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Capsuleer invasion

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Metal Icarus
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#41 - 2012-07-30 13:20:16 UTC
Currently, they can't bombard the planet. However, I would hate to see planet earth covered every square inch with planetary interaction stuff.

Farm? Nope. command center. Apartments? Nope, harvester.
Taranius De Consolville
Doomheim
#42 - 2012-07-30 13:22:38 UTC
Leah Solo wrote:
So I just watched a documentary on nat geo about aliens invading, and how Earth's population might defend from it. Turned out the ultimate weapon was some nonsense, about infiltrating enemy carriers with latex balloons and destroying them from the inside on a suicide mission. Roll


So my question is, what if capsuleers invaded Earth? What if Amarr, Minmatar, Caldari and Gallente combined forces to take over?

What could we do to stop them? Could we stop them? Balloons? Pirate

Fire away.


Yeh i watched that months ago, using bacteria, shows the limited stance, if we were colonised, there would be no *fighting* back, if they can travel thru space, we are fuxed
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#43 - 2012-07-30 13:23:51 UTC
you're all forgetting that earth didn't go through a 20k year dark age ... if the empires of the new eden cluster managed to stabilize the eve gate and attempt to invade the milky way... they would probably get ****** HARD.

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Joneleth Rein
#44 - 2012-07-30 13:44:40 UTC
It's easy actually.

We show them Eve and tell them they are all our characters :P

Total mind****

Spider Pig! Spider Pig! Does what a Spider Pig does.. Can he swing? From a web.. No he can't. He's a pig.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#45 - 2012-07-30 16:07:57 UTC
Denidil wrote:
you're all forgetting that earth didn't go through a 20k year dark age ... if the empires of the new eden cluster managed to stabilize the eve gate and attempt to invade the milky way... they would probably get ****** HARD.


I'm surprised it took this long for someone to point this out. Terrans, in EVE, are probably so powerful they make what the Jovian Empire used to be look like kids playing around.
Yatama Kautsuo
Tencus
#46 - 2012-07-30 16:52:27 UTC
Joneleth Rein wrote:
It's easy actually.

We show them Eve and tell them they are all our characters :P

Total mind****


if you see this you'll **** bricks :D
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#47 - 2012-07-30 21:04:15 UTC
An advanced race could obliterate us from orbit. Or they could blanket the planet in poisonous gas. Or they could engineer a virus to wipe us all out. They might even be able to do something like strip the ozone layer off the atmosphere or simply deploy a large mirror on the dark side of the earth to reflect the sun's rays back, cooking us in a relatively short time. And there's no telling what sort of technologies they might have that we haven't even imagined.

Invasion stories largely relies on the aliens being arrogant to the point that they ignore threats and use defensive systems with weaknesses that can be identified and exploited by a low-tech species even after it has lost most of its combat capabilities.

The only way we'd have a fighting chance is if the invaders were desperate. If they arrived with limited resources and were unable to engage us from orbit (or unable to defend themselves against our nuclear counter-attack and found their orbital strike capabilities crippled), then it's feasible to have a scenario where all of humanity is pitted against a small but technologically superior force. Our struggle would be learning to counter their technology so that we could inflict real damage before they could cripple us to the point that we couldn't take the fight to them.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Hiyora Akachi
Blood Alcohol Content
T O P S H E L F
#48 - 2012-07-30 21:41:58 UTC
We'd die. Simple as that. As it stands, we have nothing that could harm any of the EvE warships. Orbital bombardment would crush any resistance before we even knew what was going on.
ugh zug
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2012-07-30 21:45:24 UTC
eh? chuck a big rock at any planet problem solved.

Want me to shut up? Remove content from my post,1B. Remove my content from a thread I have started 2B.
Phill Esteen
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2012-07-30 21:51:04 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Denidil wrote:
you're all forgetting that earth didn't go through a 20k year dark age ... if the empires of the new eden cluster managed to stabilize the eve gate and attempt to invade the milky way... they would probably get ****** HARD.


I'm surprised it took this long for someone to point this out. Terrans, in EVE, are probably so powerful they make what the Jovian Empire used to be look like kids playing around.


Terrans are so powerful they got bored and unsubbed

– postum faex est – 

never forget
Garreth Vlox
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#51 - 2012-07-31 01:02:24 UTC
Skippermonkey wrote:
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


I think you just won this thread.

The LULZ Boat.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#52 - 2012-07-31 02:23:02 UTC
Hiyora Akachi wrote:
We'd die. Simple as that. As it stands, we have nothing that could harm any of the EvE warships. Orbital bombardment would crush any resistance before we even knew what was going on.

But they need someone on the ground to transmit codes to the Dreadnaught/Battleship above.

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
Vince Arron
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#53 - 2012-07-31 16:16:33 UTC
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Hiyora Akachi wrote:
We'd die. Simple as that. As it stands, we have nothing that could harm any of the EvE warships. Orbital bombardment would crush any resistance before we even knew what was going on.

But they need someone on the ground to transmit codes to the Dreadnaught/Battleship above.


I think thats just so the ship targets the exact placement of the enemy and doesn't vaporize the whole area..
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