History WMG / BattleLosAngeles

** Jumping off of that. They could have been a colony ship or something that was forced by some circumstance to act as an invasion force, forcing them to MacGyver all their soldiers, weapons, and equipment from scientific, mining, or other colony building equipment. That would explain why they would have a good understanding of basic combat tactics, as any advanced civilization would have to have some concept of combat, but didn't just overwhelm the humans. They are technologically advanced and hardly stupid, they obviously learn quick, but they simply aren't battle hardened.

[[WMG: The movie is set in the same universe as ''SoraNoWoto.'']]

A good portion of the characters are inexperienced rookies who die on their first mission, the humans have to experiment on the aliens to figure out how to combat them effectively, and the humans eventually win by assaulting and destroying the alien command center.

.. to save their main Homeworld from the aliens from {{Skyline}}. Their Homeworld is under attack and the main fleet is fighting to hold off total planetery assimulation. The group hitting Earth are on a mission to Spawn as many soldiers as they can as use the raw resources to outfit a [[{{TheCavalry}} rear guard action]] to save as many of their people as they can. They are using Earths water as a huge spawning pool. Thats why their weapons fire naplm like rounds to prevent their enemy regenerating. They know what they are doing is wrong but consider it a lesser evil considering the enemy is heading to Earth anyway...

What we saw in the movie was simply an advanced force of cheeply manufactured Shock Troops. The aliens we see already show signs of being cloned-Shock Troops, weapons grafted to the arms, being hard to kill, etc. Here's the strategy: the aliens send off these Shock Troops as an advanced force, complete with cheaply made drones for support, to a planet to weaken the defenses/gauge the strength of the natives. What we're not seeing is the massive fleet hiding behind Mars.

It would explain their inconsistent tech level: they can buy tons of guns and hire Third-world mercenaries to wield them, but things like WMDs or an extra-orbital command post are outside their budget/ illegal to privately own. It would also explain why the soldiers are unarmored but well armed- if the soldiers are payed after the conquest or with a cut of the booty, every corpse is a bonus to the bottom line.

The air drones were entirely mechanical, and the troops were biomechanical clones (Much like the clone troops in StarWars). Earth is actually being invaded by a very small but incredibly well armed group.

That's why they're trying to steal Earth's water.

.. to save their main Homeworld from the aliens from {{Skyline}}. Their Homeworld is under attack and the main fleet is fighting to hold off total planetery assimulation. The group hitting Earth are on a mission to Spawn as many soldiers as they can as use the raw resources to outfit a [[{{TheCavalry}} rear guard action]] to save as many of their people as they can. They are using Earths water as a huge spawning pool. Thats why their weapons fire naplm like rounds to prevent their enemy regenerating. They know what they are doing is wrong but consider it a lesser evil considering the enemy is heading to Earth anyway...

[[WMG: [[ItGotWorse The Aliens are just getting started]]...]]

There are only two things that go against this theory: The Marines are very obviously surprised by the presence of Aliens, and the aliens in District 9 didn't seem to have any preoccupation with water.

[[http://unidentifiedenemy.com/ The aliens,]] and [[http://images.wikia.com/warhammer40k/images/f/f9/Tau2.jpg a Tau Fire Warrior.]]
Note that, A. they are both yellow-armored military aliens with B. a fondness for MoreDakka and C. similar helmets.

The aliens seem to be beating the snot out of the buildings in downtown LosAngeles - this is because they don't realize that those buildings are for business and residential usage and not for government. Their own command center is centralized in a large structure so they assume ours is too. A disproportionate amount of their forces are clearing and destroying these buildings, which helped the film's protagonists in the end.

* [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliance?]]

* The initial invasion is an army of misfits, not clones. If they are desperate refuges from a {{crapsack world}} perhaps the first wave is convicts, political dissidents and lower tier troops. The kind you could send to die on a low tech planet just in case it's a {{death world}}. Hence the cobbled together tech, cybernetic weapons and the drones. The cybernetics could just could be how they fight. The aliens has medics and in some scenes they'd drag fallen comrades to safety (clones wouldn't necessarily need to do that). Since we found their weakness, they next wave is the {{elite mooks}}.

Or rather, the film is a distant prequel, showing the beginning of Mankind's war against the alien "Them." Over several years, Earth unites to fight them off and eventually succeed in doing so. But by then, the aliens had drained a large chunk of the planet's water, civilization is largely devastated and the scattered civilian and military remnants find themselves stranded...leading to the creation of Helvetia and Roma.

[[WMG: This movie takes place in the [[{{Iji}} Ijiverse]]]]

* This makes sense to me. It seems entirely possible that the aliens are xenophobic or scared enough to try and wipe out any advanced species they encounter (Or maybe they just [[AliensStealCable watched]] StarshipTroopers too many times) and the reason the water drops so quickly is it just happens to be a convenient fuel resource for the aliens to use in an effort to exterminate [[HumansareWarriors the extremely violent and aggressive natives.]] It's not a standard invasion so much as a poorly thought through act of panic. I would also laugh hysterically if the sequel said the whole war was all Paul Verhoeven's fault.

The air drones were entirely mechanical, and the troops were biomechanical clones (Much like the clone troops in StarWars). Earth is actually being invaded by a very small but incredibly well armed group.

The air drones were entirely mechanical, and the troops were biomechanical clones (Much like the clone troops in StarWars). Earth is actually being invaded by a pretty small but incredibly well armed group.

''SuperMario64'' reference - when Mario is low on health he can jump into water and then come back out with his health refilling - due to the breath meter being the health meter. This alien used the same thing!

** Fridge Brilliance. Many skyscrapers are used to broadcast TV signals, so in a way they were. Much in the way we tracked their C&C center by it's strong RF signals, it's not unreasonable to think that in a big urban center a skyscraper with a powerful TV antenna on it might be one of the most powerful obviously artificial electromagnetic signals to be found, and therefore not a totally illogical target.

** [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliance?]]

As they are ripping the still-living alien soldier apart to find the weak point, a squad of aliens immediately head back to the police station.

** This makes sense to me. It seems entirely possible that the aliens are xenophobic or scared enough to try and wipe out any advanced species they encounter (Or maybe they just [[AliensStealCable watched]] StarshipTroopers too many times) and the reason the water drops so quickly is it just happens to be a convenient fuel resource for the aliens to use in an effort to exterminate [[HumansareWarriors the extremely violent and aggressive natives.]] It's not a standard invasion so much as a poorly thought through act of panic. I would also laugh hysterically if the sequel said the whole war was all Paul Verhoeven's fault.

...because the aliens have already drained them dry.

** This makes sense to me. It seems entirely possible that the aliens are xenophobic or scared enough to try and wipe out any advanced species they encounter (Or maybe they just [[AliensStealCable watched]] StarshipTroopers too many times) and the reason the water drops so quickly is it just happens to be a convenient fuel resource for the aliens to use in an effort to exterminate [[HumansareWarriors the extremely violent and aggressive natives.]] It's not a standard invasion so much as a poorly thought through act of panic. I would also laugh hysterically if the sequel said the whole war was all Paul Verhoeven's fault.

Humans have so many tall buildings, whereas the aliens only have a few of those kinds of things. Humanity ''must'' be some kind of existential threat! It's time to invade with the army they have, not the army they want! As for WMDs, well, the aliens apparently were never in a situation where they would need to invent such things.

* [[CriticalResearchFailure The Tau hadn't even invented fire in M2]].

* [[CriticalResearchFailure The Tau didn't even have fire in M2]].