Ahahah, I see. Yes, oh yes indeed. Though it kind of heads away from "Dr. Name, the Engineer Who Will Save the Day!" they could be operating on the home front, as it were, while he works on the options mentioned for finding allies and learning the system to get Earth included on more beneficial terms, since no matter how effective they are a single world can't actually win in the long term against an enemy that outnumbers them by a factor of one thousand inhabited planets per human... can they?
It's no more audacious as a plan than going from modern day RL tech level to hyperspace-capable in a month, even if someone had already found one the deadlined shuttles or emergency evac boats previously mentioned and that time only has to be devoted to figuring out how to operate and navigate in it, on the hardware end. Even if the Colonial Review Board hearing got packed with too many "Naturalized Settlers" (observers who'd lived on Earth long enough to qualify, essentially) to swing the results in their favor.
WRT the means of transport for the spacebound crew, I favor the idea that various spooky agencies had discovered the observers and/or hardware, and rescuing one of the aliens from the clutches of $dunLikeUs is one of the earlier plot points, so they have an interpreter for languages and customs, and also a legitimate excuse to use one of the medevac boats - even if operating on similar base principles Earthly medical science can't really to more than banadge the leaks and splint broken bones for alien biology.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
It's no more audacious as a plan than going from modern day RL tech level to hyperspace-capable in a month, even if someone had already found one the deadlined shuttles or emergency evac boats previously mentioned and that time only has to be devoted to figuring out how to operate and navigate in it, on the hardware end. Even if the Colonial Review Board hearing got packed with too many "Naturalized Settlers" (observers who'd lived on Earth long enough to qualify, essentially) to swing the results in their favor.
WRT the means of transport for the spacebound crew, I favor the idea that various spooky agencies had discovered the observers and/or hardware, and rescuing one of the aliens from the clutches of $dunLikeUs is one of the earlier plot points, so they have an interpreter for languages and customs, and also a legitimate excuse to use one of the medevac boats - even if operating on similar base principles Earthly medical science can't really to more than banadge the leaks and splint broken bones for alien biology.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows