Maybe it's explained earlier in the movie but I haven't seen the whole thing, just various bits during the occasional repeats on television. Anyway, why is there no counter-battery fire from orbit? Here you have Earth in the future, with a militaristic worldwide culture. It has the technology to send dreadnaughts to another planet in response to a hostile act from another species. While the capital ships are in orbit above the hostile species homeworld, some larger bugs shoot plasma as some kind of flak to destroy some of the capital ships. How can those nontechnological bugs detect and accurately target ships a few hundred miles above? Why doesn't the fleet move out of range once they find out they can be hit (surely those plasma jets have a limited range). Why doesn't the fleet computers & sensor grids detect the plasma launches, calculate their origin and the capital ships main armament immediately nuke/vaporize/railguns the location of the launcher in counter-battery fire?
We're talking about a militaristic society with technology well above our own, surely their tactics are equally as refined. Why use troopers on the ground when you can mass-drive the bugs homeworld in retaliation for them launching an asteroid at yours? How can nontechnological bugs affect an asteroid orbit and calculate its trajectory to the point of having it hitting Earth after a voyage of surely years if not millenia?
Or is this all but a dreamlike metaphor so none of the 'reality' is of import?
*humbug*
How do you think would we really act if we were an advanced militaristic society and one of our cities got obliterated? Methinks the military would react with extreme & efficient prejudice, like turning the planet's surface into glass.
Some might say this would make for a short movie but the film could be about the journey there, how the decision is made, the building of the ships, who gets chosen, etc... Think a militaristic retributional version of Contact. Then again that doesn't fit the 15yo boy model for a summer blockbuster.
We're talking about a militaristic society with technology well above our own, surely their tactics are equally as refined. Why use troopers on the ground when you can mass-drive the bugs homeworld in retaliation for them launching an asteroid at yours? How can nontechnological bugs affect an asteroid orbit and calculate its trajectory to the point of having it hitting Earth after a voyage of surely years if not millenia?
Or is this all but a dreamlike metaphor so none of the 'reality' is of import?
*humbug*
How do you think would we really act if we were an advanced militaristic society and one of our cities got obliterated? Methinks the military would react with extreme & efficient prejudice, like turning the planet's surface into glass.
Some might say this would make for a short movie but the film could be about the journey there, how the decision is made, the building of the ships, who gets chosen, etc... Think a militaristic retributional version of Contact. Then again that doesn't fit the 15yo boy model for a summer blockbuster.
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