If books and movies have taught me, it’s never underestimate the kid. Ever.
PeterK
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russell styles
Normally I don’t approve of genocide, but I’m willing to make an exception here.
meerling
I’m beginning to wonder what would happen if someone got shot with more than one translator. Maybe a lot of times.
I’d expect an advanced technology to identify if someone has a functioning translator BEFORE it would implant a new one. Then again, this Galactic tech doesn’t seem all that great on installing failsafes, or assuming that primitives, idiots, or fools would be misusing it in such a way.
Expectations:
1 – Nothing happens, it doesn’t implant.
2 – Nothing seems to happen, there is now a backup unit.
3 – They start interfering with each other and it malfunctions or just stops.
4 – They all work, but a bit out of synch. This can either induce an echo effect, or destructive interference which either makes the translations hard or even impossible to understand, or seriously messes with the implantees brain/mind, possibly causing actual damage, or maybe just confusion and disorientation. This might be limited to when the translators are translating something.
There might be some other possibilities, but those are the ones that come to mind right off the bat.
Night-Gaunt49
Scientists will seem bored and maybe psychopathic to the mouse…only mice can’t reason so they consider themselves too far beyond us to think about us in the terms they think about each other. And that needs to change instantaneously!
Aitana has her job cut out for her to inform her parents and saving them from the sweet puppy looking psychopathic scientist aliens.
One wonders if the Government is already in route to them. Even if only one of the triangular secret space planes to reconnoiter the area? This would be their job as part of the ISSA established in 1955. Not the M.I.B.. On the other hand the only one who can do anything is the young girl who knows the truth.
Go get’em, Aitana!
ronald
The aliens on the other end of the line are getting “bored.”
What alien race is notorious for easily getting bored (and for taking very drastic action to make things more entertaining for them)?
Cute psychopathic aliens that have your parents snowed. I’m dying to see how you resolve this. I hope Aitana doesn’t.
This part of the story has gone on too long for Aitana to die (at least during the prologue).
Oh! Oh! Aitana will become part of our new crew!!
Amiright??
The kid needs to create a distraction, big time.
Throw some Milk-Bones on the floor and grab their guns when they go for treats. Vape their memory and instill what you want.
Now there’s thinking! They just told her they have such a thing …
So she has to find somebody off Earth, or some nobody on it.
Hijacking one of their ships or stowing away on it would help with the first one.
High technology, yes, but you have several factors in your favor, Aitana. These aliens are overconfident, bored… and rather stupid.
On the hand, they have learned to harness the power of cuteness for evil, so they must pay.
Well, one person on Earth could help her.
Quickly Robin! To the Coyote Signal!
That should be Roadrunner, not Robin.
MEEP-MEEP (pchoo~)
If books and movies have taught me, it’s never underestimate the kid. Ever.
*anything
Normally I don’t approve of genocide, but I’m willing to make an exception here.
I’m beginning to wonder what would happen if someone got shot with more than one translator. Maybe a lot of times.
I’d expect an advanced technology to identify if someone has a functioning translator BEFORE it would implant a new one. Then again, this Galactic tech doesn’t seem all that great on installing failsafes, or assuming that primitives, idiots, or fools would be misusing it in such a way.
Expectations:
1 – Nothing happens, it doesn’t implant.
2 – Nothing seems to happen, there is now a backup unit.
3 – They start interfering with each other and it malfunctions or just stops.
4 – They all work, but a bit out of synch. This can either induce an echo effect, or destructive interference which either makes the translations hard or even impossible to understand, or seriously messes with the implantees brain/mind, possibly causing actual damage, or maybe just confusion and disorientation. This might be limited to when the translators are translating something.
There might be some other possibilities, but those are the ones that come to mind right off the bat.
Scientists will seem bored and maybe psychopathic to the mouse…only mice can’t reason so they consider themselves too far beyond us to think about us in the terms they think about each other. And that needs to change instantaneously!
Aitana has her job cut out for her to inform her parents and saving them from the sweet puppy looking psychopathic scientist aliens.
One wonders if the Government is already in route to them. Even if only one of the triangular secret space planes to reconnoiter the area? This would be their job as part of the ISSA established in 1955. Not the M.I.B.. On the other hand the only one who can do anything is the young girl who knows the truth.
Go get’em, Aitana!
The aliens on the other end of the line are getting “bored.”
What alien race is notorious for easily getting bored (and for taking very drastic action to make things more entertaining for them)?
Hint: It starts with E
😉
Earthlings?
Maybe those from Eebongbong.
Elementary school students?