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Комментарии • 722

  • @NoGoodIDNames
    @NoGoodIDNames 2 года назад +2676

    This is my story!
    Fun fact: when I first had the idea it was only supposed to be about four or five paragraphs long, but as I started writing it just kept getting longer and longer until it became one of my longest stories.

    • @edwardofengland2993
      @edwardofengland2993 2 года назад +101

      Excellent work, there's a lot of these stories that are just "ok", but this one stands out. My compliments.

    • @thatotherguy8138
      @thatotherguy8138 2 года назад +83

      Love the last line - that was perfect.

    • @russellperry9902
      @russellperry9902 2 года назад +24

      That was a great story!!!

    • @kebbitevoke-5319
      @kebbitevoke-5319 2 года назад +22

      Part 2?

    • @jonathanblair5920
      @jonathanblair5920 2 года назад +40

      That last line sent shivers down my spine. Amazing story wordsmith!

  • @georgeemme4483
    @georgeemme4483 2 года назад +2623

    "Those who Run" carries a different meaning when you remember that Humanity evolved as a persistence hunter

    • @noppornwongrassamee8941
      @noppornwongrassamee8941 2 года назад +334

      Also you can run TOWARDS something as much as you run AWAY. The name doesn't specify which the Terrans prefer.
      And the correct name, "Those who CHASE", leans more towards the former.

    • @georgeemme4483
      @georgeemme4483 2 года назад +95

      @@noppornwongrassamee8941 to be fair, I was only about halfway through when I wrote that. And I knew what was coming as soon as Karal was declared

    • @greywolf9783
      @greywolf9783 2 года назад +35

      @@noppornwongrassamee8941 again technicals

    • @toraxmalu
      @toraxmalu 2 года назад +43

      @@greywolf9783 not really. I'm a non-native and looked up the meanings according the “Oxford Dicitonary”. Two meanings for chase caught my attention: 1st “run / drive after” in meaning to catch someone or force someone away and the 2nd sub-meaning can mean summarized “to longing for” …

    • @greywolf9783
      @greywolf9783 2 года назад +3

      @@toraxmalu interesting

  • @isaakvandaalen3899
    @isaakvandaalen3899 2 года назад +671

    "We said we're Those who Run, we never specified in which direction."

    • @UNSCPILOT
      @UNSCPILOT Год назад +77

      And so they learned the dangers of misunderstanding context

    • @ravenouself4181
      @ravenouself4181 Год назад +29

      *ark Souls boss music kicks in*

    • @Eloridas
      @Eloridas Год назад +24

      @@ravenouself4181 Human Enemy: " Why do i hear boss music?"

    • @andreh3105
      @andreh3105 Год назад +23

      Oh yes, the ancient art of Fuck around and Find out.

    • @vicroc4
      @vicroc4 Год назад +10

      They apparently didn't know that humans evolved as pursuit predators.

  • @stevedixon921
    @stevedixon921 2 года назад +1457

    Those who run:
    -away from what can be avoided
    -toward what cannot
    -away from war
    -toward peace
    -away from destruction
    -toward creation
    We do not walk, we run.

    • @errorabortretry3694
      @errorabortretry3694 2 года назад +60

      They should've looked up Marathon.

    • @drakon489a
      @drakon489a 2 года назад +103

      Those who run:
      as dogs of war, Shepard of peace,
      in hallowed halls and the blasted deeps,
      we do not stop for what we seek
      Our Lover's arms, our enemies teeth,
      upon our families lives, with our weary feet,
      We do not stop for what we seek
      You've challenged us, in race or deed,
      it matters not, for you shall flee.
      We do not stop for what we seek,
      For we do not walk,
      We
      Run.

    • @Connor_Montgomery
      @Connor_Montgomery 2 года назад +18

      @@drakon489a that's a good poem

    • @alganhar1
      @alganhar1 2 года назад +9

      @@errorabortretry3694 Given it was a translation error why should they have? That is the point.

    • @stalwartteakettlepotato9879
      @stalwartteakettlepotato9879 2 года назад +9

      Have you seen the avrege human. Not many of us can actually run

  • @FireLover7004
    @FireLover7004 Год назад +668

    Human: "Please reconsider. This will not work out for anyone."
    Alien: *Glasses an Eden world*
    Human: "So you have chosen... Death."

    • @lloydkeith3061
      @lloydkeith3061 Год назад

      Hahaha! More like,...
      Humans: Please don't do this! You really don't want to fuck about! It's not worth it. We can be friends, we want to be friends damn it!
      Xeno's: 'glasses eden then smugly says' So,... now kneel slave.
      Humans: It's like that huh,... well,... you have fucked about. Now you get to find out. We needed an example anyway, thanks for volunteering. We'll just become friends with your children then,... those that survive what's coming.

    • @gilmadreth680
      @gilmadreth680 Год назад +108

      Human: [sigh]....Yep. [dusts off an ancient copy of the Geneva Conventions and scrawls Checklist over the top of Conventions]

    • @FireLover7004
      @FireLover7004 Год назад +45

      @@gilmadreth680 going from convention to suggestions. Got love the lack of chill humans can have.

    • @someperson3941
      @someperson3941 Год назад

      Human: let’s see let’s start with attacking civilians and finish with genocide

    • @MasterTopHat
      @MasterTopHat Год назад +9

      Humans are like that

  • @singletona082
    @singletona082 2 года назад +736

    We evolved as persistence hunters. No fangs. no claws. Skin as thin as tissue paper. Just long legs and hands that can lift whatever rock is on hand, or pull a flint knife across the throat of whatever unfortunate we'd been chasing. They named us well, and didn't even realize it.

    • @kokofan50
      @kokofan50 2 года назад +52

      We’ve got the best radiator, and always remember that heat kills

    • @trazyntheinfinite9895
      @trazyntheinfinite9895 Год назад +11

      I see somebody here does not understand skin very well.

    • @Aden_III
      @Aden_III Год назад

      There’s always one of you self deprecating “skin as thin as paper” types

    • @enzoqueijao
      @enzoqueijao Год назад +6

      I see somebody here does not understand teeth very well.

    • @mr.switchblade604
      @mr.switchblade604 Год назад +19

      @@trazyntheinfinite9895 Unless you have a thick hide, skin provides very little protection other than from the insidious microscopic threats.

  • @willgallatin2802
    @willgallatin2802 2 года назад +373

    Humans tend to not like to run without a good reason. Please remember, you don't want to give us a good reason...

    • @proudfirebrand3946
      @proudfirebrand3946 2 года назад +54

      During ancient times, ancient to even ancient Mesopotamia, Humans lived mostly as nomads in caves, and one of the ways of procuring food was hunting animals even other predators. How?? By slowly and enthusiastically walking our quary to their death through exhaustion or simply give up itselves to be slain without resistance...
      Now, if were running at you, boy oh boy..

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 2 года назад +23

      @@proudfirebrand3946
      We're the Terminators of the animal kingdom

    • @rolkflameraven1483
      @rolkflameraven1483 Год назад +40

      @@prestonjones1653 its why we find the idea of the Terminator so friggen scary. Its why monsters always just walk after their victims in horror movies, its why Zombies are so prevalent. We know just how terrifying we are, and having something use our method on us scares us to our core.

    • @gabeduty1197
      @gabeduty1197 Год назад +15

      @@rolkflameraven1483 I never thought of it that way. Thank you for this new perspective.

    • @garthrogers2269
      @garthrogers2269 Год назад +11

      Not only are we Those Who Run, but we are the only species who can easily eat & drink on the move. Plus we sweat to cool down. Our prey, and our predators, can't. So, not only to they tire, they also dehydrate, overheat and burn energy, while we just... run.

  • @drewgilbertson
    @drewgilbertson Год назад +64

    We may run away from war. But when war catches us, we charge towards the sound of the guns.

  • @zupaschnitzel3300
    @zupaschnitzel3300 2 года назад +315

    I'd love to see more one offs of this lenght. I like the 5min ones too, but this is an actual full story.

    • @anathardayaldar
      @anathardayaldar 2 года назад +10

      Most of the long running ongoing multichapter stories leave me forgetting what it was all about. Keeping the story in one post helps my worsening dementia keep track of the plot.
      Also with long running stories, I notice they start off full of action but eventually evolve into soap operas.

    • @junisaresilvosa9430
      @junisaresilvosa9430 2 года назад +3

      @@anathardayaldar i agree to this

  • @heppygoogoo
    @heppygoogoo Год назад +18

    It reminds me of a few lines from If by Rudyard Kipling “If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it”

  • @MrGantron414
    @MrGantron414 2 года назад +57

    Those who chase. If the mistranslation had not happened the larashi might have never picked a fight in the first place

  • @Kratos7560
    @Kratos7560 Год назад +23

    "There was no [War] act taboo under Karal. The hope in humanity's survival lay in unconditional surrender"
    The Geneva Checklist: "Are you sure about that?"

  • @Inukazan
    @Inukazan 2 года назад +64

    Run run run as fast as you can, there is no escape from the grasp of Man.

    • @335chr
      @335chr 2 года назад

      you can run but you will just die tired

  • @ktcd1172
    @ktcd1172 Год назад +22

    For those for whom "Persistence Hunting" is just a concept with no real meaning attached, there are a few films and videos of the hunters that used to be called "The Kalahari Bushmen" hunting for their villages. The first one that I saw was about 65 years ago was an hour or so long movie about a Giraffe hunt by several hunters that lasted several days. The giraffe finally collapsed from the arrow poison and exhaustion. The team of hunters just kept tracking it at a steady pace until they caught up to it. The RUclips Video from a few years back is a much more recent video of a gazelle hunt where both the gazelle and the pursuit hunter are worn out, but the hunter has two team members bringing up his gear and water for his recovery.

  • @dj82020
    @dj82020 Год назад +15

    Larashi: we are going to break the Humans!
    Humans: nah, we are going to use you as an example

  • @13thBear
    @13thBear 2 года назад +75

    Perfect! Across the stars, across the planets, across time itself, we are “Those who chase!” One of the best stories yet!

  • @gw2macken757
    @gw2macken757 2 года назад +78

    First thought was: those who run after you. Second: those who run everything.

    • @jackmack4181
      @jackmack4181 2 года назад +12

      Thirdly: those who run to a fight

    • @WE_DONT_LIE
      @WE_DONT_LIE Год назад +1

      @@jackmack4181 fourth those who run to war and death

    • @Voron_Aggrav
      @Voron_Aggrav Год назад +1

      Persistence hunting, it's how we got our place on the planet, Run things down by sheer endurance and persistence, and to this day that's still how we achieve things, putting our minds to it and keeping at it for as long as is needed
      When we start running just give up we'll outpace you soon enough

    • @ianharrison5758
      @ianharrison5758 Год назад +2

      @@Voron_Aggrav I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again the most terrifying thing about humanity isn’t our Brains or our tech, bc if we lost all of that we’d go back to what rose us to the top of Darwin’s ladder in the first place, our outlandish endurance.
      Not a single animal could identify any human tech from any other except by appearance, and none of it has any meaning to them. That’s why a deer will sometimes look at you while you’re scoping it bc it doesn’t understand it’s being hunted, at least not yet.
      But what still puts fear even into the hearts of man is the fear we put into everything on earth, that when they look over their shoulder it’s hopeless to breathe a sigh of relief if they don’t see us. Just because we aren’t seen doesn’t mean we aren’t chasing, and just because you got away from dying in that patch of woods doesn’t mean the one you ran into wasn’t the place we had planned to catch you anyway. The feeling of knowing that no matter how far or hard you run, we will always be behind you, that while you run yourself to near death fleeing from us, you were never all you really escaping at all.
      You were just giving us a trail and way to work up our appetites

  • @MiguelHernandez-hn2cp
    @MiguelHernandez-hn2cp 2 года назад +34

    When they announced that all races picked a name for themselves I thought it would be "Those Who Survive" because throuout our history we have survived, our prey, then our predators, then our world and finally, we survived ourselves.
    And if these Xenos don't eradicate us, we will survive, and then we will recover, That is when they shall learn true fear.
    For if we survive, we will destroy that which has dared to hurt us, and we will make sure they have no chance to survive.

  • @jmoneyjoshkinion4576
    @jmoneyjoshkinion4576 2 года назад +22

    Those who run away from the beast within, until the beast is doing the running.

  • @asiseeit2041
    @asiseeit2041 Год назад +7

    Those who run.
    I liked it. We run when needed from danger.
    However when motivated we run head long into the fight.
    We will run to the aid of family and stranger alike. I liked the story. ESP the capture of the last family member. Good story.

  • @obsidian00
    @obsidian00 2 года назад +60

    I freaking loved this one! I like these long one shots! Blessings upon the author and the narrator!

  • @ndlindquist13
    @ndlindquist13 5 месяцев назад +4

    Those Who Run is by far the best HFY story I've listened to. I normally prefer longer stories but, in this genre, longer usually just means repetitive.

  • @robertbemis9800
    @robertbemis9800 2 года назад +13

    Xeno: you cannot win human
    Human: hold my beer

  • @johnballard3403
    @johnballard3403 Год назад +14

    And here I thought the issue was narrow minded zenos. After all, while you can run away from danger, you can also run towards it. You can run for help, just as well as you can run to give it.

  • @TinariKao
    @TinariKao Год назад +2

    As someone who has done some voice acting before, I absolutely notice the one time you said a word that wasn't part of what was written, just as much as I did an ENTIRE script and got a reply "You pronounced this wrong..." despite it was how me and my family (and my part of the country) always pronouncing a word, but it wasn't the "popular way that is in the news right now" way. :D
    I enjoy these, cheers man!

  • @ArkaneOmega
    @ArkaneOmega Год назад +2

    Ahhhhhh... that ending had my giggling like Amadeus In the checkout line.
    I'm now banned from yet another walmart.

  • @lordnecrotis5517
    @lordnecrotis5517 Год назад +2

    We run all day,
    We run all night,
    We run right in to a firefight!

  • @Charnel_Heart
    @Charnel_Heart 2 года назад +5

    The last couple of lines gave me goosebumps. They would have passed for a villain reveal at the midpoint of a lesser story, Alas they are here fitting punctuation.

  • @kimberlykenyon9440
    @kimberlykenyon9440 6 месяцев назад +2

    “Walk softly with a big stick.”
    -Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

  • @tehs3raph1m
    @tehs3raph1m 2 года назад +6

    Those who run... But we never said if we run away or towards

  • @rossdavies8250
    @rossdavies8250 Год назад +2

    Played this again for the second time a year later. Still one of my favourite stories...

  • @grumpydunmer
    @grumpydunmer 2 года назад +13

    This was brilliant. Wish there was more stories like this.

  • @zephyrstrife4668
    @zephyrstrife4668 9 месяцев назад +2

    "We shall glass a garden world to break their spirit! They will beg us to stop."
    "You fools, you didn't break them... you galvanized them and signed your own death warrant."

  • @somename3424
    @somename3424 Год назад +2

    Shivers and chills, that was a great ending

  • @evilmurlock
    @evilmurlock 2 года назад +8

    Those who run from danger?
    Oh not, you are mistaken, its those who run *toward* danger.

  • @Eldritch-One
    @Eldritch-One Год назад +5

    I could imagine a lovely comic or graphic novel chronicling the long game of cat and mouse between the prince and the huntress.

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 2 года назад +16

    They would not have had a starship or homeworld when I was done. I would have removed every last one of them and then named it New Avalon.

    • @Executioner9000
      @Executioner9000 Год назад

      Of course, under the guidance of the Davion family.

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 Год назад

      @@Executioner9000
      Under the guidance of who?

    • @Executioner9000
      @Executioner9000 Год назад

      @@calvingreene90 House Davion from Battletech. I made a terribly niche joke

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 Год назад

      @@Executioner9000
      I could never suspend my disbelief enough to accept that giant robots were not horribly vulnerable to conventional tanks.

  • @Regooba
    @Regooba 2 года назад +27

    An amazing story and the narration was wonderful as always bud! Thanks for this!

  • @TotallyDapper
    @TotallyDapper Год назад +11

    I really liked this story! The one thing I had a problem with was that shipyards that hadn’t been used since before humanity unified could just up and start producing warships. Unless they were almost entirely automated and just needed a software update and raw materials, it would take quite a while, possibly years, to train up the huge amount of workers. How to operate the equipment, how to build ships, how to build warships instead of cargo ships. Quite possibly how to design warships for fleet warfare rather than police actions, if it’s been long enough (read: longer than a few decades, maybe longer if the government planned ahead for once when they shut down the shipyards). It only took twenty years for Germany to forget how to build anything larger than a destroyer between WW1 and WW2. It’s a minor detail but I noticed it and had to say something. :)

    • @dementededge3266
      @dementededge3266 Год назад +3

      I think they meant that they had shut them down and only kept the ones needed. So getting them working again would just be minor updates and having some of the old hands from the still operating factories leading the new people at the refurbished ones.
      Like when car factories shut down a factory that makes its trucks to downsize and then moves that line to a different place. Then the can expand again so they reopen that old factory, update what's needed, and train so new people using the old people from the other factory. So maybe a couple months of installation and then leaning on more quality checkers until the new people get trained fully.

    • @artbrann
      @artbrann Год назад

      Germany was forbidden to make them, so their designs were decades old when they started back up(largely ignoring the Treaty of Versailles when they did) where as other countries were still designing and/or building
      the other nations, not bound by that scaled back production and sold ships 1 and 2 at a time to various other nations(for example the Brits built 1 of the cruisers Argentina acquired between 1919 and 1939... Italy built the other 2)
      so they maintained knowledge if not the capacity of quantity

    • @goingfubar7182
      @goingfubar7182 Год назад +2

      If you look at the history of the United States and what happened in 1941, the United States military was really a joke and had no real concept of what a large scale war would involve. But in a little less than 4 years Germany which had one of the strongest militaries at the time, and Japan was a great naval power it should have been a lot longer war. However as the world found out the United States of AMERICA 🇺🇸 basically has always hated war but if someone else starts a fight with it, well Admiral Yamamoto said it best about waking up a very dangerous beast. Because the United States of AMERICA 🇺🇸 was a melting pot of people who had come from around the world, the fact that if we are United by an outside force, we will come to gether and we won't stop until the enemy is crushed and then we rebuild them back. That's why China and the CCP has been using unconventional warfare and trying to destroy America from within because if they tried to attack us from the outside, the CCP would be no more and the Chinese people would have been free to try again to get a good government for the people.

    • @ianharrison5758
      @ianharrison5758 Год назад +1

      @@goingfubar7182 I mean it didn’t hurt that all the infrastructure destruction was never happening in our heartland and we actually got a boom in our economy funding the Allies until Japan touched our boats and America took the chance to flex on the world, and it worked

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish 11 месяцев назад

      @@goingfubar7182 We're also *really* good at improvising.

  • @happytravelling
    @happytravelling 9 месяцев назад +1

    This whole story was truly wonderful The last line floored me. Thanks so much for such a great story!

  • @randomguy3080
    @randomguy3080 Год назад +3

    There is a reason that the United States Military places their flag as backwards on their uniform, as we move forward , the wind blows our flag backwards, we will always advance, always run towards the danger, we run, and we will not stop

  • @ARockRaider
    @ARockRaider 6 месяцев назад +3

    the amount of absolute disrespect to send a single woman on a decade long mission to catch the prince.
    they could have sent a dozen marines just as easy!

  • @kingnekogon
    @kingnekogon Год назад +3

    We can chase towards your soon to be corpse, or we can chase the ideal of peace and prosperity. Its what you do that determines which target we hunt.

  • @jojothehamster
    @jojothehamster 2 года назад +7

    Those who endure, would have been fitting as well.

  • @silvadelshaladin
    @silvadelshaladin 2 года назад +5

    Yes we run, but it is into danger not away from it.

  • @ericknudsen98
    @ericknudsen98 2 года назад +5

    One of my absolute favorite stories in a while.

  • @VanRahsah
    @VanRahsah 6 месяцев назад +3

    Anyone else want to turn that last planet the prince hid on into a Renaissance Fair world? Highest level of tech would probably be steam power as it is pure mechanical power.

  • @gearsfan6669
    @gearsfan6669 Год назад +3

    I swear so many of these stories are just:
    Aggressive, warmongering species: "there are no rules of war in this"
    Humans: "it's your people's funerals..."

    • @DonPatrono
      @DonPatrono Год назад

      *Freebird intensifies*

    • @ianharrison5758
      @ianharrison5758 Год назад

      And it slaps every time

    • @NXTangl
      @NXTangl 6 месяцев назад

      What I like about this one is how they still didn't resort to war crimes. Not only because it's the moral high ground, but because it's efficient. Why glass a planet when you can surgically remove the only strategic asset it has?

  • @marvinhubregtse5776
    @marvinhubregtse5776 Год назад +1

    DAMN thats a good ending line deliverd perfectly

  • @Resomius
    @Resomius Год назад +1

    I did not awaited that ending. it was awesome!

  • @skeemeastwood9075
    @skeemeastwood9075 Год назад +1

    This one got me hooked.

  • @bulldowozer5858
    @bulldowozer5858 2 года назад +1

    And now Space Balkan awaits the rise of Space Tito.

  • @Ryvaken
    @Ryvaken 8 месяцев назад +3

    I was expecting "those who run" to be metaphorical, a statement of the obscene pace that can be set to scientific or industrial growth, but that too is a form of chasing a goal.
    Like many stories there's a WW2 vibe to the humans' pursuit of war. My only criticism is the use of technicals instead of proper conversions. It's not unheard of for naval shipyards to have plans in place for taking tankers and liners of specific designs, often designs they had a hand in creating, and turning them into cruisers. Often not very good cruisers, but better than the civilian hackjob of a technical.

  • @suebennett4253
    @suebennett4253 2 года назад +2

    All hail the only coursing predator.

  • @shadeofsound23
    @shadeofsound23 Год назад +1

    "Those Who Strive" might've been a better ending

  • @michaelbarnard8529
    @michaelbarnard8529 9 месяцев назад +2

    The Larashi should probably have been “those who cull”.

  • @jerrysneedsr1066
    @jerrysneedsr1066 Год назад

    Humans don't walk to a fight they run to a fight.

  • @mywither7878
    @mywither7878 Год назад +1

    That was a wonderful story, props to the author.

  • @abbyjohnson1702
    @abbyjohnson1702 Год назад

    Pursuit predation is truly terrifying.

  • @thomasschafer5939
    @thomasschafer5939 Год назад

    Drinking game idea: Take a drink everytime the word "chase" shows up during this story^^

  • @TheBenBen253
    @TheBenBen253 2 года назад +1

    Oh that last page! That was a great ending!

  • @jakeand9020
    @jakeand9020 Год назад +1

    If you run you just die tired.

  • @rustycowell7264
    @rustycowell7264 14 дней назад

    A superior xeno race didn't do their homework and neither did a 1000 delegates, Now they are all scarred wittless. Kinda of strange we are the only species that sweats on this rock

  • @BeeKisses
    @BeeKisses 2 года назад +5

    Jheeeezus that's a good story

  • @charlx8979
    @charlx8979 Год назад +1

    Human hunters killed by being good runners, simply follow the animal until its too tired to keep running from you, humans are the BEST long distance runners
    Humans are amazing endurance runners, what other animal has that kind of pace for that long a time? Just look at the marathon, once a run of legend is now done, FOR FUN, by our old people!

  • @akillermtfa7350
    @akillermtfa7350 2 года назад +2

    Those who run in the Enemy lines

  • @Killertomatoes13
    @Killertomatoes13 2 месяца назад +2

    Think this is the fifth or sixth time I've listened to this.

  • @chrishaydt7354
    @chrishaydt7354 2 года назад +1

    i was thinking more like, those who run towards our enemies

  • @Sephiroth391
    @Sephiroth391 10 месяцев назад

    I adore this story

  • @brianlips8346
    @brianlips8346 Год назад

    Thanks for the story 🙂

  • @lupaswolfshead9971
    @lupaswolfshead9971 Год назад +2

    Humanity sent a woman to hunt him down was the biggest insult to the Prince haha

  • @privateholt464
    @privateholt464 Год назад

    i love that end

  • @christerry8531
    @christerry8531 Год назад

    I mean when you look at it those who run and those who chase are pretty close to being similar I mean they're both running one could be taken as a way or two and the other one is definitely running after

  • @ducksrgud
    @ducksrgud 6 месяцев назад

    Man what a good ending

  • @puntedhat5025
    @puntedhat5025 2 года назад +1

    100% quality

  • @michaellively6467
    @michaellively6467 2 года назад +3

    Good one

  • @MiishaKorvian
    @MiishaKorvian Год назад

    Those who run *towards* the gunfire.

  • @bradwolf07
    @bradwolf07 Год назад

    That was amazing

  • @alexandermccabe429
    @alexandermccabe429 2 года назад

    This was a great listen

  • @GenStallion
    @GenStallion 2 года назад +2

    Is this a repost, I'm sure I heard this here recently.

  • @JRRodriguez-nu7po
    @JRRodriguez-nu7po 10 месяцев назад +2

    Good choice sending a human female, the sex less able to run or chase. If you disagree, look up the actual speeds.

  • @leonvoelker7639
    @leonvoelker7639 Год назад

    Damm. So fricking good.

  • @Mesuir
    @Mesuir Год назад

    10/10 story

  • @anathardayaldar
    @anathardayaldar 2 года назад

    Very satisfying.

  • @creemoon9546
    @creemoon9546 Год назад

    excellent

  • @noahbawdy3395
    @noahbawdy3395 Год назад

    (Golf Clap) Very good story !

  • @vostubus3387
    @vostubus3387 Год назад

    those who chase makes sense =)

  • @gladehartdreamer5620
    @gladehartdreamer5620 6 месяцев назад

    as with many HFY stories, it wanks a bit too much for my liking, but the twist at the end was quite good

  • @nederkaans5659
    @nederkaans5659 Год назад +1

    Send best hunter.
    Send woman.
    Pick one.

    • @aussieginger1960
      @aussieginger1960 11 месяцев назад

      Lol those two aren't mutually exclusive my grandmother spent he childhood hunting with her brothers, she's a better shot better tracker and much more patient than her brothers. It's about skill not gender.

  • @jjalexg82
    @jjalexg82 Год назад

    Somebody tell me where I can get this background music plz?

  • @additiveartificer9365
    @additiveartificer9365 2 года назад

    Those who run At YOU

  • @ssandus1153
    @ssandus1153 Год назад

    Those who chase

  • @TheRandyWanker
    @TheRandyWanker Год назад +1

    Those who run, die tired.

  • @shitbag_soldier
    @shitbag_soldier Год назад

    Who ever said running was cowardice? FIX BAYONETS

  • @broEye1
    @broEye1 2 года назад +935

    From the moment they named themselves, I knew the big root of the misunderstanding: "those who run" bears a very different meaning depending on which way they're running.

    • @crossdagostino5778
      @crossdagostino5778 Год назад +13

      Those who chase

    • @loganshaw4527
      @loganshaw4527 Год назад

      The aliens predators will learn why with some many animal predators on earth that humans are at the top of the food chain. It is not the weapons that just made it easier it was not the tools and traps. That was for after the hunt or to quick. No it was the runing that killed the beasts the predators and prey alike. The "only one" is walking back.

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish 11 месяцев назад +33

      Quite right. I mean, the most powerful nation in the world right now is founded on the *pursuit* of happiness. One of the reasons we chose wolves as our first companions is because we both run our prey into exhaustion. We're constantly moving, constantly searching, and *never giving up.*

    • @kiritotheabridgedgod4178
      @kiritotheabridgedgod4178 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@brigidtheirishIf you want to get historical, it was founded in the pursuit of tax evasion.

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 Less "tax evasion" and more "how dare you levee frivolous taxes on us without our consent." Also being forced to barrack soldiers in their homes and tolerate whatever damage the soldiers did to their property. The Crown kept piling on more rules until the colonists snapped.

  • @suebennett4253
    @suebennett4253 2 года назад +1

    All hail the only coursing predator.

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 2 года назад +776

    Those Who Run may have been a mistranslation, but not an error - or, at least, not an inappropriate one. We can get tired of running, but never of The Chase. Sure, we tried to run away from war - to chase peace. But when you took that option away, peace was no longer our quarry... You were.
    We chase tirelessly. We chase unending, relentless, and unresting, obsessing, until the prise is taken.
    We chase knowledge until The Universe itself surrenders.
    We chase justice, obsessing about unsolved Cold Cases for centuries on end.
    We chase peace, and we chase war.
    We chase sensation and experience.
    We have never stopped chasing The Horizon and hunting for new frontiers.
    We chase after love.
    We chase after revenge.
    We chase after kindness and cruelty with equal desire.
    We chase perfection.
    We chase tradition; both old and new.
    We chase invention and innovation.
    We chase the chase itself.
    Motivated, we run. Unmotivated, we walk. Depressed and dejected, we crawl or rest. But, in the end... We are The Ones Who Run... The Ones Who Chase.
    Oh, and we are VERY good at throwing things. Rocks, temper tantrums... YOU. 😈

    • @reggiehigh22
      @reggiehigh22 2 года назад +48

      now I just want you to write out a whole story about, well this. with the upfront threatening undertones with hope of being better beings even with our sharped claws

    • @alexandermccabe429
      @alexandermccabe429 2 года назад +10

      Fantastic

    • @Fedico7000
      @Fedico7000 2 года назад +3

      Crimgbge

    • @sircharlize2054
      @sircharlize2054 Год назад +10

      I love this comment lol

    • @Toughguygames
      @Toughguygames Год назад +14

      this should have been the conclusion of the story and the alien races reaction.

  • @attila535
    @attila535 2 года назад +327

    In their arrogance they forgot to study our past. We outsmarted the predators of Earth and out chased all the herbivores of our planet.

    • @Lycanthromancer1
      @Lycanthromancer1 2 года назад +1

      And when the mega-fauna apex-predators of our planet hunted us, ones who killed our beloved children with fang and claw red with their blood, we chased them into death itself, and then we chased others of their kind out of rage and spite, right into extinction. And we slashed and burned the land they came from, and the only reason we didn't salt the earth was because we took it for ourselves.

    • @phantomJ67
      @phantomJ67 2 года назад +34

      and then spent several millennia repeating the process on ourselves.

    • @alganhar1
      @alganhar1 2 года назад +21

      Problem. You know what it is? Persistence hunting is indeed a thing, the real problem however is that it only works in hot climes where heat exhaustion will eventually kill or incapacitate the prey. it does NOT work in temperate or cold climates. By the time humanity started to move out of Africa they had already mostly discarded Persistence hunting, and those that did not sure as hell did once they started moving into regions where the climate did not allow for the practice to succeed.
      It is one thing many authors of HFY get wrong. Most pick up on the fact that humans were, for a while, persistence hunters. However they fail to grasp that Persistence hunting is completely reliant on the Environment and Climate. Too cold, it does not work.
      As for outsmarting the predators of our own world, well I put forward the case that one predator (though never of humans) sure as hell outsmarted us. The Cat. We did not domesticate them you see, they decided to move in with us.....

    • @robertschumacher2707
      @robertschumacher2707 2 года назад +13

      @@alganhar1 We just modified the tactic to panicking the victims to get them to run off cliffs.

    • @HobDobson
      @HobDobson 2 года назад +16

      @@alganhar1 On the Eurasian and North American plains, steppes, and tundra, we followed the herds: mammoth, bison, aurochs, reindeer, horse, elephant. It could still be a slow chase to exhaustion, because hair and hide meant to trap heat doesn't stop working on the run. We can layer our clothing, they can't. It sucks that much more when your pursuer can walk on top of the snow slowing you down.
      To be fair to the folks counting bones under cliffs, after several *thousand* years of running a *handful* of animals to their death, those bones add up. Especially if mountain lions or wolves got to the landing zone before the hunters.
      In many places, there are remnants of enclosures used to corral animals cut from the herds in central Asia (probably elsewhere): you don't have to worry about meat going bad until after it's butchered. Some herd animals remained around the humans long enough to be tamed and their descendents domesticated.
      In spite of barbed wire and electric wire, we still end up chasing them!

  • @anathardayaldar
    @anathardayaldar 2 года назад +524

    Few know this. But the real origin of the term "technicals" for improvised military vehicle is from one of the many local wars in late 20th century Africa. Journaiists who covered one such war needed armed escorts and started listing their payment as "technical assistants" on their expense reports.

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 2 года назад +26

      Thank you for sharing. Fun bit of knowledge in a not so fun time.

    • @Crazael
      @Crazael 2 года назад +14

      Huh. I had always wondered where that came from.

    • @taitano12
      @taitano12 Год назад +24

      I like it. Vague enough to be misleading, but also a very accurate description of the assistance received. Technical support and assistance means providing support, solutions, and general problem solving. If the technical difficulty is getting into and out of a situation safely, that's what an armed escort is for; as much as a fire fighting team or a team of medics when filming a dangerous action scene.

    • @vicroc4
      @vicroc4 Год назад

      More accurate for these would've been Q-ships.

    • @MiishaKorvian
      @MiishaKorvian Год назад +2

      ​@@vicroc4a Q-Ship is a counter pirate/ambush ship that acts as a noncombatant. A Technical is a retrofitted civilian vehicle for open combat

  • @BaronVonMott
    @BaronVonMott Год назад +337

    "And so the Larashi learned another new human term: Balkanisation"
    That got a good laugh out of me 😂

    • @Jesus_Offical
      @Jesus_Offical Год назад +50

      Ah yeahs time to create space serbia

    • @Darkinu2
      @Darkinu2 Год назад +8

      I admit that that one was lost on me.

    • @AiluridaeAureus
      @AiluridaeAureus Год назад

      @@Darkinu2 The Balkans, the region of border gore over by former Greater Greece/The Byzantine Empire. It's a region of like a dozen of smaller states that all hate each other over religious and ethnic conflicts between Greeks, Turks and Slavs along with Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Catholics. They've all been trying to kill each other for the better part of a millennia.

    • @SilverGamingFI
      @SilverGamingFI Год назад

      ​@@Jesus_Officalremove space kebab

    • @WHERMST_
      @WHERMST_ Год назад +25

      @@Darkinu2the Balkans it was one country then split into many