History Characters / TheBETA

* NighInvulnerable: Even battleship bombardments do almost nothing to their hides. Only one has ever been killed, and that took an S-11 bomb.

* CombatTentacles: It can defend itself with huge numbers of powerful tentacles capable of breaching even the Susano-o's armor. These tentacles can also take control of both machinery and flesh they pierce into.

!!'''Laser Fort-Class'''

* ItCanThink: Not at first, but when humanity began to win multiple battles against them, [[spoiler:they use military tactics such as digging underground to hide from bombardments and using the Fort-Class for transportation of troops.]]

!!'''Warrior-Class'''

!!'''Soldier-Class'''

!!'''Tank-Class'''

!!'''Laser-Class'''

!!'''Heavy Laser-Class'''

!!'''Grappler-Class'''

!!'''Destroyer-Class'''

!!'''Fort-Class'''

!!'''Carrier-Class'''

!!'''The Superordinate'''

* CombatTentacles: it can defend itself with huge numbers of powerful tentacles capable of breaching even the Susano-o's armor. These tentacles can also take control of both machinery and flesh they pierce into.
* HiveQueen: it's in control of the BETA hive mind, with its orders disseminated via the hive reactors. Destroying it heavily cripples the BETA on Earth.
* ItCanThink: it is capable of devising new strategies and technologies for the BETA to use in their work, though its thought processes appear limited to defending itself/the BETA and mining resources.
* ThouShaltNotKill: it claims that the BETA would never begin harvesting operations on a planet where living creatures are present. The problem is that it only recognizes silicon-based life as "life", so Earth is a completely dead wasteland as far as it's concerned. Takeru makes a token attempt to convince it that humans (and other carbon-based life) are alive but doesn't get very far.

* FrickinLaserBeams: They exist for one purpose only: to shoot powerful beams that melt anything stupid enough to fly within their line of sight.

* FrickinLaserBeams: They possess even stronger ones than the standard Laser-Class, though as a trade off they take longer between shots.

* CurbStompBattle: They gave one to humanity as a whole, excluding islands and the USA. It's the main reason why there are only ''1 billion'' people now. The invebtion of the TSF helped level the field somewhat.

* BodyHorror: The civilian population is kept in the dark as to what BETA look like, for the sake of morale. The reason being that BETA are, on the while, very disturbing, with a bizarre mix of alien and uncomfortably human looking features.

The '''BETA''' ('''B'''eings of '''E'''xtra-'''T'''errestrial Origin and '''A'''dversaries of the Human Race), are the main enemies in ''Muv-Luv Alternative'' and subsequent spin-offs. They were first spotted on Mars by a probe in 1958. They arrived on the Moon in 1967 and, after a brief conflict with humanity's space forces known as the First Lunar War, invaded Earth in 1973, making humanity abandon the Moon. They quickly spread from their landing point, Kashgar, and proceeded to invade the Eurasian, Middle Eastern and Asian regions; when they finally reached Japan in 1998, 36 million people were killed within a week. By 2001, the world population was down to about 1 billion people.

The BETA vary greatly in size, with the smallest identified strain (Soldier-class) being around 3 meters tall, and the largest identified strains (Fort-class) at over 60 meters tall. They cannot fly, and the Laser and Heavy Laser-class BETA shoot down anything that does, rendering aircraft useless and making any aerial military operations much more difficult.

* BodyHorror: '''All of them.''' No wonder why their true forms are hidden from the general populace.

* ColonyDrop: How they invaded the Earth.
* CurbStompBattle: They gave one to humanity as a whole, excluding islands and the USA. It's the main reason why there are ''1 billion'' people now, until the TSF's became a thing.

* HumanResources: The BETA can recycle their own, as well as humans, into more of them. The Soldier-class Venator strain is made by recycling humans.
* ImAHumanitarian: Anti-personnel BETA are fond of this.

* ItCanThink: Not at first, but when humanity began to win multiple battles against them, [[spoiler:they use military tactics adapted to them such as digging underground to hide from enemies bullets and using the Fort-Class for transportation of troops.]]

This list regroup most of the BETA seen on Earth.

One of the smaller strains, and the least deadly. Very light-armoured, most human weaponry will work against them, however they have a great speed, making them difficult to hit. They are solely anti-personnel and cannot destroy vehicles or TSF.

* OffWithHisHead: They have a single arm, powerful enough to take human heads off.

* EatenAlive: A combination of both, since their primary weapon is their jaw.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Even though they doesn't appear at all in TSF battles, [[spoiler:Alternative!Takeru dying against them causes his Extra self to panic when BETA are approaching or showing up, due to causality giving him memories of his original self. It gets worse when Marimo is killed by one of them.]]

* AdaptiveAbility: Once they interact with a Hive Reactor, [[spoiler:the Superior gives them information to adapt to human strategy.]]

* TheSpeechless: They cannot talk at all. [[spoiler:The BETA Superior can communicate by using an Esper as an interpreter.]]

* ZergRush: Their main tactic. Individual BETA can be taken down relatively easily: the problem is the 10,000 ''other'' BETA that are behind the one you just shot. Until [[spoiler:the aftermath of Sadogashima, when the latest survivors of the Hive hid underground to attack the Yokohama Base.]]

One of the smaller strains, and the less deadly. Very light-armoured, most of the human weaponry work against them, albeit they have a great speed, making them difficult to hit. They are solely anti-personnel and cannot destroy vehicules or TSF.

The smallest strain amongst the BETA. While they slower than the Warrior-Class, they can still overpower the average human, but still vulnerable to most firearms. Also anti-personnel.

This list regroup the BETA who do not belong to the most seen strains ahead.

!!'''The Superior'''

* AdaptiveAbility: Once they interact with a Hive Reactor, [[spoiler:the Superior give them information to adapt to human strategy.]]

* CurbStompBattle: They gave one to humanity as a whole, excluding islands and the USA. It's the main reason why there are ''1 billion'' people now, until the TSF became a thing.

* HumanResources: The BETA can recycle their own, as well as humans, into more of them. The Soldier-class Venator strain is made by recyclng humans.

* InscrutableAliens: The first four Alternative Plans were made to attempt to communicate with them. They cannot talk to humans and their biology are impossible to understand. The only things known about them are that they are a carbon-based life, and do not consider humans as a form of life.

* StarfishAliens: They have very little in common with humans, and the tallest strain can reach '''66 meters'''. The only exception is the Soldier-Class who is actually a human-based strain.

* ZergRush: Their main tactic. Until [[spoiler:the aftermath of Sadogashima, when the latest survivors of the Hive hid underground to attack the Yokohama Base.]]

* EatenAlive / OffWithHisHead: A combination of both, since their primary weapon is their jaw.

The most widespread strain on Earth, and the most present at battles. Even if they are a small strain, their mouth can bite through TSF armor, explaining why they are always seen in groups. Mosty anti-personnel.

* ComboPlatterPowers: Anti-personnel, but with large numbers they can take down TSF by biting their way to the pilot.

* TheSwarm: Always in groups, ready to take down people and TSF.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Even though they doesn't appear at all in TSF battles, [[spoiler:Alternative!Takeru dying against them cause his Extra self to panic when BETA are approaching or showing up, due to causality giving him memories of his original self. It gets worse when Marimo is killed by one of them.]]

* EatenAlive/OffWithHisHead: A combination of both, since their primary weapon is their jaw.

* SuperSenses: Their multiple eyes grant them a very high detection capability on humans.

One of the smaller strains, and the less deadly. Very light armoured, most of the human weaponry work against them, albeit they have a great speed, making them difficult to hit. They are solely anti-personnel and cannot destroy vehicules or TSF.

* OffWithHisHead: They have a single arm, powerful enough to take humans heads off.

* Colony Drop: How they invaded the Earth.

* PunyEarthlings: Their raw power can easily destroy the human military, including TSFs.

The '''BETA''' ('''B'''eings of '''E'''xtra-'''T'''errestrial Origin and '''A'''dversaries of the Human Race), are the main enemies in ''Muv-Luv Alternative'' and subsequent spin-offs. They were first spotted on Mars by a probe in 1958.

* HiveMind: The main reason humans cannot communicate with them. Thanks to it, they are very organized and can adapt their tactics against the humans.

The '''BETA''' ('''B'''eings of '''E'''xtra-'''T'''errestrial Origin and '''A'''dversaries of the Human Race., are the main enemies in ''Muv-Luv Alternative'' and subsequent spin-offs. They were first spotted on Mars by a probe in 1958.