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Originally Posted by orion
The opponents were prob other humans imo. If you have spider tanks that can crawl on buildings, then to eliminate them, you need a big cannon. Like using insect spray on an ant swarm or a hornet's nest. It's inefficient to pick them off one by one. Gotta destroy a lot of turf to eliminate them all.
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If it was Humans vs Humans in an all-out war, then you won't need tactical devices like highly-maneuverable tanks, much less seeing them in urban warfare. Humans like to use bombs -- to play safe -- so you'd either see strategic bombers, ICBMs, and maybe even orbital weapon systems. If that bird-like bio-mech was of Human origin, then they could have just used the above to threaten the opposing country's leadership. In the case of aliens, bluffs like this won't work since the humans have no intel on their operation command center or w/e.
And besides, the technology is obviously different. The spider tanks have a metal finish and are built around function (maneuverability) rather than form. The bird-like bio-mech has feathers, like a bird, and its form does not grant it any advantage or disadvantage when its main weapon is one big Red Laser of Death. The weapon might as well have been mounted on an orbital weapon system, or a battleship, or a Gundam.
Anyway, I think the oceans and Nomansland were probably victims of the fighting. Perhaps the humans used nuclear warheads on most of the ocean battles and throwaway areas, while Nomansland was perhaps the result of multiple Red Lasers of Death.
Or, perhaps the aliens cleaned out the place during their stay. Valuable natural resources, after all. Or perhaps, they experimented on the planet. The legend said that only the females were dragged into the labyrinth, so perhaps they had some weird experiments going on.