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shalafi@lemmy.world 18 hours agoFootfall nails this. Aliens show up and drop rocks on us from orbit. The reason we prevail is the only plot I’ve read that makes sense.
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They didn’t invent the ships or tech they’re riding in and aren’t much, if at all, any more advanced than us. Plus, we figure out their rigid social hierarchy and turn it on them. Also, we nuked Kansas.