The Offer by loki130 | Humans are space Orcs | HFY | TFOS1030

[@Taco_By]

The ultimate "Ight imma head out"

[@royalcomputer3780]

"A camp entirely run by children" little lamp light caverns lives

[@MrHuntingClaw]

Looking back on it, it could be considered a "playground" but to aliens, they would likely think of it as a camp ran by children, which is kinda hilarious if you ask me.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

A school. Mostly run by kids? No just Mostly kids,

[@bryanpadilla5107]

KND code name: KIDS NEXT DOOD

[@randolphphillips3104]

Was expecting a flip to Elizabeth's perspective as she ordered evac or as they were leaving. Something along the lines of contacting Earth to let them know there were survivors of the attack on colony Way-Out-There III, they had escaped and were headed home with Intel.

[@chadman3881]

yup, same.

[@babla69420]

Are there any such story?

[@DemonMage]

@@babla69420 you'd be surprised how many. Unfortunately most are one offs.

[@babla69420]

@@DemonMage could u name any?

[@Krokmaniak]

@@babla69420 "But everyone calls their planet dirt" as example

[@henrypaleveda7760]

A united humanity with the tech for long term spaceflight and a grudge against an alien government or two; the next part is going to be fun, and bloody.

[@calvingreene90]

30,000 humans against the galaxy. The galaxy is forked.

[@greenrena8503]

And spooned.

[@pavlospantazis8932]

@@greenrena8503 And knifed

[@JEL625]

A camp of angry and inventive humans at that. Humans are much more dangerous when given a target to motivate them, and in this case the target has been made abundantly clear.

[@calvingreene90]

@@greenrena8503 I don't know about that spooning is generally fairly pleasant.

[@calvingreene90]

I "forgot" the word 'angry' after 30,000.

[@marvinjohnson2488]

Oh s--- ,the humans are loose. And they won't make the same mistakes again. For the algorithm!

[@stalwartteakettlepotato9879]

They are loose until the ship has one problem or another. And then, since the ship is built out of scraps and duck tape, the remanents of humanity die a pitiful and entierly pointless death.

[@cgi2002]

@@stalwartteakettlepotato9879 if humanity had to figure out how to fly a ship made entirely of duct tape and happy thoughts while hitting it repeatedly with a spanner, we would. And don't be surprised if our percussion engineering powered duct tape monstrosity is faster, better armed and more manuverable than the best ships the aliens have, we are space orks and we believe it can be done, so we do it just to prove it.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

You know, I think Elizabeth might have accepted the offer, but the whole "scatter the human population across multiple worlds" was the clear deal breaker here. When you're down to 30k people, splitting up into smaller populations is a clear no go as far as maintaining genetic diversity goes.

[@babla69420]

He said eventually, when the population in the colony was large enough

[@stevedixon921]

It was possibly presented as a form of species distribution (putting part of your population on different planets/systems) so as to limit the effect of one population being wiped out entirely ending the species. But you need a lot of people to maintain a reliable genetic pool. The classic, "your vulnerable, you have no choice" tactic of 'integration'. Too bad they don't know what a ground built spaceship looks like.

[@lyrigageforge3259]

Talking about splitting up a small population into smaller groups on different planets - that is indeed an issue where it comes to genetics. To save enough diversity, you need at least 10K people to 'start with'. But at the same time - there are and has been governments even on Earth who practice certain rather dubious policies. Like USSR in it's time. They would take those Finno-Ugric (yea related to Finns) peoples living in their area, split communities and send portions elsewhere, while doing similar things to send parts of other 'native nations or tribes' to live in the former homes of those they moved. This was done to 'prevent nationalism from taking root' and the area from wanting to separate - aka organize and have population enough to free themselves from Soviet-Russian hold. And by the way, Ukraine has similar experiences. The very reason Ukraine has people who have relatives in Moskov region is because of same kind of forced population re-locations during Soviet-Russian era - because in 1950s Ukraine had partisans trying to free themselves from USSR hold. It was, in long run - a way to arrange mixed backgrounds. Anyhow - even today, if you are not of 'Slavic origin' - you may have issues finding housing, to give example of how all that affect there still despite USSR is gone. Technically there exists a treaty, which would allow Finland to 'protect the interests' of all Finno-Ugric tribes, because Russia insists the same or it's people - but with Ukraine war, it isn't much that can be done simply 'talking' to remind about matters to fix. Anyhow - separating populations into smaller pockets is a population control method, which generally is used to reduce their ability to fend for themselves. Those humans may even have ended up assuming that the intent was to make sure our species would 'slowly decline' and vanish. But, on other hand, perhaps these aliens may have been the exception in what that sort of arrangements mean - but still the way he thought about humans would not have given any expression of benevolent intents. Phobic to say the least - racist if not perhaps the worst. And well, keeping them under lock and key - lol - that was like humans figuring out 'feck it' - I didn't do anything wrong - prison break it is. Makes me wonder what short of 'politicial system' there is behind these aliens. The whole matter about 'clasifying' if you are - which was it sapient or sentient (as those don't mean the same) - now that is really racist to be honest. A bit colonialist mentality to say the least - and acting a bit like some sort of communist group for all I can see. So yea... it's funny though... that these aliens would not even have realized that it's a damned rocket the tower. lol

[@CrusadingJello]

30,000~ humans on a giant towering space ship..... I'm going to bet it's either a generation ship of some sort... They're going back to Earth... Or they're finding their own world away from the strange government that practically kidnapped them.

[@Hellsong89]

There is multitude of exo planets around, least 3 "close by" to earth that could have life and more are detected all the time. Not to mention there is ridiculous amount of resources in space, in asteroid belts etc. Just get ship that has self sufficiency for maintain the population, lift off to closest unclaimed asteroid belt with tech "borrowed" from advanced xenos species, mine the shit out of it for raw resources, produce more tech that can sustain the colony and increase the size of the ship and eventually you have something resembling Eldar craftworld from 40K that houses hundreds of millions, if not billions of people depending how tight packed you make it, with its own defense fleets, mining processing and manufacturing. From there you go ether planet or increase further to sister "craftworld" and its fleets... Then you start mining shit out of the planets all the while fucking like rabbits and soon you have a empire. Small for sure, but it does not take long before you have actual empire, with far more advanced tech that we use to and gaining state of the art by borrowing and well any means necessary until rivaling or surpassing the xenos empire that almost made you extinct, before you go back and remind why it was mistake to let 30k of us survive and even bigger one to attack us in the first place...

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

I'm grinning to myself now because I "called it" only a couple of paragraphs into the description of the "tower." 😆 And the most amusing thing is, it does sound almost exactly what a large number of humans would do in that situation.

[@crtntiddles5178]

I like to imagine that at least one person was flipping the guy off:)

[@crtntiddles5178]

I guess half

[@KertaDrake]

Should have built the town so the rocket was the middle finger of a hand made of temporary habitations.

[@EvilPaladin11]

@@KertaDrake The middle finger rising to the heavens, to flip the bird to the collective universe.

[@alfredsutton7233]

For AgroSquerril: most prolific SF reader on KZbin. Great stories well read!

[@thorn344]

Net narrator is pretty popular too.

[@ChronaDecrox]

I enjoyed the story but I feel like there needs a part 2

[@kirkjones9639]

Nice offer, we're underwhelmed. Now we're outta here!

[@hogfry]

I'm hoping for a part 2 of this...

[@frozenheartedgiant8330]

There is no part two, I looked through the author's reddit history.

[@hogfry]

@@frozenheartedgiant8330 ah well. I'll just have to hope the author gets around to writing another chapter. It's a good short and feels ripe for sequels.

[@nullpoint3346]

30,000 people, how many divisions At least 120.

[@yomogami4561]

sounds like elizabeth either had some indigenous people in her background or at least knew history and didn't want her people scattered to the winds and lose their cultural identity [or at least the author of the story] good thanks for the story and the narration

[@kurtismiller9544]

Have rocket, will travel!

[@geraldhuff7413]

I see what you did there and it will not go unappreciated. So here have my like.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

They see me flying, they hatein

[@veryangryduckpl2122]

I do not want to see anything where humans are voice of reason...

[@k0rf3on6]

when that is the case...then something is not entirely right with the galaxy is it?

[@veryangryduckpl2122]

@@k0rf3on6 Yep

[@cgi2002]

The few times humans are the voice of reason it's because we don't want to hit people with the stick, it's not fair on them, our sticks are often much bigger than theirs and we wield them far more effectively than they even thought possible. So we reason, because the alternative is cruel, and we want to be better than that.

[@veryangryduckpl2122]

@@cgi2002 Maybe you. PROCEEDS TO EXTERMINATE ALL GALAXY BECAUSE HERESY*

[@catbat5105]

You know everything has gone to hell when humans are the voice of reason

[@zyanidwarfare5634]

It took me a bit to realize what was going on but once I realized the purpose of the tech they had and why the interior was like it was, as soon as she turned down the endangered species thing it clicked in my head Not gunna specify for the sake of those who haven’t read the story yet and are reading the comments ahead of time

[@Magavynhigara]

Sounded like you said you were gonna steal my socks during that speed intro

[@AgroSquerril]

maybe....

[@brucenorman8904]

The nanite swarm will steal your other sock

[@SuperGamefreak18]

Welp that video was a blast

[@tonyreaver2627]

Me as a danth. Well now minister looks like we just how do they put it mated with a dog or something like that

[@jamesg6709]

We don't need your help, we'll make it on our own.

[@Ral9284]

This needs a second part!

[@allenmorgan1007]

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

[@lazrustosadow5880]

Love your narrations

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Squerril Bless the Author

[@erushi5503]

The plot of this story reminds me of that old anime in which i forgot the title

[@Calix_Beowolf]

Knights of sidonia?

[@ceilinglight1413]

When you come right after the intro

[@ironworksdragon6843]

Bob the dragon

[@AgroSquerril]

Agro the Squerril

[@nelkeranforgeworks7716]

Minister: "... shit."

[@Terran.Marine.2]

I wonder if there will be more in this story.

[@secretobvious6033]

they just leave lmaoooo

[@davidteh3807]

Become a space nomad race ?

[@sherylcascadden4988]

A comment to appease the algorithm and help the channel.

[@merlinathrawes746]

Nah, you don't want us and we don't want to be here. We'll leave. Bye!

[@lamontejh]

Part 2 please

[@synsastral2753]

Damn, I missed it.

[@Bonesaw4444]

Does this intro accelerate the nanites?

[@AgroSquerril]

sometimes

[@Bonesaw4444]

@@AgroSquerril prepare your socks

[@ATSucks1]

Thank you patrons

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed

[@nigelnightmare4160]

A good first chapter. When's the rest of the story coming?

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

I have no idea why they would put every last human together in 1 ship, if that ship exploded it literally meant they all died.

[@joshuawilliams8252]

Then that's how they chose to go out 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@twotone3471]

If these aliens had a law against extermination of a species, then putting ALL of them on the ship was the only way to get beyond the planet's defenses. Even if just a few stayed beyond, that would make the ones on the ship expendable.

[@SH-qs7ee]

They were at the bottom of a pit and used a chemical ignition to take off; any human left behind would have been uncomfortably hot.

[@merlinathrawes746]

The alternative was worse. Breaking the group into many, much smaller groups would have meant the end of the species anyway, just much slower. You noticed that there was no offer to settle them on a compatible planet of their own and support them till they became self-sufficient, didn't you? Integration = fade away till gone.

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

@@merlinathrawes746 Mr necropost. I don't know what the video was about but of the info so far from 2 years ago and what both our comments entail I would say humanity going in many different ships to spread like a plague is standard play.

[@nargalda773]

Valorian vibe

[@reasonablehiccups4792]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@colonelc45]

FOR THE ALGORITHM

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@roarkegriffon5657]

Nice!

[@AgroSquerril]

:)

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

All Hail!

[@kcain64]

Where will they go?

[@chrisdefresne3235]

Everywhere

[@Jakes3130]

Howdy

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@gamegirl8722]

nice

[@aman7196]

FTA

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@Monster_Ink]

XD For the algorithm!

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@arakheno4051]

F.A.S.

[@merlinwizard1000]

108th, 22 January 2023

[@donchichivagabond1578]

Yeah... not a believable one.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

first

[@asandrewsilvaw]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm