The most subtle way of saying " f around and find out" from a species who actually did that and paid the price for it. A Japanese admiral was a nice touch.
@@maryrose2676You are correct. His statement of “For the first six months I can give you victory after victory, but after that I cannot”. He had been assigned to the US between the wars, and knew the manufacturing juggernaut that was there.
The second greatest battle you ever win is the one you never have to fight. The greatest battle you ever *could* win, is the one you convince someone else not to go through with.
How humanity is portrait in those videos reminds me of Stellaris. To be excat when you get to the moment in Stellaris in which youre an unstopable force of destruction.
Once there, the reality of both love and fear come into consciousness. Destruction itself is neither love nor fear. The reality just becomes so much more blatant; as does the choice to be made.
I do tech runs and get strong fast while small so my little gnome technocrats strike out fast and hard against tyrannical empires forcing government changes and them joining space nato the people will see free Dom from slave masters is much better. The friendly kingdoms get to join nato as free members the vassels get their freedom once they are stable and have changed government
Starbound, your greatest asset is the presentation of your stories. No funny accents, no mispronunciations. Actual personal speakers with emotion that matches the time in the story. After hearing so many AI bot readers, butchering the English language, it is with true enjoyment to hear your stories. Thank you for sharing and presenting with honor and humility.
Don't worry. AI will continually improve at a geometric rate until it becomes indistinguishable and eventually surpass human readers. Everyone's going to be made redundant in the eyes of the rest of humanity.
@@Foxstab I was once given a similarly enthusiastic promise, in Feb 2022. They told me it wouldn't even be the end of the year before AI put voice actors out of business.
@LibraritheWizardOfficial There's nothing enthusiastic about it. And I'm not giving you precise dates. But within a generation or two, AI will be pervasive and there will be far fewer jobs.
@@Foxstab I'd say you're right even within a decade. Just not in a year or less as some of the more "special" AI bros like to sit there and believe. I'm glad you're more sensible 😊
@@Gfish17 not true both your examples are minor blips of a fractured species. we know peace, and we know wars. both are old friends and will be with us long into the future because humans don't change there is as many reasons to fight as there to not fight is only a coin toss to see which one wins today. neither example is fighting to extinction nor gone total war tho I'd argue Gaza has given plenty of reasons to go total war over the last 30yrs.
I kind of want to see a story where aliens learn what 'Guerilla warfare' is. "we beat them, we annexed them, destroyed their cities... Yet they won't stop fighting! Every day our soldiers and civilians die from unseen fighters, and now they have our weapons!"
I realized once they start to show every instance of different battles. It's the Ending to Wargames. They showed them "The only way to win is not to play."
I like the way this story is told but i cannot get over the premise. I would think that any spacefaring civilization would understand the costs of war considering the probability of them having been involved in either internal or external conflicts. I find it hard to believe that this the kind of thing that would happen.
Yes, but these aliens seem to fight with blades primarily. They may not know the horrors of what comes soon after those. Injury and death are one thing. Physical combat is well practiced by many things here on earth that do not understand the consequences of war. Consider some of the following human weapons: flamethrowers, landmines, gas weapons like Sarin, bio weapons like cultured anthrax, atomic weapons and worse, their salted counterparts, orbital bombardment, ICBMs(nuclear or conventional), artillery, guns like the M134 minigun, the Avenger cannon, among countless other rather extreme weapons. They may not realize, even with sufficient technological development, that these technologies are at their fingertips(or equivalent) even just by developing space travel, and can easily and quickly be adapted into weaponry. Especially since honor seemed to be very important, they may prefer, if not idealize direct and personal combat. In Stargate(and forgive me as I've only recently been introduced), there's a scene where a warrior culture that uses what I can only explain as a plasma musket, considers humans and our weapons inferior to their own. They use it to shoot a suspended log, scorching it, but otherwise not doing much(if memory serves), and missing a shot or two. Then, the Stargate team demonstrates their weapon. An FN P90. They warn the (alien)men holding the target to back away, and then shoot the log, or first have them push it so it swings, and begin firing at the log, chewing it apart violently with each and every bullet. And then they shoot the line suspending the log, dropping it. Then the team lead makes a comment about how the alien weapon is meant to scare and human weapons are meant to kill. Or something to that affect. I will try and find a clip of that scene and post it in a second reply. I'm not sure if RUclips allows links like that, and I don't want this comment to be compromised because of that.
We build weapons that are never meant to be used, expressly to ensure that war has no winners. A nuke will likely never be launched again, because if it was, the response would kill everyone. A weapon like that only needs to be used once, before people back down instead of facing it again. We aren't pacifists and we never will be. We're pragmatic enough to know that some battles are just too dangerous to risk fighting. It's been a long time since we've officially declared war because no one wants to commit to that kind of violence. When we label it as conflict, the fight can end whenever we want simply by sending our troops home. In war, going home before you've won just means you fight on different ground, surrounded by innocent people. Ever since nukes were introduced, no one wanted to bring that destruction home.
A single asteroid from our asteroid belt would contain more metals than humanity has mined in its entire history COMBINED! There are literally millions of asteroids in the belt. The Kuiper Belt would have millions more objects from which we could extract resources like methane and water. That is a single solar system - in a galaxy with billions of stars. It would be utter insanity to fight over resources if you had access to FTL travel.
Decent story, but the last 10 minutes just kept saying the same thing over and over. Could have been shortened down to about 20 minutes. But at least he didn't say indominable again.
You know, this is a great story, but the term "neutral planet." "I have no strong feelings one way or the other." "If I don't survive, tell my wife hello."
You got my sub for this one, well voiced, excellent tone and pitch. You need to get in touch with Beloved brother boldermort, he's a 40k Warhammer narrator legend.
Yes we do. It's in every choice made billions of times a day by every person in this planet to let it go. Peace is so common that we no longer recognize it. It is fortunately mundane.
and what makes you so sure that Rodenberry's hope of us being better is any more likely than we become aggressive tyrants? our best nations who have never started wars have their skeletons and the supposed guardians of today are guilty of starting more wars then any of their contemporaries. this assumption that humanity will embrace our angels over our demons seems to me to be wholly misplaced
@@kertagin1For me at least, I hope that humanity will control our darker side. There are billions of humans on earth that do not fight and do not unalive other humans. We get up, we go to work, we have our leisure time and go to bed-all without any violence. Billions of humans go through their entire lives without violence or war. As a species we’ve still got a long way to go yet, but I think we’ll get there eventually. More of the planet is at peace than at war after all. And for every atrocity committed in war torn areas of the world there are unseen acts of kindness. I take my hope from those. Like the time someone got stuck between a train car and station platform, and dozens of strangers came together to pool their efforts into pushing against the train car. In doing so they were able to lean it over those precious few centimetres to allow others to pull the person free. I’ve seen it in real life too. Someone got knocked down by a car and people came from all around the help. First aid kits, blankets, calling the emergency services, setting up an impromptu roadblock and directing traffic away from the incident onto alternate routes. I was one of the ones who chose to assist diverting traffic. I’ll never forget the expressions on the faces of the police officers who showed up to find everything already set up by members of the public. They quite literally ended up being briefed by us and taking over from us. I ended up shaking the hands of the two guys I’d been working with until the police arrived, then parting ways. We humans are capable of great violence but we’re also capable of great compassion so I hope one day we’ll all get the balance right.
I remember reading a story that was like this but with sugar, to them it's like salt to a snail and an extremely dangerous mineral but for us it's a sweet little treat 😊
Remember the story with the human highschoolers at the galactic galaxy. 1: We who are from a higher gravity world is pretty much tanks with a speed similar to The Flash in compatison to the othewrs. 2: Capacin is so dangerous to other species it is concidered a chemical weapon. The same with coffee.
I feel like a quote from my fav game trilogy fits this... "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer~"
How dose showing a movie display the power of the humans. And just saying war is bad would not convice anyone who has reached that level conflict. Also this would bot change whole governments and individuals in conflict. Oh and not everyone cares about others or the losses inflicted by war some even crave it. This not a bad story just pure fantasy of someone who wants it to be true.
I think an approach like this to diplomacy is something that humanity itself desperately needs currently. Instead of each side making ever escalating threats, a neutral mediator simply needs to show both sides the full reality of the consequences of all out conflict.
It’s been tried. It’s been tried so many times. But it doesn’t work when one side is intractable. Take the Gaza conflict for example. The world has begged the Palestinians to set aside their hatred and actually found a real Palestine, time and time again.
@@mikoto7693yes it’s been tried many times but do you think that other peace talks go right the first time or second or third or fourth or fifth it takes time and patience and commitment and compassion for them to work and definitely worth trying over and over again we as a people need to come together and obliterate this distain of other otherwise we will forever be doomed to failure
@@p4thf1nd3r8 Believe it or not I agree with you. It’s certainly the better path for humanity to be able to negotiate and work peacefully with each other. Imagine if we stopped all the fighting and bickering and humanity focused on the important things such as stopping destroying this planet and developing space travel. We’d probably be on Mars by now. And to be fair, we’re getting better at it as a species. Large portions of our species is working together in mutual benefit and defence. But we’re a long, long way from being united. Unfortunately I really don’t think that some situations are solvable peacefully. I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to master our darker side. Men like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Lukashenko, Putin and Kim keep rising up. Entire group stupidity such as the Gazans, Russians and North Koreans still exist where humans gladly prey upon each other. We’re capable of good and bad, but unfortunately it’ll be a long time before all humans learn to control the bad.
And what do you do when the other side does not share these values or concepts? If they do not care for destruction, for loss of lives, for lack of future? On the contrary, they consecrate death, praise it, consider living meaningless and martyrdom a higher purpose. Then what do you do?
what the Marines did in the pacific in WW2 to the Japanese during the island hopping campaigns. Few if any prisoners of war were taken. Japanese soldiers followed t
It's not about value - it's about the price. You go to war with a goal in mind. You want something. How much are you prepared to pay for what you want? A society which sees death as the highest purpose won't last long, because they will eradicate themselves. Any society that can exist for a long time will not be thinking like that.
That’s why we have the Gaza conflict. Hamas and the Palestinians do not have these values. They do care for the destruction, for loss of lives or for the lack of future. It’s why they only strike civilian targets, why they allow Hamas to build their bases in hospitals, schools and other civilian places. What do you do when the doctors and nurses are a part of Hamas? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy these stories of course. I want to believe that one day humanity will master its darker side and become more enlightened. But then I see the the Palestinians and the Russians are recognise that we have a very long way to go yet.
tbh i want to see someone being an asshole in the story and declare war against humanity and have a first hand example why they were pacifists, and a lesson to the galaxy on Humanities Knowledge of war and it's effects
So, a species that has built many weapons of war did not know the consequences of war? They're even described as "War like". Which literally means they often do war. But somehow, they didn't know that war is yucky? This may be the derpiest story I've ever heard on this channel. I'm usually impressed by these stories. This one, not so much. Truly bad.
Just because you wage war, does not mean you have the capacity to understand the extent that it can reach. Ants wage wars. But they don't collapse each other's nests, even if they don't plan on taking it over. They don't obliterate their local environment to do so, they move around it. Even chimpanzees are known to engage in band wars. Same idea. They aren't poisoning the land, the water, the air to kill or disfigure. They don't harness the power of a star to end countless lives in a fraction of a blink of an eye. I made note of, and was amused, at the reference to these war worshipping aliens not wishing to "trade the familiar weight of a blade...". Their ability, or preference of fighting, is primitive even by century-old human standards today. We may use blades, but those are last resort, not our first choice. We know the depths and consequences so well even at this point that we do everything we can to not fight face to face. We use guns, long range weaponry like missiles and artillery, drones, etc.
Thank you! Thought I was the only one. Reptilians go "You mean... war BAD??! We didn't know tha- oh no let's stooop!" Nothing this "simulation" was described to show was any worse than what we already have on video, and no one cared to stop because of it. The ones giving the orders are never the ones suffering. This was written by a very innocent person and I hope they get to keep living their life this way.
Very good reading as always :) After the obvious on to the story: It's a good concept overall, but it felt a bit too long, a bit too repetitive in some parts. On the other hand, I would have liked more information on that hammer of dawn, and that stone. What kind of weapon was it? How did the stone end the war before the weapon was used? This one feels a bit too "edgy", as if someone tried really hard to make it an epic story but didn't have or want to give enough background info and instead used a lot of nice-sounding words to cover up the lack of information. In conclusion: too long in some parts and too superficial in others.
I can understand that take. I got a little distracted around the time the stone was mentioned, so no explanation there at the moment. My guess for the Hammer of Dawn is that it's a reference to Project Thor, or something similar. That being an orbital bombardment system. Basically putting something incredibly dense and heavy in orbit, and then dropping it on the target using its attributes and the velocity it picks up from re-entry as the energetic payload as opposed to explosives or something along those lines. If you'd like to look into such things, a search of "Kinetic bombardment" should give you some interesting leads.
It does ignore the many, many historical examples of weapons of war made to deter, but ultimately end up being used like any other tool. If it's a weapon, it will be used.
A very good story to be sure. Do portray humainity in a very badass way without display of other the top fighting power. Simply showing the veterancy of humains and the knowledge they got from it. And realy like it. On a totaly different subject : That stone artifact that is showcase many time as the "biggest reminder of darkest time in humanity's history", do left me very curius about it's history to become such a symbol. Given the desciption as a smooth, light, white, small stone, I think it something like the a peace of a world ou a planet. And I wonder if out of all celestial object in humain territory, it was actually what was left of Hearth's Moon. Like during their worst time humains saw the destruction of the Moon to the point there's only a small stone left to tell the tale. I'm thinking about the moon because it hold a lot of symbolique importance to human's. But it's not as importance as the hearth itself that would let the humains be knowed as a speacy without homeworld to others in the galactic realm. In the different country i went and exchange I did with the local people, I realised, how little I knew realy about there country history (even neighboor country to mine) as well as they didn't about my country exept for event such as world war or war between our counry's. So it would not be impossible in a galactique age that even with all the advanced education and technologie. The general part of a speacy wouldn't know about the such a big event for humain as the destruction of the moon, if not teach about the very simbolism of moon to hearth. Hell in a lot of syfy setting hearth gouvernment symbol is that of the planet hearth with the moon orbitate around it.
They staired at the small unassuming smooth pebble. "What is it?" She asked. He was silent for a moment. "The culmination of unchecked naked aggression and unrestricted warfare." he stated. She was confused. "How is a pebble all that?" After a moment of contemplative silence he answered. "It is the results of the last weapon used in the last war we fought. A Quantum Resonance Fusion Compression Bomb. It was meant to be used on the battlefield, but was accidentally detonated when an extreme range missile had it's guidance system Electro-Magnetically scrambled. That pebble, is the remains of a major metropolitan city that was home to 12 million souls." . . . . and that was when Humanity permanently embraced the path of Peace.
There's people now that lived through war and don't think like this, I could only wish aliens would have this kind of psychology, when we have people whose grandfathers fought and died horribly against something, propping up a different flavor of that same thing. War aside, we can't even agree on the idea that no one should starve, if only this kind of optimism existed
Only one problem. This tale assumes that the warring factions are "normal sapient beings". What if one or both parties were psychopathic non-thinking, non-sapient beings who do not care if they are anhialated totally ?
ehh , sorry but the whole constipation of context and lack of practical assets just gets dull ,yes yes you learnt total war leaves nothing but those that learnt that should also learn that while trying to force peace with the sledge hammer of hard power as most of the idiotic current supernations/empires done is as stupid and reaches the same result like thinking isolation halt others progress or politics so should they also know that a healthy 'balance' is better then any extremism so sure peaceful yet with a steel clad demonstration of capability and indeed brining 'perspective' to those risking to unleash total war , yet also standing ready to back those having it forced upon them after all unlike those that treasures life a genocidal slave empire for example would not care if the galaxy is made barren aslong they survive to rule the ashes so good reading ,but to much fourth wall space opera for me to hear more then half
What a beautiful idea that from absolute power humans learned that peace is the greatest outcome and that the visions of wars potential harm to BOTH SIDES it is a sobering is the path that leads to peace for all involved. Looking through the eyes war can they fight a war when BOTH SIDES LOSE.?? I think not and therein lies the message to all that peace is the only way to win. PERIOD!😣😖😵😢😭💥😬🙄💥👽🖖
That was an awesome story. Very powerful message, and one of pure hope for a better future. Congratulations to the author - that was beyond words. amazing job.
Yeah ...no... showing a movie or a simulation does not do that. If krell super leader was that confident in his abilities i doubt that would change anything. this is not a good story - more wishful thinking of the author
I get the last part is supposed to be different scales to humanity's influence, and the changes it brought, but man the writer could've use more varied ways of saying things so it wouldn't seem redundant
You my friend are doing the job that God has called you to do. I have low vision and do read with a magnifying glass but I can see the difference between ai and you and your heart. Also you should have had lady in Black by Uriah Heep playing in the background lol. I don't have the money to support you but I am subscribed to keep doing your job you make mine easier❤
I do enjoy an occasional, wildy optimistic imagining of humanity's future. Unfortunately, barring a forced, universal reprograming of our brains, I am highly aware that a future where humanity becomes entirely united in any way isn't remotely possible.
The most subtle way of saying " f around and find out" from a species who actually did that and paid the price for it. A Japanese admiral was a nice touch.
Yamamoto knew exactly what he was up against and even predicted the timetable accurately.
@@maryrose2676You are correct. His statement of “For the first six months I can give you victory after victory, but after that I cannot”.
He had been assigned to the US between the wars, and knew the manufacturing juggernaut that was there.
sounds like humanity and Admiral Kaito have resurrected and upgraded the WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) system
Waste of time story
4:09 totalen Krieg
The second greatest battle you ever win is the one you never have to fight.
The greatest battle you ever *could* win, is the one you convince someone else not to go through with.
That has a lot more meaning that you realize.
literally everything about 5th generation warfare ia about thse ideas
A stitch in time saves nine.
How humanity is portrait in those videos reminds me of Stellaris. To be excat when you get to the moment in Stellaris in which youre an unstopable force of destruction.
They should know better then to harm bubbles...
Once there, the reality of both love and fear come into consciousness. Destruction itself is neither love nor fear. The reality just becomes so much more blatant; as does the choice to be made.
I do tech runs and get strong fast while small so my little gnome technocrats strike out fast and hard against tyrannical empires forcing government changes and them joining space nato the people will see free Dom from slave masters is much better. The friendly kingdoms get to join nato as free members the vassels get their freedom once they are stable and have changed government
Starbound, your greatest asset is the presentation of your stories.
No funny accents, no mispronunciations. Actual personal speakers with emotion that matches the time in the story.
After hearing so many AI bot readers, butchering the English language, it is with true enjoyment to hear your stories.
Thank you for sharing and presenting with honor and humility.
I try to stear from these.
Don't worry. AI will continually improve at a geometric rate until it becomes indistinguishable and eventually surpass human readers.
Everyone's going to be made redundant in the eyes of the rest of humanity.
@@Foxstab I was once given a similarly enthusiastic promise, in Feb 2022. They told me it wouldn't even be the end of the year before AI put voice actors out of business.
@LibraritheWizardOfficial There's nothing enthusiastic about it. And I'm not giving you precise dates. But within a generation or two, AI will be pervasive and there will be far fewer jobs.
@@Foxstab I'd say you're right even within a decade. Just not in a year or less as some of the more "special" AI bros like to sit there and believe. I'm glad you're more sensible 😊
Art of sun ztu... win the war without fighting once
Sun Tzu.
Art of War.
*...And from that time any place with a group of animals would called a zoo!*
*...unless is a farm.*
now the need to see the true horror of war when humans chose war on a galactic scale, like against a hungry external power
A simple Snap, the most terrifying sound the galaxy has ever heard.
Thee, whom have shed no blood, thine enemies nor thine own, in WAR!! No right hath been earned by thee to speak OF THE COST OF WAR!!
Don't f with us humans, we never understood peace.
You here?
Considering the current situation in Gaza and Russia and Ukraine. We never knew Peace.
@@Gfish17 That statement is false. We use peace to prepare for the next war.
Peace is next to impossible war will last longer than any country race or longer.
Humanity will know war until we end or war ends us
@@Gfish17 not true both your examples are minor blips of a fractured species. we know peace, and we know wars. both are old friends and will be with us long into the future because humans don't change there is as many reasons to fight as there to not fight is only a coin toss to see which one wins today. neither example is fighting to extinction nor gone total war tho I'd argue Gaza has given plenty of reasons to go total war over the last 30yrs.
Humanity: Dont make me come down there...
I kind of want to see a story where aliens learn what 'Guerilla warfare' is.
"we beat them, we annexed them, destroyed their cities... Yet they won't stop fighting! Every day our soldiers and civilians die from unseen fighters, and now they have our weapons!"
Classic "aliens attack earth" story.
Not gonna complain as long as it's not a rip off of an existing story.
I realized once they start to show every instance of different battles. It's the Ending to Wargames. They showed them "The only way to win is not to play."
"The last metroid is in captivity. The Galaxy is at peace."
*Suddenly Space Pirates*
"The last metroid is no longer in captivity. The galaxy is in panic."
I like the way this story is told but i cannot get over the premise. I would think that any spacefaring civilization would understand the costs of war considering the probability of them having been involved in either internal or external conflicts. I find it hard to believe that this the kind of thing that would happen.
Yes, but these aliens seem to fight with blades primarily. They may not know the horrors of what comes soon after those. Injury and death are one thing. Physical combat is well practiced by many things here on earth that do not understand the consequences of war.
Consider some of the following human weapons: flamethrowers, landmines, gas weapons like Sarin, bio weapons like cultured anthrax, atomic weapons and worse, their salted counterparts, orbital bombardment, ICBMs(nuclear or conventional), artillery, guns like the M134 minigun, the Avenger cannon, among countless other rather extreme weapons.
They may not realize, even with sufficient technological development, that these technologies are at their fingertips(or equivalent) even just by developing space travel, and can easily and quickly be adapted into weaponry. Especially since honor seemed to be very important, they may prefer, if not idealize direct and personal combat.
In Stargate(and forgive me as I've only recently been introduced), there's a scene where a warrior culture that uses what I can only explain as a plasma musket, considers humans and our weapons inferior to their own. They use it to shoot a suspended log, scorching it, but otherwise not doing much(if memory serves), and missing a shot or two. Then, the Stargate team demonstrates their weapon. An FN P90. They warn the (alien)men holding the target to back away, and then shoot the log, or first have them push it so it swings, and begin firing at the log, chewing it apart violently with each and every bullet. And then they shoot the line suspending the log, dropping it.
Then the team lead makes a comment about how the alien weapon is meant to scare and human weapons are meant to kill. Or something to that affect.
I will try and find a clip of that scene and post it in a second reply. I'm not sure if RUclips allows links like that, and I don't want this comment to be compromised because of that.
We build weapons that are never meant to be used, expressly to ensure that war has no winners. A nuke will likely never be launched again, because if it was, the response would kill everyone. A weapon like that only needs to be used once, before people back down instead of facing it again. We aren't pacifists and we never will be. We're pragmatic enough to know that some battles are just too dangerous to risk fighting. It's been a long time since we've officially declared war because no one wants to commit to that kind of violence. When we label it as conflict, the fight can end whenever we want simply by sending our troops home. In war, going home before you've won just means you fight on different ground, surrounded by innocent people. Ever since nukes were introduced, no one wanted to bring that destruction home.
A single asteroid from our asteroid belt would contain more metals than humanity has mined in its entire history COMBINED!
There are literally millions of asteroids in the belt.
The Kuiper Belt would have millions more objects from which we could extract resources like methane and water.
That is a single solar system - in a galaxy with billions of stars.
It would be utter insanity to fight over resources if you had access to FTL travel.
Decent story, but the last 10 minutes just kept saying the same thing over and over. Could have been shortened down to about 20 minutes. But at least he didn't say indominable again.
The curse of AI generation.
You know, this is a great story, but the term "neutral planet."
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other." "If I don't survive, tell my wife hello."
XD
i don't know how i came across this video nor why it was recommended, but i'm definitely glad it did.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
You got my sub for this one, well voiced, excellent tone and pitch. You need to get in touch with Beloved brother boldermort, he's a 40k Warhammer narrator legend.
Unfortunately, humans today don't act as humanity in future. :-(
Yes we do. It's in every choice made billions of times a day by every person in this planet to let it go. Peace is so common that we no longer recognize it. It is fortunately mundane.
and what makes you so sure that Rodenberry's hope of us being better is any more likely than we become aggressive tyrants? our best nations who have never started wars have their skeletons and the supposed guardians of today are guilty of starting more wars then any of their contemporaries. this assumption that humanity will embrace our angels over our demons seems to me to be wholly misplaced
@@kertagin1For me at least, I hope that humanity will control our darker side. There are billions of humans on earth that do not fight and do not unalive other humans. We get up, we go to work, we have our leisure time and go to bed-all without any violence. Billions of humans go through their entire lives without violence or war.
As a species we’ve still got a long way to go yet, but I think we’ll get there eventually. More of the planet is at peace than at war after all. And for every atrocity committed in war torn areas of the world there are unseen acts of kindness.
I take my hope from those. Like the time someone got stuck between a train car and station platform, and dozens of strangers came together to pool their efforts into pushing against the train car. In doing so they were able to lean it over those precious few centimetres to allow others to pull the person free.
I’ve seen it in real life too. Someone got knocked down by a car and people came from all around the help. First aid kits, blankets, calling the emergency services, setting up an impromptu roadblock and directing traffic away from the incident onto alternate routes. I was one of the ones who chose to assist diverting traffic. I’ll never forget the expressions on the faces of the police officers who showed up to find everything already set up by members of the public.
They quite literally ended up being briefed by us and taking over from us. I ended up shaking the hands of the two guys I’d been working with until the police arrived, then parting ways. We humans are capable of great violence but we’re also capable of great compassion so I hope one day we’ll all get the balance right.
A great idea if most leaders weren’t sociopaths/ psychopaths.
Humans are psychopathic by nature
Coffee is a dangerous drug but Humans consume it like it’s nothing! WHO think this could be good story!
I remember reading a story that was like this but with sugar, to them it's like salt to a snail and an extremely dangerous mineral but for us it's a sweet little treat 😊
Me, alternating sips of coffee and 3x shot monster:
First time?
Remember the story with the human highschoolers at the galactic galaxy.
1: We who are from a higher gravity world is pretty much tanks with a speed similar to The Flash in compatison to the othewrs.
2: Capacin is so dangerous to other species it is concidered a chemical weapon. The same with coffee.
If you wish for peace, you had better be training for war.
"prepared for war" is the correct quote there
Si vis pacem, parabellum
I feel like a quote from my fav game trilogy fits this... "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer~"
😅
How dose showing a movie display the power of the humans. And just saying war is bad would not convice anyone who has reached that level conflict. Also this would bot change whole governments and individuals in conflict. Oh and not everyone cares about others or the losses inflicted by war some even crave it.
This not a bad story just pure fantasy of someone who wants it to be true.
SO BE IT!
Need a better editor. Learn the difference between ideal and idea.
I think an approach like this to diplomacy is something that humanity itself desperately needs currently. Instead of each side making ever escalating threats, a neutral mediator simply needs to show both sides the full reality of the consequences of all out conflict.
It’s been tried. It’s been tried so many times. But it doesn’t work when one side is intractable. Take the Gaza conflict for example. The world has begged the Palestinians to set aside their hatred and actually found a real Palestine, time and time again.
@@mikoto7693yes it’s been tried many times but do you think that other peace talks go right the first time or second or third or fourth or fifth it takes time and patience and commitment and compassion for them to work and definitely worth trying over and over again we as a people need to come together and obliterate this distain of other otherwise we will forever be doomed to failure
@@p4thf1nd3r8 Believe it or not I agree with you. It’s certainly the better path for humanity to be able to negotiate and work peacefully with each other. Imagine if we stopped all the fighting and bickering and humanity focused on the important things such as stopping destroying this planet and developing space travel. We’d probably be on Mars by now.
And to be fair, we’re getting better at it as a species. Large portions of our species is working together in mutual benefit and defence. But we’re a long, long way from being united. Unfortunately I really don’t think that some situations are solvable peacefully. I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to master our darker side. Men like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Lukashenko, Putin and Kim keep rising up. Entire group stupidity such as the Gazans, Russians and North Koreans still exist where humans gladly prey upon each other.
We’re capable of good and bad, but unfortunately it’ll be a long time before all humans learn to control the bad.
The aliens would do well to listen to the words of the humans. To invite the sounds of their weapons to your "party" would not end well for you.
Well read 🤗
Thank you for this story 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
And what do you do when the other side does not share these values or concepts? If they do not care for destruction, for loss of lives, for lack of future? On the contrary, they consecrate death, praise it, consider living meaningless and martyrdom a higher purpose.
Then what do you do?
Back to plan A, I suppose
what the Marines did in the pacific in WW2 to the Japanese during the island hopping campaigns. Few if any prisoners of war were taken. Japanese soldiers followed t
It's not about value - it's about the price. You go to war with a goal in mind. You want something. How much are you prepared to pay for what you want? A society which sees death as the highest purpose won't last long, because they will eradicate themselves. Any society that can exist for a long time will not be thinking like that.
Fight like hell.
That’s why we have the Gaza conflict. Hamas and the Palestinians do not have these values. They do care for the destruction, for loss of lives or for the lack of future. It’s why they only strike civilian targets, why they allow Hamas to build their bases in hospitals, schools and other civilian places. What do you do when the doctors and nurses are a part of Hamas?
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy these stories of course. I want to believe that one day humanity will master its darker side and become more enlightened. But then I see the the Palestinians and the Russians are recognise that we have a very long way to go yet.
tbh i want to see someone being an asshole in the story and declare war against humanity and have a first hand example why they were pacifists, and a lesson to the galaxy on Humanities Knowledge of war and it's effects
So, a species that has built many weapons of war did not know the consequences of war? They're even described as "War like". Which literally means they often do war. But somehow, they didn't know that war is yucky?
This may be the derpiest story I've ever heard on this channel. I'm usually impressed by these stories. This one, not so much. Truly bad.
Just because you wage war, does not mean you have the capacity to understand the extent that it can reach.
Ants wage wars. But they don't collapse each other's nests, even if they don't plan on taking it over. They don't obliterate their local environment to do so, they move around it. Even chimpanzees are known to engage in band wars. Same idea. They aren't poisoning the land, the water, the air to kill or disfigure. They don't harness the power of a star to end countless lives in a fraction of a blink of an eye.
I made note of, and was amused, at the reference to these war worshipping aliens not wishing to "trade the familiar weight of a blade...". Their ability, or preference of fighting, is primitive even by century-old human standards today. We may use blades, but those are last resort, not our first choice.
We know the depths and consequences so well even at this point that we do everything we can to not fight face to face. We use guns, long range weaponry like missiles and artillery, drones, etc.
Thank you! Thought I was the only one. Reptilians go "You mean... war BAD??! We didn't know tha- oh no let's stooop!"
Nothing this "simulation" was described to show was any worse than what we already have on video, and no one cared to stop because of it. The ones giving the orders are never the ones suffering.
This was written by a very innocent person and I hope they get to keep living their life this way.
Enjoyed it
Pointless "story" if you can count it as a story in the first place.
The "simulation" part makes no sense.
I’ll ask you what was pointless in this story
"erect posture" , "ramrod straight". bro be talking about the admiral's posture like it's a co..... 💀💀💀
Am I the only one who thinks this is either written by a German person or I am just feeding into stereotypes.
"The last Hammer of Dawn."
Pretty sure the planet Sera has a few in their inventory.
The only true way to peace is to raise your children around those you once hated.
Very good reading as always :)
After the obvious on to the story:
It's a good concept overall, but it felt a bit too long, a bit too repetitive in some parts. On the other hand, I would have liked more information on that hammer of dawn, and that stone. What kind of weapon was it? How did the stone end the war before the weapon was used?
This one feels a bit too "edgy", as if someone tried really hard to make it an epic story but didn't have or want to give enough background info and instead used a lot of nice-sounding words to cover up the lack of information.
In conclusion: too long in some parts and too superficial in others.
I can understand that take.
I got a little distracted around the time the stone was mentioned, so no explanation there at the moment.
My guess for the Hammer of Dawn is that it's a reference to Project Thor, or something similar. That being an orbital bombardment system. Basically putting something incredibly dense and heavy in orbit, and then dropping it on the target using its attributes and the velocity it picks up from re-entry as the energetic payload as opposed to explosives or something along those lines.
If you'd like to look into such things, a search of "Kinetic bombardment" should give you some interesting leads.
Be nice if we in 2024 daw the wisdom of this story.
4:29 in all of human history. This is how Peace was achieved.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
This story is quite naive. It's well read, but a waste of time.
It does ignore the many, many historical examples of weapons of war made to deter, but ultimately end up being used like any other tool. If it's a weapon, it will be used.
Agreed. Warnings don't stop wars. Anyone capable of waging war knows the cost and generally considers it worth it.
Hiii! New listener here. Love your videos! Love the intro.
Thanks so much!!
Only problem is - no way in hell would an advanced humanity call our planet that horrible barfing sound - earth.
Good story, good presentation, but you need to tighten it up. Consider finding an editor to help remove repetitive bits.
A very good story to be sure. Do portray humainity in a very badass way without display of other the top fighting power. Simply showing the veterancy of humains and the knowledge they got from it. And realy like it.
On a totaly different subject : That stone artifact that is showcase many time as the "biggest reminder of darkest time in humanity's history", do left me very curius about it's history to become such a symbol.
Given the desciption as a smooth, light, white, small stone, I think it something like the a peace of a world ou a planet. And I wonder if out of all celestial object in humain territory, it was actually what was left of Hearth's Moon. Like during their worst time humains saw the destruction of the Moon to the point there's only a small stone left to tell the tale.
I'm thinking about the moon because it hold a lot of symbolique importance to human's. But it's not as importance as the hearth itself that would let the humains be knowed as a speacy without homeworld to others in the galactic realm.
In the different country i went and exchange I did with the local people, I realised, how little I knew realy about there country history (even neighboor country to mine) as well as they didn't about my country exept for event such as world war or war between our counry's. So it would not be impossible in a galactique age that even with all the advanced education and technologie. The general part of a speacy wouldn't know about the such a big event for humain as the destruction of the moon, if not teach about the very simbolism of moon to hearth. Hell in a lot of syfy setting hearth gouvernment symbol is that of the planet hearth with the moon orbitate around it.
This thumbnail gives off the I’m not trapped here with you you are trapped in here with me vibes
They staired at the small unassuming smooth pebble.
"What is it?" She asked.
He was silent for a moment. "The culmination of unchecked naked aggression and unrestricted warfare." he stated.
She was confused. "How is a pebble all that?"
After a moment of contemplative silence he answered. "It is the results of the last weapon used in the last war we fought. A Quantum Resonance Fusion Compression Bomb. It was meant to be used on the battlefield, but was accidentally detonated when an extreme range missile had it's guidance system Electro-Magnetically scrambled. That pebble, is the remains of a major metropolitan city that was home to 12 million souls."
. . . . and that was when Humanity permanently embraced the path of Peace.
There's people now that lived through war and don't think like this, I could only wish aliens would have this kind of psychology, when we have people whose grandfathers fought and died horribly against something, propping up a different flavor of that same thing. War aside, we can't even agree on the idea that no one should starve, if only this kind of optimism existed
Only one problem. This tale assumes that the warring factions are "normal sapient beings". What if one or both parties were psychopathic non-thinking, non-sapient beings who do not care if they are anhialated totally ?
ehh , sorry but the whole constipation of context and lack of practical assets just gets dull
,yes yes you learnt total war leaves nothing but those that learnt that should also learn that while trying to force peace with the sledge hammer of hard power as most of the idiotic current supernations/empires done is as stupid and reaches the same result like thinking isolation halt others progress or politics so should they also know that a healthy 'balance' is better then any extremism so sure peaceful yet with a steel clad demonstration of capability and indeed brining 'perspective' to those risking to unleash total war , yet also standing ready to back those having it forced upon them after all unlike those that treasures life a genocidal slave empire for example would not care if the galaxy is made barren aslong they survive to rule the ashes
so good reading ,but to much fourth wall space opera for me to hear more then half
Was worried this channel used AI for story making and AI voice when it popped up in my feed. Glad it's just for the art!
You two could make, delicious fan artistry and lutein as well
What a beautiful idea that from absolute power humans learned that peace is the greatest outcome and that the visions of wars potential harm to BOTH SIDES it is a sobering is the path that leads to peace for all involved.
Looking through the eyes war can they fight a war when BOTH SIDES LOSE.?? I think not and therein lies the message to all that peace is the only way to win. PERIOD!😣😖😵😢😭💥😬🙄💥👽🖖
Unfortunately most conflicts don't have 2 equal sides. Cute story though. Seems a bit too AI tho
Isn't this supposed to be Humanity, fuck yeah? What's with this pacifist dribble?
So the Aliens 👽 didnt have simulator/simulation technology? But the hoomans did. 😂
It’s HFY sci fi. What else did you expect?
@@mikoto7693 a jar jar character 😳
wish this was required for everyone to listen to at least once
thanks for the story and narration
really like the story and the lector voice... i like the voice and the emotions
Thank you for not just dumping this into an AI reader.
Good story!!
Good story, spectacularly narrated.
Yea I agree the narration was very good
I guess they got rid of everyone who was not in their right mind
Great story!
you know the one... Tuvok's voice O.o
That was an awesome story. Very powerful message, and one of pure hope for a better future. Congratulations to the author - that was beyond words. amazing job.
hey you're the second person i've complimented for not using a cheep a.i. voice today. keep it up man, subbed and thumbs up
Elara 😜
69th comment. Hehe.
Yeah ...no... showing a movie or a simulation does not do that.
If krell super leader was that confident in his abilities i doubt that would change anything.
this is not a good story - more wishful thinking of the author
Thank you for not using a.i
Love your videos
Thank you!
@@StarboundHFY You're welcome 🙂
I get the last part is supposed to be different scales to humanity's influence, and the changes it brought, but man the writer could've use more varied ways of saying things so it wouldn't seem redundant
Did copilot write this
This is only missing one thing: "And then everyone stood up and clapped" lol.
If the simulation get broadcasted to the whole galaxy, the story will end period 😅😅😅.
Hah, "she got indoctrinated into pacifism" is the stance of her spiecies.
Author seem to know VERY litle about conflicts, but at least does not apear to be created by AI bot.
I agree, seemed a little naive.
@@singledad1313 hahaha, "naive" was exactly wha I was thinking too
I like the voices you do, lots of care and attention put in, well done.
You my friend are doing the job that God has called you to do. I have low vision and do read with a magnifying glass but I can see the difference between ai and you and your heart. Also you should have had lady in Black by Uriah Heep playing in the background lol. I don't have the money to support you but I am subscribed to keep doing your job you make mine easier❤
Peace isn't eternal. It will eventually break down.
So can hatred.
thx
It's awesome that you read the stories. Great stories to boot!
A diversity of voice actors would make these stories better.
6:32 Yep. Used ChatGPt, and therefore DalE enough to recognize AI generated images for a ChatGPT story.
They didn't even bother to change the default names the AIs use...
Geneva Checklist.
Optional.
I do enjoy an occasional, wildy optimistic imagining of humanity's future. Unfortunately, barring a forced, universal reprograming of our brains, I am highly aware that a future where humanity becomes entirely united in any way isn't remotely possible.
Helps if you have an outside enemy
@specialnewb9821 I highly doubt we would all agree that the outsiders were actually enemies. Heck, we can't even all agree on the shape of our planet.
Epitaph fits this story so well
what was on the stone
Sports
You ever hear the expression, “beating a dead horse?” Everything after the signing of the peace treaty was beating a dead horse.
You merely missed the point.
Tis better to beat soldier farming than a farmer be a soldier
Bruce Lee
Don't fear someone that practices 1000 styles or techniques... Fear the one that practiced one technique thousands of times
There’s a Vance nice half life reference
Im sorry. This is another unimpressive story..
Really need to stop doing character voices. And just narrate the story
BS! 👎❗️