I'm going to be perfectly honest...I don't really remember what was "won" in 18. I know they accomplished their short-term goal, but that wasn't really the end of the entire war, was it? Did it have something to do with why the Yeerks don't just bring some more Leerans to Earth? Because thinking back, that strikes me as a bit of a plot hole--All the Yeerks think they need is to get a Leeran close enough to an "Andalite Bandit" to find out where they're feeding, and boom, ambush. Basically, the Leerans are the equivalent of the Yeerk's ability to know all its host's secrets...except Leerans can do it with eeeeveryone. Was the only reason we never really saw them again because they're aquatic?
iirc the "Leeran" war was won after #18. At the beginning of the conflict, the Animorphs thought all was at stake was the main continent, which the Andalites basically threw to the Yeerks. The Andalites were conspiring ~~under the sea~~ with the Leerans to rig the main continent to explode with what was I THINK a really really really high-yield explosive. That's what Ax and Jake were tasked to set off in the bat cave or whatever and then Jake disappeared, and the Hork-Bajir came down to sabotage the bomb and Ax told the Andalites to set it off THE SECOND HE SNAPPED BACK TO EARTH!!!!
SUPER INTENSE!!!!
so basically after 18 there would be no more Leeran hosts besides what the Yeerks already had b/c Leera had been won. That's why Visser Four came to Earth in MM3 to steal the Time Matrix and give us all the valuable historic lesson that humans are assholes.
Also,
I love Ax, but I'm pretty sure he mentions Andalites keeping Leerans in zoos.
If you know where that happens, I'd super appreciate it, b/c that's a pretty huge fucking detail about the Andalites that I don't remember at all. If they're keeping sentient species in zoos...I mean, yeesh. I feel like you may be thinking about some Visser Three morph that came from one of the Andalite moons, but I think that was in #12
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Date: 2011-12-05 07:32 am (UTC)iirc the "Leeran" war was won after #18. At the beginning of the conflict, the Animorphs thought all was at stake was the main continent, which the Andalites basically threw to the Yeerks. The Andalites were conspiring ~~under the sea~~ with the Leerans to rig the main continent to explode with what was I THINK a really really really high-yield explosive. That's what Ax and Jake were tasked to set off in the bat cave or whatever and then Jake disappeared, and the Hork-Bajir came down to sabotage the bomb and Ax told the Andalites to set it off THE SECOND HE SNAPPED BACK TO EARTH!!!!
SUPER INTENSE!!!!
so basically after 18 there would be no more Leeran hosts besides what the Yeerks already had b/c Leera had been won. That's why Visser Four came to Earth in MM3 to steal the Time Matrix and give us all the valuable historic lesson that humans are assholes.
Also,
I love Ax, but I'm pretty sure he mentions Andalites keeping Leerans in zoos.
If you know where that happens, I'd super appreciate it, b/c that's a pretty huge fucking detail about the Andalites that I don't remember at all. If they're keeping sentient species in zoos...I mean, yeesh. I feel like you may be thinking about some Visser Three morph that came from one of the Andalite moons, but I think that was in #12