This story has a big plot hole. If Earth life is really so toxic to alien life, humanity should have already seen its effects on the biosphere of every alien world that they colonized. Every alien biosphere should have been wiped out by the bioweapon lingering in Earth microbes. Oh, and also humanity should have guessed the possibility that the Dyson Sphere was where the aliens have fled too.
@taitano12 Жыл бұрын
Not necessarily, on either account. Plot holes, yes. But perhaps not as big as it seems. 🤔 With your first point, the virus could have mutated to be more or less harmless. A point that may not occur to anyone involved until the dust settles from the heightened state of alert on Humanity's side and panic on the ET's side. I can see this short being a preamble for an intellectual thriller. Or even a video game where you seek out the remains of the creators of the virus to see if you can find or figure out a cure. On your second point, a hostile fleet met us in battle. Even if we realized who was manning that fleet, if ET, in their panic, opened fire without responding to any attempts at communication, Humanity's reaction is inappropriate, but understandable. For all we know, the fleet that came to fight us was what they were fleeing from.
@Ryu_D Жыл бұрын
There's one more plot hole in the lack of information that humanity had about this. There's no way entire planets were evacuated without some information as to why, and while it's possible that the information was wiped from their systems, the same question applies. Why? This misunderstanding could have been resolved a heck of a long time before humanity unknowingly pushed the other species to the edge of the galaxy.
@carljacobs1837 Жыл бұрын
@@Ryu_D or the aliens could have just replied right off and explained why humans are deadly. We could have still explored and migrated out. Just avoid the other aliens.
@Sanquinity Жыл бұрын
@@Ryu_D If they had simply explained what was going on when humanity first attempted contact, long before even going to the aliens' planets, all of this could have been avoided...
@Soloong_Gaybowzer Жыл бұрын
@@taitano12 Speaking of dust, didn't he say that everything that earthlings came into contact immediately dissolved into dust? The moment they entered atmosphere, even 1 surviving virus from the outside hull would have immediately gone to work turning all life on that planet to dust. But the time they landed, the world would be lifeless. A defense of this seeming "plot hole" is that the text describes these worlds as being "abandoned" and suffering a "great extinction". It never actually says there is life on the world, nor does it say the world is completely dead.
@kenridlycan6790 Жыл бұрын
I feel like humanity would notice all organic life on a planet turning to dust the moment we land. The idea that we had to transport entire ecosystems to every planet we colonized (because every tree, bug, plant, and animal turned to dust the moment we were within the atmosphere) is kind of a big event that someone should have noticed to be unusual.
@artyd42 Жыл бұрын
Probably not. If their super virus can ride shuttles on the exterior thru space and reaching air is enough for it to super-propagate (or worse, being in the solar radius of the star) then not even light moves fast enough thru the surface of a planet with an atmosphere to catch it in action. In effect their own caution killed them. No communication with something intelligent that can detect you results in that thing wondering what you are even more and wanting to ask questions in person if need be.
@earmunchermuncher763911 ай бұрын
Agreed, the virus story a lil dumb
@TheStartrek996 ай бұрын
Maybe the virus smart-targets sapient life?
@metaempiricist Жыл бұрын
That alien had quite the attitude for someone that was fleeing his own bioweapon.
@alfredsutton4412 Жыл бұрын
Not his own bioweapon. An unknown predecessor created the bioweapon. His race only tried to destroy it.
@Marcus_Postma Жыл бұрын
They said that the ones who created the bioweapon had already perished long ago.
@elduquecaradura1468 Жыл бұрын
@@Marcus_Postma I mean, billions of years ago, and even the last records of proto-humans were from hundreds of thousands of years ago
@deussalt4479 Жыл бұрын
The idea of finding only the remnants but never finding actual living aliens is more terrifying that finding hostile aliens or no aliens at all.
@jukkiivi4282 Жыл бұрын
Hmm... In this story Humanity is more infectious than usually. For the Algorithm! For the Author! For the Narrator! For the Beard! May it grow back swiftly!
@wolfgangkranek376 Жыл бұрын
For the Galactic Empire and the virus, may humans rule 4ever! 🙃
@theblueslimeboi Жыл бұрын
Holup, is the human race just... the game?
@rustedpine4146 Жыл бұрын
@@theblueslimeboi Great, I had a new highscore in The Game and you've set me back to start.
@EarwaxDeserved Жыл бұрын
“The people of the galaxy were such cowards, when facing the human spirit. Can’t blame them, as that is the most powerful thing a human can use, and if the entire human population uses it..”
@jazzydino3159 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm
@mythicrazor Жыл бұрын
@@jazzydino3159.what 😊. .😊m😊p.l.p.
@citizen_grub4171 Жыл бұрын
This would be poignant, if that were why they were running. Instead it's because humanity carries a virus that's instant death for all non-Terran life.
@robinruppert1554 Жыл бұрын
Then our enemies will Burn with fire and blood
@Fuxy22 Жыл бұрын
Once it's a coincidence, twice it's a weird chance but so many times it's is almost clear they are fleeing from humanity... time to invest into kloacking tech so these skittish creatures don't run before we get to at least have a chat... Then again it was foolish of them to not attempt to even chat before it got to this state...
@sbritton1313 Жыл бұрын
They vaporized when humans stepped in their planets
@Fuxy22 Жыл бұрын
@@sbritton1313 No they didn't... they ran away before that happened... and nothing stopped then from just explaining everything way earlier...
@iaaf_nw2367 Жыл бұрын
@@sbritton1313 that was during early man. Im betting the virus is no longer harmful because if it was, the biosphere of the planets they colonized would all die the moment the humans stepped on them.
@TheMonkey747 Жыл бұрын
Didn't the humans transmit for around 400 years, trying to find someone? That’s a lot of ignored calls...
@Sheldezare Жыл бұрын
Everyone in the story has to act like an idiot for the story to work. Classic horror movie logic.
@MrGoesBoom Жыл бұрын
And not a single one of these had anything thought of communication and contact BEFORE the situation got out of hand? Or just leaving messages behind explaining how/why they things were left like that? Neat story with some really stupid aliens
@LegendStormcrow Жыл бұрын
Probably the stupidest aliens. Though the theory about Humanity being the great enemy had been floated, and may have actually been due to messages left.
@Marcus_Postma Жыл бұрын
Yeah a lot of these stories are great fun, but the aliens typically aren't smart enough to be as advanced as they're depicted.
@truekurayami Жыл бұрын
@@Marcus_Postma Inovators and Inventors are normally a rarity amongst a population of any species. Now take how dumb you think the average person is, and then realize there are people only half as smart of that in high percentages. A lot of developments never really need people to be smart to keep them in use, the wheel is a good example of an "idiots' " invention, but still used to this day. People to day are less informed about a lot of things every day, inspite how "smart" we are compared to our more less developed past.
@Marcus_Postma Жыл бұрын
@Akuma Imayaruk yes, but you still need innovators to come up with new ideas. If you don't have these, then you fall under the utopia scenario where everyone thinks things are fine the way they are, and nothing else needs to be done. Consequentially the utopia scenario is one of the Fermi paradox scenarios that make sense. In this story they were obviously beyond that scenario, and thus should've been able to contemplate this.
@truekurayami Жыл бұрын
@@Marcus_Postma My point was even with the innovators needed to get to that level the people themselves can be extremely stupid about something like this.
@rikospostmodernlife Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the process that fuels a fusion bomb is more similar to a supernova than it is to the normal working of a star. This might mean that with enough fuel or with an efficient enough design, humans could make actual (mini)supernovas easier than stars
@Sycon-hf7zi Жыл бұрын
The biggest plot hole here is that I doubt the aliens would remove all the creatures from planets. So humans would quickly have understood that space deer suddenly explode into dust when we get anywhere near them. Someone would have seen something. Humans are pretty smart and would figure it out and fix it I'm sure. We want to rule (34) the galaxy after all.
@braddl9442 Жыл бұрын
yeah
@brentmartin6833 Жыл бұрын
Ever since the planet was colonized and the first kid said. "Mommy! The cute little space deer 🦌 went poof! 💥 " Biologists have been trying to figure out their life cycle and why this evolution took hold.
@alfredsutton4412 Жыл бұрын
So we are the scourge of the dark forest? Oh, my! Don’t know that I want that as our epitaph.
@TheAroVII Жыл бұрын
there's a thought experiment, I believe, about a False Dark Forest. It assumes that every sentient species has thought of and taken to heart the Dark Forest Theory, acting in accordance with it before confirming the scourge even exists. The false Dark Forest posits that the scourge doesn't exist at all, leading to anyone (humans, perhaps) that broadcasts themselves to be thought of as the scourge by those that hide themselves, no matter how peaceful they may claim to be in those broadcasts. Because who would reveal themselves unless they have nothing to fear? Incidentally, this is where I thought this story was going. Nothing is wrong with humanity, our presence isn't lethal and we're perfectly peaceful, but the aliens can't stand the chance of revealing themselves lest they perhaps be destroyed by something far more deadly than it seems.
@mergixedef3723 Жыл бұрын
Who said we need an epitaph? We are the scourge they hide from, they are the prey we evolve with. Why would we ever die?
@giin97 Жыл бұрын
Better to be that scourge than a victim of it :P
@flakcannon722 Жыл бұрын
The end was a bit rushed and swatting the fleet without checking didn't match the storyline, but the overall concept was great
@SerunaXI10 ай бұрын
Does seem odd that humanity at least didn't try to make contact first just that one time.
@braddl9442 Жыл бұрын
Yeah this story has so many holes in it. The records left on planets should have mentioned this virus etc.
@l0rdD00rkn3ss Жыл бұрын
I knew where this was going and still enjoyed the ride
@merlinathrawes74611 ай бұрын
I wonder if any of the aliens have ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophesy?
@yomogami4561 Жыл бұрын
entertaining story that i realized would end sadly in a similiar situation thanks for the narration and i hope to hear more of this story
@chrissoto7187 Жыл бұрын
You know they could’ve just told us like seriously.
@davidhenderson3400 Жыл бұрын
I guess they though we already knew. They assumed we knew when we did not. Remember NEVER assume any thing.
@SerunaXI10 ай бұрын
It's possible they didn't want to tell us in case we'd use that against them.
@mnspstudioful10 ай бұрын
Midway through your Stellaris gameplay when you are looking at an entire fleet of Dreadnoughts and going... "Huh. Maybe I'm the Calamity."
@Semi-loyal_Guardsman Жыл бұрын
Humans be like "WHY ARE YOU RUNNING? WHY? ARE YOU RUNNING?
@Bannedchan Жыл бұрын
Moral of the story Pick up the damn phone If the aliens had of responded and explained things early 😅
@renaissancepress247 Жыл бұрын
I gave major deja vu. I was sure I had heard this just a couple of days ago 😆. For our narrator! For the author! For the algorithm!
@truekurayami Жыл бұрын
Curious where you found it before, was it Netnarrator or someone else. He seems to find these gems just as easily as Argo and I've noticed the switch on who gets the story first multiple times.
@renaissancepress247 Жыл бұрын
@@truekurayami It was Amie's Literary Empire, 5 days ago. It took a bit to find 😆. She's good but I enjoy Agro the best 😊
@Fr33k0ur Жыл бұрын
"Hey humans so like your world used to be a prison planet and it evolved with this virus on it and it instakills us so like please stay away" Too hard? 😂😂
@warlockghovat574510 ай бұрын
Xeno minds work in alien ways. They may have been too smart to think of such a simple solution.
Жыл бұрын
I could swear i already have heard this story yesterday
@inso80 Жыл бұрын
Another channel did this same story a week or 2 ago.
@wolfgangkranek376 Жыл бұрын
Fecking Gain of Function Research again!
@cfrick85565 ай бұрын
"What we have here Is a failure to communicate."
@davidhenderson3400 Жыл бұрын
I KNEW IT> I KNEW IT> I KNEW IT. I knew that Earth was an experiment that went honorably honorably wrong.
@RealArcalian Жыл бұрын
Greetings Mentlegent For the Rhyhtm that is Algo I knew they were running from us, but had no idea on the why.
@PoweredbyApathy Жыл бұрын
That was sad , poor aliens and poor humans
@elfeater1760 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm11!
@jazzydino3159 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm12
@MrLangerik Жыл бұрын
Against the Algorithm 01!
@TechnoMageB5 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Rogue from the X-Men series, except the entire species is cursed, not just one individual.
@oakenshadow6763 Жыл бұрын
This is why communication is key. Also, why asume the Dison Sphite held an ememy? Why not try to contact them again?
@lupaswolfshead99713 ай бұрын
Maybe that huge fleet of ships that attacked the human fleet before getting nova bombed . hmm Nova bombed is that a narcissist moving up their love bombing game to the next level.
@lupaswolfshead99713 ай бұрын
Oh wow I did not see that soo many correlations of the story and a female narcissists poor male victim trauma bonded to her.
@christopherg23476 ай бұрын
"Why is everyone avoiding me?" - humanity
@kurt8127 Жыл бұрын
Oh by the way that tear jerker you did a Lil bit ago wish I could of got a vid of the whole rig crew pausing work to shed a tear, lol masterfully work my friend
@victortahlor4038 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the reading
@SerunaXI10 ай бұрын
For a moment I started to wonder if Humanity was just arriving after whatever threat was taking everything else out. Also, upon warping in, why didn't the fleet at least try contact first to make sure that wasn't some bastion for the races they were trying to find.
@TS-bj8my Жыл бұрын
This story brings a whole new meaning to the term deathworld!
@luukvanderberg4998 Жыл бұрын
best HFY Narrator!
@joseas1518 Жыл бұрын
What is worse? Not knowing if we are alone? Or knowing we are not but will never be able to meet others? Rough and deep. For the algorithm.
@Feudic_Jarl Жыл бұрын
Mitochondria is the powerhouse... of death.
@MidnightSmoke Жыл бұрын
thank you for the entertaining story. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
@kurt8127 Жыл бұрын
For the voice of my entertainment and the voice I adore
@lovejoy550 Жыл бұрын
All of this could have been prevented if they had answered the phone
@brentmartin6833 Жыл бұрын
And then they called back, " We want to tell you that your car warranty is about to expire" That should keep the humans away for a few centuries at least.
@lrl2394 Жыл бұрын
“New British Museum”: Laughs in British
@Southern_Crusader Жыл бұрын
Maybe the rest of the galaxy is made up of introverts and humanity being eager for interaction scared them off?
@allenmorgan1007 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!
@logangraham2956 Жыл бұрын
all of that could have been avoided if they replied over the radio waves the first time. they could have explained the sitaution and then we would have avoided making physical contact or perhaps done research into this virus and attempted to eliminate it ourselves.
@transitive6261 Жыл бұрын
Solid fit 🔥🔥🔥
@thedevilsworkshop7720 Жыл бұрын
I just imagine a human so toxic, with an arsehole so foul, that a single arse blast can decimate every living thing on an entire planet . 😂
@ne0fenris Жыл бұрын
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
@klappstock943 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm the story and the voice
@jazzydino3159 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm
@fabianwood9457 Жыл бұрын
So sad to hunt for life and it all runs away
@brentmartin6833 Жыл бұрын
Instead of "hunt" maybe call it "search" or you might scare them away. 😉
@random3x70 Жыл бұрын
looking forward to your narration
@SeedlingNL Жыл бұрын
This could have been one of Meteion's reports...
@lupenngrimpaw936 Жыл бұрын
Well. That was depressing.
@rusted-iron4360 Жыл бұрын
"we are the one who knocks"
@Soloong_Gaybowzer Жыл бұрын
Agro trying his best to look like a Red Shirt from a Star Trek knockoff. lol
@WingManFang1 Жыл бұрын
This is actually a creepily possible reality.
@Wastelandman7000 Жыл бұрын
For the Narrator! For the Author! For the Algorithm gods!
@kurtismiller9544 Жыл бұрын
May da Skwerl 's nuts always be well stored..... LoL 😆
@SupCom78 Жыл бұрын
damn this was epic humans are toxic even far technological superior aliens flee from us. but still strange that many primitive life forms are not so effected from humans and the animals of earth itself and can coexist just all the advanced aliens not ? but damn it was a good story thx for uploading and i hope for another part.
@SerunaXI10 ай бұрын
All that technology and they could never design a countermeasure, vaccine or treatment.
@merlinathrawes7462 ай бұрын
And had they only communicated the facts that they told the admiral, how much different things would have been.
@GyorBox Жыл бұрын
So space Coronavirus is what the Xeno fears.. lol
@Lucian00311 Жыл бұрын
In this story humanity is seen like a zombie virus, lol.
@MarijnvdSterre Жыл бұрын
If the aliens where capable of creating a Dyson sphere, they should have build one around Earth. Starving it from all sunlight. Bye bye life.
@catprog9 ай бұрын
I think by the time they could create one Dyson sphere the humans had aleady colonised another system.
@MarijnvdSterre9 ай бұрын
They where attempting to wipe us out since the first great extinction, even if you count from the time of the dinosaurs it would be around 65 million years. They had time plenty if capable. And they where clearly capable, since making one for a planet is far easier as one around a sun and it's system. Yes if they waited till we went to the moon it might be to late (though they could still just blow every spaceship into dust until ready) @@catprog
@SoMuchFacepalm Жыл бұрын
TL;DR bio weapons cleanup is not a suggestion.
@TheRealBlackNet Жыл бұрын
wasn't it the common cold in a other story alien feared?
@alfredsutton4412 Жыл бұрын
Yes. Since the virus is unidentified in this story, maybe it’s still the common cold?
@Marcus_Postma Жыл бұрын
War of the worlds
@orlandobritt1460 Жыл бұрын
They made us the biggest thing to fear
@doomedfromthesmart Жыл бұрын
I miss first contact....
@kicktheball9893 Жыл бұрын
This sounds a lot like it did the first time it was released
@dkbros1592 Жыл бұрын
British museum means stolen thiefs bazar lol 😂🤣🤣
@xxXXRAPXXxx Жыл бұрын
Wait...... So no alien babes in my area?!
@YoLo-bb2vc Жыл бұрын
calm down captain kirk.
@orlandobritt1460 Жыл бұрын
A sad sad thing
@xxXXRAPXXxx Жыл бұрын
@@YoLo-bb2vc How about LE ~NO~
@alistairwolfe6644 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@Jesusprayerwarriorbw Жыл бұрын
For Argo Squirrel & the Algorithm!
@lazrustosadow5880 Жыл бұрын
For the algorithm
@skepticalmagos_101 Жыл бұрын
looks like we got Orked?
@SLEPhoto Жыл бұрын
It never occurred to anyone to just send a message? Not that advanced.
@Maddog3060 Жыл бұрын
So the entire galaxy decided to just run instead of explaining things? Talk about handing someone the idiot ball.
@jazzydino3159 Жыл бұрын
Hello
@TB-fb1sq Жыл бұрын
Sad.
@merlinwizard1000 Жыл бұрын
149th, 28 June 2023
@TheJeikou Жыл бұрын
Comment
@earmunchermuncher763911 ай бұрын
The premise kinda dumb, but whatever lul.
@andrewstrongman305 Жыл бұрын
I hate it when authors include meaningless dating systems.