I am now imagining the last human growing up, getting loose and becoming kind of like the god emperor from 40k. Insanely powerful charismatic, and ultimately rebirthing humanity and whooping all kinds of alien ass. AGAIN
Bonefetcher Brimley in a way it’s almost implied. As the narrator knows how terrifying humanity is. That’s probably why he’s against it. And if humanity did come back and found out about the “sins” the narrator talks about, then morality might not stay the new humanity’s hands
Alien race creates new religion for humanity Aliens tell Humanity they created it *Humanity proceeds to burn a 1000 planets in a holy war for retaliation*
@@Kuronosa if they did then all they would need to do is infeltrate the place they where made and take the means to reboot humanity for themselfs. then it would be the story of how the humans died and then came back. truly then they would be feared
@@zanebruce2546 depends on what you would classify as Religious War. Islam, the more extremist aspects anyways, is engaged in a religious war of submission or extermination with the West, as they see it. As we it, it's simply terrorism and criminal. We're playing Chess while they're playing Go
Nah, I think that the Mass media can’t look at anything positive. They can only talk about the negative and even when the economy is doing the best it’s ever been they can only complain and say we need change. I mean change isn’t a bad thing, but still someone needs to at least appreciate what is here.
I think I read this story once. It's really good. The end, where the human icon is placed to live, is an exact description of the Garden is Eden, too, implying that humanity recovered on Earth - possibly to a dead galaxy. I believe this could mean that galactic civilizations ultimately collapsed, since nobody stopped them from re-arising.
I can't help but imagine that some single shuttle, some desperate singular arc escapes the extinction. With such a capable species, faced with a galaxy that no other species can meet in ingenuity, innovation, and adaptability, they would escape such an end, developing hidden structures like those in the gas giants, and slowly, subtly, rebuild and plan a vengeance upon those who had wiped them out.
@ Ganondorf I honestly can't imagine that the species that invented assassination and secret societies while it was still using stone tools and building its first cities wouldn't have used the entire tail end of the war as a distraction to secret away various hidden colonies that could re-emerge at some later date and rebuild the Imperium of Man. Also love the idea of "techno-paladins". Tickles my science fantasy bone. Or perhaps humans were aware of the tradition of making "icons" and arranged a series of events to have the icon they knew their killers would create become the new progenitor of humanity. Makes for an intriguing plotline I think.
You sound like you don't belived humanity stole the secrets of the loo genocide from the exanth, found their home galaxy and left before the war had even started. before they even were introduced to their religion.
Honestly, I like the idea and it fits in with another HFY story called "Vermin" which would be told generations down the lines after a bunch of facts about it were forgotten
We're all always calling other races special... dwarves have great forging skills, elves are good with nature, orcs are numberless and physically amazing.... But. In the end... We humans do have a special power of our own, you see. We are all *Revenants* . We become more and more powerful... Each individual gains more and more worth... *The more of us that die* . The closer we are to death, the stronger we become. Thus, I say, we are *Revenants* !
@@Helman114 I know, that's basically what you wrote, and it's quite terrifying as a history who can find evidence to back that up. It is still terrifying
The Buggers had learned the wrong lessons from the previous battles. Up to now, Ender's strategy had always been to ensure the survival of as many human ships as possible. He had always left himself a line of retreat. The Buggers, with their huge numerical advantage, were finally in a position to guarantee that the human forces would not get away. There was no way, at the beginning of this battle, to predict that the Buggers would make such a mistake. Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle. The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. We don't throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of a one-member hive. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong -- for we humans *do*, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. They don't believe we'll use Dr. Device because the only way to use it is to destroy our own ships in the process. From the moment Ender started giving orders, it was obvious to everyone that this was a suicide run. These ships were not made to enter an atmosphere. And yet to get close enough to the planet to set off Dr. Device, they had to do exactly that. Get down into the gravity well and launch the weapon just before the ship burns up. And if it works, if the planet is torn apart by whatever force it is in that terrible weapon, the chain reaction will reach out into space and take out any ships that might happen to survive. Win or lose, there'd be no human survivors from this battle.
As the story went, I felt content, by the empirical evidence provided, it seems we're the perfect species. And that even on the back foot, we wiped out so much makes me happy that humanity has not gone into the night with a whimper, but a roar (or song as it were) and my head canon is that the last Human figured out cloning again and basically finished what her progenitors started (call me a human nationalist, but I love it when we dick-slap the galaxy and show dominance). But anyways... As always, a stellar reading, Cloak. Love your stuff, keep doing what you're doing.
To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take...inventory. [...] Out-gunned. "Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and the rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare... They will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight" Cpt. Price, MW2... i think this quote aptly describes humanity in this video. Ive never heard of humanity fuck yeah! but the lore interests me, this video in particular.
Their mistake was making a new human. Humans, by our very nature, will do one of two things, A) adapt to the environment or other hindering status; or B) Make it adapt to us; there is no other way. So yes the child probably figured out how to clone/revive humans causing another war, but this time the same trick won't work twice, we will be back, and we will win.
My Little Head Canon is that... Well Humans Never Despair if they KNOW the End is a Forgone Conclusion. I Suspect they had another Plan in place... Humanity would Flee and Rebuild. And come back again.. With Friends. Because why Assault the Homelands of a Holy Empire that Actively Store the Remnants and DNA of their Enemies without another Goal. Take that DNA and come back again to show them what they have destroyed.. and then show them who was Right. Hope Springs Eternal, but Hope sometimes has a Hand in it's goals.
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter, I mean, it's possible. The author of the story implies that that Icon runs the chance of doing just that, although the chances of a sequel being written are next to none.
I felt it drew parallels to Adam and Steve(yes its actually eve but lols) in the end and i'm assuming that somehow a male will be introduced and they will incest their way to victory(or not since incest is a freaking awful way to repopulate XD)
I don’t hold a lot of pride or comfort in calling myself human, I see the kinds of messed up things we do to each other on a daily, hourly, and down-to-each-minute basis. The moment we find something aside from ourselves though, all the time we spent beating, hurting, and killing each other will go to great use. I don’t hold pride in humanity, my species. I hold faith. Faith in the stubbornness of humanity and our volatile nature.
I'm pretty sure that when faced with extinction we'd enjoy burning them down with us. And while we face the dark we'd probably make contingency plans 'Horizon Zero Dawn' style.
If extinction is certain, then Hell yeah. Survival is the ultimate goal. I figure we’ll negotiate well before it gets to that point. Even at a disadvantage, survival is paramount. Can’t say much for religious fanaticism, though. There are always exceptions.
Deep shit right here. No matter how much comes our way well survive fighting to preserve our species no matter the cost. Even in the darkest abyss well see light were no one else can see. Even go as far as to cling to it for the hope that lays in the dark has always been our salvation. This is humanity true curse true weakness and the very thing we fight for and to preserve. Not for us but for those who come after us even if it is us aging. As we endured our selves we well endure aging no matter the coast.
Two more lines would have made it hilarious. "It took me a decade to go back to the icon, before I had the nerve to see the child now into early adulthood. As I near the portal I notice a small trail of blood... And a strange-looking meat string."
@@bogustoast22none25 It's called parthenogenesis. There are many species that have only females, that give rise to daughters that are genetically identical to the parent.
I know this is late, but the writer of this story said in the comments of the reddit post that he almost made the garden mentioned, ouright the garden of Eden, although they chose to keep it vague.
Recorded this one last week, meant to put it up on Monday and only just realized when putting up the next video. On the plus side, you guys get two videos today!
Thats a nice song for a last stand, for all i imagine, is a wasted land, soon the last battle will start, and a lone young human voice sounds over the battlefield, singing of woe, gone days and deep never extiguishable hope, so more likly "head home over the mountains" striking a unbelievable strong will into every soldier, with every pinched memory and when the last battle starts, these damned aliens better be ready checking twice if the humans warriors are dead, for humans fighting to survive, more so for there loved ones, are vicious
Out there, in the cold, empty space between galaxies there lies a forgotten armada. Once proud vessels carry in their holds the last vestiges of Man. Skeleton crews cling desperately to failing quantum entanglement engines and dying fusion cores. They wait, living long decades in shifts. As Humanity passes from galactic conscience so to, do they pass along the edges of the galaxy until the day comes. After countless centuries a call will echo through the void. Dark space will awaken, a massive fleet will assemble. Its crew and cargo will stir and awaken. They will come. A small planet at the edge of civilized space will see them first. A grand fleet of ghost ships, ships that ceased to exist eons ago, will tear out of FTL into the orbit of a poorly defended garden world. Great leviathans of steel and fire will descend upon it, burning the skies with wrath and fury. Vast behemoths will fall to the ground and, like some Hell beast begin disgorging adamantine clad demons who scream for vengeance. These genetically engineered super soldiers will take back what rightfully belongs to them and in doing so reignite the nightmares of the galaxy. Humankind has returned.
Im with yall, there are theoretical ways to live in the harshest world's. Some crazy people have talked about setting up inside stars. He seemed to mistake a supposed final confrontation as victory, Meanwhile clones are building a tone of death stars.
I'd like to think that when he had humanity told that Hessa was from them and Humanity started to holy war, that he let out the arthropod equivalent of that Llama scream...
Humanity gift the greatest kindness... And curse their unmeasurable rage upon those they deem fit, even themselves when no one else is there to bear the curse
i honestly dont believe that the icon is the last of humanity, when faced with extinction EVERY alternative is preferable and we are probably in scattered pockets in places no-one thinks any life can survive, building up to take revenge :P
Nightflash478 somewhere in dark space there is an arc where 1,000,000 cryogenic pods keep their occupants in suspended animation. Waiting for the beginning of the second human war
I can only imagine the humans who weren't of the fabricated religion seeing the conflict start, doing all they can to avoid a war over ideas they didn't hold. But unwilling to watch their kin of species fall in horrendous numbers, meeting the call to arms against those who meddled in the world of human faith, a spiritual betrayl by those we called friend for fears sake. Manipulating us despite our peaceful cooperation and contributions.
And 25 years later they returned they came from dark space they came from the heart of gas gaints they came for revenge and at their head came a girl who was thought the last of her kind oh how wrong they were
Let this be a lesson: If humanity comes, set up a trade agreement, let them do what they want, and keep your head down, because we're the true incarnation of the word willpower.
Imagine this final human, having learned of her legacy, finding the cloning Chambers and the technology her forebears had made. What could happen then, I wonder
I wonder how long it will take that icon to turn the situation in their favor and rise above the death of humanity with songs of victory and justice upon their lips and the fire of war burning bright in their heart
I really would have imagined More humans would have split off from the main religion in become splinter anti-religious humans that would have fought with the galactic federation against the heretic focused Humans.
Nah. History disagrees. In WW2, most German citizens while definitely brainwashed to an extent were not trying to genocide people, were trying to survive a war and the nazi regime. While there were attempts to usurp Hitler, there was no mass German population trying to fight other Germans. Again in American Civil War, Most of the south was too poor to own slaves. Once the war broke out was mostly fighting for whichever side your home was on. Even accounts of soldiers shouting at each other across a river at night. Union soldier: "Why are you fighting" Confederate: "Because you are here"
@@zanebruce2546 You're right, any war can unite the strangest of allies, US and USSR, France and Russia, etc. the enemy of my enemy is my friend and what not
"surely the wholesale slaughter of innocents was a level of depraved pragmatism was beyond even them" have they read anything about humanity? we do that shit for fun
So he's going to leave an infant in the wilderness to "live her life"...? I mean, sure. She'll live all one or two days of it I guess, assuming an animal doesn't find and eat her first.
To be totally honest that is not entirely an accurate in my mind I have no doubt that Humanity would absolutely fuck up the entire rest of the Galaxy if given the chance
It's not part of any existing lore. It's something called "Humanity Fuck Yeah!" Which are varying stories that are all based on the idea of humanity being exceptional in a sci-fi setting, rather than the most bog-standard thing in existence.
Here lies humanity: "our only regret is not making a big enough explosion to take everything down with us...gg"
GG indeed.... rematch?
I’m putting this on my tombstone
GG, re?
TT nice
We took many of them bastards with us, almost all of em.
I am now imagining the last human growing up, getting loose and becoming kind of like the god emperor from 40k. Insanely powerful charismatic, and ultimately rebirthing humanity and whooping all kinds of alien ass. AGAIN
Bonefetcher Brimley in a way it’s almost implied. As the narrator knows how terrifying humanity is. That’s probably why he’s against it. And if humanity did come back and found out about the “sins” the narrator talks about, then morality might not stay the new humanity’s hands
*Battle of kings song intensifies.*
@@thetactician2787 If anything they might make the aliens pay for their sins of genocide who better to pass judgement then the slain?
Xenos must be contained or controlled
"Their past failures protected them like overwhelming plates of armor."
Overlapping*
Overlapping*.*
Oh no, they tried to tell humans their religion was bogus. Nobody expects the Xanth inquisition.
No one expects the counter Inquisition either
Oi, y'know that religion you taught us? You got some stuff wrong, and now we're gonna jab ya with this here pigsticker.
Alien race creates new religion for humanity
Aliens tell Humanity they created it
*Humanity proceeds to burn a 1000 planets in a holy war for retaliation*
chris hickman because fuck yeah
*THE GOD EMPEROR IS PLEASED*
It sounds like it got co-opted into Christianity, specifically the 'do unto others' ethos.
*FOR THE EMPEROR!!?!*
Seems like these aliens didn't study human history at all lol
"Of what consequence is possibility when humanity is involved" that is the best line.
Part 2: "What the hell do you mean, 'It escaped.' !?!?!"
electric Boogaloo
We need that sequel
small child running around the halls
Oh, wait until the Icon human gets revenge in its mind.
@@Kuronosa if they did then all they would need to do is infeltrate the place they where made and take the means to reboot humanity for themselfs. then it would be the story of how the humans died and then came back. truly then they would be feared
Natural Problem Solvers and Beautiful Lunatics. I’ve never heard humanity described more succinctly in my life.
What kind of asinine plan is it to engage in social manipulation without understanding the target society?
Yeah I literally laughed at how fucked they were when I got to that part.
“Hey, these guys just got FTL like a year ago, how complex can their society be?” -The synopsis of probably every tactical meeting held on this topic
To be honest, from the context, the last holy war humanity had prior to the events of the story would probably be considered ancient history.
What could’ve gone wrong? Everyone knows that people from the same religion have no reason to disagree.
@@zanebruce2546 depends on what you would classify as Religious War. Islam, the more extremist aspects anyways, is engaged in a religious war of submission or extermination with the West, as they see it. As we it, it's simply terrorism and criminal. We're playing Chess while they're playing Go
"The Curator wondered how it was to be driven by such insane optimismen."
Yeah, that about sums us up
Nah, I think that the Mass media can’t look at anything positive. They can only talk about the negative and even when the economy is doing the best it’s ever been they can only complain and say we need change.
I mean change isn’t a bad thing, but still someone needs to at least appreciate what is here.
Its not optimismen
Its purely being stubern and insanite and 1% florida
We will not go quietly into the night we will go writhing and screaming in a violent purge until one of us is destroyed
I think I read this story once. It's really good. The end, where the human icon is placed to live, is an exact description of the Garden is Eden, too, implying that humanity recovered on Earth - possibly to a dead galaxy. I believe this could mean that galactic civilizations ultimately collapsed, since nobody stopped them from re-arising.
Ha! I myself thought that sounded suspiciously like the garden of eden! Also, humans are like cockroaches.
I also saw the parallels. But some details were off, likely still inspired by the Genesis tale both irl and in-universe.
thought it was Mesopotamia...
Eden is mesopotamia, as much as mythic realms have a physical location
@@kymaks The Exanth sound like a bunch of overbearing dicks. it would be unsurprising if some other civilization usurped them.
I can't help but imagine that some single shuttle, some desperate singular arc escapes the extinction. With such a capable species, faced with a galaxy that no other species can meet in ingenuity, innovation, and adaptability, they would escape such an end, developing hidden structures like those in the gas giants, and slowly, subtly, rebuild and plan a vengeance upon those who had wiped them out.
We can only hope
@ Ganondorf I honestly can't imagine that the species that invented assassination and secret societies while it was still using stone tools and building its first cities wouldn't have used the entire tail end of the war as a distraction to secret away various hidden colonies that could re-emerge at some later date and rebuild the Imperium of Man.
Also love the idea of "techno-paladins". Tickles my science fantasy bone.
Or perhaps humans were aware of the tradition of making "icons" and arranged a series of events to have the icon they knew their killers would create become the new progenitor of humanity. Makes for an intriguing plotline I think.
You sound like you don't belived humanity stole the secrets of the loo genocide from the exanth, found their home galaxy and left before the war had even started. before they even were introduced to their religion.
Humans are space Skaven
Honestly, I like the idea and it fits in with another HFY story called "Vermin" which would be told generations down the lines after a bunch of facts about it were forgotten
Never mess with Space Australia!
Space is just Australia without air and only one way to bleed off heat, but even worse.
We're all always calling other races special... dwarves have great forging skills, elves are good with nature, orcs are numberless and physically amazing....
But.
In the end...
We humans do have a special power of our own, you see.
We are all *Revenants* .
We become more and more powerful...
Each individual gains more and more worth...
*The more of us that die* .
The closer we are to death, the stronger we become. Thus, I say, we are *Revenants* !
That squite terrifying because there is historical precedence to it.
@@qthedisaster1730 Just think about the phrase: what does not kill me makes me stronger, then apply the resulting realization to our entire race.
@@Helman114 I know, that's basically what you wrote, and it's quite terrifying as a history who can find evidence to back that up. It is still terrifying
The Buggers had learned the wrong lessons from the previous battles. Up to now, Ender's strategy had always been to ensure the survival of as many human ships as possible. He had always left himself a line of retreat. The Buggers,
with their huge numerical advantage, were finally in a position to guarantee that the human forces would not get away.
There was no way, at the beginning of this battle, to predict that the Buggers would make such a mistake. Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle. The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and
every individual human life. We don't throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of a one-member hive. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong -- for we humans *do*, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
They don't believe we'll use Dr. Device because the only way to use it is to destroy our own ships in the process. From the moment Ender started giving orders, it was obvious to everyone that this was a suicide run. These ships were not made to enter an atmosphere. And yet to get close enough to the planet to set off Dr. Device, they had to do exactly that.
Get down into the gravity well and launch the weapon just before the ship burns up. And if it works, if the planet is torn apart by whatever force it is in that terrible weapon, the chain reaction will reach out into space and take out any ships that might happen to survive.
Win or lose, there'd be no human survivors from this battle.
Good excerpt.
As the story went, I felt content, by the empirical evidence provided, it seems we're the perfect species. And that even on the back foot, we wiped out so much makes me happy that humanity has not gone into the night with a whimper, but a roar (or song as it were) and my head canon is that the last Human figured out cloning again and basically finished what her progenitors started (call me a human nationalist, but I love it when we dick-slap the galaxy and show dominance). But anyways... As always, a stellar reading, Cloak. Love your stuff, keep doing what you're doing.
To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take...inventory. [...] Out-gunned. "Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and the rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare... They will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight"
Cpt. Price, MW2... i think this quote aptly describes humanity in this video. Ive never heard of humanity fuck yeah! but the lore interests me, this video in particular.
Their mistake was making a new human. Humans, by our very nature, will do one of two things, A) adapt to the environment or other hindering status; or B) Make it adapt to us; there is no other way. So yes the child probably figured out how to clone/revive humans causing another war, but this time the same trick won't work twice, we will be back, and we will win.
How exactly do you adapt out of being beaten into the ground at all costs?
Make underground cities? Not sure myself, but we learn, and change accordingly.
My Little Head Canon is that... Well Humans Never Despair if they KNOW the End is a Forgone Conclusion. I Suspect they had another Plan in place... Humanity would Flee and Rebuild. And come back again.. With Friends. Because why Assault the Homelands of a Holy Empire that Actively Store the Remnants and DNA of their Enemies without another Goal. Take that DNA and come back again to show them what they have destroyed.. and then show them who was Right.
Hope Springs Eternal, but Hope sometimes has a Hand in it's goals.
Improve. Adapt. Overcome.
*Improvise
Survive Live Conquer
Aliens: Give humans religion
Aliens: BTW we made that
Humans: DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT
BURN THE HERETICS
FOR THE EMPEROR
*EXCITED GASMASK NOISES*
They gave us unity.
They gave us a weapon and tool.
They gave us numbers.
They gave us wrath.
The hell did they expect to happen?
All I can say to this alien race for making one last human... life finds a way.
and if or when life does not find a way, be sure that humanity will either find it or forcefully carve it out themselves
I'm waiting for the follow up story that tells of how this 1 human destroys the entire alien race single handedly.
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter, I mean, it's possible. The author of the story implies that that Icon runs the chance of doing just that, although the chances of a sequel being written are next to none.
I felt it drew parallels to Adam and Steve(yes its actually eve but lols) in the end and i'm assuming that somehow a male will be introduced and they will incest their way to victory(or not since incest is a freaking awful way to repopulate XD)
Jaart Bellamy if she gets ahold of genetic manipulating tech, then we’re gonna have some good old human fun.
"No two members of the same religion would have any reason to hurt each other"
* Laughs in crusader *
19:40
Humanity: TIME FOR A CRUSADE!!!
The rest of the universe: Oh... Shoot...
The perfect story that exemplifies just how powerful humanity itself can be. Terrifying yet amazing.
I don’t hold a lot of pride or comfort in calling myself human, I see the kinds of messed up things we do to each other on a daily, hourly, and down-to-each-minute basis.
The moment we find something aside from ourselves though, all the time we spent beating, hurting, and killing each other will go to great use.
I don’t hold pride in humanity, my species. I hold faith. Faith in the stubbornness of humanity and our volatile nature.
I'm pretty sure that when faced with extinction we'd enjoy burning them down with us. And while we face the dark we'd probably make contingency plans 'Horizon Zero Dawn' style.
If extinction is certain, then Hell yeah. Survival is the ultimate goal. I figure we’ll negotiate well before it gets to that point. Even at a disadvantage, survival is paramount.
Can’t say much for religious fanaticism, though. There are always exceptions.
"Why do humans-"
Me: EXIST
Deep shit right here.
No matter how much comes our way well survive fighting to preserve our species no matter the cost. Even in the darkest abyss well see light were no one else can see.
Even go as far as to cling to it for the hope that lays in the dark has always been our salvation.
This is humanity true curse true weakness and the very thing we fight for and to preserve.
Not for us but for those who come after us even if it is us aging.
As we endured our selves we well endure aging no matter the coast.
Two more lines would have made it hilarious. "It took me a decade to go back to the icon, before I had the nerve to see the child now into early adulthood. As I near the portal I notice a small trail of blood... And a strange-looking meat string."
can you explain that last part
@@TA10man umbilical cord, Humans made themselves auto-spawn children as a contingency plan.
@@bogustoast22none25 It's called parthenogenesis. There are many species that have only females, that give rise to daughters that are genetically identical to the parent.
I was waiting for the baby to be named eve and this was actually the origin of current humanity.
I know this is late, but the writer of this story said in the comments of the reddit post that he almost made the garden mentioned, ouright the garden of Eden, although they chose to keep it vague.
Recorded this one last week, meant to put it up on Monday and only just realized when putting up the next video. On the plus side, you guys get two videos today!
Love this story. Found your channel recently and these stories of humanity within the galaxy are awesome.
"Beautiful Lunatics". That is a perfect way to describe humanity.
General Shio should really just retire from screwing with the humans
i imagine the last song of humanity beeing something like 'last stand' from Sabaton.
never underestimate a beatiful lunatic ;)
Thats a nice song for a last stand, for all i imagine, is a wasted land, soon the last battle will start, and a lone young human voice sounds over the battlefield, singing of woe, gone days and deep never extiguishable hope, so more likly "head home over the mountains" striking a unbelievable strong will into every soldier, with every pinched memory and when the last battle starts, these damned aliens better be ready checking twice if the humans warriors are dead, for humans fighting to survive, more so for there loved ones, are vicious
I love how it only gets worse
Out there, in the cold, empty space between galaxies there lies a forgotten armada. Once proud vessels carry in their holds the last vestiges of Man. Skeleton crews cling desperately to failing quantum entanglement engines and dying fusion cores. They wait, living long decades in shifts. As Humanity passes from galactic conscience so to, do they pass along the edges of the galaxy until the day comes.
After countless centuries a call will echo through the void. Dark space will awaken, a massive fleet will assemble. Its crew and cargo will stir and awaken. They will come. A small planet at the edge of civilized space will see them first. A grand fleet of ghost ships, ships that ceased to exist eons ago, will tear out of FTL into the orbit of a poorly defended garden world. Great leviathans of steel and fire will descend upon it, burning the skies with wrath and fury. Vast behemoths will fall to the ground and, like some Hell beast begin disgorging adamantine clad demons who scream for vengeance. These genetically engineered super soldiers will take back what rightfully belongs to them and in doing so reignite the nightmares of the galaxy. Humankind has returned.
So we become the Tyranids?
fools to think that they got all the monsters
dawnstar12 we definitely hiding in some back water worlds like hell they got all of us
Im with yall, there are theoretical ways to live in the harshest world's. Some crazy people have talked about setting up inside stars. He seemed to mistake a supposed final confrontation as victory, Meanwhile clones are building a tone of death stars.
They'll find out in a hundred years when exterminatus is happening on their homeworld
I'd like to think that when he had humanity told that Hessa was from them and Humanity started to holy war, that he let out the arthropod equivalent of that Llama scream...
Warhammer 40k, the greentext
Man I wish we had half the response to a deadly virus that these humans had
Their last mistake was making the icon a female, I'm sure eve has plans to finish the fight
I fucking LOVE this story. Is it weird to feel pride in humanity from this? Like... I’m strangely proud of being described like this
It just occurred to me. This isn’t something from the future. This is from the past.
Humanity gift the greatest kindness...
And curse their unmeasurable rage upon those they deem fit, even themselves when no one else is there to bear the curse
man that gave me both goosevumps and shivers, great storytelling
I keep coming back to rewatch this and each time it gives me chills
This was deep. Very deed.
Something to truly think about.🤔
i honestly dont believe that the icon is the last of humanity, when faced with extinction EVERY alternative is preferable and we are probably in scattered pockets in places no-one thinks any life can survive, building up to take revenge :P
Nightflash478 somewhere in dark space there is an arc where 1,000,000 cryogenic pods keep their occupants in suspended animation. Waiting for the beginning of the second human war
I can only imagine the humans who weren't of the fabricated religion seeing the conflict start, doing all they can to avoid a war over ideas they didn't hold. But unwilling to watch their kin of species fall in horrendous numbers, meeting the call to arms against those who meddled in the world of human faith, a spiritual betrayl by those we called friend for fears sake. Manipulating us despite our peaceful cooperation and contributions.
And 25 years later they returned they came from dark space they came from the heart of gas gaints they came for revenge and at their head came a girl who was thought the last of her kind oh how wrong they were
A garden at the union of two rivers.
The human's name is Eve. And she shall be the mother of her race.
And Shio is very clearly going to be adopting a pseudonym, something like yehova, or jewhe...maybe ashtmil...
"not only did they kill the infected, they razed entire worlds to stop the spread"
oh author, you sweet summer child
Let this be a lesson: If humanity comes, set up a trade agreement, let them do what they want, and keep your head down, because we're the true incarnation of the word willpower.
Was actually expecting a reveal at the end that it escaped.
Humanity will do what it has to to SURVIVE!!!
Did anyone pick up on this? "Two rivers met in the distance." It's the Garden of Eden. And I bet her name is Eve.
That is what went through my mind
god damn, that was a glorious piece of literature!
“We’ll just introduce our religion to the humans to make them work with us better! It’s foolproof!.... Aaaaand we’ve get a holy war. The fuck?”
Sheo: *does anything*
Humans: *uno reverse card*
Imagine this final human, having learned of her legacy, finding the cloning Chambers and the technology her forebears had made. What could happen then, I wonder
Yep, that seems right
Do not go softly into the night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
"Singing of a victory that would never come."
Over there...
Over there...
Send the word, send the word over there...
Imagine if this is the same universe from "Earths novelty" but just hundreds of thousands of years later
imagine this being a start/end game crises in stallaris
lathrix might lose to this
I wonder how long it will take that icon to turn the situation in their favor and rise above the death of humanity with songs of victory and justice upon their lips and the fire of war burning bright in their heart
Thinking about it, this video is like a explanation of why/when the garden of eden was/why/when it was created
even from 1 we will rise, we survive, that is what it is to be human
Well, from about ten thousand. And even then, our feet will get webbed to shit.
A lovely and amazing story. However, do you realize you described Eden for the natural habitat?
I'm pretty sure he did.
I really would have imagined More humans would have split off from the main religion in become splinter anti-religious humans that would have fought with the galactic federation against the heretic focused Humans.
Nah. History disagrees. In WW2, most German citizens while definitely brainwashed to an extent were not trying to genocide people, were trying to survive a war and the nazi regime. While there were attempts to usurp Hitler, there was no mass German population trying to fight other Germans.
Again in American Civil War, Most of the south was too poor to own slaves. Once the war broke out was mostly fighting for whichever side your home was on. Even accounts of soldiers shouting at each other across a river at night. Union soldier: "Why are you fighting"
Confederate: "Because you are here"
@@zanebruce2546 You're right, any war can unite the strangest of allies, US and USSR, France and Russia, etc. the enemy of my enemy is my friend and what not
Humanity's usual response: "In Conclusion, Get Fucked."
"surely the wholesale slaughter of innocents was a level of depraved pragmatism was beyond even them" have they read anything about humanity? we do that shit for fun
The physical description of the Lu sounds eerily similar to Taxxons from the Animorph series.
Ah the tower of babel a beautiful story.
they left 1 of us alive ......... let the new war begin
Because it calms us down
One does not purify Fanatic Purifiers.
So he's going to leave an infant in the wilderness to "live her life"...? I mean, sure. She'll live all one or two days of it I guess, assuming an animal doesn't find and eat her first.
Sounds like a right proper match of Stellaris.
Little did he know that by the time of the war he had destroyed humanity already, for could you call what humanity became truly human?
Amazing story!
good story
Great one right.
To be totally honest that is not entirely an accurate in my mind I have no doubt that Humanity would absolutely fuck up the entire rest of the Galaxy if given the chance
Does anyone know where this short story came from?
Magnificent
just so yall know most of this stuff is from r/HFY and there is much more there.
Huh. The Lu sound VERY much like the aliens from Be Ready. Is that a coincidence? Or is it a reference?
Another story cloak read
I had this list on auto, I first thought that Be Ready was a story to set the stage for this one.
FOR THE GOD EMPEROR!!
i love this
sorry I just randomly found this video what is this lore based on?
It's not part of any existing lore. It's something called "Humanity Fuck Yeah!" Which are varying stories that are all based on the idea of humanity being exceptional in a sci-fi setting, rather than the most bog-standard thing in existence.
Cloak and Dagger because humanity fuck yeah
@@TheTaleForge kind of a central theme in some Sci-Fi; Bablyon 5, Troy Rising (search John Ringo), and a handful of others I can't remember names for.
I thought this was Welcome To Nightvale whoops
A couple people have said I do a pretty good Cecil impression.
I’m sorry this is a weird thing but could you draw the black line going all the way down the middle there is a little gap in the microphone.
10/10
Did someone say depraved pragmatism?!
Humanity Fuck Yeah!!!
Alright but what about Humanities favorite tool, The Android? what happened to them pray tell
*DEUS VULT!*
Beautiful poetry does not make stupid less stupid. Just saying.
HERESY