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Why do aliens hate us?

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Bandobras:
Wow, that's pretty original.

Rei:
I'd vote against any idea in which the aliens are "evil".  I want them to have realistic motives, please.  

A realistic motive for genocide attempts against  humanity could, for example revolve around them truly believing that humanity is a growing threat to them -- for example, human tech research is damaging/destroying their homeworld.  Or perhaps they've done/are doing something that they have good cause to believe will make humanity want to kill them all (whether or not they're repentant for it, whether it was an accident, whether it was something bad done by a small group, or whether something bad done by their society in general that they felt was essential to continue their way of life or their species itself.  

Whatever the reason, they have to have good reason to believe "it's either us or them, and it's not going to be us!"

If they've messed up a planet and are moving on, deparately seeking a new world, please don't pull the silly Independence Day thing and have them be a race that goes around destroying planet after planet.  One time, it's an accident and a learning experience.  Multiple times, it's just stupidity.  With all the matter and dead worlds in the universe, there's no reason for such a technologically advanced species to mess up the few habitable worlds one after another.

I proposed a possible intro/backstory in the "Design" forum.

killerdeath:
What if they think we are at a point in our eveolution that we could be a big threat to the aliens and they want to stop us from being a threat to them in the future.

ironmonkey:
I definitely like the idea that there are factions to the aliens as well as different races within their army. Unless they live within a very strictly enforced totalitarian oligarchy there will be differing opinions of what to do with the 'new found vermin' or whatever is decided that the aliens see us as being.
This can provide for a lot of extra storyline options: if somebody is dangerously behind on research, a 'defecting' alien could come forth and give us some technology in exchange for 'sanctuary' from their own gevernment! Or perhaps the undefeated races of aliens out there can try to contact the 'defense force' (whatever we are calling them now) to try and assist us in fighting them here rather than on whatever homeworld they come from (there are many examples of this in human history, 'We'll give you money and guns if you fight the british over there instead of here in europe; all of our theory of communist border nation fighting i.e. fight them in all the countries they try to take over, but give the guns to the locals so our soldiers don't have to die)
Unless they are all in some sort of hive mind, the likelyhood that none of the invading aliens wouldn't try to do something other than kill us all,  harvest us all, and/or enslave us to work in their factories and mines (robots can't do all the work!) is shortsighted.
Genocide is silly from multiple angles, the only one that makes sense is the idea that someday the children of these oppressed peoples will try to revolt; and if they think we are truly insignificant they won't believe that until it happens (which is a great lead in to why the aliens are so easy to beat in the beginning, they are simply underestimating us while using their worst soldiers and scientist in this backwoods hellhole; maybe this assignment was a punishment for the aliens!!)
Anyway, rarely does anyone want to waste the resources involved in simply killing off all of anything... even if they truly believe we are polluting this planet into an unusable mess, they would only try to kill off enough to drive us underground, not try to kill every last specimen of alien (to them) genetics and possible research monkeys/test subjects.

Any race smart enough to get that far away from its homeworld and at the same time dumb enough to use force to achieve their goals isn't Machiavelian enough to win, but they will take a huge chunk of our resources to put them down before the big guns show up... so we need to be ready for when the real soldiers and officers show up to pound our butts!


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Winter:
Yeah, umm . . . We've already worked all this stuff out. The broad-strokes plot is finished from beginning to end. BTAxis and I are working on implementing everything we can for the v2.1 version.

Regards,
Winter

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