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Originally Posted by Zeta Blaze
so your saying your option 2 is literally the plot of XCom?
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Never played the game. Is that indeed the plot?
I think of it as the cortez option. The conquistadors didn't take Tenochtitlan with 1,000 spainish soldiers. Cortez used 1,000 spainish soldiers to put himself at the head of a successful rebellion.
The tactic was also used by the english to conquer india. India was conquered by native soldiers (sepoys) with british leadership -- leadership attained mostly by dint of an economic status created by better (longer range) ships.
Now, you specified that the aliens were patient, and I don't see any major wars brewing for them to commandeer. So they have to take the patient option of slowly building.
I'll note Infinite worlds pages 208-210 cover this situation, and thats what it suggests.