*cough* There's always The Reach. Best Alien Invasion EVER.
Of course their plan came to fruition after Ted died, but handwave, handwave whatever different universe this one has Neal.
Basically, their brilliant plan was to seed a bunch of "natural" and "magical" disasters in waiting throughout the Earth, over the last few centuries, then come back now to secretly set them off, and come in and be like "HEY! Friendly alien race wants to helllllp you! We're so nice! Here, have all of our useful tech!"
With the plan that after like a hundred years of this, we'd be more and more dependant on them and basically a slave race. FUN.
So, you know. Maybe not the Reach? But sneaky invasions are fun to read and totally believable in DCU. Perhaps, like, financial version of the Reach? "Oh HI. We bring you shiny alien tech! And money! And restaurants! In no way are we plotting to undermine your currency and take over your economy through white collar crime and corporate espionage. NOPE totally legit!"
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Of course their plan came to fruition after Ted died, but handwave, handwave whatever different universe this one has Neal.
Basically, their brilliant plan was to seed a bunch of "natural" and "magical" disasters in waiting throughout the Earth, over the last few centuries, then come back now to secretly set them off, and come in and be like "HEY! Friendly alien race wants to helllllp you! We're so nice! Here, have all of our useful tech!"
With the plan that after like a hundred years of this, we'd be more and more dependant on them and basically a slave race. FUN.
So, you know. Maybe not the Reach? But sneaky invasions are fun to read and totally believable in DCU. Perhaps, like, financial version of the Reach? "Oh HI. We bring you shiny alien tech! And money! And restaurants! In no way are we plotting to undermine your currency and take over your economy through white collar crime and corporate espionage. NOPE totally legit!"