I am shure you wuld wish to die rather then being alive and possible get the upper hand later.
But we others that actualy survives wull bow down and hope fore better days..
Is that clear enuf anticarrot?
Oh and about harvesting crops and stuff..
You sprout things that you can know nothing about, becuse they (as far as i know/remeber) havent been broght up in the story.
There can be MANNY reasons why concering earth wuld be a good idea.
And when to do it too.
They have know about us fore a while now, i dunno how long exactly.
But they wuld know -ewrything- i think they wuld need to know to take us ower.
And they know right now we can be taken ower pretty esoly and without much troubles.
In the future that might not be true.
Personally i think if there are aliens out there in rl, that are observing us, they wont be bothering with us unless we becomes a threat, like if we developt a ftl engine, or sent out sores of cold sleep ships.
(a localised problem can be soo easy to wipe out)
Building a farm in space is not that easy, and you still have to suply either the soil or nutrients to the wather fore it.
Then are the harvesting and resycling and long time were and tear on the whole prosess.
Plus it takes time and a whole lot of resorses.
Terraforming is not a fast thing.
Probably you only have mineral rock and wather/ice to work with.
Shure domed farms culd be made alot esyer then terraforming a whole planet tho.
Still you need the soil and whater and seed and workforse.
Unless you got robots fore the whole thing, witch in turn need to be maintaind.
Then is the transport issue.
(ok, maby thats not a huge problem)
But you have forgotten something.
Its not economickal.
(damd spelling, i am sorry people, fore this horribly mangling of the language)
Plus they seem to need LOADS of food, not simply enuf to suply fore a cuple of citys.
All that effort put in to space greenhuses culd be spent on something else, like bulding actual ships to defend with.
(or attack)
And still they might have green houses here and there.
We dont know, yet, if they have anny.
Or had, as the point might be.
Or have you forgotten that anny station wuld need to be defended?
And it wuld deliver food pretty regulary and get soild/whater regulary so you cant simply hide em all..
And like anny space indestry, a quick raid might take out ALOT of em.
Earth atleast has atmosphere to proteckt iself somewhat.
And a nuke or something wuldent take it ALL out.
Ewen if a hydrogen bomb rain wuld make a BIG mess of things, so what.
The elves might clean it up ewentually and contine to farm.
Same thing on a space farm and it is toast forewer.
Unless you count the molten metall..
Then you have another reason taking ower earth.
(ok there are sewral REAL obvius ones atleast)
One is taking it ower to keep it out of the hands of the enemy.
Another is its location might be good either as a buffer or a backup if things goes sour.
Still more reasons is the pure labor presented in the population.
Sure right now it is consentraded on farms, and farming.
But that dosent mean it culdent be in the long run a werry important addition to the factory and more advanced producktion needed.
A place to set up an outpost and possibly a minor colony culd be werry atractive considering there are a war on, and ewen if it only splits the atention of an enemy, that culd be important.
Ewentually having a whole planet population adn another race to help defending the empire might be desisive in the survival in the long run.
Its an
Empire fore.. err gods sake, just becuse house trillian(or whatsits name) is a bloody gready fool and handling the whole operation in a maner that is foolhardy dosent mean the empress and or senate (or whatewer they have) have a plan or a good reason fore doing as they do.
Or did annyway.
One reason culd be your higly walued satelite farms had got caght in a raide/war/skirmish and got hurt bad, and posibly destroyd fore a large part.
It culd be a planet that culd have been hit that was the farm fore a large part of the empire.
We dont know what happend.
So while your ashes cools from the suit case bomb youwhere carrying left.
The rest of us that are alive will grind our theath and NOT strap nukes on our chest to die valiantly fore a lost cause.
We are not pre sient and able to know what will happen in the future.
But neither are we fools enuf that we will kill ourselves needlessly when there are anny hope fore life.
Shure there are people(or fools) that will fight, ewen if they will accomplish annything more then a
-minor- inconviniense fore their lives.
And if your actions threthens the lives of me and mine, you are going to face not only the "elves".
Kill my children will you!
*Bang. thud*