History Literature / IllegalAliens

* AnythingThatMoves: When the rest of Squee's reptilian race decided to go and evolve to higher life forms without him, he decided he would repopulate his species with any and every even vaguely reptilian alien he could find. Surprisingly it works, although all his offspring immediately evolve to higher life forms after birth.

* TheFederation: The Great Galactic League
* FirstContact: The First Contact Team assembled by the United Nations 15 years ago for just such an event. They have gotten pretty good at playing poker over the last 15 years.
** Leader Idow and his crew.
* ForTheEvulz: Why Leader Idow and his crew land on pre-contact planets.

* RedHerring: A literal one.
* RunningGag: [=PFC=] Furstenberg is repeatedly field-promoted and -demoted for alternately ridiculously heroic, and unintentionally stupid actions.

* SpaceMarines: In PoweredArmor, no less.
* SpacePolice: The Great Golden Ones

* StupidityInducingAttack: The Stop That Cannon. "Fires" a powerful psychic command to '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin STOP THAT!]]''' at its target(s).

* WretchedHive: If the space police won't deal with you, you gotta go to the BadGuyBar where the worst of the scum of the galaxy hang out to get anything done.
** Or visit the ''literal'' wretched hive, [=RpoR=] - the homeworld of an insectoid species under total quarantine (enforced by an elaborate orbital minefield) by the Great Golden Ones, lest they get out and overrun the galaxy with their uncontrolled breeding.

** Or visit the ''literal'' wretched hive, RpoR - the homeworld of an insectoid species under total quarantine (enforced by an elaborate orbital minefield) by the Great Golden Ones, lest they get out and overrun the galaxy with their uncontrolled breeding.

** Or visit the ''literal'' wretched hive, the homeworld of an insectoid species under total quarantine (enforced by an elaborate orbital minefield) by the Great Golden Ones, lest they get out and overrun the galaxy with their uncontrolled breeding.

* HumansAreSuperior: Toyed with. Mostly we're just too stubborn to go down without a fight. The Great Golden Ones have gotten complacent with their reputation generally being enough to stop anyone going against them. Humanity develops a material that The Great Golden Ones made up on the spot, takes out the universe's Enemy Number One, resurrects an extinct alien race by thinking of the obvious solution no one else had, and generally makes The Great Golden Ones look like a bunch of tossers.

* MuggingTheMonster: The Bloody Deckers were probably not the right group of psychotic sociopaths for Leader Idow to play his games with.

* NoodleImplements: The alien sitting by himself playing with a piece of string and small fruit in the crowded [[BadGuyBar Space Bar]] is left alone because nobody wants to interrupt an assassin while he's working.

* PunchClockVillain: Trell, one of Idow's flunkies, is not a bad guy, quite cowardly, and is only in it because his parent sold him to Idow to settle a debt...

* StupidityInducingAttack: The Stop That Cannon. Fires a powerful psychic command to '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin STOP THAT!]]''' at its target(s).

* WretchedHive: If the space police won't deal with you, you gotta go to the BadGuyBar where the worst of the scum of the galaxy hang out to get anything done.

'''Part One''' deals with Earth's FirstContact with aliens. A 400 meter diameter white sphere lands in Central Park, on top of a company softball game. The aliens announce over every available communications device on the planet, in appropriate language (Except Australia, who received their broadcast in French. Even aliens make mistakes.) that humanity is going to be tested for entry in [[TheFederation The Galactic League]]. However, this is to be a trial-by-combat. The alien ship abducts a rather ordinary "road maintenance crew" ... no, actually it abducts a vicious street gang named The Bloody Deckers (Thanks to LostInTranslation. Remember about aliens not being perfect.) as representatives of Earth to participate in the trials. If the humans win, the Earth is admitted into the League. If they lose, Earth will be destroyed. Actually that's not really true either. In ''actual'' fact, the ship is run by a bunch of interstellar criminals, headed by the blue-furred Leader Idow, who like to land on pre-contact planets and screw with them. The participants never win, get shredded by increasingly violent "tests," and the aliens sit back and watch the chaos as the planet's inhabitants panic at their inevitable destruction. Only this time, perhaps the aliens picked the [[MuggingTheMonster wrong road maintenance crew]] to participate. Part one culminates in [[SpacePolice The Great Golden Ones]] arriving and saving the day - kinda. In the end, Earth is deemed too violent and primitive to be allowed admission into the League, and The Great Golden Ones blockade the planet until we can learn to play nice.

* EEDocSmith: There is a specific ShoutOut during a massive space battle that it was "even crazier than an E.E. 'Doc' Smith" scene.

'''Part One''' deals with Earth's FirstContact with aliens. A 400 meter diameter white sphere lands in Central Park, on top of a company softball game. The aliens announce over every available communications device on the planet, in appropriate language (Except Australia, who received their broadcast in French. Even aliens make mistakes.) that humanity is going to be tested for entry in [[TheFederation The Galactic League]]. However, this is to be a trial-by-combat. The alien ship abducts a rather ordinary road maintenance crew ... no, actually it abducts a vicious street gang named The Bloody Deckers (Thanks to LostInTranslation. Remember about aliens not being perfect.) as representatives of Earth to participate in the trials. If the humans win, the Earth is admitted into the League. If they lose, Earth will be destroyed. Actually that's not really true either. In ''actual'' fact, the ship is run by a bunch of interstellar criminals, headed by the blue-furred Leader Idow, who like to land on pre-contact planets and screw with them. The participants never win, get shredded by increasingly violent "tests," and the aliens sit back and watch the chaos as the planet's inhabitants panic at their inevitable destruction. Only this time, perhaps the aliens picked the [[MuggingTheMonster wrong road maintenance crew]] to participate. Part one culminates in [[SpacePolice The Great Golden Ones]] arriving and saving the day - kinda. In the end, Earth is deemed too violent and primitive to be allowed admission into the League, and The Great Golden Ones blockade the planet until we can learn to play nice.

* LostInTranslation: The road maintenance crew initially picked up by the aliens. Actually a vicious street gang with a combined rap sheet measured in yards.

* HumansAreSuperior: Toyed with. Mostly we're just too stubborn to go down without a fight. The Great Golden Ones have gotten complacent with their reputation generally being enough to stop anyone going against them. Humanity develops a material that The Great Golden Ones made up on the spot, takes out the universe's Enemy Number One, and generally makes The Great Golden Ones look like a bunch of tossers.

* PunchClockVillain: Trell, one of Idow's flunkies, is not a bad guy, quite cowardly, and is only in it because his parents sold him to Idow to settle a debt...