Why did the Androids attack that small island near South City?

[SSJ2]

Doesn't that seem extremely random? Some tiny island that isn't even connected to the closest major city, and it also wasn't close to Gero's lab. Why there?

 

[GreatSaiyaman123]

Gero’s annoying mother-in-law lived in that city

 

[SSJ2]

Maybe that's where his son died.

 

[Papasmurf]

Maybe Commander Red planned to attack that city before his death, and Gero was just carrying out his legacy? Either that or he tracked down his son's killer to that town

 

[Fantastische Hure]

maybe that's so that they can absorb energy secretly, if that happened in the city maybe that'd be broadcasted on tele-vision sooner & dragon-team'd realize sooner by watching the news or something

 

[SSJ2]

But they didn't seem to be absorbing anything. 19 beat the shit out of some guy and Gero snapped someone's neck

 

[SSJ2]

Continued reading and saw this:



Why on earth would they begin their search here? 16 knew of several locations where Goku was most likely to be found, so why the hell didn't Gero?

 

[Warmmedown]

They didn't want to risk being in a city Yajirobe could easily reach

 

[SSJ2]

They didn't want to risk being in a city Yajirobe could easily reach

Yajirobe was there

 

[Warmmedown]

Didn't he get left behind on that cliff

 

[SSJ2]

Gero blew up his car. He recognized him as a yuge threat.

 

[GreatSaiyaman123]

Thinking about it, I dare to say they weren’t actually planning on fighting Goku that day. They probably left to test their power in a small city (thus why not attacking the big city to avoid drawing attention) and when Goku showed up they thought “well everyone’s here so why not”

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Either one of two things:

1. As GSM said, possibly just a random spot they chose to target with not much more rationale than that.
2. If wanting to draw out Goku, it's the nearest fair sized city to such a notable gathering spot as Kame House.