I'm a little tipsy, I know I'm obsessing

In Invader Zim, they conquer the planets with an organic decontamination sweep and such, razing everything to the ground. They also have lasers (and, irrelevantly, smoke machines). The central theoretical basis behind lasers in Einstein's theory of relativity, which also pretty much inevitably leads to the same line of thinking that produces atomic bombs. Unless the radiation is a HUGE issue and they have little technology to fight it, unlikely considering the general state of technological advancement they enjoy, why don't all successful invaders just blend in long enough to identify the nerve centers of their planets and then bomb the crap out of them? You can't claim 'everyone but Zim is competent enough to,' when he checks out the competition in Planet Jackers, not all of them have. Did Irkens somehow skip the development of atomic weaponry?

For that matter, why not just organic sweep the whole damn thing from the get-go if the planet's defenses, as Zim asked in the first episode, are unprepared for 'the event of a full scale alien invasion'. Or do they always want to destroy all life? It seems on some planets they use the aliens as a labor force, but Skoodge spoke of the tradition of launching the Sweep as if it were a big deal, always observed.

Hmm. I don't know what to make of it.

I'm a little tipsy, I know I'm obsessing

In Invader Zim, they conquer the planets with an organic decontamination sweep and such, razing everything to the ground. They also have lasers (and, irrelevantly, smoke machines). The central theoretical basis behind lasers in Einstein's theory of relativity, which also pretty much inevitably leads to the same line of thinking that produces atomic bombs. Unless the radiation is a HUGE issue and they have little technology to fight it, unlikely considering the general state of technological advancement they enjoy, why don't all successful invaders just blend in long enough to identify the nerve centers of their planets and then bomb the crap out of them? You can't claim 'everyone but Zim is competent enough to,' when he checks out the competition in Planet Jackers, not all of them have. Did Irkens somehow skip the development of atomic weaponry?

For that matter, why not just organic sweep the whole damn thing from the get-go if the planet's defenses, as Zim asked in the first episode, are unprepared for 'the event of a full scale alien invasion'. Or do they always want to destroy all life? It seems on some planets they use the aliens as a labor force, but Skoodge spoke of the tradition of launching the Sweep as if it were a big deal, always observed.

Hmm. I don't know what to make of it.