They point of this invasion isn't conquest. it's to get humanity to stop fighting, though these particular aliens think the best way to do this is to attack them and present yourself as the big bad. Because peace isn't going to be enough to get a bunch of hairless apes with thousands of years of wars and conflicts to lay their arms and get along as a single united race. The aliens assailing Earth would know about Humanity's long history of wars and conflicts and would reach the conclusion that the only way for them to stop destroying each other is to get them to fight against a common enemy that threatens the entire species.
fighting fire with fire.
Like WW3, Earth's nation states would still resort to using Nuclear weapons on the aliens when conventional warfare fails or a stalemate forms and it would still lead to a post-atomic horror (with crashed alien ships dotting the landscape). Still be a massive amount of devastation, though this time, half of it was wrought upon by the alien forces. The Majority of humanity would not be able to immediately reverse engineer and study the alien technology left behind as surviving a post apocalyptic world would be the most important thing in mind.
The question here is how it would affect Humanity's view of extraterrestrial life as well as Cochrane's phoenix flight. If that ever still happens in this timeline. How would tis affect first contact with the Vulcans.
Personally I find an alien invasion a much easier pill to swallow because it unites Humanity against a common enemy rather than having them squabble amongst themselves.
fighting fire with fire.
Like WW3, Earth's nation states would still resort to using Nuclear weapons on the aliens when conventional warfare fails or a stalemate forms and it would still lead to a post-atomic horror (with crashed alien ships dotting the landscape). Still be a massive amount of devastation, though this time, half of it was wrought upon by the alien forces. The Majority of humanity would not be able to immediately reverse engineer and study the alien technology left behind as surviving a post apocalyptic world would be the most important thing in mind.
The question here is how it would affect Humanity's view of extraterrestrial life as well as Cochrane's phoenix flight. If that ever still happens in this timeline. How would tis affect first contact with the Vulcans.
Personally I find an alien invasion a much easier pill to swallow because it unites Humanity against a common enemy rather than having them squabble amongst themselves.
