An unexpected scenario unfolds to the embrassesment of Japan and terror of ISIS (RAR!)

[Simon_Jester]

I recalled reading an article somewhere that Australia was pissed the US was removing a lot of the stealth features from the f35s they were selling to other countries, but I can't seem to find it atm.

Also, I've seen some wonky and foolish stuff coming out of the Australian defense blog community now and then... I wouldn't make too many assumptions about what is and is not being removed.

Also, I think the US is going to want to get in on reverse engineering and controlling the market for this alien technology. And for reasons of national security, they're going to want to control who gets access to what.

Controlling the market isn't going to work; the US is in no realistic position to issue orders to Japan if Japan actually feels strongly about the issue. Reverse-engineering is inevitable, the point is that everyone will be reverse-engineering samples of this technology sooner or later.

[APlayerHater]

Well hopefully sooner rather than later, if we're to stand a chance of storming the alien vessel to swipe more of their stuff.

Never trust an alien.

[U.P. Cinnabar]

Well hopefully sooner rather than later, if we're to stand a chance of storming the alien vessel to swipe more of their stuff.

Never trust an alien.

Funny. That's what the aliens all say about us.

No, seriously. What makes you think we'd be able to storm the alien vessel, like SG-1 did to Ha'taks every time you turned around on the damn show? We'd have to get to it first, and, they will be unlikely to just power down their weapons and defenses, open the pod bay doors, and hang out the welcome mat.

Then, you have to figure out where the control areas/engineering spaces are, what's guarding them, and in what strength. Then, assuming any boarding parties survive, you have to keep them from destroying or even moving the ship out of Earth's orbit, assuming, of course, they're even orbiting Earth in the first place. After all, it wouldn't be too much of a communications lag(assuming speed of light limited comms) or any communications lag at all(assuming FTL comms), if the alien ship were to orbit, say, the Earth-Lunar Lagrange 5 point instead, in which case, no spacecraft we have anymore can reach them.

Meaning, we'd have to steal one of their drop ships, which opens up a whole another can of worms.

[APlayerHater]

Well I doubt the stuff they're giving us is anything special. Probably what we'd have in the next century. The real question is why.

And I was being wacky- obviously we wouldn't stand a chance. Realistically the ship probably isn't even crewed. Just have some clones in storage if you need a warm body for something. Maybe we could challenge a representative of their race to a sword duel.

Not sure what the propaganda mangas are for if the clones are all artificial human slaves

I can't remember if I had a point.

All aliens are bastards. And rightly so.

[madd0ct0r]

The why appears to be simple. Of all the major powers in the present day, Japan is the least likely to use the weapons to go on a military adventure. Give them to any one else except possibly Scandinavia, Canada and maybe Germany and you'd see old scores settled or pressure brought to bear on places that used to be colonies.

[APlayerHater]

The alien menace really should have given them to north korea.