Still can't get the ideas for an Aliens/Apocalypse now crossover fanfic where a Cryogenicly frozen Colonel Kilgore is responsible for the evacuation of Hadley's Hope, and it turns out napalm in the morning is in fact a better option than nuking it from orbit.
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Maybe R Lee Emery can make an appearance too. Basically the point is Aliens fails as a Vietnam Allegory because 1970s Americans would do better than the Colonial Marines did.
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HOLY SHIT MARINES! WHY IS THIS DROPSHIP JUST SITTING ON THE TARMAC WITH IT'S BAY DOORS SPREAD LIKE A SAIGON WHORE? WHERE ARE THE SENTRIES? DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A BUNCH OF SPACE BUGS CRAWL UP YOUR ASS OR ARE YOU A XENOPHILIAC?
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp
best plausible explanation I could come up with for that clusterfuck is that the CSMs are not at all a professional military unit but are basically space mall cops and the incompetence is in character for that reason.
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Yeah that's the commonly accepted explanation. Welland Yutani sent them to die. But Col Killgore on the other hand thinks of his men like his sons, and would have made sure they watched their backs and used appropriate weapons.
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I think that version is basically canon, since the objective of W-Y was to gather data on the combat capabilities of the xenomorphs. The unanswered question, that we have to read b/t the lines for, is why the CSMs performed so poorly. It's not like they were in on it.
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