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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5012770" data-attributes="member: 20741">They continued with the water and vague minerals game, but it's pretty clear that they have other designs in which our bodies have a role to play.I'm guessing a) meat and b) a source of organs or other parts to preserve their lives well past their natural lifespan. The last episode hinted that the R6 plays a great part in their plan. There is something in that bottle they want Billions of people to be injected with. Why?  That's the $1,000,000.00 question. The theme of control via The Bliss and the extension of the V's own lifespan many times over would seem to be a significantly persuasive reward to cause many of the V's  to ignore the moral implications of consuming a sentient alien species simply because they taste good. It also seems that among the Fifth Column, they are resisting The Plan for moral reasons. I would think that trying to keep us alive for use as a source of some organ or other vital by-product in our brains, not easily synthesized, which is used to greatly extend their lives (at the cost of ours) makes the most sense in terms of the setup.  Humans as Anagathics on the Hoof, as it were.Our tech is not sufficient to defeat the Vs, but it is clearly sufficient to defeat the Vs plans, else they would not have bothered with the subterfuge. I think this predicts that the Vs plans involve using our planet (which we might wreck via a nuclear holocaust) or, more likely, our bodies as a source of some critical biological resource they lack. The danger is that we become wise to their plans, and use nukes on them - and end up destroying ourselves or otherwise render Earth (and us) unusable for their nefarious schemes. The Dog in the Manger/Armageddon Defence.Armageddon Lite: More plausibly, we use their own biotech against them to simply find a way to poison ourselves more effectively, without risk to us - but rendering our body parts unusable to the V's. A designer virus, deliberately spread to as to leave the living human host alive, but render that host unusable for their purposes would seem far more satisfactory then our dying with 2 suns in the sunset. YMMV.Having been denied the fruits of their victory, and losing the carrot of immortality (or extended life and vigour) to dangle in front of her people, Anna is thus thwarted. She loses control and the Fifth Column is now in a position to persuade their population to leave Earth alone - willingly.</blockquote>

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