Yossarian
Forum Resistance Leader
The physics to bypass the speed of light [c] and traverse the universe are unimaginable. As it stands right now nothing with mass can reach lightspeed. Light is transmitted by the photon which is considered a massless particle. It is pure energy that IS effected by spacetime but does not directly effect spacetime like particles with mass do. The faster you move something that has mass: the heavier it gets.
The phsyics of a species who can travel the stars would be so far ahead of ours that there really isnt a comparison I could use. Maybe a nuclear age human to a strand of bacteria? To think that this species who has mastered and devolped procedures to disable/manipulate the properties of spacetime would have to slug it out with human troops is ludacris.
They could lob a 5km wide asteroid at earth completely undetected and go get a sandwich. Our best explanation would be that mother nature had in out for us.
Just sayin......
Agreed, the rules of conflict would remain the same, any alien adversary would simply follow one of the basics, if you want to win don't fight fair.
I am sure any alien foe wouldn't care of mankind's opinion of them.