>Aliens INVADE Earth for GOLD and GEMSTONES>The Asteroid close by has 100x times more GOLD and GEMSTONES than EarthWhy are Aliens like this?
>>96814407It's not just about the GOLD and GEMSTONES, it's also about SENDING A MESSAGE.
Earth comes with its own slave species perfectly suited to its atmosphere. Just need to have some guys keep an eye on it
>>96814407What game?
>>96814488Dropzone Commander
>>96814497Thanks for the info. You could not believe how hard it is to get a reasonable responce on this site.
anthropocentric writers with double-digit iq
>>96814407Sounds like something you should ask your GM instead of random jackoffs on the internet.
>>96814415To whom? How will other species know?
>>96814407Maybe the asteroid doesn't have existing population they can enslave to mine the stuff for them?
>>96814407What's the point of getting raw ores?Gold, Paladium, Saphire. They're all things you can find anywhere if you look hard enough.The appeal, and the novelty, comes from it being Earth precious materials. How they're made out, cut, shaped and configured artistically, which gives them their value on the intergalactic market. Much like how no one steals pigments anymore, but good, rare oil paintings are worth bajillions.Also what setting is this?
>>96814407>Aliens INVADE Earth for GOLD and GEMSTONESWhen has this ever been a thing? Usually it's water or raw materials as the excuse, but they could also just asteroid mine for water.
>>96814407They want GOLD and GEMSTONES to seduce EARTH WOMEN for SEX. The idiots.
>>96814619Other aliens.Who will learn through collective consciousness and universal telepathy.
>>96814407
>>96814407It's simply more fun to steal GOLD and GEMSTONES from aliens than it is to mine GOLD and GEMSTONES from dead rock.
>>96814515Because you're a pointless faggot spamming the same autistic shit in every thread.
>>96814407Obviously the aliens should be invading for access to lumber and spices.
>>96814407All the necessary processing we've done. Saves them the trouble.Unfortunately, all the religious fanatics declare jihad on them, setting off black market nukes & ruining all precious metals & gemstones forever. Not to mention killing off half the population, a third of the invaders & contaminating the planet.. The alien survivors depart with a very clearly understood "F*CK YOU, YOU STUPID APES!"A few months later, the last living human strings the corpse of the last religious fanatic from the highest point of the Empire State Building with a sign that reads "I DID THIS" then dives off to his death.
>>96814407Because they are spanish
>>96815675Says the nogames mad his spam thread got ignored when this other anon was able to answer a simple question.>>96814407Aliens after raw materials has always been a bit wank to me. Trying to justify it never works, so if you do it, just refuse to elaborate and embrace the pulp.
>>96818657>"This little rock goes for ten million a kilo. Get the blue monkeys to move, or we'll have to send in the stick."
>>96814407Who are you quoting?
>>96814515Lol you know he just lied to you right
>Aliens invade>Hey nigga you got any gas on this rock?
>>96814488Not a game but battlefield earth did this
>>96814407Writers were lazy. I could see Trees/animals/us being what they value over stuff like water/metals/etc.
>>96820491Well that says more about his character than anything else.
>>96814407Aliens are traders and conquering Earth is so easy that it would be a very bad decision from a profit point of view NOT to do it.
>>96814619his alien dadit's all personal bullshit they should had solved on their own but instead they have to drag us into their drama.Just like my neighbors.
>>96814407WRONG! If anything, they invade because there's something on Earth that can't be found in space. Animals and plants that don't grow elsewhere. Like they like a color on the shell of a shellfish, it's rare enough to give it value, and it can't grow outside of Earth, so just mass-producing it would be impossible. OR some saleman was able to pitch them how Cats are fantastic pets and they'll love to buy Cats from us. Or someone out there really likes Sun Flowers, like some alien styling himself as the Sun King of his Empire, and starts using SUN flowers all over the place. Think about it. Humans remain free because they flood the space with PETS that no one else can get.
>>96814407>Aliens INVADE Earth for GOLD and GEMSTONESHated this even as a kid since if you have any passing knowledge of space you know it's: full of precious rocks, stones, DAZZLING MOON SAPPHIRES, and if the ayys can get to Earth their material sciences would be sufficiently advanced that anything on the periodic table would be elementary for them to replicate or source. The other Anons have already said as much, but if the lmaos are here they're not here for our shiny stones, they're going to be after things like:-Interesting genetic samples. Think plants, animals, people (cum), etc.. I'm really fond of the urban legend that Greys visit us so much because they fried their own genome and Earth is excellent material. -Material cultures & artifacts. Film, books, toys, anime/cartoons, comic books, what might be novel or tired tropes to us could potentially be another potential glorpwood blockbuster film in the Andrea system. -Cheap migrant labor. Unironically, making worker-drones might actually be really hard and uneconomical, even in sci-fi times? It might be infinitely cheaper, even in space, to just kidnap/abduct 25,000 humans every 5 years and seed them onto backwater planets to grow and pick "artisanal produce". According to Google 20,000 Americans succumb to "long-term disappearances" every year, so maybe some of those people aren't being human trafficked, raped/eaten by goatmen in national parks, but are living on agri-worlds. :')
>>96820526To be fair, Hubbard was retarded
>>96814867Based take. Honestly I tire of aliens being "le scientifically enlightened utilitarians". Gimme intergalactic aesthetics chasers, cataloguing other species by viewing their art (and some less savory aliens stealing it)>So, space British?Fuck. I guess?
>>96814407Don't you need tectonics and heat to make GEMSTONES? Would there really be GEMSTONES in the asteroid?(Trick question, you actually roll 2d10 per Asteroid to see if there's any GEMSTONES after rolling 3d4 to see how many Asteroids there are)
>>96815275>develop the specific skills that go into geology and topography for mining gold purely to hide it and deny it's use to anyonei'm sure there's examples of this in real life, but what a piss dick strategy in fantasy medieval
>>96814407Not being proper Capitalists, they require air to breath and water to sip.
>>96818657There are some raw materials you can get more easily from terrestrial planets. Gold and other precious metals just aren't one of them, since when Earth formed they mostly sunk to the core along with other heavy elements. Rare earth metals on the other hand are partitioned in the crust, but normally so spread out they're impossible to mine unless some process has increased their local concentration. The processes that do that require geological activity and often the presence of liquid water, which means you aren't going to find them on asteroids or planets that have never been geogically active. So aliens invading Earth to get lithium for their batteries is entirely reasonable. Granted, they could probably go to Mars instead since Mars has had water and volcanoes in the past, but having a breathable atmosphere would make the mining operation easier.
>>96818657>Says the nogames mad his spam thread got ignored when this other anon was able to answer a simple question.Who is it that lives in your head rent free that you're confusing me with, you fucking loser?
>>96822355>air to breathlern2spel
>>96822233>i'm sure there's examples of this in real lifeIt's basically patent trolling
>>96814407Actually pretty rare. It's more common to see aliens coming for humans or for a habitable biosphere. Most writers know just enough about sci-fi to realize that invading for raw resources is stupid when the galaxy is your oyster.
>>96822203>Not using the gem-o-matic crystal forge.>It's so simple that even Earthlings can make one.
>>96823398Wait but then why are we invading this Earth place for GEMSTONES again?Do we steal their gem-o-matic crystal forges to add to our own collection?
>>96823311Artificial scarcity.
>>96814407>Why are Aliens like this?They really INVADE Earth for HUMAN PUSSY but it's EMBARRASSING to admit that you FUCK MONKEYS so they make up some BULLSHIT to tall the other ALIENS.
May as well give them our women
>>96814407in the modern day it makes a lot more sense that aliens would never invade and destroy a planet when a biosphere is so incredibly rare and precious; it's a TREASURE trove of biological information and potential plants/animals with effects that the aliens would find wild. The actual 'gems' they'd want is the ones that only earth can produce through organics, such as jet, pearl, and amber. Disturbing and destroying the ecosystem through invasion would be deeply stupid; makes a lot more sense to just send quiet probes to collect samples and bring back so you can benefit from the palnet's unique resources.
>>96831410Except if they had some insane hyperfatalist philosophy of some kind."Yeah, they're bustling with life, sure, but by the time their star goes Red Giant, they'll all be either long gone or dead, so sure, let's kill 'em all now."Then again, if they DID think like this, they probably wouldn't see the point in doing much of anything, just sitting in their saucers, high on zoop and zorping off to zorn.Or the invasion would be led by a small part of their population, seeking to return to old values of gold and conquest, believing themselves above the zorn and zoop so fondly adored by the degenerates of their fallen society.I'd love to see after they started pillaging all the cathedrals & holy temples of Europe only for the faiths to join forces, undoing the Grand Schism and awakening the Holy Reunion of ORTHODOX CATHOLICISM, having all of the invaders exterminated by the First Crusade of the New Unity.
>>96831746>Except if they had some insane hyperfatalist philosophy of some kind.a species like that isn't going to survive to spacefaring
>>96831749Maybe the minds of their once great civilization could've been corrupted by a cult of some kind, like the Alessian Order ruined Cyrodiil after the monkey prophet started feeding bullshit to poor, unsuspecting cyrods.
>>96831806Again: it makes very, very little sense an alien civilization would drive all the way out here just to raze the planet to the ground and destroy the biosphere, *when the biosphere is the only treasure in the first place*. They have all the materials, all the science, all that; what nobody can simply fabricate at home is an entirely new ecosystem that had millions of years to develop, with millions of unique biological properties found nowhere else.
>>96831851True, but it'd be more of a propaganda stunt to boost ideological morale fueled than actually anything based on statistical probability or reasonable logic, like the NCR campaign in the Mojave.Plus, if their empire had once been built on expansion and conquest, much like the Mongolian Khanate of old, they'd probably fallen into an infinite loop of looting and pillaging just to stay afloat, maybe only AFTER the failure of the conquistador mindset, THEN they turned to logic & scientific rationale.Invasion would just be reactionary politics & revival of 'national' (planetary?) spirit, probably leading only to the acceleration of their downfall, with the last bastion of hot gooped zetans turned to ash in a blaze of glory, leaving only the zoopheads and zornbrains to inherit the land. Sad, really...
>>96831981Sorry, I just realized the flipflopping.The reason behind invasion being hyperfatalism should've been built on, then it suddenly switches to imperialist revival politics.Fine, maybe hyperfatalism couldn't be the main drive FOR invasion after all, just BEHIND it, only adding to the backstory, reactionary politics coming in to take its place, keeping it nonsensical, but not SO nonsensical that it's bad writing. inb4 >implying this is good writing
>>96814488X-Com.
>>96822233All precious metals and minerals you care to name, but if you want specific examples: diamonds.
>>96814407>Aliens INVADE Earth for SEXY HUMAN MEN>There are no SEXY HUMAN MEN outside of EarthCheckmate gatheists.
>>96814407No. The aliens invaded because they want to add humans as customers for the celestial economy.
