>>96814407
>Aliens INVADE Earth for GOLD and GEMSTONES
Hated this even as a kid since if you have any passing knowledge of space you know it's: full of precious rocks, stones, DAZZLING MOON SAPPHIRES, and if the ayys can get to Earth their material sciences would be sufficiently advanced that anything on the periodic table would be elementary for them to replicate or source.
The other Anons have already said as much, but if the lmaos are here they're not here for our shiny stones, they're going to be after things like:
-Interesting genetic samples. Think plants, animals, people (cum), etc.. I'm really fond of the urban legend that Greys visit us so much because they fried their own genome and Earth is excellent material.
-Material cultures & artifacts. Film, books, toys, anime/cartoons, comic books, what might be novel or tired tropes to us could potentially be another potential glorpwood blockbuster film in the Andrea system.
-Cheap migrant labor. Unironically, making worker-drones might actually be really hard and uneconomical, even in sci-fi times? It might be infinitely cheaper, even in space, to just kidnap/abduct 25,000 humans every 5 years and seed them onto backwater planets to grow and pick "artisanal produce". According to Google 20,000 Americans succumb to "long-term disappearances" every year, so maybe some of those people aren't being human trafficked, raped/eaten by goatmen in national parks, but are living on agri-worlds. :')