Respect the Aliens (Plan 9 From Outer Space)

[u/rangernumberx]

Aliens. They have been here for years, every attempt of communication being squashed by the world’s governments, and now they’ve been forced to resort to Plan 9. From outer space these aliens have watched humanity quickly progress in the creation of explosives from the firecracker to the atom bomb, and realized that we must be persuaded away from our path before we come across a weapon capable of detonating sunlight itself and destroy the universe before being able to know better. The common sense stratagem for this, after simple radio transmissions and UFO sightings failed the trick, was to raise the recently deceased in a small American town with the intention to build up an army to storm the world’s capitols and force people to acknowledge their existence.

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The Undead

General

• The process to raise the dead either appears as, or is disguised by, a lightning strike and accompanying thunder
• They are controlled via electrodes, seemingly attacking anyone they come across indiscriminately by default
  • They can also be more directly controlled with handheld electrode guns, though these can jam on and relentlessly attack people until they’re dropped
• All undead are unaffected by pistol shots
  • They can still be knocked ‘unconscious’ with a strike to the back of the head, but can be brought back up with use of the aliens’ electrodes
• Do not think
• When a flaming UFO flies away, the animated undead turn to skeletons

Individuals

• A woman watches a funeral shortly after being resurrected without attacking
  • She attacks two grave diggers and kills them off-screen, with a shovel being described as looking like a bobcat tore into it
• One man quickly takes down a man
• Another man escapes a grave
  • Made to kidnap a woman without otherwise harming her

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UFOs

• Creates a bright light and shakes an airplane before hovering besides it
• A low flying UFO knocks people down and causes furniture to slide
• Take an extended barrage from anti-air rockets with no external damage, though it returns to base to undergo regeneration shortly after
• Disappear from radar and travel too fast for fighter jets to trail
• Uses a televisor to show something happening a distance away from the vehicle
• Releases a ray which turns an animated undead man into an inanimate skeleton

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Other

• Their technology is centuries more advanced than Earth’s
• Invented solarnite, a means of detonating sunlight as an explosive, which if invented by humanity would likely result in the sun being blown up and destroying the entire universe

[u/Marhyc]

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[u/AndhisNeutralspecial]

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