It just occurred to me: Yeerks have Stasis field technology. Per book 16, a stasis field stops time entirely. It even puts a pause on the morphing time limit. And per books 20 and 44, they can freeze entire aircraft and all their occupants.
That means no Yeerk should have ever died of Kandrona starvation, even after the Animorphs knocked out the Kandrona generator. The Yeerks could literally have put the entire Yeerk Pool into stasis. Or, if that was too big for the emitter system, they could’ve put the Yeerks into several smaller pools and put those in stasis. Then as soon as the new Kandrona gnerator is installed, you can take the Yeerks out of stasis.
Moreover, stasis fields would make saving wounded people so much easier, which even the Yeerks have to worry about. Zap a Taxxon before they can eat themselves, then figure out how to control them when you unzap them so you can treat their wounds. Zap an injured human so they don’t bleed out, then transport them.
Seriously, stasis fields are fricken brilliant. Why don’t the Yeerks do this? What possible reason would they have for not having an emergency plan when they have the technology? The only explanation I can think of is that they just flat out don’t care.
