Alicornutopia

Alicorn wrote:Little do these Andalites know that they have captured EFRIL 300894.

I see that not only can we have capitalized digits we can have all-caps digits.

Truly Alicorn is a marvel.

If they want to test radiation on a Yeerk, could they avoid having to irradiate a host by starving out a Yeerk, poking a bunch of animals with the morph cube until one turned into a Yeerk from the freshly dead one, and then using that as a test subject?

(Actually, I would be interested to know what happens if you try putting a Yeerk-morphed animal in someone. If you used a fairly dumb animal, maybe they wouldn't succeed in controlling the person, since that doesn't seem to be automatic? Having an animal read your mind seems possibly unobjectionable, and if you've already got a Yeerk in your head, you can't get another one...)

Yeerk-morphed animals can only survive in Yeerk form for three days, and then you need a fresh Yeerk next time you want another Yeerk-morphed animal. Also, if something went wrong and it tried to demorph while inside or partly inside your head.........

(he is going to be tried for war crimes and for idiocy on a scale that makes Seerow look amateur)

I'm picturing one of those kids' books that's all inspirational about how you can grow up to be President or an astronaut or whatever, except for Andalites and the title is "Seerow, Alloran, and YOU!"

Why are they still putting a positive spin on Andalites in general?

"When Andalite High Command arrives, I will be given a war crimes trial and ignominiously exiled. Not for irradiating the Earth, you understand. For doing that in preference to blowing it up. And definitely for handing out all this technology. It sure would be nice if there were a nascent galactic superpower that equalled us technologically and had a much bigger population base that wanted to negotiate to get me back."

(Said while in his hottest morph, obviously.)

Matirin could also, like, flee. He's not doing that because he is betraying a trust that was placed in him and mostly believes that people willing to do that ought to also be willing to go to jail for it. And Maitimos with their families dead are considerably less ambitious. Also, setting humans and Andalites at odds seems like a recipe for disaster.

Like, the thought "I could leverage this into rulership of an Earth rapidly becoming a galactic superpower' has occurred to him. but absent a push (of the form 'there's no hope of cooperation between humans and Andalites, I have to pick a side' or 'there's a way to get my family back' or 'there's something super important I could be doing instead of sitting in jail') he is just gonna give Earth a push and then accept that he broke a lot of laws to do that.

Also, canonically the Andalite High Command does consider genocide-to-save-from-Yeerks a war crime; Alloran in Andalite Chronicles is on a sort of demotion/exile tour after his actions in the Hork Bajir war (which included using a bioweapon once the war was lost). My Andalite High Command is like 'it is sometimes right to do this, never right to have an official policy of doing this, and if it's worth doing it's worth disgrace for doing. And also we would never ever do it, we have no idea why some of our misguided soldiers have done it against our wishes'.

Butterfly wrote:Ideally they would just cease to exist in some unambiguous way without any collateral damage but the idea's not worth the moment I took to compose the sentence...

That sounds a lot like Loki’s cue to me.

Could Andalites who want to demonstrate unyeerkiness without being mindread do so by morphing something smaller than a Yeerk, or does a Yeerk in a morph-capable host acquire the ability to morph small enough to fit into its brain?

It is never mentioned that Visser Three has trouble going small (I do not recall him trying a flea, but he does do birds and things) so I am guessing the Yeerk goes with the morph just like the body does.