Wasn't that "Forever War"? If I recall correctly, the war was perpetuated by the military industrial complex and only ended when huamnity became a cloned race with a gestalt consiousness; the same as their foes.AccursedTheory said:There was a story (Can't remember the name) about a war between aliens and humanity. The Aliens started it, but almost immediately the humans were assaulting the aliens worlds.Witty Name Here said:I always liked the idea of humanity absolutely scaring the shit out of alien races.
Just the idea of their evolution being slow and "peaceful" compared to humanity's leaps and bounds thanks in part to conflict, but also the sheer stubbornness of our species sending chills up their spine is pretty funny to think about.
The aliens couldn't die - when they were killed, their consciousness was transferred to another body. They assumed humans were the same for years.
When they found out this was the case, the collectively shit themselves in terror. Death was cheap to them, but humans were descending onto their planets on tiny drop ships that they shot down in droves. They were killing hundreds of thousands of human beings, for good. And the fact that a race of people would willingly stare down oblivion just for a chance to shoot one of them in the face was terrifying.
OP: Humanity would be the invader if the aliens were percieved to be weaker than us and either had something we wanted or weren't doing something we wanted them to do. That's what we do amongst ourselves, afterall.