Rule Number One: Don't Attack an Alien Race that Has Advanced Energy Weapons

The other day, I was talking to a friend who is designing video games, and he was explaining one where modern day fighter aircraft, and the most advanced weapons that humans currently have would have to go up against an alien race with energy weapons. He explains how some of these weapons worked, and what the limitations were. He has a degree in astrophysics, and did a stint teaching at the local university in their physics department for a good number of years, so he knows his stuff.

After he explained all this to me, I was quite intrigued, and I hope to someday play his game once it comes out, which could be within the next year or so. One of the takeaways from our conversation was that maybe humans need to rethink everything that they saw on Star Trek because rule number one: "don't attack an alien race that has advanced energy weapons, with conventional weaponry."

Now then, I'm sure this makes complete sense to you, and perhaps it's something that does not need to be said. However, I would submit to you in the future that humans will have energy weapons, and certain nations will have better energy weapons than others. The last thing a nation state would wish to do would be to start a war with another nation that had more advanced energy weapons than themselves.

Okay so, consider this using current stealth fighters, we may be able to get close to the alien target, and then once we launch our bunker busters, JDams, EM pulse, or tactical nukes, that same energy could be redirected back towards us, meaning they would convert the energy produced by these weapons to destroy our military assets. Therefore, it wouldn't make much sense to go and attack them in the first place, as it would be just like fighting a black belt in Judo who would use his opponents energy against him.

In this future video game, the alien race is able to manipulate gravity, and all the tanks on the battlefield start floating up in the air, and then they turn the device off and allow all the Army tanks the ball back from 1000 feet in the air to the ground, so much for surface weaponry in the modern net centric battlespace. Another device the aliens have allows them to put up a force field which is like a brick wall, and so our fighter planes end up hitting this and smashing into a million pieces, as they can't even see what they were about to hit. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net