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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 12, 2006 4:34:26 GMT -5
1.3 million?! That's till a heck of a lot, even though 0.19% seems like nothing. Are yeerks a race large in numbers? Surely 6 billion yeerks don't even exist?!
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Post by logarithm3 on Jul 12, 2006 12:11:38 GMT -5
There are approximately ten million Yeerks in existence as a good estimate...although most of them are on their homeworld, trapped by andalites. thus an accurate, complete census is not possible. the yeerk empire has a force of around five million. While this may not seem like a lot to our numbers in billions of individuals, this force of five million yeerks started with only 250,000 or so. almost exactly forty years ago. the yeerks reproduce large numbers of progeny, in the thousands, but the process is under regulation by the yeerk council. most of these five million yeerks are on the hork-bajir home planet, the taxxon home planet or patrolling space. a few hundred thousand still do not have hosts, but population is expected to increase.
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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 12, 2006 12:19:53 GMT -5
Ok, I'm trying to work out the maths of that, although I'm not very good at maths so someone might wanna correct me!
So that means the yeerk numbers have risen by 2000% in the last 40 years!
That's doubling every 2 years! So as long as the speed of the yeerk populuation growth stays constant, in 2 years time there might be 10,000,000 years needing hosts. In 10 years there might be 2.5billion yeerks! In another 40 years there could be 10,000,000,000 yeerks!
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Post by logarithm3 on Jul 12, 2006 13:57:47 GMT -5
This is of course assuming yeerk empire population growth remains constant. right now it is sporadic and controlled by the council, so the rate could very well change. it also assumes the yeerk population is not decimated in some way in the future...at the rate this war is going, who knows..
as for yeerks on the homeworld...well, due to crowding issues there is typically only one spawning at a pool at a time...they do not have the same overcrowding issues humans have, generally. but again it is difficult to tell how many yeerks are actually living on the homeworld at the present.
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Post by strangebluequark on Jul 12, 2006 13:58:31 GMT -5
Why would the council want to restrict population growth?
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Post by stargater2k on Jul 12, 2006 14:01:54 GMT -5
More Yeerks take more resources. As long as they have hosts, they're useful...but I have heard from a Council member herself that they feed their own to the Taxxon-Controllers if they don't have enough resources to keep the Yeerks alive. It is at the least, a better death than Kandrona starvation.
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Post by jamie on Jul 12, 2006 14:06:59 GMT -5
Genocide...that is terrible. All the more reason to hate the Yeerk slime. Other than the rebels, that is.
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Post by stargater2k on Jul 12, 2006 14:08:29 GMT -5
The Council doesn't care whether their own live or die. All they care about is power.
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Post by strangebluequark on Jul 12, 2006 14:09:05 GMT -5
Yes, but surely they can't have much power if they kill off their underlings?
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Post by logarithm3 on Jul 12, 2006 14:15:11 GMT -5
few people have the power and ability to oppose the council.
and yes, it's something of a balance between more yeerks for invasion forces, and too many unhosted yeerks taking up resources and space. but the drive for more infestation is much greater than concern about resources.
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Post by wezal on Jul 5, 2007 19:47:20 GMT -5
What about canada are there YEERKS in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan, Canada how many yeerks are there in Canada if thier are any
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Post by Sparkles in the sun! on Jul 6, 2007 16:24:09 GMT -5
hmm we really don't know we being andalitebandit and me bballl24 because we are the only peoples who come on here now except u duh!!!!
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Post by wezal on Jul 6, 2007 18:44:00 GMT -5
their used to be over 40 People on this site but they all vanished..
I think Visser Three is responsible for this.....
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Post by Sparkles in the sun! on Jul 7, 2007 15:49:05 GMT -5
hmmm maybe.
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Post by andalitebandit on Jul 9, 2007 8:19:52 GMT -5
Maybe they got older.
Older=Not as likly to believe that aliens are invading.
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