But cars and trucks and tanks are also the right shape for what they are (wheels and treads are comically easy to get stuck and useless for a human sized thing, but a tank-sized thing *has to have them* because legs would break at that level of weight)
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The Tripod books also lampshade that in any interplanetary war the conventional war should be pointless - if they have spaceships they could've just killed us all from orbit but for whatever reason they didn't
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It even says after the Masters' domes are destroyed, a ship arrives and bombs the ruins to keep the humans from reclaiming their tech, but it doesn't just carpet bomb the planet and kill us all even though they obviously could They could've done that in the first place
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