Originally posted by Placidity
Yes, but D-9 wasn't that big was it? You're talking about a million large army.Anyway, in that kinda of environment, the Prawns take it. Aliens need bigger structures to hide behind and strike from the shadows. Also depends on the time of day. If it were night time, Aliens would own this shit.
D-9 was pretty big, it housed a million prawns. Plus there were roads and shit.
It also consisted of flimsy shacks, Prawn weaponry would level the shacks, reducing the places the Xenos can hide. The weapon Wikus used when escaping the voodoo guys took out like 4 or 5 humans in one shot. And the weapon Christopher used when they were raiding EMU fired like a mini-gun. Then there was the one that shot an RPG like projectile that levelled a shack.
I just realized that I said the Xenos were aiming to infect the Prawns, but I left out facehuggers. There are, let's say, 500 facehuggers in the mix, does that sound about right?
Prawn weaponry:
http://district9.wikia.com/wiki/Non-humans#Weaponry
Weaponry
The non-humans have a variety of extremely-powerful energy weapons. The weapons can only be activated by alien DNA, which means that no human can use them (with the sole exception of Wikus). The weapons shown in the film are mostly energy-based, but several clips asdfst one point, Christopher can be seen using one that appears to handle like an assault rifle when he and Wikus stormed MNU headquarters. Wikus uses a gun in the Nigerian gang base capable of producing a shockwave blast powerful enough to blast a human through a wall at high speeds. Even a near miss can send someone flying through the air as shown in the film. Another weapon of note is a large alien mech that Wikus piloted near the end of the film. The suit appears to have a number of other alien weapon capabilities integrated into it, along with a magnetic field generator that allows it to catch enemy projectiles and launch them right back at the enemy.
The most well known weapon is the ARC gun. It fires a huge charge of sadfns and rapid molecular expansion of gas and fluid. In a soft biological or animal target, an ARC gun strike can result in a catastrophic explosion of blood and gore. But even a near miss can cause superficial burns and keep an enemy subdued, and bolmans in District 9 hold the power of lightning in their hands.