civilization in orbit around Earth could reach any spot on Earth in minutes and would likely posess far more weapons than the cold war ever produced, with better (and easier) delivery systems. Hell, a mass driver system (railgun) could easily reach the TNT value of a tactical nuke with none of delivery problems and an incredible rate of fire.

Long story short - we'd be screwed before the battle even began.
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