If this had been real humans we wouldn't have taken thousands of lives list easily. We might have demonstrated the supernova weapon on the homeworld of the enemy 😂
Yeah. They should have taken them out at least to capitulation especially since they were traveling the galaxy doing to other races what they tried to do to us.
@@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 Actually, the term means to invite a second attack. Because of the old custom that a first strike across one cheek was an insult, but a second on the other cheek was an act of assault, thus meaning self preservation is go.
Pester not the Monkeys of Earth. They aren't all that subtle, and incredibly quick to anger. Like the Kzinti, they needed to learn the hard way that the reason humans "Don't wanna study war no more" was that humans are so terribly good at it.
Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series ran this theme for years. Aliens were observing us at Crusader levels. They packed up their tech--slightly advanced Vietnam-era equivalent--and launched at us, expecting an absolute walkover. They got here just in time for World War II, and I don't need to tell you how close the tech gap was at THAT point.
@@RedDiomedes Yes. They were a race of lizard men, so they could travel long distances with cryogenic freezing. They also had an extremely long-lived culture; they though about years the way we thought about weeks.
@@RedDiomedes Their problem was they and the two species they had dominated, were stable and unified (the Emperor's family had been ruling for over 100k years,) so they were very structured and set in their ways. Any tech change took decades/centuries to decide whether it should be introduced or not, all potentials had to be investigated before the tech was introduced. So they expected the species their scouts saw, to change very little in the few hundred years it took their ships to get to Earth.
You done f**k up now son This is just a mild Saturday night party to us Thirty minutes later We told you go tell your bosses that we will have a little chat with them in a bit
If this were real humans, the terms given to this alien council would be given with a human fleet in orbit and all military power their empire possessed reduced to nothing more than space junk.
"The humans will detect us, but they aren't doing anything about us." Me: "Let's show these interstellar intruders what happens when you enter our airspace uninvited."
Those giving orders don't see the actual events, so can't fully understand why an action failed. To them, it failed because it wasn't carried out properly. When you repel one ship, you don't use the full force at your disposal. Instead, you use just the amount necessary to prove you are able to do even more if necessary. Also, you don't want to show your entire hand. When the human appeared in front of the council, he did so with a plan in mind should things go south. Fortunately, his initial plan worked, and his reserve units weren't needed. Neither was more blood shed. When you learn that your opponent can do more harm than you first thought, it's best to follow through with that which saves your people and profits you in the long run.
Young men die in wars that old men start and beaurocrats that are now polititians know nothing of war if polititians fought they wouldnt be so eager for war wich is also known as theft on a grand scale...
Yea, watch out for that one place with the 50 war tribes, those guys have been waiting for independence day to be a documentary or dramatic retelling😂😂😂
Sorry, this story is just silly. An invasion force enter sol and the admiral wants to be bff. Invasion force attacked and kill people. Yet, the admiral still wants to be bff..........yeah. This ain't HFY it's WTF!!!!!!
I know it is silly when you are brainwashed into micro-penis mentality of the American or Russian or Chinese. But rest of the world is not really like that. 1. Humans have clear technological superiority, probably an intel on the aliens too. Are you killing a kitten when it tries to scratch you? 2. And even after the deaths. It would a) be nothing in comparison to what humans did to themselves; b) relatively small price in avoiding full scale war ending with probably high billions of loses and destruction of multiple habitable planets. 3. You can wage war without shooting. Spread your ideas, your culture and you can kill civilisation without killing people, shooting a single bullet and earning a mountain of cash while doing it.
@@korinogaro you are a sweet summer child. It is good to be rational and peacefull when there is no war outside. You have friends and home and relatives you love. But if invadors destroy your home and kill your friends and loved ones, the only thing youl have is hate. Some isolated peace? Hardly acceptable, but yes. Friendship and trade? No chance.
It's fantasy to this point... Before the killing start, yes, maybe. With pride and hero or superiority complex it can be explain. After they have start to kill tough? And worst, kill civilians? Clearly and loudly said they where slavers? Nop. The retaliation will have be ruthlessly. Because we know than ask for peace without a proof of strength and mutual destruction as no weight.
If anyone doubts that human-kind are barbarians and murderous criminals...then just look at our recent history, the Nazi's in WWII, look at Ukraine and Russia, Afghanistan and the Taliban, or Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sharia law, and the North Korea dictatorship. We are only seconds from doomsday...☢☣ 😂 💣
I don't see the relevance of the leaping swordsman. However, most space borne invaders tend to be of a higher intellectual capacity, unless they are of the leaping swordsman type, in which case the story might work. But would you put such a creature in charge of your vanguard?
So many stupid comments that don’t understand the point of this story or the human’s perspective here.. avoiding an all out war is completely preferable Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way.. “the greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
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True, I mean why fight a war when you can just invade using Starbucks and McDonalds Franchises.
oohh don't worry not everyone is cursed with such a small worldview as to miss the meaning behind "technology we deeply hope NEVER to use" some of us are cursed to be specialists in designing such things, You're either a monster without equal or quietly not making use of your strongest skillset. its harder than you'd think. for eg false vacuum bomb. never ever ever not even once. no matter how relatively easy it may or may not be. also known as a vacuum decay bomb possibly, it kind of has to remain only possible otherwise everything else promptly isn't. besides the fine admiral was even kind enough to omit the supernova guns other settings and instead brought it back to infantry combat scale, dont want to scare them too much.
Your points are contradictory. Why would a defensive/preventive war be so unacceptable to the in universe humans; if they have "a massive technological advantage"? Jefferson allowed a massacre to happen on his watch...'turn the other cheek' is not a rational response. Either Jefferson/humans are Jesus now (wiling to suffer for the alien's sins) and won't ever use force (yet they have researched and built all that terrible weaponry), Or Jefferson is just incompetent and there is no accountability for his failure. Or (for whatever reason) nobody cared about all the people Jefferson let get killed. That (Sun Tzu?) (mis)quote is about PREVENTING war/battle by achieving your goals another way -BEFORE combat, it's not about 'turning the other cheek'. 1 dude changing the apparent core beliefs/principles of an installer people with a couple conversations and technological 'magic tricks' is frankly ridiculous; it's a simplistic morality/biblical play in scifi clothing. "The hero has cornered the vicious monster. It's taken out everyone who has confronted it thus far, and the hero seems like no exception. That's when the hero, rather than drawing a sword, pulls out his cue cards. He begins a speech about the good things in life, the wonders of good, how Humans Are Special and the monster should respect that, and that the monster should know better than just give into his evil nature, etc. " -'Talking the Monster to Death' tvtropes org
For the admiral, sure, his job is to secure victory and accepting some type of terms of surrender is reasonable: though that is not what happened here. For the people? Accepting peace after pointless and unprovoked slaughter is highly doubtful. History tells the tale, once peace is gone, it is gone until we are crushed or feel satisfied with our revenge. It's doubtful an admiral would have the authority to negotiate on his own after such an attack anyway.
Thousands of lives lost and millions displaced? _We would have started operation stellar storm, and steamrolled any resistance in a weekend. _*_Best case scenario._*
I know we are going for "Peace over war" in this story. But people have something called "Patience" and it does have a limit. So these future humans must be bred for patience because wow...they were tolerant of alot of BS.
They effed around and found out, but they found out good things, I'd be quite unsurprised if they had just found out that their homeworld was having freedom dispensed at it by a bee going at mach f**k instead.
If this was real the human commander he be in martial court for ineptitude for let a enemy enter human space for let them enter terra orbit. For let them began attack a civilians
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way..
@@shadowling77777 tell this to the families that are dead orlost his homes because some inept peace lover don't want to do his job his not a diplomat he is commander of the 1st fleet
My favorite stories though, are the ones where we are technologically behind the other species (at the start) but all of the space aliens have bodies like glass. Basically we're Superman. There was a particularly interesting one where the human was accused of using some kind of illegal combat steroid, and he had to explain that our bodies NATURALLY produce adrenaline. Everybody freaked the hell out because we were already functionally _bulletproof dwarfs._ 😂 They had already seen him shrug off kinetic rounds with no more damage than if somebody had lobbed baseballs at him. He had a black eye and a cracked rib after taking a point-blank shot to the chest, and that was his worst injury. He had then (while high on the aforementioned adrenaline) proceeded to rip an arm off of the cannibalistic space Pirate crab and beat him to death with his own claw. Turns out that most other spacefairing species evolved in low gravity. So their handheld weapons had to be designed with zero recoil, otherwise they would shatter the arm of the person firing it. And it didn't take much firepower to explode a person whose bones are basically glass, so all but one species was utterly unprepared for a critter who evolved on a planet that had gravity that was lethal for 90% of species to even land on. 😂 - The Deathworlders
This makes me think of the Klingon Bat'leth. Yes, it is a stupid weapon.Yes, I know the metal could be made into a better weapon. Yes, I am going to fight you with a deliberately bad tool, for the lulz..
I do like a decent Terra uber alles story. Eric Frank Russell, Alan Dean Foster, Harry Turtledove, Michael Shaara, and Marc Stieglar have numerous other examples, to name just a dew.. Oops forgot to add Foglio and Pollota (for a more comedic outlook).
Yeah... no. This story was written by some naive humanities student. Humans would retaliate with everything we had, after the part where thousands are killed. We would walk over those slugs and subjugate them, and if other cultures were found, they would be steamrolled too. We are expansionists, we are greedy, and we are relentless. If tech was similar, we would be the galaxy boogeyman.
Not to be overly picky …. But the narrators said that his high command warned him that humans would detect him in system…..so why is he surprised by that…
Good story, but i think they kinda softball the ending. I f they knew we had supernova guns and such they would/should never have attempted an invasion in the first place. OTOH if they were clueless to our actual strength then they likely would required much more convincing. I think a better, slightly twist ending, would have been to have Jefferson get on there (probably after the admiral agreed to the call) with a few more humans and take a massively different tone with the council than he had previously with the admiral. Basically "we've repelled your invasion, taken control of your flagship and if you don't agree to our terms we will destroy your sun and hunt down the surviving members of the council." Or at least something reminiscent of Mattis' ‘I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.’ speach. Have the admiral be genuinely shocked at the tone change out of Jefferson and at the insinuation that that he had been captured, but then recognize that they could rescue Jefferson and kidnap him in a second if they wanted to... Then you more or less cut back into the end of the story The Council realizes the gravity of their mistake and agrees to negotiate and then commends the admiral on his "candor and wise judgment" and appoints him ambassador to the humans.
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way.. “the greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
this story had good elements. It just moved way too fast, and the aliens believed Jefferson way too easily. All in all, it was a long story squished into a short one. It has the bones of a great story though.
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way..
The story had good premise but how they characterise the human govt feels poorly thought out. Nearly every civilised nation would immediately retaliate if their civilians were attacked the way they did. Hell even if they were trying to bait Zorfax to lead to the coucil, they wouldn't just send one guy to continue peace talks. Either Jefferson isn't part of Earth's military and has little care for his own species or he's a horrible leader.
As mediocre as his writing is, L Ron Hubbard got it right. A legit alien invasion, for purposes of exploiting the earth would start with massive chem/bio/emp. They’d occupy a husk of human civilization, similar to the Americas and its natives.
mm , sweet little alien you think might makes right ? very well then.. come reap the dues of your assertion , if might is your right.. it is also the judgement of your doom not sure if i call this a 'space orcs' story though.. hmm ,the tech disparity is just a bit mhee for that makes it taste more of ''humans op''
Hardly the space orcs the title advertises. Would have been better to show humans in constant conflict with each other, and the invaders are barely noticed as a sub-par invading faction.
I think of the movie Joker with these stories. The humans are like the movie Joker, except we control our dark side. We seem so frienldy, but in truth, all we have is angry voilent thoughts. Alien can chose, do you want happy friendly humans, are bat shit crazy sociopaths?
Not bad, but I find it unrealistically optimistic, and relies too heavily on the plot device of vastly superior technology. I prefer seeing stories of humans surviving against objectively superior forces, but that's just me. This is more Star Trek, I prefer Star Craft.
I call a great big nope on this one this is not how humans would react to a full on invasion force if we have the technology and fire power to repel it easily no there would be no trade agreement thered be absolutely no negotiations we'd simply vaporize the invasion force then what is it called when you use astronomy and mathe to back plot a course to where they came from then we'd show up with our own invasion force a show then how an invasion is actually done and thats from orbit you dont land hell no you simply bombard the planet with orbital syrikes until theres nothing left but glass then you put boots on the ground to check once its confirmed theyre alm dead you leave if its found there is still a fighting force on that planet they will pull back to orbit crack the planet like a freakin egg then watch from outside the system as that planet explodes guess what now theres peace 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
It’s difficult to follow the narrated story while Vikings fight on the screen. Very poor choice of genres. Have to say, thumbs down for that and because the story is rather silly. Earth absorbing massive attacks and insisting on friendship overtures? Nonsense. If your family was attacked and murdered, would you offer friendship instead of justice and retribution? I sincerely think not!
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"You understand so little of who we are, but we will teach if you wish to learn".
That's diplomatic speak for "fuck around and find out, slug-man".
Using diplomacy as a weapon. 😏
Because of your name, I read this with Cameron Geller's voice
@@EdricLysharae "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers
@@tcp3059 Ha! Thats good.
Aliens: But.... we wanted to oppress and enslave you! Humans: "That's so sad! Let us show you something called Free trade and peaceful prosperity!"
These aliens seem to be lacking proper freedom, they need to be liberated…
@@Waroftheworldszbased
I hope 🤞 that when we meet external guests they come in peace
Did someone say "Free trade"?!
@@PeterNield Why yes! We did indeed say free trade!
The USA to the alien invaders “you got any oil?”
The aliens reply “of course”.
A smile spreads across the USA face.
oil man we have 3 centuries we dont use this but optanum .... that is another thing
These aliens need liberated…
Lets hope the USA considers aliens apart of the geneva convention
@@christopheroconnor1745 Geneva convention? More like Geneva **Suggestion**
Sounds like they need some Freedom on Omnicron Persei i8
damn what Jefferson told the council is teddy's "speak softly but carry a big stick" phrase in action you love to see it
"You understand so little of who we are, but we will teach if you wish to learn!"
Damn! ^^
Exactly!
That would be the moment we supernova the star of their home world 🤣
If this had been real humans we wouldn't have taken thousands of lives list easily. We might have demonstrated the supernova weapon on the homeworld of the enemy 😂
Yeah. They should have taken them out at least to capitulation especially since they were traveling the galaxy doing to other races what they tried to do to us.
Agreed. The high council would be without heirs.
Unfortunately, this isn't the xenophobic Imperium of Man. Otherwise, they'd be space dust already before even reaching Jupiter.
Or the bigger than stars and sun's ships
Solider: Sir what is our strategy?
Admiral: "Turn the other cheek"
Little did they know that his other cheek was covered in spiked - smbc
"In fact, turn both cheeks. And, RUN!"
@@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 Actually, the term means to invite a second attack. Because of the old custom that a first strike across one cheek was an insult, but a second on the other cheek was an act of assault, thus meaning self preservation is go.
Pester not the Monkeys of Earth. They aren't all that subtle, and incredibly quick to anger.
Like the Kzinti, they needed to learn the hard way that the reason humans "Don't wanna study war no more" was that humans are so terribly good at it.
Also, any interesting space drive makes an equally interesting weapon. :)
I really wish Larry would write some more man-kzin wars series! I’d be happy to see other authors play in his universe.
Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series ran this theme for years. Aliens were observing us at Crusader levels. They packed up their tech--slightly advanced Vietnam-era equivalent--and launched at us, expecting an absolute walkover. They got here just in time for World War II, and I don't need to tell you how close the tech gap was at THAT point.
That was a great series ✌✌✌✌
They had space travel at Vietnam era weaponary?
@@RedDiomedes Yes. They were a race of lizard men, so they could travel long distances with cryogenic freezing. They also had an extremely long-lived culture; they though about years the way we thought about weeks.
@@RedDiomedes Their problem was they and the two species they had dominated, were stable and unified (the Emperor's family had been ruling for over 100k years,) so they were very structured and set in their ways. Any tech change took decades/centuries to decide whether it should be introduced or not, all potentials had to be investigated before the tech was introduced. So they expected the species their scouts saw, to change very little in the few hundred years it took their ships to get to Earth.
That's actually hilarious.
It is still peace through superior fire power.
KANE LIVES
Honestly... i don't think humans are willing to sacrifice their lives for alien foolishness...
Ture... we don't do that for our own species.... people seem to not understand that if we go galactic... we would be the evil empire
I agree, more than likely we would have gone full "blood for blood, FOR THE EMPEROR" mode
The problem with having superior weapons is the overwhelming urge to use them...
You done f**k up now son
This is just a mild Saturday night party to us
Thirty minutes later
We told you go tell your bosses that we will have a little chat with them in a bit
Heresy. Suffer not the xeno
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!
If this were real humans, the terms given to this alien council would be given with a human fleet in orbit and all military power their empire possessed reduced to nothing more than space junk.
"The humans will detect us, but they aren't doing anything about us."
Me: "Let's show these interstellar intruders what happens when you enter our airspace uninvited."
Those giving orders don't see the actual events, so can't fully understand why an action failed. To them, it failed because it wasn't carried out properly.
When you repel one ship, you don't use the full force at your disposal. Instead, you use just the amount necessary to prove you are able to do even more if necessary. Also, you don't want to show your entire hand.
When the human appeared in front of the council, he did so with a plan in mind should things go south. Fortunately, his initial plan worked, and his reserve units weren't needed. Neither was more blood shed.
When you learn that your opponent can do more harm than you first thought, it's best to follow through with that which saves your people and profits you in the long run.
Young men die in wars that old men start and beaurocrats that are now polititians know nothing of war if polititians fought they wouldnt be so eager for war wich is also known as theft on a grand scale...
Let your enemies believe you are weak. It makes it easier to destroy them when they come for you.
Aliens: ummmmm.....
Us: Allow us to show you subjigation we call it....... THE 9-5 !!!!!!!!
I fucking love when Humans are a genuine threat in these type of stories.
Me too but in reality we would likely be million of years less advanced
Jefferson.... Liberty... ^^
Oh boy!
Yo massa Jefferson.
Yea, watch out for that one place with the 50 war tribes, those guys have been waiting for independence day to be a documentary or dramatic retelling😂😂😂
Sorry, this story is just silly. An invasion force enter sol and the admiral wants to be bff. Invasion force attacked and kill people. Yet, the admiral still wants to be bff..........yeah. This ain't HFY it's WTF!!!!!!
I know it is silly when you are brainwashed into micro-penis mentality of the American or Russian or Chinese. But rest of the world is not really like that. 1. Humans have clear technological superiority, probably an intel on the aliens too. Are you killing a kitten when it tries to scratch you? 2. And even after the deaths. It would a) be nothing in comparison to what humans did to themselves; b) relatively small price in avoiding full scale war ending with probably high billions of loses and destruction of multiple habitable planets. 3. You can wage war without shooting. Spread your ideas, your culture and you can kill civilisation without killing people, shooting a single bullet and earning a mountain of cash while doing it.
@@korinogaro you are a sweet summer child. It is good to be rational and peacefull when there is no war outside. You have friends and home and relatives you love. But if invadors destroy your home and kill your friends and loved ones, the only thing youl have is hate. Some isolated peace? Hardly acceptable, but yes. Friendship and trade? No chance.
It's fantasy to this point...
Before the killing start, yes, maybe. With pride and hero or superiority complex it can be explain.
After they have start to kill tough? And worst, kill civilians? Clearly and loudly said they where slavers?
Nop.
The retaliation will have be ruthlessly. Because we know than ask for peace without a proof of strength and mutual destruction as no weight.
If anyone doubts that human-kind are barbarians and murderous criminals...then just look at our recent history, the Nazi's in WWII, look at Ukraine and Russia, Afghanistan and the Taliban, or Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sharia law, and the North Korea dictatorship. We are only seconds from doomsday...☢☣ 😂 💣
2:55 and here I am imagining some alien form of navy seal copypasta
Hahahahahh
I don't see the relevance of the leaping swordsman. However, most space borne invaders tend to be of a higher intellectual capacity, unless they are of the leaping swordsman type, in which case the story might work. But would you put such a creature in charge of your vanguard?
Actual human counsel...
Do they have any oil in their home world?
Yes.
"INVADE!"
Humans "Dont worry! You are going to love pizza!"
Interesting use of Star Trek derived terminology.
So many stupid comments that don’t understand the point of this story or the human’s perspective here.. avoiding an all out war is completely preferable
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way..
“the greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
True, I mean why fight a war when you can just invade using Starbucks and McDonalds Franchises.
oohh don't worry not everyone is cursed with such a small worldview as to miss the meaning behind "technology we deeply hope NEVER to use"
some of us are cursed to be specialists in designing such things, You're either a monster without equal or quietly not making use of your strongest skillset. its harder than you'd think.
for eg false vacuum bomb. never ever ever not even once.
no matter how relatively easy it may or may not be.
also known as a vacuum decay bomb possibly, it kind of has to remain only possible otherwise everything else promptly isn't.
besides the fine admiral was even kind enough to omit the supernova guns other settings and instead brought it back to infantry combat scale, dont want to scare them too much.
Your points are contradictory.
Why would a defensive/preventive war be so unacceptable to the in universe humans; if they have "a massive technological advantage"?
Jefferson allowed a massacre to happen on his watch...'turn the other cheek' is not a rational response.
Either Jefferson/humans are Jesus now (wiling to suffer for the alien's sins) and won't ever use force (yet they have researched and built all that terrible weaponry),
Or Jefferson is just incompetent and there is no accountability for his failure.
Or (for whatever reason) nobody cared about all the people Jefferson let get killed.
That (Sun Tzu?) (mis)quote is about PREVENTING war/battle by achieving your goals another way -BEFORE combat, it's not about 'turning the other cheek'.
1 dude changing the apparent core beliefs/principles of an installer people with a couple conversations and technological 'magic tricks' is frankly ridiculous; it's a simplistic morality/biblical play in scifi clothing.
"The hero has cornered the vicious monster. It's taken out everyone who has confronted it thus far, and the hero seems like no exception.
That's when the hero, rather than drawing a sword, pulls out his cue cards. He begins a speech about the good things in life, the wonders of good, how Humans Are Special and the monster should respect that, and that the monster should know better than just give into his evil nature, etc. "
-'Talking the Monster to Death' tvtropes org
For the admiral, sure, his job is to secure victory and accepting some type of terms of surrender is reasonable: though that is not what happened here. For the people? Accepting peace after pointless and unprovoked slaughter is highly doubtful. History tells the tale, once peace is gone, it is gone until we are crushed or feel satisfied with our revenge.
It's doubtful an admiral would have the authority to negotiate on his own after such an attack anyway.
Thousands of lives lost and millions displaced?
_We would have started operation stellar storm, and steamrolled any resistance in a weekend. _*_Best case scenario._*
Humans showing mercy is so unrealistic!
I know we are going for "Peace over war" in this story. But people have something called "Patience" and it does have a limit. So these future humans must be bred for patience because wow...they were tolerant of alot of BS.
They effed around and found out, but they found out good things, I'd be quite unsurprised if they had just found out that their homeworld was having freedom dispensed at it by a bee going at mach f**k instead.
You came to the wrong neighbourhood
If only this was the way we genuinely operated!
Peace through superior firepower.
Humans with that much technology would have already put the native aliens on a reservation world
I liked it. I'm glad I stumbled upon this.
These aliens should've watched the doughnut shop scene from Robocop 3...
Can you add an a10 saying “ I shoot explosive Red Bull cans at 70 rounds per second” in a hillbilly voice 👍
3:00 it was at this moment he knew, he fked up
If this was real the human commander he be in martial court for ineptitude for let a enemy enter human space for let them enter terra orbit. For let them began attack a civilians
“the greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way..
@@shadowling77777 tell this to the families that are dead orlost his homes because some inept peace lover don't want to do his job his not a diplomat he is commander of the 1st fleet
Well that de-escalated quickly.
It jumped down a notch, didnt it?
😂😂😂
If i hear "eye stock" one more time, I'm going to lose my lunch.
Could the imaginations of sci-fi authors come to the rescue of current humans? After all, we are currently our own worst enemies!😮
I'd recommend Tony Harmsworth, the Federation trilogy.
İmagine what we would do to them after considering what we did to ourselves 😂
Realistically unless we somehow evolve culturally a crap ton, we would absolutely have launched are worst weapons and never stopped.
In alot of these HFY humans seems to be experts of Big Stick Diplomacy.
My favorite stories though, are the ones where we are technologically behind the other species (at the start) but all of the space aliens have bodies like glass. Basically we're Superman.
There was a particularly interesting one where the human was accused of using some kind of illegal combat steroid, and he had to explain that our bodies NATURALLY produce adrenaline. Everybody freaked the hell out because we were already functionally _bulletproof dwarfs._ 😂
They had already seen him shrug off kinetic rounds with no more damage than if somebody had lobbed baseballs at him. He had a black eye and a cracked rib after taking a point-blank shot to the chest, and that was his worst injury. He had then (while high on the aforementioned adrenaline) proceeded to rip an arm off of the cannibalistic space Pirate crab and beat him to death with his own claw.
Turns out that most other spacefairing species evolved in low gravity. So their handheld weapons had to be designed with zero recoil, otherwise they would shatter the arm of the person firing it. And it didn't take much firepower to explode a person whose bones are basically glass, so all but one species was utterly unprepared for a critter who evolved on a planet that had gravity that was lethal for 90% of species to even land on. 😂
- The Deathworlders
This makes me think of the Klingon Bat'leth. Yes, it is a stupid weapon.Yes, I know the metal could be made into a better weapon. Yes, I am going to fight you with a deliberately bad tool, for the lulz..
Hmm I think its more honor based than stupidity, they'd probably prefer besting someone in hand-to-hand combat
@@FractalNinja Maybe worded it badly. I meant something like "Im so awesome I am going to intentionally handicap myself and still win"
I was surprisingly invested in you getting to the top of that mountain, not gonna lie
Itd be nice to have some words on screen too to read along. Nice video
Please turn on CC
...and everyone clapped
Excellent! allied with galaxy slavers, a bright future for humanity
I do like a decent Terra uber alles story. Eric Frank Russell, Alan Dean Foster, Harry Turtledove, Michael Shaara, and Marc Stieglar have numerous other examples, to name just a dew.. Oops forgot to add Foglio and Pollota (for a more comedic outlook).
Yeah... no. This story was written by some naive humanities student. Humans would retaliate with everything we had, after the part where thousands are killed. We would walk over those slugs and subjugate them, and if other cultures were found, they would be steamrolled too. We are expansionists, we are greedy, and we are relentless. If tech was similar, we would be the galaxy boogeyman.
Lets face it - we have nothing like what the humans of this story have. If aliens like these appeared, we would be helpless.
Not as long as physics and chemistry keep working.
What game is this in the background?
Not to be overly picky …. But the narrators said that his high command warned him that humans would detect him in system…..so why is he surprised by that…
The admiral was obviously of British descent .
Good story, but i think they kinda softball the ending.
I f they knew we had supernova guns and such they would/should never have attempted an invasion in the first place. OTOH if they were clueless to our actual strength then they likely would required much more convincing. I think a better, slightly twist ending, would have been to have Jefferson get on there (probably after the admiral agreed to the call) with a few more humans and take a massively different tone with the council than he had previously with the admiral. Basically "we've repelled your invasion, taken control of your flagship and if you don't agree to our terms we will destroy your sun and hunt down the surviving members of the council." Or at least something reminiscent of Mattis' ‘I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.’ speach. Have the admiral be genuinely shocked at the tone change out of Jefferson and at the insinuation that that he had been captured, but then recognize that they could rescue Jefferson and kidnap him in a second if they wanted to...
Then you more or less cut back into the end of the story The Council realizes the gravity of their mistake and agrees to negotiate and then commends the admiral on his "candor and wise judgment" and appoints him ambassador to the humans.
Jefferson is a piss poor captain, he sounds like Picard, people getting killed left and right and he's still reasoning with them.
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way..
“the greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
Does anybody have the link to reddit, i have a hard time listening and watching as there is no subs
This is my original story. Sadly that subteddit banned my account for promotion. You can turn on CC for closed captions!
@@InterstellarRoadtripper2689 oh nice one, ill turn the CC then
There's no link to the original Reddit post in the video description.
Because it is my original story!
@@InterstellarRoadtripper2689 How do you source the videos?†,
how the hell does the council know he speaks the truth?
this story had good elements. It just moved way too fast, and the aliens believed Jefferson way too easily. All in all, it was a long story squished into a short one. It has the bones of a great story though.
o cmon, f fs, glass that fu ers planet or two
“the greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
Jefferson clearly has a massive technological advantage and is trying to reach hearts and minds.. and show them a better way.. there’s no need for vengeance or all out war if you can persuade your enemy of a better way..
They have specs for human spaceships, but it's impossible for humans to be that advanced? Yeah, this is just a bad crackfic joke story isn't it?
probably specs they got a few centuries ago.
I mean there is having the specs, and knowing what the fuck anything in them mean, which would be up to their own understanding and interpretations
what if we sent the ship back burning. and offer amnesty to the crew
The story had good premise but how they characterise the human govt feels poorly thought out.
Nearly every civilised nation would immediately retaliate if their civilians were attacked the way they did. Hell even if they were trying to bait Zorfax to lead to the coucil, they wouldn't just send one guy to continue peace talks.
Either Jefferson isn't part of Earth's military and has little care for his own species or he's a horrible leader.
As mediocre as his writing is, L Ron Hubbard got it right. A legit alien invasion, for purposes of exploiting the earth would start with massive chem/bio/emp. They’d occupy a husk of human civilization, similar to the Americas and its natives.
"dot dot dot complications"
everyone laughing until tyranids fleet appears in the sky :)))))
Is there a sequel to this?
Alien ships with human names?
Good story
What game is in the background of this video
What game is that?
Assassins creed valhalla
Its not that good
I'm playing it now. It's not bad at all. :) @@ZayneLion-xv3fe
Can someone please tell me what game is playing during this video? and where I can find it ?
Thank you.
Ac Valhalla
mm , sweet little alien you think might makes right ?
very well then.. come reap the dues of your assertion , if might is your right.. it is also the judgement of your doom
not sure if i call this a 'space orcs' story though.. hmm ,the tech disparity is just a bit mhee for that makes it taste more of ''humans op''
What game is in the footage from?
Assassins creed Valhalla its not that good in my opinion
Holy shit is that video the new Horizon installment (spoiler) is what I thought first because of the very similar gameplay...
Whats the games name?
Hard to get into a story that's being read without an ounce of emotion or inflection. Is this a bedtime story? 😅
Hardly the space orcs the title advertises. Would have been better to show humans in constant conflict with each other, and the invaders are barely noticed as a sub-par invading faction.
What game is this in the video?
I think of the movie Joker with these stories. The humans are like the movie Joker, except we control our dark side. We seem so frienldy, but in truth, all we have is angry voilent thoughts. Alien can chose, do you want happy friendly humans, are bat shit crazy sociopaths?
Not bad, but I find it unrealistically optimistic, and relies too heavily on the plot device of vastly superior technology. I prefer seeing stories of humans surviving against objectively superior forces, but that's just me. This is more Star Trek, I prefer Star Craft.
Peace through strength.
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher would be proud.
The Cardassian Empire?
I enjoy the narrative, but the video game barbarian was a different story altogether?
Lets be Xenophobic, its really in this year!
Suffer not the xenos to live!
Based
What’s the name of the story?
Typical young human. 😏
What game is shown?
Assassin creed Valhalla
Freedom
I call a great big nope on this one this is not how humans would react to a full on invasion force if we have the technology and fire power to repel it easily no there would be no trade agreement thered be absolutely no negotiations we'd simply vaporize the invasion force then what is it called when you use astronomy and mathe to back plot a course to where they came from then we'd show up with our own invasion force a show then how an invasion is actually done and thats from orbit you dont land hell no you simply bombard the planet with orbital syrikes until theres nothing left but glass then you put boots on the ground to check once its confirmed theyre alm dead you leave if its found there is still a fighting force on that planet they will pull back to orbit crack the planet like a freakin egg then watch from outside the system as that planet explodes guess what now theres peace 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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It’s difficult to follow the narrated story while Vikings fight on the screen. Very poor choice of genres. Have to say, thumbs down for that and because the story is rather silly. Earth absorbing massive attacks and insisting on friendship overtures? Nonsense. If your family was attacked and murdered, would you offer friendship instead of justice and retribution? I sincerely think not!
Eh... these guys are just kids behaving badly. They don't need to be glassed, they need to be spanked and sent to bed.
That face change felt much too forced
Just started watching but I think it's a bad idea to invade us.
A really, REALLY bad idea.
I highly recommend you use a better ai reading thin or spend more time making it sound good.
Thanks for the tip
Instead of that video game playing while the story is being read you should just show some space type pictures, the video game is very distracting.
Half commercials
What's the connection between the gameplay on the screen and the story?