Evidence from ancient civilizations have depicted what some say are firsthand introductions to off-world life forms. These days in our highest tech world all we get are a few lights and a blur on a video of a "recon" mission. Perhaps they were once unafraid of us in the arrows and slings days but today things are different. Hollywood usually depicts a human victory over unfriendly aliens in the form of a nuclear or biological event (except Slim Whitman). In the Forties, two things happened, we used nuclear weapons to stop the last of our world wars amongst ourselves and Roswell. Was the cold war an actual sharing and distribution of technology to ensure a global nuclear defense against a recently confirmed potential off-world invader? Are test firings an ongoing warning to BTFO?
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You're assuming they didn't figure out EMP defense before interstellar travel?
Bold assumption.
EMPs work on voltage surges. I'm sure they have ways to bleed off, discharge, or store excess current in the system. EMPs are also useless against electronics as small as EoTechs and other small red dots. Just put a fuse in between each small ass component and replace whichever fried and blew the fuses before it could fry the component to the left and right of it.
This hypothetical civilization figured out all possible applications of nuclear energy as a weapon and defenses for it A LONG TIME AGO. Nuclear to them is like bows and arrows to us.
Bold or otherwise, assumptions are all we have at this point until we have the tech on the table before us and screwdrivers at the ready to take it to bits. Placing a fuse between every single component adds a level of complexity that quite frankly could have been ignored simply by not planning on needing it. If nuclear is as old tech to them as you say, then it’s plausible they have moved so far past it that they didn’t need even consider needing emp shielding at all. I haven’t met any of these aliens (at least to my knowledge) so while I am loath to ascribe human flaws and characteristics to them, I also am reluctant to give them perfection of thought, planning, and execution of all things. Assuming they have perfect tech, perfect shields, perfect cohesion between themselves, these are all just assumptions and we have no real reason to think this is true. Just because we have the technology to make something better, safer, more protected doesn’t mean we do. We’ve had dry sump oil systems for engines since the 1940’s and yet they’re not commonplace even in fields where they would be extremely beneficial. Our troops could have $300000 body armor but higher ups don’t justify the cost. For all we know their scout ships are built cheap and planned as disposable as are their crew so they might get the bare minimum needed and not all the bells and now whistles that they have achieved.
Again, assuming you know the technical capabilities of advances civilizations is hubris. Might as well be throwing spears at an F-15 dropping bombs from 5k feet.
Don't be retarded. Gotta get inside the ship and get a rock to connect with someones head. Guerilla tactics. Take some cues from the Vietcong, Comanche, and taliban. And even then, they weren't thousands of years behind.
Imagine a modern spec ops squad vs vikings. Thermals in the night, suppressors, bullets just hitting dudes with no sound at night Luke it's magic. It'd be like that if we fought them, probably even more of a discrepancy.
How is it hubris for me to spitball about technical ability of aliens we have not yet officially encountered but not for you? You’re assuming they have perfect Star Trek shields capable of stopping everything and have every advantage under the sun, I’m proposing that even if they do, we don’t have to assume they put every single advancement they have on every craft they produce and use. If they have reached post scarcity society levels to the point where even a child’s bicycle has impenetrable shields, anti aircraft guns, heated seat, autopilot and a nuclear reactor, why even bother with us at all? Simply having the means to do so doesn’t mean doing so. We have stealth coatings and designs but not on every plane. We have nuclear reactors but not on every ship. We have CBN protection for tanks but not on every armoured vehicle. Hell they make a $300000 Lamborghini without power seats. We could make everything 100 time better but we find reasons not to. I’m not going to assume a perfect species makes every craft perfect with every technically advanced thing they could want, perfect shields that block everything we could think of and haven’t thought of yet, because that’s just silly. You can be an advanced space faring civilization without mastering every aspect of warfare. It’s not a prerequisite.