Thread:Thunder Mapping/@comment-26342457-20160212230603/@comment-26044830-20160219090737

plus I will show spoilers what's next (because Eric4e is purely copying and spoilers if you haven't actually read the novel [or watch ze film] but i don't really give a fuck)

Wave Three (literally): Pestilence: The Others (Canpootians) launch a scheme to infect as many remaining survivors as possible with a deadly virus. Using the Earth's (Terraen) birds as carriers (via falling excrement), the plague claims 97 percent of remaining survivors. The virus, which resembles an advanced form of Ebola, causes victims to slowly bleed to death until eventually "you've become a viral bomb. And when you explode, you blast everyone around you with the virus".

Wave Four: Silencers: After the 3rd wave, the remaining human population tries desperately to survive off whatever resources remain by looting, all the while clinging to the hope that "the people in charge", wherever they may be, are working toward a solution. Eventually, this belief seems legitimate when an impressive battalion of soldiers (with functioning vehicles) arrive at various makeshift camps. The soldiers and commander, however, only appear interested in the children and promptly load them onto waiting buses (or any kind of vehicle) before ordering all the adults into the camp barracks. Once the humans are surrounded, (Insert some Canpootian shit here) orders a massacre and kills everyone at those camps. At this moment, the 4th wave becomes clear: not all humans are actually humans.

Wave Five: The children captured during the 4th wave are taken to the Others' (or Canpootians by that case) primary Earth military compound and are desocialized and then resocialized to execute one goal: kill the remaining human population. This is accomplished through a rigorous boot camp in which children, some as young as five years old, are issued weapons and are expected to follow orders given by commanding officers (whom the children have no idea are not human). During boot camp, the Others convince the children that the "aliens" have taken over human bodies and it is paramount that they (the children) eradicate them. In essence, the captured children are the 5th wave.