The Future of Yeerks
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animorphsljOne of the many, many things that 54 never got into was what really happened to the Yeerks at the end of the war.
We know that those on Earth have the opportunity to become nothlits but I can't imagine that all of them wanted to. And what happened to them?
Were they forced to leave Earth? Were little Yeerk pools built to accomodate them? Were they allowed to take voluntary hosts?
Personally, I always imagined that they became nothlits or were booted off the planet. Once the war is over they aren't really in a position to force their presence anymore and I can easily see Congress or the President or the Supreme Court (or all of them) outlawing Controllers and then none of the other countries really wanting to be the one to accept Yeerks after what happened and given that they had an alternative.
America is a country where the government can tell you you're not allowed to ingest certain products, you must wear a seat belt, you are not allowed to sleep with or marry certain people, you are not allowed to have contact with certain people, you must attend school until a certain age, you must give some of your money to the government...It doesn't feel like I live in a very controlling country but then sometimes it occurs to me that if I wanted to take my life in my hands and not wear a seat belt then it really shouldn't be anybody else's business.
Would a country that forces you to wear a seat belt (at least in certain states) really allow people to share their bodies? Even if it isn't the governments business, they will make it their business and take a stance.
And I can't even find myself disagreeing with them. On the hand, people should have the right to do what they want as long as it isn't hurting others but on the other...the idea just freaks me out. I don't think I'd be able to handle talking to somebody if I knew they were a voluntary Controller. If they just switched in a conversation...creepy. And even if it would only be a few people at the start, it seems like in a few generations *everybody* would be doing it. It would be as if the Animorphs lost the war and over time the Yeerk Peace Movement spread across the Empire.
And then there's the huge potential for abuse. Sure the Yeerk is *supposed* to not control you when you don't want to be controlled but at the end of the day it's the one with the power and is allowing the time-share. If you two disagree, who wins? The Yeerk...unless it lets you win. What if it wants you to do something "for your own good"? Even if it really is for your own good, that still seems too much. Or maybe it's going to force you to do something horrible and there's nothing you can do.
Sure at that point when you went in for a feeding you could complain and get rid of the Yeerk but the damage is still done. And what if they find a way to access a Kandrona at a non-approved place and you don't get the chance? There could be secret involuntary Controllers around. And given enough time...who knows? It may be unlikely but just that possibility is too much for me. Plus it's not like infesting others is their only choice anymore and if they'd miss their hosts then there's nothing stopping them from spending all of their time with their former hosts once they become nothlits.
I just don't really see constant companionship as a plus and all of the other so-called benefits don't seem to outweigh the risks.
So that's my take on what happens after the war ends and I've yet to find someone who agrees with it but that's okay. I'm used to having strange opinions.
Other thoughts on the future of the Yeerks?
We know that those on Earth have the opportunity to become nothlits but I can't imagine that all of them wanted to. And what happened to them?
Were they forced to leave Earth? Were little Yeerk pools built to accomodate them? Were they allowed to take voluntary hosts?
Personally, I always imagined that they became nothlits or were booted off the planet. Once the war is over they aren't really in a position to force their presence anymore and I can easily see Congress or the President or the Supreme Court (or all of them) outlawing Controllers and then none of the other countries really wanting to be the one to accept Yeerks after what happened and given that they had an alternative.
America is a country where the government can tell you you're not allowed to ingest certain products, you must wear a seat belt, you are not allowed to sleep with or marry certain people, you are not allowed to have contact with certain people, you must attend school until a certain age, you must give some of your money to the government...It doesn't feel like I live in a very controlling country but then sometimes it occurs to me that if I wanted to take my life in my hands and not wear a seat belt then it really shouldn't be anybody else's business.
Would a country that forces you to wear a seat belt (at least in certain states) really allow people to share their bodies? Even if it isn't the governments business, they will make it their business and take a stance.
And I can't even find myself disagreeing with them. On the hand, people should have the right to do what they want as long as it isn't hurting others but on the other...the idea just freaks me out. I don't think I'd be able to handle talking to somebody if I knew they were a voluntary Controller. If they just switched in a conversation...creepy. And even if it would only be a few people at the start, it seems like in a few generations *everybody* would be doing it. It would be as if the Animorphs lost the war and over time the Yeerk Peace Movement spread across the Empire.
And then there's the huge potential for abuse. Sure the Yeerk is *supposed* to not control you when you don't want to be controlled but at the end of the day it's the one with the power and is allowing the time-share. If you two disagree, who wins? The Yeerk...unless it lets you win. What if it wants you to do something "for your own good"? Even if it really is for your own good, that still seems too much. Or maybe it's going to force you to do something horrible and there's nothing you can do.
Sure at that point when you went in for a feeding you could complain and get rid of the Yeerk but the damage is still done. And what if they find a way to access a Kandrona at a non-approved place and you don't get the chance? There could be secret involuntary Controllers around. And given enough time...who knows? It may be unlikely but just that possibility is too much for me. Plus it's not like infesting others is their only choice anymore and if they'd miss their hosts then there's nothing stopping them from spending all of their time with their former hosts once they become nothlits.
I just don't really see constant companionship as a plus and all of the other so-called benefits don't seem to outweigh the risks.
So that's my take on what happens after the war ends and I've yet to find someone who agrees with it but that's okay. I'm used to having strange opinions.
Other thoughts on the future of the Yeerks?
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Date: 2012-05-02 02:22 am (UTC)Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-02 02:50 am (UTC)Not with how they tend to rush to extremes (Quantum Virus and 'quarantining' Earth when the Yeerks still haven't even taken one damn city in all the years they've been there anyone?) and hate the Yeerks with an unholy passion. This has taken up at least forty years for them and cost them so very much that they're not going to take their chances and hope that the humans don't lose control of them. Making them nothlits is risky enough but at least then they can make sure they're really nothlits and not morph-capable Yeerks.
And, aside from Cassie, would anyone *really* care if the Yeerks aren't allowed to infest willing people? Some would probably be relieved that's out of the way.
If, for whatever reason, the humans did fight for the right to be voluntary Controllers (I can't honestly see anyone with any sway aside from Cassie doing so) then the Andalites and the humans would not be on such good terms at the conclusion of the war.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-02 03:10 am (UTC)Yeah, that's an excellent point. Some Yeerks in the Peace Movement obviously want to live peaceably with voluntary hosts, but there's so many opportunities for things to go wrong. What if the human host suddenly freaks out after years and decides they don't want an alien slug in their body after all? What if a Yeerk goes all power-hungry (or, worse, has good intentions, supposedly in the name of the "Peace Movement") and thinks the rest of his species should enjoy the privilege of infestation?
I don't think the Andalites really gave a crap about the Yeerks tbh.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-02 04:20 am (UTC)Overall? Hells yes.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-02 04:36 am (UTC)Also, I should probably actually cite the post and the user I got that opinion from. (Yes, I am a Bad Historian. D:)
By the way, this post is talking about why the Andalites didn't just 'dissolve' the Yeerks via a Quantum Virus.
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2822
by capnnerefir » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:46 am
From this, we can conclude that the Andalite high-command didn't give half a tail-shake what happened to anyone but the Andalites (unless, of course, they got caught).
So, for that reason, I think that any objection raised on moral grounds is invalid in this situation, since that wouldn't factor into the thoughts of the War Council. While the average Andalite would probably be appalled (as they were with the Hork-bajir incident), the ones making the call would be more than happy to scratch off the entire Yeerk race. Genocide would be a-okay by them.
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So, basically the Andalite higher-ups would've wanted the Yeerks dead, and to hell with any of those who happened to be peaceful or unwilling.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-02 04:52 am (UTC)I can definitely see them refusing to allow anything but nothlits (and even then making it difficult whenever they could and not allowing anyone but the specific Yeerks on Earth the deal included to be made nothlits) out of vengeance if nothing else. They're big on vengeance.
And they haven't trusted anyone at all with anything since Seerow.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-03 01:57 am (UTC)This is a guess, but maybe there's a sense of race-guilt about the Yeerk invasion that won’t allow the Andalites to consider alternatives? Like, "We screwed up with Seerow's Kindness, now we need to fix this whole invasion before it gets out of hand.”
There's a lot of history there, and strong resentment on both sides, that IMO doesn't allow the Yeerk/Andalite relationship to be anything but that of sworn enemies. I think a lot of Andalites would've been brainwashed into an anti-Yeerk mindset because of that (and vice versa).
If Andalites (as a society) had acknowledged that Yeerks were an intelligent, sentient race who were capable of peaceful coexistence, compassion, etc., it would've needed the Andalites to step back and admit that hey, Yeerks might actually have some reason for infesting other species. I think it was much easier to other (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other”) the Yeerks, like “OMG they’re evil technology-stealing parasites who’re trying to take over the world!”, than try to understand their motives. Of course, as people have pointed out on TV Tropes, the Yeerks could’ve handled their conquest very differently and much less antagonistically. I like nyxelestia's suggestion of Iskoort-type symbiosis, for example.
Following on from that, I can't see the military Andalites (whom I imagine would be very conservative, much like military leaders on Earth), embracing the idea of voluntary hosts. They'd see it as a horrible fate because they themselves wouldn't be able to bear the idea of being Controllers. So their mindset would be "All Yeerks are bad, they need to be dealt with as efficiently as possible." I don't even know if it crossed their minds that some Yeerks and humans might be okay with voluntary hosting. Or if it did, they didn't care. Obviously that sucks for the Yeerks as a whole, but… these are Andalites we're talking about.
Does canon say how much impact the Animorphs had in deciding what happened to the Yeerks?
And they haven't trusted anyone at all with anything since Seerow.
I don’t know that Seerow had much to do with it… I think that law about Seerow’s Kindness was more to do with not passing on state secrets/classified technology. And maybe they loosened up a bit, because according to Wikipedia they href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_(Animorphs)”> gave humans a single Escafil device against terrorism.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-03 04:10 am (UTC)I don't think it would have made much of a difference if they DID acknowledge it. I mean, it might be a bit harder on morale if they all pulled a Cassie and realized that some of the people who sincerely wanted them dead and were enslaving others and aiding in the enslavement of a lot of people were just doing their job and didn't have many options. Still, the Yeerks chosen course of action necessitated resistance so even if they tried to sympathize like Cassie did they'd still need to fight.
I think the whole mess could have been avoided if the Yeerks hadn't jumped the gun and took off with Andalite ships before the morphing technology had been perfected. They had no way of knowing, of course, but it was some really bad timing.
I don’t know that Seerow had much to do with it… I think that law about Seerow’s Kindness was more to do with not passing on state secrets/classified technology. And maybe they loosened up a bit,
I believe Seerow did have a lot to do with it because they either hadn't really shared a lot of technology before or they had and it hadn't blown up in their faces. Even if things went wrong, they had been able to be contained. The Yeerks were the first case that things went wrong and they couldn't fix it and so that started all of their 'never tell anyone anything' policy.
They did start to loosen it, yeah, but I'd say it was a gradual process over the three years that the series continued. There were a couple areas that the Andalites refused to share information on even if whoever was narrating thought that that might change. But sharing technology with a trusted ally race isn't quite the same as trusting said ally race to successfully deal with the species that has been plaguing you for generations all by themselves when they've only recently even realized they weren't alone in the galaxy. Their culture (or at least their military) has gotten extremely paranoid since Seerow's time.
Re: Brilliant!
Date: 2012-05-03 10:40 pm (UTC)Off topic
Date: 2012-05-02 04:19 am (UTC)Re: Off topic
Date: 2012-05-02 04:29 am (UTC)Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to wait anyway: I was too happy about the awesome fandom people and rediscovering all the characters and such. XD I knew perfectly well there'd be spoilers in this comm and I'm fine with it, LOL.
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Date: 2012-05-03 08:57 pm (UTC)I can't remember/name names but there are people in the comm who have all the books in electronic format from before the rerelease. (There were sites that used to have all of them uploaded but when Scholastic decided to rerelease they took them down per request if I remember correctly.) Maybe you'll luck out and someone might see this comment and shoot you a line? -_^
Re: Off topic
Date: 2012-05-04 08:10 am (UTC)Re: Off topic
Date: 2012-05-04 08:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:42 am (UTC)Secondly, not wearing your seatbelt actually does endanger others. ;)
Unfortunate Implications
Date: 2012-05-02 01:18 pm (UTC)And aside from increased insurance payments in case of an accident, how does not wearing a seat belt hurt others?
Re: Unfortunate Implications
Date: 2012-05-02 04:52 pm (UTC)I couldn't be bothered to dig around for actual statistics, but I always thought this advert says it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE
Re: Unfortunate Implications
Date: 2012-05-02 06:22 pm (UTC)I don't think that hiding out is a very viable option for the foreseeable future given how problematic portable Kandronas were shown to be in 30 and how they evidently weren't an option in 31.
I hadn't considered that some countries might welcome them to spite America. It seems petty but people can't always be counted on to behave rationally. And another incentive might be a trade. The country provides access to a Kandrona and allows them to infest willing hosts and in exchange they act as scientists for that country or give them extra technological information.
When I was initially conidering if other countries might accept Yeerks I was thinking of maybe some of those progressive accept-everyone countries. I can just see pro-Controllers accusing everyone who doesn't want to allow others to get infested of being racist and it's really hard to argue with that label.
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Date: 2012-05-02 07:38 pm (UTC)EDIT: Here it is (http://cthonical.livejournal.com/97227.html?thread=1362379#t1362379).
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Date: 2012-05-02 07:49 pm (UTC)There was this one story about that random person from 29 who saved Cassie and Aftran by opening the door to the McDonalds and letting her escape realizing that she had saved the world through this action. Cassie was on a talk show and mentioned the incident and was also talking about the debate in Congress about whether to allow voluntary Controllers (Cassie, of course, was in favor of this). I guess just sort of skipping whether or not people would ever allow it and just making it a done deal is easier, though.
And on that link specifically, while I could *maybe* see a Yeerk as condition of parole happening, I don't think any human rights group would ever allow being an involuntary Controller instead of a prison sentence.
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Date: 2012-05-02 10:25 pm (UTC)How much will legality matter?
Recreational marijuana is still illegal in the U.S., yet at my school it was easier to acquire than tobacco and alcohol. Sometimes cheaper, too. Prostitution is illegal outside of Nevada (and one other state, Rhode Island I think?), and yet in my middle school in Oregon I knew girls already getting into it. When that same middle school tried to ban hugs, for two weeks straight everyone hugged each other constantly until the school gave up trying.
It's not a matter of legality, at least not that alone. There are a lot of other factors involved.
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Date: 2012-05-03 12:51 am (UTC)We've seen that the Yeerks do not have the technology to build portable Kandronas that are good for more than the short-term. Maybe the Andalites could create them but they *won't.*
They always had one big one and a Kandrona on the Pool and Blade ships. The Blade ship is gone, the Pool ship was captured, and the Andalites/humans can figure out where the Kandrona is (if it survived the explosion) and regulate that. Yeerks also need more than just a body of water near the Kandrona or else they wouldn't need a pool and blowing up the pool wouldn't be such a big deal. Sure many would have died but the survivors could have found a bathtub or a sink or something and been fine. The Pool ship wouldn't have had to land and the Animorphs couldn't have stolen it.
It seems very unlikely that the Yeerks could have gotten their hands on a Kandrona and built a Yeerk pool without anyone noticing and approving.
This got a lot longer than I'd intended...is my Poli Sci major showing? :P 1/2
Date: 2012-05-02 10:21 pm (UTC)Also, while I don't think you were meaning anything by it, the way you phrased your issues with Yeerks is kind of similar to a lot of the arguments used for homophobia and gender discrimination. Like, okay, a Yeerk/Controller freaks you out, but why does that give you the right to decide for someone whether or not to allow them to take on a Yeerk/become a Controller? A lot of people are freaked out by gays and homosexuality, but that doesn't really give them the right to decide if someone else should have a gay marriage or not.
If someone is voluntarily becoming a Controller, presumably they already know that the Yeerk in their head is going to have ultimate power, at least for three days. Humans already (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_%28BDSM%29#Total_power_exchange) voluntarily enter these kinds of relationships with each other. I can see some people wanting to voluntarily become a host. There is a lot of room for abuse in this system, but there's a lot of room for abuse in any system, and we put in measures to overcome that (whether they work or not is another story).
If they just switched in a conversation...creepy.
I had so much fun with people like you during my mischievous/prankster days. ;) No, seriously, I did this sort of thing quite a bit as a kid...
Anyway!
Remember, even a Yeerk's ultimate power over a Host is limited - they still have to feed every three days. If a human is have problems with their Yeerk, in three days they will be free and can either not become a Host again or try another Yeerk. Yes, obviously, there's a lot of damage that's possible in just three days - but at the systemic level, how likely is it? And what are they going to do? Realistically, Yeerks need to invade and take over other species because they need hosts/bodies, but if they can get it without invasion, will they (again, systemically) really have much reason to be evil? Most likely they will just want to live their relative lives out normally. In the short run, yeah, taking control over your human sounds great instead of sharing the body with them, but in the long run it would be beneficial for Yeerks to just agree to a timeshare with the body and be done with it, or wait until they get a person who's willing to give up their bodies entirely.
Another thing to consider, actually: what if Yeerks morphed and became Nothlits...and in turn became hosts themselves? It would create a type of symbiotic species system, much like the Iskoort.
This got a lot longer than I'd intended...is my Poli Sci major showing? :P 2/2
Date: 2012-05-02 10:22 pm (UTC)That said, you do have a point - for all that the U.S. masquerades as the land of liberty and freedom, our State is damn controlling at times, and at the top of a slippery slope into totalitarianism. They absolutely would try to forbid voluntary Yeerks/Controllers. The question is, will it do anything? The U.S. has a long track record with failure in limiting victimless crimes - i.e. alcohol (prohibition), drugs (War on Drugs), and prostitution (Nevada may be the only place where it's legal, but that's certainly not the only place it's happening - quite frankly I knew girls in my rural junior high school in Oregon on that track who probably didn't even know that it was illegal, and not just 'against the rules'). Controllers will still be around, it's just a question of if they truly are Voluntary (not as much), and what the side effects of their presence are.
Not to mention - how involved are Andalites and other species with humanity, now? It's been a long time since I've read 54, so I may be remembering it incorrectly/may be remembering the fanon, but it said Andalites started coming to Earth
for our Cinnabons, right? What's the American government going to do in the face of that? What kind of technologies are the Andalites going to bring with them, and how much are humans going to get, legally and otherwise? Like, seriously, how is that going to effect our economy? Our religions? Our cultures?Any new culture clashing into another one headlong, even without colonization or war, creates havoc, at least in human history. An entire new species, or even several? With a sudden and rapid change in technology and interaction? Cultures have changed massively in the last decade or two just because people can instantaneously communicate with each other from around the world - it still takes a day or two to actually get there. But what if suddenly we had access to interstellar travel? My father (who I live in Los Angeles with) would go from having to teleconference with colleagues in China and India and Europe to actually going there himself, and still be back home in time for dinner. How would this effect immigration on Earth? Humans are a rather territorial species. How are we going to enforce not letting people into the Country Next Door when they can hope over to the moon and back as part of a daily commute?
In other words, after the war, there will have been a lot of Total Chaos that got glossed over in the books. I'd be willing to buy the "they were for kids!" excuse, except I'm pretty sure Avatar: The Last Airbender has an even younger target demographic and they are diving headfirst into these kinds of complications with success, so now I'm a lot more hesitant about that sort of thing.
That said it was the 90's...With this kind of Total Chaos, one has to consider a.) what everyone will try to do about it, and b.) what will actually happen. In any government (but especially America's) there is a gigantic difference between the two, and that gap would only grow in a post-Alien-War Earth.Re: This got a lot longer than I'd intended...is my Poli Sci major showing? :P 2/2
Date: 2012-05-03 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-06 09:21 am (UTC)My brain is weird sometimes...
I'd be willing to bet that some nothlit Yeerks took up positions that were helpful to humans, though. (E.g. search-and-rescue for hikers, feral dog control in Moscow, border patrols, rabbit hunting in Australia, etc.) That would make humans a bit more favourable towards Yeerks in general.
Re: This got a lot longer than I'd intended...is my Poli Sci major showing? :P 1/2
Date: 2012-05-03 01:08 am (UTC)Most likely they will just want to live their relative lives out normally. I'm concerned about little abuses, things most people would not see as abuses. The two have an argument or can't decide who should be in control at any particular moment or which action to take. Maybe one wants to go skydiving and the other has a paralyzing fear of heights. Who wins these confrontations? The Yeerks...unless they choose to allow the host to win. They may just randomly take over for a moment at any time and the host will never be able to do that. They will never be able to be truly equal. At most, the Yeerk can give them half-control but it's *their* gift.
Another thing to consider, actually: what if Yeerks morphed and became Nothlits...and in turn became hosts themselves? It would create a type of symbiotic species system, much like the Iskoort. I don't see how that would be symbiosis or how the Iskoorts were even symbiosis. Sure the Isk would die without the Yoort and vice versa but that's just genetic engineering. Take out the fact that the Isk have no choice but to be controlled by the Yoort becaue otherwise they'd die (the Yeerks could have done that to the Hork-Bajir or the humans and that wouldn't make it symbiosis) and it's easy to see what the Yoort get. They get senses and a body. What are the Isk getting? Life? They'd have that without Yoort tampering. Did the Yoort create the Isk? That shouldn't give them the right to enslave them forever. And even if that's how it's always been so the Isk don't know to mind, that still seems wrong.
And symbiosis is not where one party is a parasite and the other is accepting the parasite into their life. Both sides need to get something out of it and the humans would get along quite fine without the Yeerks. Some companionship or whatever doesn't really seem like it's in the same league as having access to the world at large.
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Date: 2012-05-03 12:27 am (UTC)I also imagine they could also be highly useful for diagnostics, much like Aftran was in The Sickness. And also just for research, in understanding how the brain works and functions.
Of course, as a few people have pointed out, there's a lot of issues surrounding the possibility of abuse, not to mention societal attitudes. There'd need to be strict regulations in place, like perhaps whenever the Yeerk feeds the host has to go through a process to make sure that they haven't been mistreated and that they still really want this. I also imagine that if becoming a voluntary controller were permitted, there would be a lot of stigma surrounding it.
Canon-wise, I think the most likely scenario is that all Yeerks either had to choose to become a nothlit or return to the pools forever (and most likely only the pools on their home world). Purely because they were the aggressors in a war they had just lost. There's not going to be much public sympathy for them, either from humans or the Andalites. That's not to say that any other scenario is impossible though, because history can take strange turns sometimes. But, if there's going to be any kind of voluntary co-operation or infestation between Yeerks and other species, it'd probably happen further down the line when the war is no longer an immediate memory and the species involved have had a chance to make reparations.
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Date: 2012-05-03 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-03 12:59 am (UTC)But yes, even in the case of mental illness there would still definitely be a looooot of issues to consider - is it ethical, it is really worth the potential benefits, which illnesses and to what degree would justify a Yeerk and which ones wouldn't, are the potential hosts capable of making informed consent, etc etc...not to mention the effect on the Yeerk themselves. Still, it is certainly something to think about.
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Date: 2012-05-06 08:36 am (UTC)It's going over the same stuff we've been discussing here, but I thought I'd include it just for interest's sake. :)
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Date: 2012-05-06 06:45 pm (UTC)I think one of the key points is the issue of genocide and people viewing the entire species becoming nothlits as genocide. I don't think something counts as genocide unless someone is dying and the Yeerks aren't. And even in the case of culture being wiped out, I dont' see why Yeerk nothlits couldn't preserve it. They'd have to morph sentient species to have sentient offspring and pass it down, of course, but if they remained Yeerks they'd be infesting sentient species anyway so I don't see that as a big hardhsip.
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Date: 2012-05-06 11:20 pm (UTC)But, yes, I love the idea of morphing sentient creatures, I think it'd be the cleanest and most humane solution of them all. It has its problems (again, as humans they're more potentially dangerous than as, say, cats), but it would definitely be a huge bonus for the Yeerks.
Someone mentioned Yeerk hosts infesting the Yeerk nothlits; again, it's not perfect, but it's a good idea.
The problem is that we don't know what happened in canon, We've no idea how much the Animorphs and the Yeerks themselves had a say in this. The bloody Andalites could've done anything just for expediency. :(
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Date: 2012-05-10 06:46 pm (UTC)