So you chose to stay, Now what?

[Ashen Key]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Perhaps, but that's no need to go all unrealistic and 'needs moar spess mehrens war film lol orbital attacks', this is hard scifi. More likely is a more subtle effort.

I think we have VASTLY different definitions of 'hard sci-fi' - to me, Avatar is space-fantasy/space-opera with cyberpunk elements, and about as hard sci-fi as Star Trek. That said, not sure if invasion would work or not - if invasion, though, it'd have to be at least six years in the future.