eatst14
Nov 17, 2002, 08:33 AM
I was wondering if anyone has ever read Harry turtledove, he writes alternate history books. One such series he wrote about was what if durring early 1944 aliens invaded the earth and the human nations were forced to put aside their differences in order to survive, not uniting mind you, but calling a truce so that they could fight off the ailen menace then return to killing each other.
Essentially the alines are short, 4-5 feet tall, lizards whose technology level is just about where we are today. However, when the aliens first scouted this world, they believed they would be fighting knights, now the scouted Earth around 1300Ad, and beliving that since it takes them eaons to adapt new technologies, the same would be true for Earthlings, which they call "big uglies". The lizards use a monarchy as their government type, and in the series, took over every non-major power, except for of course, us, britain, japan, russia, germany; also did not take over canada or any very very cold countries, as they hate teh cold and their tanks freeze up in it.
The lizards are alos not dependent on oil, as they use hydrogen to feul their equipment, no not fusion, just hydrogen.
Also because they come from a world with very littel water, they are not very good on teh oceans, in fact in the series they dont even try to invade england until later on because islands couldn't possibly pose any threat. This should be a big advantage then for Human countires, especially Japan with her island enpire from new guinea to okinowa etc...
Also because the aliens have a huge space force, they should be given extremly good airlift abilities.
If you need more info than this let me know
Ed
Essentially the alines are short, 4-5 feet tall, lizards whose technology level is just about where we are today. However, when the aliens first scouted this world, they believed they would be fighting knights, now the scouted Earth around 1300Ad, and beliving that since it takes them eaons to adapt new technologies, the same would be true for Earthlings, which they call "big uglies". The lizards use a monarchy as their government type, and in the series, took over every non-major power, except for of course, us, britain, japan, russia, germany; also did not take over canada or any very very cold countries, as they hate teh cold and their tanks freeze up in it.
The lizards are alos not dependent on oil, as they use hydrogen to feul their equipment, no not fusion, just hydrogen.
Also because they come from a world with very littel water, they are not very good on teh oceans, in fact in the series they dont even try to invade england until later on because islands couldn't possibly pose any threat. This should be a big advantage then for Human countires, especially Japan with her island enpire from new guinea to okinowa etc...
Also because the aliens have a huge space force, they should be given extremly good airlift abilities.
If you need more info than this let me know
Ed