They claimed that it is either 21, 24, 25 or last day of this year.
So, don't feel too relief yet.
Either way, I will be laughing my ass off if it doesn't happen. Even if it did happen, I got nothing to lose anyway, my life isn't really fantastic anyway.
Now for mostly crack:
Spoiler for Hidden Faction:
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Robotic Aliens:
Their Existence were kept secret from the world government because experiences from world wars, clearly indicate that when face with threat of a war on Global scale, most people are not going to stay calm. They would panic and lots of things would happen.... society would collapse and Men would finally lose their place in society (refer to last section)
The aliens are also the source of the Quantum Element. For some mysterious reason: They produce the Element. Scientists believed that they use the Element to communicate with their species from out-space.
Since they are machine, their food are mostly Electricity. However, they still need water and air, though they use water and air for cooling down their system.
Unlike your typical aliens, they are smart.
They first establish a base in cold region (South pole) where their larger unit don't need to open their cooling vent (the only weakest in their armor), allowing them to be technically invincible.
They are intelligent enough enough not to go after the Super-nations. Instead, they target humanity's weakest link: Third world nations whose army isn't powerful enough to take on them, so that they can establish factories and produce enough units to overrun the Super-power nation with superior numbers.
The overwhelming kind of numbers where tactics and advanced technology no longer matter that much. (meaning thousand of units coming in nearly endless streams).
Good luck trying to stop thousands of factories producing hundreds of these units every minute.
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Based on data extracted and decrypted from one of them, there are various types. The following are just their codename and not their actual name:
Scout (the unit they found): The weakest of all units. Its armor is weak enough for a well-placed grenade to destroy it and it has no apparent weapons on it.
Harvester: A unit that convert matters into electricity.
Mother-Ship: A giant unit that house all the Mother Units.
Mother: Factories that residue inside Mothership, charged with producing more units.
Intel updated after the first encounter with it (also known as the First Engage)
Raptor: Small unit that require a tank or RPG to take out. The size of a dog.
Tank: A dome shape unit that has insanely tough armor, to make it more hellish, it shoot spikes. Nearly invincible because its armor cover all part of its body.....except a venerable spot happened to be a Cooling Vent that open once in a while. Obviously the vent doesn't need to open in area such as the South Pole... which means there is no conventional method of taking it down other than relying on IS.
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To put it simply, the Alsaka treaty isn't there to limit IS destruction but for the sake of male's pride. Yes, the government tried their best to limit the impact of female superiority but there is still a limit to what they could do.
Relying on IS is a seriously tough decision for any Commanders on the battle field:
They can choose to deploy the ISes, which proven to be the most effective way of taking down the aliens because they can one-hit kill the aliens regardless of their armors.
However, this means sacrificing men's pride and surrendering to the female gender. It is self-admitting that men are useless even in war.
So for the sake of preserving the moral of their men, most commanders usually choose to send their men rather than relying on IS. Only in the most drastic situation (Large size units such as the Tank) would they be forced to deploy IS.
Edit: For the male: Surrendering is not an option because the Aliens deem males as useless.
Why?
Males can't give birth.
What does it means:
The Aliens are planning to convert female into Mother unit because they need units with the ability to convert Carbon-based substance into energy without relying on Harvester unit.