Something's Bugging Me
Something's bugging me about this invasion.
No, it's not the fact that we're invading at all without bombing the planet first. It's not that the bugs are firing plasma far faster and cohesively than they should. It…well, actually, that does kind of bug me. Especially since I'm sure we've already lost one of the dropships as a result of this. And even if we don't bomb the planet from orbit, can't we send some fighter-bombers to soften up the targets that clearly do exist? Anyone?
Okay. Just asking.
So, we land. Pouring out from the dropships. I'm too busy charging and screaming like a maniac to ask anyone why we haven't deployed any armour. I mean, Arachnids are man-killers, right? Claws, claws, and more claws? I know a tank isn't invincible, and I know we don't ask walkers (yet), and I know that we don't have power armour (thought we had that though…someone wrote about it in a book…), but seriously, are tanks too much to ask for? Or, I know, flamethrowers!
Anyone? Okay then.
So, the invasion goes downhill pretty quickly. Yeah, we take out the plasma bugs, which are obviously not firing in coordination, and obviously aren't targets that we should have softened up beforehand, and obviously aren't causing a panic in the Fleet, and…well, you get my point. And points…ugh. Shouldn't have brought that up, because those Arachnid claws I mentioned? They're, well, pointy. So it isn't long before the bugs that obviously can't operate cohesively, that obviously can't use plasma batteries or lob asteroids across the galaxy to hit Earth (shouldn't those asteroids take billions of years to reach us?), and obviously aren't intelligent at all, are killing us. Bummer.
It's quite a relief when I get to relay a call from the Fleet – time to bug out (geddit it? Bug?) and retreat. By which I mean running for our lives. And it's at that point that what bugs me, really bugs me.
Why do we call them Arachnids? I mean, they walk on four legs don't they? And "bugs," while a nice name, doesn't really do them justice either. Because again, four legs. Yeah, there are other similarities, but…oh, wait. Running time.
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