A Scythe of Sand by Not_A_Hat | Humans are Space Orcs | HFY | TFOS1160

[@Paultootall1971]

We don't have to win, we just have to make sure you don't win.

[@derekstein6193]

The one thing of ours that will outlive humanity; spite.

[@AgroSquerril]

yarp

[@gmailquinn]

Two things will live not nessicary together: humanity and spite, humanity because of spite

[@darkhorse13golfgaming]

For all their psionic brilliance, these dudes missed the obvious when they didn't study our arts and literature 😅 "To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee...." Herman Melville "We ain't goin' out like that We ain't goin' out like that We ain't goin' out!" Cypress Hill

[@kokofan50]

That all our stories of how to transcend our mortal form we must first die (eg. Jesus, Hercules, Obi Wan).

[@erikmckoul2478]

They were going to kill him anyway so why not try.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

We should rage, the young, the old, the women and children should rage against the dying of the light Rage, rage against the creeping shadows Rage against the night.

[@Talon1124]

"I carry strength from souls, now gone. They won't let me give in." Malukah

[@dwavenminer]

The Phage is a nanite swarm that is consuming these aliens...so does that mean that the aliens are the mythical Socktonians, or is this just another one of the now many nanite swarms?

[@AgroSquerril]

another one

[@Zedyne]

I hope the aliens were just bluffing and there are still pockets of humanity alive, but even if not, _damn,_ it's the sort of revenge that makes the sacrifice seem reasonable!

[@smiley4995]

If he held out it means many more could as well

[@Battleguild]

I'd imagine with all the sperm/egg banks and if humanity was advanced enough to do the stuff he described, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a Lazarus Project on standby until the aliens left or something.

[@lagartijo97]

Hell we already have the human genome copied lol if in the future something like this does happens .....if those books and data survives it's not out of the equation to make a human from scratch

[@Yistern]

It's no sacrifice. As a nanite swarm, he would defeat them - and when they are extinct, he could leisurely find a way to bring humanity back into existence through the copious stores of genetic records we already have, and they would have even more of.

[@curiousangel6321]

Oh damn that was dark ... I have to see if there is a part 2 now.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Ohohohooo... Neual upload complete. He can rebuild humanity even if we all died. Even if he can't get genetic material from our corpses, At least one of us was frozen in ice in our species history, and we already mapped our genome centuries ago anyway. Amd cloning is a wondrous technology.

[@nvfury13]

We have databases with hundreds of full genomes, more than enough to restart the race based on what we’ve learned from our genome, and the two times we had extreme genetic bottlenecks.

[@MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh]

The question is will our Nanolord devour the other swarm or be devoured or find a third way.

[@AgroSquerril]

good question

[@UNSCrearadmiral]

Part of our Nanolord will be devoured find a way to escape into exile for a time and then return to devour the usurper. So the answer is yes

[@scotteggert9820]

Kipling's opening stanza from 'Destroyers' The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The hate that swings the whole; The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom, At gaze and gone again -- The Brides of Death that wait the groom -- The Choosers of the Slain! Thus this is what is left of Humanity has become.

[@willgallatin2802]

Nice, another sock stealing nanite swarm. :P Grand performance, Agro.

[@AgroSquerril]

glad you enjoyed

[@lenschwedt9646]

2 swarms 2 socks eaten. "Well, at least they won't have to mourn each other."~25star General Z.B.

[@peterwall8191]

A sentient Von Neuman swarm? I get why it was done, but how do you stop it after it has served its original purpose? We are talking about a mechanism that can end the universe potentially

[@burnerheinz]

it will not end the universe just all life within it

[@RadarLeon]

If the swarm is sentient it can determine when and where is enough also if it can replicate anything even consuming a stellar mass it would be nigh impossible to stop or destroy

[@andrewgause6971]

As pointed out, a sapient Von Neumann swarm would possibly be preferable, if it wasn't psychotic or omnicidal. Since it would, in theory, understand what it was doing and be able to send commands amounting to "right, that world is inhabited, leave that one alone." Or otherwise be able to focus and direct its intelligence to minimize collateral damage.

[@chrissalch693]

@@andrewgause6971 I wonder if that's the solution to a Von Neumann swarm ... give it a mind if it has none or changing the mind in control if it does ... hmmm

[@techpriestnull]

@@andrewgause6971 I can see this guy destroying those psionic aliens, then finding some small fuzzy aliens to adopt, as their god.

[@Cadiangrunt99]

And to our new nano overlord I offer a basket of socks.

[@AgroSquerril]

oh noice

[@SC-zq6cu]

So now they have a nanite swarm in front of them as well as behind them. Running from the cutting board straight into the frying pan.

[@greenrena8503]

All... Is... Dust...

[@kashkara_8943]

*looks for a proper stick to beat the algorithm with*

[@ballisticm0use72]

I must find a stick for the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

sticky algorithm

[@justoneman1681]

That is a man of purpose.

[@erushi5503]

Human spirit is the scariest thing you one can face, even fellow humans fear our own spirit for a single man can topple an empire if he ever wished to

[@silvadelshaladin]

Lots of revenge of the last human stories of late. Heh late humans.

[@burnerheinz]

We will go but we won't do it quetly

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@jesseamaya4413]

Yeah, good one. Gave me goosebumps.

[@AgroSquerril]

glad you enjoyed

[@alwelle3902]

Grey goo ... bad. Grey goo with a p*ssed off human soul driving it ... BADD(tm)

[@WiredTurkey316]

Even my chills got chills

[@AgroSquerril]

nice

[@eleethtahgra7182]

So, the grey goo is one of us.

[@sherylcascadden4988]

A comment to appease the algorithm and help the channel.

[@mikkel8296]

In my opinion there are few things that shoud never be atempted, selfreplicating nanobots rank atop the list, this being the only senario wherin I can accept their development/deployment, after the last human have breath its last.

[@klappstock943]

For the Algorithm the voice and the story

[@seanrobert9661]

For the bard For the squrral For the algorithms

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Squerril Bless the Author

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@kennethhummel4409]

Run!!! For I am death.

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed

[@Crazylom]

"I am become Death, the destroyer of Worlds" -Oppenheimer

[@paulhuston9991]

Don't have to live to win.

[@kingnothing8570]

i am become death. destroyer of worlds.

[@AgroSquerril]

hello death , i'm agro

[@waynecampeau4566]

I AM BECOME DEATH! DESTROYER OF WORLDS!

[@AgroSquerril]

yup

[@techpriestnull]

Is this the nanite swarm that stole my favorite socks?

[@AgroSquerril]

eh maybe.... hard to tell from a distance

[@Crazylom]

Nay. It is the one that will BRING THEM BACK!

[@techpriestnull]

@@Crazylom Oh, frabjous day!

[@elfeater1760]

For the Algorithm11!

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@nos2342]

To please the algorithm is all

[@Monster_Ink]

Wooo! For the algorithm!

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@AgroSquerril]

:)

[@hollyferay8131]

Brilliant scary

[@AgroSquerril]

:)

[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@josmeijers2818]

F.T.A !

[@merlinwizard1000]

93rd, 4 July 2023

[@asandrewsilvaw]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm