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Old 2010-01-06, 12:00   Link #215
justinstrife
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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo View Post
As I have gone over previously, launching a "massive scale invasion" with twenty dragon gunships and millions of soldiers is a logistical impossibility. Each of those mile long star ships the humans have can only move a measly 350 metric tons of cargo. And the humans only have twelve of these ships. meaning that if all the human star ships were orbiting earth (which they're not) you'd only have 4200 metric tons from which to launch your invasion.

Any conventional force you landed on Pandora is bound to be even more poorly equipped than RDA's Secfor troops.
Except you're not fighting just the Na'vi anymore. You're fighting every living thing on Pandora. You're fighting an entire ecosystem that can fight in a coordinated manner.

Humanity isn't going to just have to use Nuclear, Biological and chemical weapons if they want to tame Pandora by force. They've got to use Relativistic weapon strikes which will be thousands of times more destructive than dropping H-bombs.
Who's to say those are the only ships capable of travelling to Pandora? Or that in the decade it took for Jake to get to Pandora, and the mercs to return to Earth, they haven't built bigger ships to carry for cargo? There's much we don't know about the technology and how it's progressing on earth during this time.
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