If they have trillions strong fleet, they shouldn't be facing a crisis that require this weird and strategically questionable ambush in the first place. Oh, it is also heavily logistically improbable, too.
Conspiracy theory here: rising sea level due to “global warming” in this universe was actually humanity secretly crafting this fleet 🤣 Then again, you gotta do something crazy to bait out enemies not willing to directly fight you. No logic on the surface, but the end result was devastating for the enemy.
Story was okay. But if you were putting all your eggs in the basket of a surprise counter attack, and let your people die to bait the trap, who in the world would offer them the chance to retreat?
The basket is entirely exposed, the doors are made of glass, you're weapons have been encased within the walls, and your enemy can simply drone strike you anyways. Dumb from all fronts.
So after all that, some Xor'vul forces escaped and could threaten humanity again in the future. I thought the whole point of the trap was that the Xor'vul fleet needed to be annihilated with no chance of escape? Edit: Larissa did a great job narrating as always. I just felt the writing on this one was far below what I've come to expect from this channel.
It doesn't make any sense. That's such an unnecessary and disgusting waste of human life. And it's not even an effective method at their proposed goal which was to wipe out the species. There's no way that there wouldn't be safe havens elsewhere like, I don't know, a homeworld maybe? The whole star system should have been the trap, starting at the kuiper belt.
The council would be executed in any real scenario where civilians are sacrificed to trap an enemy when you posses a superior force capable of protecting them.
A worthy sacrifice. It almost rare for people in such positions to be both heroes and villains. How much of which they are to be considered depends on a few factors. The extent of the shelters the story mentioned, being just one. But the fact that they didn't even send out a ship or two would also be taken into consideration. Whatever the case, they are likely to be executed for the hopefully low millions that died as bait.
@@taitano12 And we’ve seen it with Bomber Harris. Even before that the U.K. was loosing until they bombed Berlin. Then Hitler fully bombed London, giving U.K. airfields some relief.
@@teamidris yeah no there was no reasonable reason that they even needed to do this they had a defense system that was perfectly fine they took it down specifically so they could trap these aliens in the fight that they did not even need to have in the first place. In world war II they had no defenses against the bombers everyone here should be court marshalled who came up with this plan and charged with treason or reckless endangerment. This is the greatest example of warmongering for no reason
@@teamidris The UK did not have any point defense they definitely did not have a superior Air Force. And even during that time they still sent fathers to attempt to stop bombers they did not allow open strikes on their citizens with a punity to gain some kind of tactic advantage.
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Basically the same stupid idea of the final order or whatever from the crappy Disney Star Wars that was hidden in ice fields of space…but magically no one noticed ships being built and crews being trained, etc.
Even if this plan succeeded I would expect people's resumes and court muscle for this dumb idea. First why would you endanger your people for a chance to counteract against the people who don't even want to fight you directly. And then let them go afterwards
imo, during the atmospheric descent would've been the best time to snap the trap. Their FTL systems are either still recharging or offline, and the hive mind is having to carefully maneuver itself downward as to not damage any of its vessels. They'd be at point-blank range the second the Terran ships breach the water, having to fully reverse thrust to try and climb back OUT of the gravity well and atmosphere to get into a defensible position, no ground forces deployed yet, and any bioships destroyed in-atmosphere would be easier to cordon off since they're not moving very quickly; They'd fall mostly straight down. And, of course, all the council members involved wouldn't be facing the noose for throwing civilians into the line of fire.
I'm just going to go ahead and say it. This story was dumb. It lacked anything of substance, the entire defense strategic was absurdly stupid. To let the enemy fleet even come into orbit with impunity and damage cities just to have the enemy "fully commit" would have that admiral fired. And why hold the armada under the oceans? You could have hid it literally anywhere else. Dissapointing and repetitive. Sorry, but this probably one of the least engaging stories.
With space warfare, what makes it dangerous is that you don't even need to do conventional combat if you don't intend to do anything with the planet or its species. Just sling some of the big rocks at them and you're done. Not even having to deal with even the planet's gravity.
@@teamidris I can agree with that. I can also agree that everyone has to start somewhere. I think the author of this one tried to lever the cool factor but it flopped spectacularly.
That was some shit tactics. If you have a superior fighting force, you take it to the enemy. You don't bring the enemy to you and sacrifice your own people. Especially if you aren't going to finish the job and allow some of the enemy to escape.
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The moment the Council revealed that they were going to sacrifice civilians, I stopped the video. I'm upset that having reached the end, there is no hint that the Council will be brought to justice for their actions.
"We stand together, all of us, as one!" he says, as infrastructure is being destroyed and the populace is being sacrificed because they waited for the fleet to actually hit earth before letting that totally secret fleet of a million ships loose... I imagine there's a few hundred thousand people sat there wondering what happened to all the ships they built and dropped in the ocean
Yea, but it would have happened slowly over years. The fleet did not just appear in the ocean. So the water will rise slowly and they would have prepared for it, and mask it as climate change.
@@leonitas91 Building them yes, but that many ships going upword would displace so much water there wouldn't be coastal cities left let alone beaches with people on them. It would be like tsunamis the size of mountains along every seacoast.
Minus the fact that after this whole Armada is revealed, everybody’s gonna be pissed at them, because of the deaths caused by their in action to set up a plan that they had no idea would work
@@japkap uh uh honey. This plan could have been completely ruined if the aliens sent a probe or scout down to the surface which they should have done even if they thought the point laser system was completely gone. This only makes sense and maybe if you're dealing with an interpersonal or an already worn torn area not when you are clearly superior. That they did not even want to fight you in open combat in the first place. On top of the strategy would probably only be good if you are already in a desperate situation not for whatever this was
So did the crews just live in the ships, did they take shifts, did they live on the coast like division agents for the massive armada, how did the crew get to the ships, how did they get off, how do you keep it a secret with the ammount of manpower required to crew the ships, so many plot holes........ um questions
So some of the ships had been down there for decades? Fully crewed? How were the crews rotated in and out and resupplied without word leaking out to some unscrupulous journalist who absolutely had to make his career and damn the costs to others? A bit too many unanswered questions in this one. But a lovely narrator nonetheless.😊
That’s what I’m thinking. I guarantee all those people are either gonna be mysteriously killed by people or there’s gonna be some very severe public backlash that is not going to be fun for any of them.
Nah man they let all those people , those innocent civilians die as a bait, that counsel will be executed and dismissed in any real life scenario. Bet his own family is safe though out of danger, but those civilians were just left their to die on a silver platter
Well, Larissa's narration was top tier as always, but this was one of the worst stories in a long time. It's reminiscent of the crappy AI writing of other, weaker channels. So many things wrong with this story. Some of the other comments mentioned tsunamis, but that's not correct. A fleet that massive displaces a LOT of water. Rising up from the depths would have caused some large waves, but, the real effect would have been an immense lowering of water levels, exposing hundreds of yards of beaches and rocks that had previously been under water. And then there's the devastating effects that their rise would have on sea life, the capsizing of ocean vessels, the extreme rise in temperature as their massive engines fired up in the atmosphere, and, as others have mentioned, the complete stupidity of letting the enemy attack our world, letting them destroy and kill indiscriminately all in the name of suckering them into the killing zone. As I said before, I love to listen to your narrators, but this story was the worst written POS I've seen on Starbound in a long time.
Really not a single Yamato? I am very disappointment of Terra's council... xD. The plan could had use a better civilian evacuation policy I know it was suppose to be convincing but come on xD. Good reading but not one of my favorite story. Thank you for your efforts.
Nice story, But:- who crews these ships? Who maintains these ships? These are also said to be updated - how? All in the Deep Ocean! And Secret? This is dumb! You might get away with rotating ships to & from the asteroid belt, if your opponent is blind! Nicely told but poorly thought out.
This story was HORRIBLE!!! How would you let your ppl die when you could have stopped it??? Thats BS!!! Have to say I'm very disappointed in yall ...I would have refused to narrate it!!!! 🙄
Oh for the love of christ, to top it off, they let the Xorval ships retreat? WTF wasnt that the whole reason they sacraficed millions of civilians, so they could wipe out the Xorval? This was 46 minutes of my life i would like back thankyou...
I dunno how to feel about the fact that @Starbound HFY has clearly realized we will listen to Larissa narrating an early 1990s vacuum cleaner operator's manual (with appendices). This story was awful. I half expected to hear "faces etched with determination" and "ever the pragmatist". Was this HUMAN writer maybe a new intern or someone making their debut? I think they need a little more time to cook. Also does not help that I am jonesing like a broke crackhead for my Frairen/Rimiki fix...
If they just stuck to the one verse with the Yorple and what not and used proper title and stopped using goofy or ugly ai images this channel would really take off
Too many platitudes and some inconsistent parts just made this whole story frustrating. Why tell it to retreat when the whole point of letting it attack citizens was to make sure it was killed once and for all?
If they have trillions strong fleet, they shouldn't be facing a crisis that require this weird and strategically questionable ambush in the first place.
Oh, it is also heavily logistically improbable, too.
Conspiracy theory here: rising sea level due to “global warming” in this universe was actually humanity secretly crafting this fleet 🤣
Then again, you gotta do something crazy to bait out enemies not willing to directly fight you. No logic on the surface, but the end result was devastating for the enemy.
Story was okay. But if you were putting all your eggs in the basket of a surprise counter attack, and let your people die to bait the trap, who in the world would offer them the chance to retreat?
The basket is entirely exposed, the doors are made of glass, you're weapons have been encased within the walls, and your enemy can simply drone strike you anyways. Dumb from all fronts.
Hope the Council members have their affairs in order. This is literally the kind of thing that will, even in modern times, put you in a noose.
Plot twist: the council was actually incompetent and this strategy wasn’t needed: they were executed shortly after the battle.
So after all that, some Xor'vul forces escaped and could threaten humanity again in the future. I thought the whole point of the trap was that the Xor'vul fleet needed to be annihilated with no chance of escape?
Edit: Larissa did a great job narrating as always. I just felt the writing on this one was far below what I've come to expect from this channel.
It doesn't make any sense. That's such an unnecessary and disgusting waste of human life. And it's not even an effective method at their proposed goal which was to wipe out the species. There's no way that there wouldn't be safe havens elsewhere like, I don't know, a homeworld maybe? The whole star system should have been the trap, starting at the kuiper belt.
So easy for Ryder to give civilians up as fodder while I'm sure his family would be safe in bunkers.
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That's what communist bureaucrats do
The council would be executed in any real scenario where civilians are sacrificed to trap an enemy when you posses a superior force capable of protecting them.
Maybe they were. Would that have stopped them?
A worthy sacrifice. It almost rare for people in such positions to be both heroes and villains. How much of which they are to be considered depends on a few factors. The extent of the shelters the story mentioned, being just one. But the fact that they didn't even send out a ship or two would also be taken into consideration. Whatever the case, they are likely to be executed for the hopefully low millions that died as bait.
@@taitano12 And we’ve seen it with Bomber Harris. Even before that the U.K. was loosing until they bombed Berlin. Then Hitler fully bombed London, giving U.K. airfields some relief.
@@teamidris yeah no there was no reasonable reason that they even needed to do this they had a defense system that was perfectly fine they took it down specifically so they could trap these aliens in the fight that they did not even need to have in the first place. In world war II they had no defenses against the bombers everyone here should be court marshalled who came up with this plan and charged with treason or reckless endangerment. This is the greatest example of warmongering for no reason
@@teamidris The UK did not have any point defense they definitely did not have a superior Air Force. And even during that time they still sent fathers to attempt to stop bombers they did not allow open strikes on their citizens with a punity to gain some kind of tactic advantage.
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Basically the same stupid idea of the final order or whatever from the crappy Disney Star Wars that was hidden in ice fields of space…but magically no one noticed ships being built and crews being trained, etc.
Even if this plan succeeded I would expect people's resumes and court muscle for this dumb idea. First why would you endanger your people for a chance to counteract against the people who don't even want to fight you directly. And then let them go afterwards
court-martialled
I know it's for effect, but they let the aliens get in much further than they needed to for "full commitment". Thanks for the story.
imo, during the atmospheric descent would've been the best time to snap the trap. Their FTL systems are either still recharging or offline, and the hive mind is having to carefully maneuver itself downward as to not damage any of its vessels. They'd be at point-blank range the second the Terran ships breach the water, having to fully reverse thrust to try and climb back OUT of the gravity well and atmosphere to get into a defensible position, no ground forces deployed yet, and any bioships destroyed in-atmosphere would be easier to cordon off since they're not moving very quickly; They'd fall mostly straight down. And, of course, all the council members involved wouldn't be facing the noose for throwing civilians into the line of fire.
yes they needed to make sure ALL of Xor’vul was engaged for their trap to work effectively.
I'm just going to go ahead and say it. This story was dumb. It lacked anything of substance, the entire defense strategic was absurdly stupid. To let the enemy fleet even come into orbit with impunity and damage cities just to have the enemy "fully commit" would have that admiral fired. And why hold the armada under the oceans? You could have hid it literally anywhere else.
Dissapointing and repetitive.
Sorry, but this probably one of the least engaging stories.
LOL, yes, you nailed it. But, when writing a story you never know if it will work properly. Some do and some just don’t :o)
With space warfare, what makes it dangerous is that you don't even need to do conventional combat if you don't intend to do anything with the planet or its species. Just sling some of the big rocks at them and you're done. Not even having to deal with even the planet's gravity.
@@teamidris editing exists for that purpose
@@deddydwisutanto1077 can’t fix a minger. Can’t edit your way out of a story that doesn’t have a decent ending.
@@teamidris I can agree with that. I can also agree that everyone has to start somewhere. I think the author of this one tried to lever the cool factor but it flopped spectacularly.
That was some shit tactics. If you have a superior fighting force, you take it to the enemy. You don't bring the enemy to you and sacrifice your own people. Especially if you aren't going to finish the job and allow some of the enemy to escape.
We are seeing civilians die on TV from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, sacrificing civilians probably wasn't a wise choice for a plot.
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How about a story about some alien species having to deal with a lot of snow?!? Haven't heard one like that!?!
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With sacrificing civilians I was expecting them to completely annihilate the hive mind but they let some escape. Dumbest plan ever.
The moment the Council revealed that they were going to sacrifice civilians, I stopped the video. I'm upset that having reached the end, there is no hint that the Council will be brought to justice for their actions.
A trillion ship sized fleet would require practically anywhere from 5-55 planets worth of resources... excessive much? Lol
There's no such thing as excess when you have a badass reval ;)
I don't think Earth's ocean is even big enough to hide that many ships.
@@rpk321 probably not lol
Overkill is underrated.
I don't recall them ever saying it was a trillion ships.
"We stand together, all of us, as one!" he says, as infrastructure is being destroyed and the populace is being sacrificed because they waited for the fleet to actually hit earth before letting that totally secret fleet of a million ships loose... I imagine there's a few hundred thousand people sat there wondering what happened to all the ships they built and dropped in the ocean
So civi's die and we let them retreat? Best sci-fi channel on ytube but story is sketch.
Let's also not talk about the water displacement that would have flooded the earth
Yea, but it would have happened slowly over years. The fleet did not just appear in the ocean. So the water will rise slowly and they would have prepared for it, and mask it as climate change.
@@leonitas91 Building them yes, but that many ships going upword would displace so much water there wouldn't be coastal cities left let alone beaches with people on them. It would be like tsunamis the size of mountains along every seacoast.
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It is the classic appear weak while you are strong, so you can lure out potential threats.
Quite a good story and plot.
Minus the fact that after this whole Armada is revealed, everybody’s gonna be pissed at them, because of the deaths caused by their in action to set up a plan that they had no idea would work
@@japkap uh uh honey. This plan could have been completely ruined if the aliens sent a probe or scout down to the surface which they should have done even if they thought the point laser system was completely gone. This only makes sense and maybe if you're dealing with an interpersonal or an already worn torn area not when you are clearly superior. That they did not even want to fight you in open combat in the first place. On top of the strategy would probably only be good if you are already in a desperate situation not for whatever this was
I love your content. The fact that you have actual real people telling the story is a big plus for me.
Is there a part 1
"They keep coming"
My immature self: 😂
So did the crews just live in the ships, did they take shifts, did they live on the coast like division agents for the massive armada, how did the crew get to the ships, how did they get off, how do you keep it a secret with the ammount of manpower required to crew the ships, so many plot holes........ um questions
Miss the blue hair, but like the new look…
You guys have got to stop posting posting so frequently! I'm at work!
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Plus saying retreat is kind of stupid with an enemy like this. You would do nothing but annihilate them.
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So some of the ships had been down there for decades? Fully crewed? How were the crews rotated in and out and resupplied without word leaking out to some unscrupulous journalist who absolutely had to make his career and damn the costs to others?
A bit too many unanswered questions in this one. But a lovely narrator nonetheless.😊
Using people as bait?? That is horrendous!
Yep, but its been done in the past. Entire cities have been sacrifice to set traps or keep secrets.
That’s what I’m thinking. I guarantee all those people are either gonna be mysteriously killed by people or there’s gonna be some very severe public backlash that is not going to be fun for any of them.
Why? We're overpopulated as it is.
@@AaronPaulIbarrola this ain't HFN bruh
@AaronPaulIbarrola Are you volunteering?
one of the worst stories have had the displeasure to listen to.
Nah man they let all those people , those innocent civilians die as a bait, that counsel will be executed and dismissed in any real life scenario. Bet his own family is safe though out of danger, but those civilians were just left their to die on a silver platter
Well, Larissa's narration was top tier as always, but this was one of the worst stories in a long time. It's reminiscent of the crappy AI writing of other, weaker channels. So many things wrong with this story. Some of the other comments mentioned tsunamis, but that's not correct. A fleet that massive displaces a LOT of water. Rising up from the depths would have caused some large waves, but, the real effect would have been an immense lowering of water levels, exposing hundreds of yards of beaches and rocks that had previously been under water.
And then there's the devastating effects that their rise would have on sea life, the capsizing of ocean vessels, the extreme rise in temperature as their massive engines fired up in the atmosphere, and, as others have mentioned, the complete stupidity of letting the enemy attack our world, letting them destroy and kill indiscriminately all in the name of suckering them into the killing zone.
As I said before, I love to listen to your narrators, but this story was the worst written POS I've seen on Starbound in a long time.
Nice try zerglings. Battle cruiser operational.
Really not a single Yamato? I am very disappointment of Terra's council... xD. The plan could had use a better civilian evacuation policy I know it was suppose to be convincing but come on xD. Good reading but not one of my favorite story. Thank you for your efforts.
Nice story, But:- who crews these ships? Who maintains these ships? These are also said to be updated - how? All in the Deep Ocean! And Secret? This is dumb! You might get away with rotating ships to & from the asteroid belt, if your opponent is blind! Nicely told but poorly thought out.
Nice to see a new one
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This story was HORRIBLE!!! How would you let your ppl die when you could have stopped it??? Thats BS!!! Have to say I'm very disappointed in yall ...I would have refused to narrate it!!!! 🙄
You ever notice most of the Sci-Fi girls are smoking hot
Oh for the love of christ, to top it off, they let the Xorval ships retreat? WTF wasnt that the whole reason they sacraficed millions of civilians, so they could wipe out the Xorval? This was 46 minutes of my life i would like back thankyou...
@@kukivave I'm surprised you made it that far I stopped after hearing the plan.
Good one I liked it
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I dunno how to feel about the fact that @Starbound HFY has clearly realized we will listen to Larissa narrating an early 1990s vacuum cleaner operator's manual (with appendices). This story was awful. I half expected to hear "faces etched with determination" and "ever the pragmatist". Was this HUMAN writer maybe a new intern or someone making their debut? I think they need a little more time to cook. Also does not help that I am jonesing like a broke crackhead for my Frairen/Rimiki fix...
Yeah I'm not feeling this story. I can't understand how the scenario even came about
I'm looking forward to smarter ai writers
If they just stuck to the one verse with the Yorple and what not and used proper title and stopped using goofy or ugly ai images this channel would really take off
Neat
I love the plot, but the story is kinda mid, and the final speech was trash. Overall i give it 4 🌟 mostly cause it's my favorite narrator.👍
Too many platitudes and some inconsistent parts just made this whole story frustrating. Why tell it to retreat when the whole point of letting it attack citizens was to make sure it was killed once and for all?
It's hard enough bothering with this channel at all when they use garbage ai images.... what the hell was this.....
This story is a let down for this channel
some of these stories are genuinely awful
Humanity fuck yeah lol
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