Remember the plot of Independence Day? (Spoiler alert for Independence Day in 3,2,1...) The aliens came to Earth to take all of Earth's resources for their own good. This resulted in the alien attack at the beginning of the movie and blah blah, you know what happened. So, back to the idea I have, aliens have run short of their own resources, and have come to Earth to take ours. They don't, like most of the alien/space monsters of hollywood movies, have a giant army to destroy and enslave us. Despite this shortcoming they still want to invade Earth, so instead of trying to out gun us they take hostage an entire city in order to bargain for Earth's resources. However thanks to terrible planning, a lack of prior intelligence, and miscalculation they end up invading and capturing a small town in the midwest in a clumsy space blitzkrieg. The reason for their blunder is all their information of Earth comes from our own radio transmissions, but because our planet and theirs are separated by billions of miles of space the radio transmissions have become completely inaccurate. What the aliens thought was a bustling trading post is now a desolate town with a small population and even small prospects for the future.
This is about as far as I've thought it out, maybe they'd take more cities, bigger areas of land, or even smaller towns. I don't know yet. If you have ever read anything my Douglas Adams expect that it would sound like his writing style.
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