Militia and troops.

Barnacle Bill · #1 October 3rd, 2006, 08:53 AM

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Unfortunally i cant bring a good example, because their has never been a situation of comparable value in history.

Sure you can. What about War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Mars Attacks, and even Terminator. In all cases humans rise to fight and eliminate the alien invaders. Except maybe War of the Worlds were the microbes did it.

Ayep, all extremely convincing real-life historical examples.....

More to the point, they are examples in which the alien intent is to exterminate the human race, not simply rule them. What is going on in SE is typically conquer & rule - if you want to exterminate you glass the colony from space. I don't believe that humans are going to fight to the death man, woman & child with bare hands if necessary to avoid paying taxes to Lord Amon-Kurath of the Amonkrie instead of General Takei of the Terran Confederation.

wrongshui · #2 October 3rd, 2006, 10:14 AM

Real world example? Japan got pretty extreme in World War 2, due to some misconceptions of Americans and there own culture.

Barnacle Bill · #3 October 3rd, 2006, 12:48 PM

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Real world example? Japan got pretty extreme in World War 2, due to some misconceptions of Americans and there own culture.

Although the Japanese talked about doing that and even made some preparations for it (women training with improvised spears & such), they did not not actually do it when crunch time came. Neither did the Germans do it, and the Volksturm was better armed that spears (a lot of with guns that would have been obsolete in WWI, but guns at least). The general population just doesn't behave that way given an alternative involving a reasonable chance for personal survival.