Idea's that have been abandoned #3

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Galaga

Yes that old arcade game , i played it a lot ( for some reason most arcade still had it in the early 90's ...

One thing in it interested it , and gave me an idea to work on 

When the alien use a tracer beam on your ship , and suddenly you find it attached to the leader , if he attack again and you can shoot him down , you get a double ship , sometimes you miss and don't get the other ship back



One thought i had while playing was

Why did the ship just work with the aliens when after it was traced , and once you blow the other ship they join you at once , that remove the idea that the aliens boarded the ship and were using it 
one answer i had was
"Mind Controlled " 

I wanted to develop that idea more , maybe after they are hit with the tracer beam the armor change into something similar to the alien bugs ( i think they are , since that what most of their ships were 

But after sometime , i can't find the angle to go for , so i decided to post it , maybe it inspire someone to write it :) 
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PlayfulElegy's avatar
If one wanted to be more liberal with the interpretation; one could argue the ships are basically 'powered armor', and when the alien tracer 'takes control', it's literally pulling it in close enough to envelop it and use it as a base on which to amplify its own power. Logically, breaking off the shell results in the ship being controlled by this armor to be freed and rejoin the fight.