You vs Aliens

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-01-04 08:25pm

Inspired by Zor's thread in fantasy, this is like "what would you do in a zombie outbreak" only instead of zombies, it's the aliens from the films of the same name.

In short, the situation is grim; it turns out that the world's oil has contracted some sort of microbial pestilence that renders it unfit for decent burning, and the remaining untainted fuel is in vanishingly short supply, causing widespread war and confusion over the remaining supplies.

To make matters worse, someone has been seeding the planet with alien eggs, soon after, large hives start appearing under urban centres and towns.

Strangely, all copies of the Alien films have vanished from people's possessions and the popular consciousness, leaving you alone with the knowledge of what these things are.

What do you do?

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2008-01-04 08:34pm

Die.

I am not heavily armed nor well enough trained to not break when confronted with a dual jawed alien monstrosity erupting through my ceiling via my attic. My family does not have the skills to set up surveillance around my yard and man it twenty four seven. They seem to be quite apt at getting around things with sturdy construction then my house. They hunt in numbers, and if we assume they're given the advantages of numbers, will mean there will be more of them then me or the ammo I have in my gun. Coupled with the fact that I'll be fleeing in terror while trying not to soil myself, my shots are going to be horribly inaccurate. If the movies, and potentially the CSM tech manual can be trusted, a .45 pistol has little effect on them. Also, normal windows gives them an easy way into my house.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2008-01-04 09:30pm

Yeah , I'd agree. I'd die. No weapons in my house. Besides that, I haven't watched the movies in like a decade or more and don't remember it so I wouldn't be in much a better position than anyone else.

Gullible Jones · Post by **Gullible Jones** » 2008-01-04 10:12pm

Hopeful scenario: pass on what I know to as many people as possible, die a horrible and maybe slightly noble death.

Likely scenario: get jumped and eaten/parasitized before I have any time for preparations.

Either way, I'm not going to amount to much good; and let's face it, with barely any fuel everyone's pretty much fucked, even without the aliens.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-01-04 11:13pm

My family, due to my dad's stockpiling, has in posession: An M4, a Galil, an MP5, 3 Uzis, a bunch of pistols, and something like that. I guess I can hold on for a while until the world is totally infesterificaterized, or we haul ass and try to make it to the nearest military ultra-fortification.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2008-01-04 11:34pm

I have a feeling once world governments find out what the hell is going on, they're either going to fire bomb entire swathes of infected land or break out the nukes in a worse case scenario. Those zones are going to be easy to write off as every thing is either dead or letting the aliens reproduce. Even if the 'ZOMG! Immune to rads' concept is used, you're still wiping out their food source, especially with carpet bombing huge areas. And with the mass panic or exodus on foot, they're going to be able to capture a large number of hosts and foot in the early going.

defanatic · Post by **defanatic** » 2008-01-04 11:36pm

If given the resources, I would live in a giant blimp for the duration. Otherwise, die horribly. They appear to use alot of water in drooling. Maybe if I go into the desert...

Oskuro · Post by **Oskuro** » 2008-01-04 11:58pm

Aganist Aliens, probably the best option is evacuation, and then methodical extermination.

The greatest flaw is their reproductive system, horrific as it is, it only produces one subject per host, once they run out of hosts, their population would stop growing (They didn't seem to conserve hosts in the movies).

After evacuating to defendable areas, it would be a matter of sending raids to wipe out as many as possible.

Of course, how would I organize that, is beyond me.

hongi · Post by **hongi** » 2008-01-05 04:17am

Underage.

Australia, guns only in the country.

Australia - fucked.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-01-05 05:52am

Frankly, whoever survives this is a matter of luck. Unlike lurcher zombies, 'I have a gun in the house' is not a garuntee of survival.

Dendrobius · Post by **Dendrobius** » 2008-01-05 06:33am

LordOskuro wrote:The greatest flaw is their reproductive system, horrific as it is, it only produces one subject per host, once they run out of hosts, their population would stop growing

Hey, one subject per host is still pretty bad. Especially the horrific speed with which you go from facehugger to full sized Xeno...AvP2 pretty much had it down to "facehugged in morning, chestburster in afternoon, fully grown morning after".

Problem with this scenario is that by the time large hives are appearing underneath major urban centres, it's too late to do anything except commit suicide in the hope of a less painful death. The military ain't going to be doing jack with no fuel to get around, and we're all going to starve to death anyway since the infrastructure required to move the massive amounts of food required by cities will have broken down completely.

Winter · Post by **Winter** » 2008-01-05 09:14am

A xeno outbreak on modern Earth would be extremely difficult to wipe out even with working fuel and full military gear. The only real benefit an Earth setting would have over the Aliens film is that the xenos wouldn't be able to make their nests in sensitive areas. It would be a whole lot less of a problem to blow up big nuclear reactors and such.

With fuel, I imagine humanity would just manage to survive/win. Without, not so much.

Regards,
Winter

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2008-01-05 09:32am

Move to a small island somewhere, the Azores perhaps. Hope the aliens can't swim across thousands of miles of ocean to get there, and that not too large a fraction of the population die when all imports cease.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2008-01-05 09:58am

The aliens kill a whole bunch of people in the initial infestation and then are systematically wiped out by the police and military. I may or may not die, depending upon mostly on luck.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2008-01-05 10:25am

Dendrobius wrote:
Problem with this scenario is that by the time large hives are appearing underneath major urban centres, it's too late to do anything except commit suicide in the hope of a less painful death. The military ain't going to be doing jack with no fuel to get around, and we're all going to starve to death anyway since the infrastructure required to move the massive amounts of food required by cities will have broken down completely.

Actually the military and services like the police, fire department and ambulances are likely the only people going to have fuel. If the situation is that dire who do you think is being used to keep order?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2008-01-05 11:12am

Cpl Kendall wrote:Actually the military and services like the police, fire department and ambulances are likely the only people going to have fuel. If the situation is that dire who do you think is being used to keep order?

In short, the situation is grim; it turns out that the world's oil has contracted some sort of microbial pestilence that renders it unfit for decent burning, and the remaining untainted fuel is in vanishingly short supply, causing widespread war and confusion over the remaining supplies.

I wouldn't trust anyone to have a reliable supply of petrol after 'widespread war' over it.

Zixinus · Post by **Zixinus** » 2008-01-05 11:20am

The only thin veil of hope is to get to the nearest military base, and from there to another, bigger and better-defended military base. I can only hope that nukes and general bombing will be used. If I can get a connection to the military, then I would convey my knowledge and hope for the best. With a war going on however, I can only hope for good nuking to save us all.

The Vortex Empire · Post by **The Vortex Empire** » 2008-01-05 12:14pm

I don't have the skills, firepower, or fortifications to survive this.

Optimistic Scenario: I die quickly and painlessly.

Pessimistic Scenario: I get implanted by a facehugger.

Realistic Scenario: I die slowly and horribly from an alien baby bursting out of my chest.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2008-01-05 12:20pm

NecronLord wrote:
I wouldn't trust anyone to have a reliable supply of petrol after 'widespread war' over it.

I saw that. There's got to be some available if there is war being prosecuted for it. Or has this basically become Mad Max?

Anguirus · Post by **Anguirus** » 2008-01-05 12:46pm

AvP2 pretty much had it down to "facehugged in morning, chestburster in afternoon, fully grown morning after".

How is this substantially different from the timeline in Alien? Just how long do you think the Nostromo was sitting on that planet?

It was AvP1 that had the entire life cycle last an hour or two, tops.

So anyway, like most of the people in this thread, I'd die one way or another. With no gasoline and Aliens all around, I might just kill myself to deprive them of a host.

Oskuro · Post by **Oskuro** » 2008-01-05 07:41pm

In short, the situation is grim; it turns out that the world's oil has contracted some sort of microbial pestilence that renders it unfit for decent burning, and the remaining untainted fuel is in vanishingly short supply, causing widespread war and confusion over the remaining supplies.

Now that I think of it, upon such a situation there probably wouldn't be much civilization left to destroy by the Aliens...

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2008-01-05 10:53pm

Bullet to the brain pan. Squish.

Xenomorphs freak me out. Not nearly as much as Greys. But still, if those suckers are real and running around my city, I'm taking myself out as quickly and painlessly as possible. No way am I getting a face full of alien wing-wong followed by a birthing process that would bring up bad memories of Greek Deities.

Cecelia5578 · Post by **Cecelia5578** » 2008-01-05 11:12pm

I detect quite a bit of xeno wanking going on here...

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2008-01-05 11:19pm

Cecelia5578 wrote:I detect quite a bit of xeno wanking going on here...

Not so much wanking as acknowledging that very few, if any, of the people on this board have the necessary skills and/or equipment to survive this scenario for very long.

Gullible Jones · Post by **Gullible Jones** » 2008-01-05 11:59pm

Anarchist Bunny wrote: Bullet to the brain pan. Squish.

I dunno, I'd rather try to do something worthwhile before becoming xeno-chow. I hope I'd have the resolve to try something. Although the key word there really is "try".

And of course, I'd probably be regretting that until I bled my last from the gaping hole in my chest.

Xenomorphs freak me out. Not nearly as much as Greys. But still, if those suckers are real and running around my city, I'm taking myself out as quickly and painlessly as possible. No way am I getting a face full of alien wing-wong followed by a birthing process that would bring up bad memories of Greek Deities.

Completely OT: what is it about those Greys, exactly, that freaks people out? Within the normal "advanced aliens with a thing for anal probes" context, at least, I've never quite gotten that.