Post-apocalyptic clothing, gear, weapons etc.

[SiuiS]

I Know I’m applying human logic to Aliens but still, they are probably going to land at some point. There’s no reason that I can think of for them to massively depopulate the planet, destroy most of it’s cities and then leave. Not without humanity pulling an Independence day and kicking them off of our planet at least.

They’re going to want to stay for some reason, the land, the water, the natural resources something. So they’re going to make landfall and start setting up shop. Now a man made epidemic that gets out of hand, that's another matter.

Not really a problem, though; this is about an event occurring and people afterwards. "Alien war" and "alien cultural assassination slash genocide" are both viable because it doesn't matter how we fought them off; just that our deus ex machina happened and now we are recovering from an apocalypse.

H20 is built from a number of chemicals freely available in large quantities out in space, no real need to waste the resources for just that. If it's just landmasses there are presumably other planets to settle on. Unless there's some weirdly specific chemical compound they need odds are they can synthesize it or else try growing it from a sample.

Doesn't make sense. Space travel takes a long, long time. Long enough that maybe the aliens saw ancient cultures and didn't regard them as worth life, and launched arak with missiles on them. Or maybe the planet was uninhabited when they launched, or their scans didn't reveal humans until it was too late – it works for us, in fiction, to have missed seeing alien life in obvious places. Why not the other way around?

[TheThan]

Not really a problem, though; this is about an event occurring and people afterwards. "Alien war" and "alien cultural assassination slash genocide" are both viable because it doesn't matter how we fought them off; just that our deus ex machina happened and now we are recovering from an apocalypse.

Yeah I was more thinking about the “They came, they kicked our butts, and then they left “scenario. It doesn’t make sense for aliens to spend all the time and resources to show up and destroy humanity only to turn around and leave.

If humanity fought off alien invaders somehow and the aftermath is post-apocalyptic then that’s pretty easy to make sense of and even write stories for.

[Coidzor]

Yeah I was more thinking about the “They came, they kicked our butts, and then they left “scenario. It doesn’t make sense for aliens to spend all the time and resources to show up and destroy humanity only to turn around and leave.

If humanity fought off alien invaders somehow and the aftermath is post-apocalyptic then that’s pretty easy to make sense of and even write stories for.

They could be insane and have given the choice to humanity to either join them or be condemned to pre-atomic savagery?

[Scarlet Knight]

Yeah I was more thinking about the “They came, they kicked our butts, and then they left “scenario. It doesn’t make sense for aliens to spend all the time and resources to show up and destroy humanity only to turn around and leave.

Unless they are so above us that they view humans as pests. They just set off a "flea bomb" in case they want to come back and went somewhere more pleasant, like Mars.

[TheThan]

Unless they are so above us that they view humans as pests. They just set off a "flea bomb" in case they want to come back and went somewhere more pleasant, like Mars.

So a human steps in the door and the Alien female leaps up on the kitchen chair screaming?
her husband chases the human around with a broom.
wow that image is now priceless.

[wilborine]

So a human steps in the door and the Alien female leaps up on the kitchen chair screaming?
her husband chases the human around with a broom.
wow that image is now priceless.

I doubt her husband will chase human with a broom, i guess he might use some kind of latest technology to shoot him or laser beam comes out of his eyes or something and vaporizes that human.

[Coidzor]

The broom is a laser broom.