>>12727852>>12727810>>12727762>>12726172>>12719269You've been watching too much space opera crap anon. And I use the term space opera because to refer to most modern scifi garbage as "science fiction" would be an insult to the genre.
Anyways, the more we understand the cosmos the more we realize classical space battles as envisioned on the popular media are pants on retarded.
If an advanced civilization ever considers us a threat, all they need to do is launch an asteroid at us at relativistic speeds to obliterate the Earth. Or point a Nicol-Dyson Beam at us if such a thing was possible.
If there is anything resembling warships, they would be manned by advanced AI rather than living creatures. A swarm of self replicating probes can overwhelm a system much better than a flotilla of warships ever could.
And assuming for a benevolent civilization that would rather subdue than destroy, that can be accomplished through nanorobot clouds that dissassemble weaponry. A civilization that has mastered FTL travel could presumably destroy all our warfighting capacity without killing a single Human.
As for invasions of planets these would be pointless. Resources are abundant in the Galaxy to the point of approaching the infinite. Different alien biochemistry, atmospheric pressure and temperature preferences also would mean that worlds suitable for one species would be unlikely to be agreeable to others.
