SciFi Story- The other way to skin a cat & The Starseed Project (Humans are space Orcs\HFY\TFOS853)

[@tonyoliver4920]

One of my favourite saying Never trust someone who tells you there’s more than one way to skin a cat! They’ve skinned at least 2 cats

[@AgroSquerril]

very true

[@robertbemis9800]

The original phrase ended as a catfish

[@calvingreene90]

My favorite is to grab the cat by the scruff of the neck and hit it in the ass with a branding iron.

[@curiousangel6321]

Kinda interested in hearing what everyone's reaction was to seeing the results of the first story.

[@marshmallowgod284]

Probably utter confusion and horror to what just happened

[@DarthGibberish]

Seems like a restrained response to me.

[@shadowhenge7118]

Soap's great great great grandkid.

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

It seems to me that it’s better that one man be made an example of setting a new president than for two peoples to be plunged into a war where one side fights out of pride and the other side fights out of revenge in reaction to the self-aggrandizing actions of a tyrant, such wars tend towards the bloodier side of the spectrum and should be prevented when possible.

[@samuelhagberg3694]

The great thing about it is this: the emperor was seen as a deity, it wasn't just an assasination, the humans undeniably killed thier "god" in front of the whole galaxy

[@passingthetorch5831]

The Starseed story is almost exactly a story that I was thinking of ... we seed the galaxy ... and eventually our "children" re-evolved from entirely different planets, but based on DNA, would find us and realize we had done it

[@J0hnB09]

Imagine them finding out about the A.I. They would think an extremely powerful species wanted to ensure future survival of life, or that they were an experiment.

[@thunderbird4636]

Don't tell humans not to mess with gods. They will just assassinate them😂

[@burnerheinz]

"You mean he tried to kill you? Incredible!" "And then he died."

[@seldonwright4345]

Emperors always think they're gods. A sharp knife a gun even a mere disease ends that

[@SiegeTF]

Good work, Agent 4,700 now get to extraction!

[@AgroSquerril]

lol

[@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879]

"This is Pequod, approaching extraction site."

[@robertschumacher2707]

Story #1- The best way to stop a sword is another sword. The best way to stop an army of swords is with one well-placed dagger.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Or set that army in motion if the dagger's NOT well placed. Although given that humanity lived long enough to be tried, it presumably was well placed in this case.

[@easycheese6409]

Sounds like a typical American politician. Set a plan, abide the plan, axe it all, end up accidentally being the good one in history. Kind of like the whole sewer lid being the first thing accidentally sent into space.

[@src6339]

Fun fact... during the franco-prussian war, bismark captured the french leader, napolean iii During the battle of sedan. It was a disaster.... For the prussians. With the french leader now a pow. the French ranks dissolved into chaos leaving no one with sufficient authority for the prussians to negotiate with. The capture of the enemy head of state had effectively turned what should have been the surrender of french forces into a potentially long drawn out and bloody war. Things kind of sorted themselves out after about 5 months, but the moral of the story... eliminating the enemy's leader isn't always the best move.

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

Interesting

[@henrypaleveda7760]

I knew that the emperor was going to be merc'ed when he got to "learn your place" but i was not expecting the "ya daft cunt!"

[@bobydigital2450]

Wait there are other ways? At least it will break the monotony

[@alexandermathieson4774]

Both outstanding stories, and fantastically read.

[@dantreadwell7421]

And that's why you don't feck around with SAS. Especially if they are an Aussie.

[@robertshank9778]

wow, almost 7k... I'm glad to see how fast this wonderful channel is growing... I hope I get to see you crack 50k and then 100k in the near future.... May you all be blessed... By and For the Algorithm...

[@AgroSquerril]

Would be awesome but we shall take it as it comes , thank you and for the algorithm

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For the algorithm

[@thunderbird4636]

Saw this right after work, never clicked on something so fast lol

[@AgroSquerril]

lol , hope you didn't kill you mouse

[@thunderbird4636]

@@AgroSquerril lol no it still works

[@pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965]

Dont try and tell a human no look at the hole in mars, the B e l k a n s, and 78% of humanity's inventions

[@burnerheinz]

Are you gonna up your belkan space magic even more?!

[@pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965]

@@burnerheinz Shhhhhh dont tell them

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

For the Squerril

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For the algorithm

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For Argo

[@bobsterclause342]

For the swarm

[@kaliban4758]

In the second story humans became the progenitors from star trek tng

[@marshmallowgod284]

Shall the almighty algorithm bless thee

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For the algorithm

[@zotaninoron3548]

That second story is some Hitchhiker's Guide kind of silly.

[@AgroSquerril]

which makes it that much more plausible :D

[@allenmorgan1007]

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

[@dantreadwell7421]

So they released a Von Neumann swarm.

[@asdrubaelvect8038]

Soap. Soooaaaaappppp

[@DailyBasicG]

Hahaha story #2

[@asandrewsilvaw]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For the algorithm

[@boingboingresearcherph.d.2871]

Captain Price... You're still alive ya old fart...

[@demogod4955]

Ah, a fellow connoisseur.

[@calvingreene90]

Given the option of getting away from the woke and having my great grandchildren complete the journey I would happily go on a interstellar colony ship.

[@nabbitgohome9672]

I’m confused on the second story.

[@AgroSquerril]

Out of a politicians small promise and a lot of bureaucracy , we seeded the galaxy with life.

[@nabbitgohome9672]

@@AgroSquerril and we’re alone or we created or seeded the planet

[@Kirishala]

@@nabbitgohome9672 Humanity is dead due to Earth getting zorched by a gamma ray burst, we don't know what life there was in a the galaxy prior to the Starseeds spreading through it but afterwards there was a lot

[@merlinwizard1000]

86th, 26 December 2023

[@WiredTurkey316]

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[@AgroSquerril]

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[@reasonablehiccups4792]

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[@reasonablehiccups4792]

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[@AgroSquerril]

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[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@undrachvrsage]

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[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm