Alien Students Learn The Real Reason Humans Are Banned From Galactic War | A Short Sci-Fi Story

[@hankt51]

Humans after getting banned by the Council: "We understand that the council has made a decision, but seeming as it was a dumbass decision, we've chosen to ignore it."

[@georgemitchel23]

I understood that reference...

[@motorcycleboy9000]

That guy's *still* playing Galaga.

[@arceejackson8936]

"That lifeform is living galaga. thought we wouldn't notice, but we did."

[@ParallelHorrors68]

"Your comment really nails the tone! It perfectly captures the defiance and humor of humans in the face of the council’s decision. The playful attitude towards the ‘dumbass decision’ adds a great touch, making it both funny and fitting for a sci-fi universe where rules are meant to be bent!"

[@erickmontes9514]

Humans: "So we built a cannon that fires black holes" Aliens: "yea, you can't fight wars anymore."

[@HO-os8ry]

Humans:so you willingly choose fuck around and find out ...granted

[@alexh3974]

YOu want to win.... or not?

[@austinbel4557]

Alien *taking vortex cannon* “Yeah you’re not allowed to have this technology” Human “How cute. He thinks we only built one”

[@88driver243]

More like here take Mark I we have others now

[@dominiccampbell181]

Council: You're banned from war, and you can't have any more advanced technology. Humans: You do remember that we still have this Black Hole thrower, right?

[@CrazyJayThaNinja]

I assume it was one of the very first things on the list of 'confiscated' technology.

[@marsbase3729]

The technology was confiscated

[@ArgonianSkaleel]

they may have taken out black hole launcher but they forgot to ask about the planet crackers or the disassembler nanites

[@MaybeUnavailable]

@@CrazyJayThaNinja I mean... The only thing I can imagine being the response for "We are confiscating your strongest weapon that is actually the strongest in the whole universe" being "Oh, yeah? Come and try, see what happens"

[@CrazyJayThaNinja]

@@MaybeUnavailable Of course, and obviously. But in this story, for some wacky and unknown reason, that wasn't the responce.

[@Skarrier]

Aliens: "Humans, you should break the planet's blockade at any cost!" Humans: * Destroys the planet * Humans: "SIR BLOCKADE IS BROKEN SIR"

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

SIR BLOCKADE BROKEN AND BLOCKADE FLEET DESTROYED BY SPACE ROCKS! SIR!''

[@alexzenz760]

Death korps of krieg🤔😉

[@Arkon-sf3hp]

lol

[@markmartinez6317]

“Private, do you see that mountain?” “Yes, sir!” “I don’t like it.” “Yes, sir!” (Load’s artillery)

[@chadrowin2956]

@@Skarrier ALIENS: I Meant break the fleet blocking the planet NOT break the planet! Human: Pauses for a second in thought. "You said any cost. "

[@jwoellhof]

Council: Humans are willing to sacrifice everything in the name of survival. Humans: If we ain't gonna survive, none ya'll mutherfuckers gonna survive, neither.

[@SauronsLeftNut]

There is room in our grave for you.

[@emperorpalpatine2957]

Aliens: *look at vortex cannon* Wtf is that thing?! Humans: F*ck if we know, but hey, it worked!

[@geoffreybell4545]

Human commander: Uh, how did we Doc? Human engineer: Uh, well, you got me, by all accounts it doesn't make any sense. Human Commander: Oh well, where were we?

[@chiwar7178]

Reminds me of the antimatter slingshot from another HFY story... Some general telling humans to make antimatter injection manifolds for engines, but only a handful of words get translated: antimatter, throw, easy...

[@asgardhomestead7076]

its a system sized vacuum cleaner.

[@benjin3993]

I don't know what it's called, i just the sound it makes when it cracks a planet in half

[@ceu160193]

@@benjin3993 We just call it "efficient".

[@merrick1588]

Humanity: Firm believers that "LLLEEERRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYY....JENNKINNNSSSSSS!!!" is in fact a usable battle strategy

[@adrianarc1941]

🤣🤣🤣

[@raveolution1-m7n]

"Okay, take our vortex cannon. We'll sit underground and build vortex shotguns. Black holes in birdshot format yeehaw! We'll see y'all later. Sleep tight!"

[@JaredaSohn]

😂

[@ivanc4906]

Personally, I’d be pissed to get banned for saving the galaxy lmao

[@dusanradin5868]

I wouldn't...i couldn't care less at that point....

[@davidt.5513]

Nah I would be pissed to get officially deleted from the conflict. If they ban me okey, but everyone should know that I saved them

[@ivanc4906]

@@davidt.5513 that’s a good point. Completely glossed over that. Those bitches. Used us like a two bit whore and then tossed us away lmao

[@mycroft16]

Clearly we were stronger than the council... and we just agreed to give that up.... because?! I say we deserved to be screwed over. Unthinkable that we wouldn't notice any of this happening. And have found out who. What agents did they plant here?! They're alien. Gonna stand out a little. We have a comms bunker so secret it's safe but not a secret research facility?! Too many inconsistencies.

[@davidskala8738]

It's like banning the USA from war for using nukes to defeat Japan in ww2.

[@seanmills1911]

Its not a War Crime the first time.

[@kennethflegel5736]

😂 fat electrician or habitual line crosser?

[@davidt.5513]

And if the enemy doesn't have a rule about war crimes

[@Merilirem]

At that level the word crime is meaningless. They didn't ban humanity because they broke laws. They made laws because humanity needed to follow them.

[@kendrickstreetman3328]

@@Merilirem so we're the Canada of the galaxy? bet.

[@jamesogden7756]

​@@kennethflegel5736... Yes. 😂

[@m.jasondoty9062]

"We build monster trucks for fun! We build top fuel drag racers because *pffft* we were bored! P!$$ us off, and see what we build!" -Christopher Titus

[@PaulCoyJR]

We also cultivate peppers so high on the Scolville scale that they cause permanent damage, and we eat them for fun.

[@HO-os8ry]

Killdozers for everyone

[@Brimshae]

@@HO-os8ry Remember to reinforce your coolant lines.

[@nevermoreraven4746]

And have a map of all sinkhole and basements.

[@animefbi5460]

Coalition: *Takes the Vortex Cannon* Humans: "Hey wanna see us do it again?"

[@mspionage1743]

As a human I know that myself and fellow humans would have been outraged if we went in, won a war, and then had this crap thrust upon us. If something like this truly happened it would be a bad day to be an alien since we ALL know how we would respond to such BS.

[@davidt.5513]

Well, if any alien is reading this in the future just remember one thing: "Don't f around with us or you are fd". Or do you have any other thing that describes it better 😂

[@markcarpenter6020]

Don't try to take our gun's. We don't like that.

[@ashkboos1000]

I won't be surprised that sometimes in the far future we realized that we were indeed considered the most dangerous race in galaxy, and we were exiled and pushed in the dark. Humanities potential for violence and, I will mess you up even if it messes me up, is too great.

[@mspionage1743]

@@ashkboos1000 You know another funny thing is that the internet will seemingly be our standard of data collection and education for, probably, centuries to come now. Point being, if a full data analysis was ever conducted on earth and specifically us, they would find these stories here undoubtedly. How hilarious would it be if humans got a Chuck Norris reputation in the galaxy due to a few AI generated stories beefing us up as badass God slayers. That would be so hilarious. The ultimate troll.

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Kinda shocked we didn't use the Vortex Veto. It's a lot like MAD, just ... Bigger.

[@rham5817]

The premise that humanity would give up its arms and tech after making a super weapon is the most unbeleivable part. There would be another war of the council pressed and likely because the council doesn't sound willing to win, humanity would bee making galactic law.

[@БарриЛомов]

Actually quite the opposite. As the first part of story progresses (Quarax`s lecrures), we hear these words about humans: "...in the heat of battle they unlished the darkness even they could not control". So, if we follow this - i can see human leaders accepting their own limitations willingly. And whole story will be great if ended somewhere here - "sometimes sacrificies are neccecary, and humans made the biggest sacrifice - their own ambitions". Maybe with a plot twist, that humans were secretly controlling the cousil. But instead we have this plot twist with top-secret cosmic level plan to prevent humans advancement. Which if followed by storie`s logic - was developed by humans themselves. But "Truth must be seen by all, no matter the cost". Even if that cost is whole galaxy torn apart, countless lifes lost and species brought to the brink of extinction.

[@halonut96]

​@БарриЛомов cool theory but I can guarantee you that humans would NEVER give up the power that they acquired, it's a neat story but that's all it is, a story

[@БарриЛомов]

@@halonut96 6.38 "Their weapons were confiscated, their participation in war was erased". And for 500 years humans could not understand that they were being controlled, their research sabotached, artificially stopped from evolving. Geniuses that turned the tide or war in one generation and idiots in next generations for the next 500 years. And it took a "strong and independent woman" to enter badly guarded library with top-secret information, discover easily de-ciphered holocube with one of biggest conspiracies in all of galaxy`s history. Then leak that information, starting maybe even bigger civil war than the one humans won 500 years ago. It`s like 2 different stories.

[@chevyyyyyyy]

Humans already went through that with nukes, but look where we are, this video’s premise is just another, updated but amateur version of Earth’s recent past history.

[@БарриЛомов]

@@halonut96 sorry, by any chance did you recieve a notification about my answer to this comment? I am pretty sure I replied to you, but i dont see the comment right now. I dont know how it works: if comments are deleted do I get notification about it? I can see how the words and phrasing I used in that comment could be flagged by certain algorythms as being acceptable for removing if that comment would be reported. Or I was so tired and unfocused that i forgot to public the comment?

[@ParallelHorrors68]

"Humans after being banned by the Council: 'We get it, the Council made their call, but honestly, considering how ridiculous it was, we've decided to act like it never happened.'"

[@matthewconner7800]

Galactic Council: “We have the legal authority to confiscate your technology.” Humans: “We have black hole guns. FAFO.”

[@mikemike6808]

Saved the galaxy too well and all of a sudden all our toys get taken and the threats of genocide due to how hard they saved em.

[@joimumu]

Wouldn’t that be minor setback all things considered?

[@thomasferris1905]

And that's how 40k starts

[@davids2551]

Humans stopped The Crawl and showed that one day, they would be equivalent to The Crawl for some future generation.

[@ashkboos1000]

Come to think of it, after WWII if EU was still strong and had strong standing army greater than USA specially after two nukes, they would have forced America to give up Nukes and push USA to the side as " you are too dangerous dude.".

[@fakecubed]

@@ashkboos1000 And then the next ten nukes we already had in production would be dropped in Europe. Army, smarmy. The US Naval forces at that point could have beaten all other countries combined, stopping anyone from getting close to North America to attack us.

[@KirkDavis1966]

And the humans just "let" the galactic council take their toys after they blasted the Crull? Yeah right.

[@legacyplays6050]

And apparently the we didn’t have spies that already had this info that his young alien found in half a day of trying. And on top of that we didn’t know we were being genetically modified to be weaker. 😂😂 Ngl this one’s probably the worst one I’ve heard because it’s too unrealistic.

[@motorcycleboy9000]

"Give us back the black hole cannon." "Come and get it."

[@faellyss]

@@motorcycleboy9000 made one , can make another ........ bigger

[@danielhaire6677]

All that means is that it was now outdated tech for us. We gave it back because we had figured out something better.

[@drkstarling]

Following human history, we know that council can confiscate all the stuff they want... Or at least they will be thinking they did lol (From a human: Never trust a human lol)

[@darrellhagopian9406]

You can be banned from the olympics, you can be banned from Canada, but trying to enforce a ban on fighting a war would require, by definition, a war. This doesnt make any sense.

[@malign3158]

It’s easier to enforce a war ban when the consequences are “don’t try to do war or your species will be wiped from the universe within days, and all other species are in agreement on this”

[@PFPTHEGREATEST]

Thank you, I was going to make a similar comment. Stopped about a minute in because the premise makes no sense. You can't ban that.

[@Tipper16]

And what about self-defense? Are we supposed to just roll over and die?

[@MasonPayne]

And if you have a vortex cannon, you just roll over and hand it over? Or just stop using it?

[@clintonsmith1114]

The only option to preserve even the illusion of a ban is to just roll over and give humans everything they want without hesitation. That would require the threat of war to happen though.

[@goatkiller666]

It’s adorable that student at a military academy think that they have access to encryption methods the Galactic Council. But sad that Earth’s spies didn’t already have copies of all this data.

[@chrischang3002]

The story didn’t specify the level of the academy. Maybe it is like US War College where the students are high ranking.

[@sheasmih9879]

😅😅😊

[@Lippdinos]

well, I always considered it was a matter of time until one Jr officer started recording an infantile gripe session about hiw awful hard beds and bad food are at the military, who would have ever expected, right, but right in front of a top secret display panel in front of the acme doomsday device before posting it on social media for his wife's bf to laugh at. I've seen similar attitudes coming from senior Sargeants even, it seems like maturity got kicked downhill together w the quality of hiring and DEI.

[@2010zagadka]

If you knew anything about cryptography, you could create an encryption nobody can decipher for a very long time. A simple RSA-2048 encryption takes is estimated to take 19.8 quadrillion years to crack even for a Google data centre. There is no backdoor in the algorithm, so unless you know something, brute force is your only attack. Time doesn't scale linearly with key size, and you can always increase key size in RSA.

[@kevinford2644]

​@@2010zagadkaYes and no to scaling key size linearly. The problem with simply increasing key size is we quickly run into key management issues. We have this data cube sitting in a dusty archive room. Where is the key kept? Even at RSA-2048 it isn't simply in anyone's head. That is to say keys need to be stored somewhere and where ever that is also needs to be secured. What would almost have to happen to use that level of encryption is they would have to go somewhere to check out the device that contains key and then go and read the media on which it is stored using the device with the key to unlock it. Of course that is assuming the cube has encryption that secure and they are not mostly relying on physical security measures instead. In that case, any key scheme that requires human type memory alone to unlock will never be able to be particularly complex.

[@areformingamadon]

It's hard for me to imagine no human telling the council: You can have my vortex cannon when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

[@adamjenkins7653]

It was the one shot gun. You can have it! ... doesn't work anymore anyhow. We should fix that for the mark 2.

[@jarigustafsson7620]

galactic empire: we ban these methods and weapons. earthlings: here's what we came up by lunch, an anti-matter wipeout all in one gun.

[@kf4293]

Yah, biggest flaw with this story is the whole "they were too dangerous, so we took _all_ their toys away." Humans are, well, humans. If we had FTL, we _would not_ let it go. If that meant hanging on to our super ray gun, then we would. Well, if we have the Ray Gun, and the Council has already figured out that we're the Warrior Race they were looking for... they ain't taking our toys away without our permission. They _might_ talk us outta the super-gun with a lot of diplomacy, but our FTL? No, not happening.

[@Khoukharev]

- Here, take this. - Is this yours? - No, this is yours. Mine are in the truck

[@matthewconner7800]

Yeah, some human scientist from Alabama would have already drawn up designs for a eight-shot black hole gun that went “ping” after the last shot, just because it amused him, and we’re supposed to believe that humans would just say, “well, alright, take our weapons and tech.” Preposterous.

[@kf4293]

@matthewconner7800 "and then goes ping!" bro, I'm cooking dinner for my mother in law, then read this and started howling. She was looking at me like "what _are_ you reading?!"

[@alexh3974]

@@matthewconner7800 M1 Galexarand. then you put the M250 cal with black hole ammo.

[@seiboldtadelbertsmiter3735]

Humanity Are essentially Honey Badgers 🦡

[@sdems6996]

on drugs like cocaïne ketamin and there is probably more in the cocktail

[@dusanradin5868]

Wolverines,actually...

[@m.jasondoty9062]

​@@dusanradin5868"WOLVERINES!!!"

[@DawnAdams-d5i]

@@dusanradin5868 wolverines on a quiet day

[@dusanradin5868]

@@DawnAdams-d5i Indeed,as T'ealc would say.

[@chadrowin2956]

... You sleep and rise under the blanket of freedom we provide and then question the method in which we provide it. We rather you say thank you and be on your way .... Echoes of 'A Few Good Men' in this story :)

[@joshheffernan3789]

You know jack nicolson was right when he said that even though he played the villian in that movie

[@chadrowin2956]

@@joshheffernan3789 It always comes down to cost-benefits .. what you want and what your willing to pay for it. Some believe the cost doesn't matter, and others think their are always better ways. Reality is often somewhere between.

[@036JH]

@@joshheffernan3789Except he condoned the death of his own subordinate when a simple transfer to a different post would have solved the problem. The inability to use existing systems to solve problems is poor leadership/management. Jessup might have had a point… if they were in a combat zone and keeping Santiago around would have obviously led to the deaths of more Marines.

[@Dutchman709]

Earth's spies probably knew about the plan, and had already defence's developed for it

[@natashaj6611]

that's how I thought the story would go

[@legacyplays6050]

@@natashaj6611I thought that it was going to be that every alien race just agreed no matter what we don’t get the humans involved in our conflicts something like that.

[@drumdust]

The more HFY stories I read the more I realise once we get to the stars we need a Terran Empire, none of this joining a Galactic Union or Galactic Federation bs.

[@Sujad]

Praise the Immortal God Emperor of Mankind.

[@MFCSteele]

We were made in God's image. The stars are for sharing.

[@Sujad]

@@MFCSteele It's mankind's manifest destiny to reach out to the stars and crush them in our iron first.

[@TheOtherGreyKnight]

This is how the God-Emporer intended it to be. None of this joining with xenos filth, only the perfection of the human form can be allowed to rule the stars

[@Benjamin-yl4xl]

I'm starting to think that Humans will be the violent race everyone is afraid of. We won't be a Star Trek Utopia, we'll be a Star Wars Galactic Empire or something like that.

[@jonathanevans3853]

So effectively Earth is the Florida man of space cool.

[@motorcycleboy9000]

"Humans! We do not approve of your methods!" "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago."

[@OzyWazza]

Warlike Alien Race Feared By The Rest Of The Galaxy: "We are the Big-Mega Nasty People! We have conquered half the universe!! Surrender and submit to our rule, or we invade and crush you!!!" Humans: "Uh-huh... and WE engaged in frequent genocides of subgroups of our own species, and are the only race that's known for using atomics on the one world that was habitable to us at the time to win wars; bring it." Retreating Aliens: "We'll be going now. We'll give you everything except our home planet... please leave us alone"

[@guardsmanom134]

"We never stop fighting. When we die, we just go to hell to regroup." Humanity, 2336 ad

[@christopherpetty3320]

Humanity are the Krogan of this sci-fi universe

[@TheIRONSTAG]

YES.

[@johnkochen7264]

Spaceships always bristle with weaponry. Minds are always racing. Eyes are always filled with resolve

[@Lvdlow]

Palpable. So palpable…

[@jamesogden7756]

Seems like ChatGPT learned overused phrases just fine. "Advanced technology....." But can it use a thesaurus? Noooo.

[@flamboyantwarlock7101]

Most of these stories are written by teenagers, if not AI generated. What can you expect?

[@sheacd1]

A toast to all the consoles and tables that died under the fists of our broken enemies.

[@Shinobubu]

This is what you call an ungrateful galaxy.

[@m.jasondoty9062]

This is what you call the Monkey's Paw alternative: you're going to get your wish, but beware the consequences of your request. As always, it's the third wish you have to be very aware of what you wish for.

[@DawnAdams-d5i]

so the history was hidden for centuries except to a hall full of students. Makes sense!!

[@davidt.5513]

I think this place is for the most elite students, who want to have their career in the military. That would make sense

[@Merilirem]

These were the ones who were supposed to keep the secret. Not just some random group of art students.

[@Toliman.]

Not kept secret for centuries. Kept secret from these particular students. Same reason people don't know about the US's collection of Viruses and Pathogens, WMD's and weapons labs. Or, China's. Or Pakistan's. et al. If people knew someone could attack them at any time, they would be afraid and push their leadership to pre-emptively attack / exterminate. Conversely, if they didn't know, they might also pre-emptively attack too. So they need this to leak to the right people, who would be the ones in charge. Most likely it's on a need to know. Like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy. The 'truth' would be isolated to those in that particular class, sic. Hence the reputation and contrivance of it being a deeply held secret. This is a tactics course, after all. They would have to anticipate this technology coming back, there would be no advantages unless they also killed everyone who survived the war(s) with humanity, and any other witnesses. Just like the fact that genocide happened before we created a term, or recorded people's existence on a long-lasting tablet / stone. It's not a language problem, it's a storage problem. Prior to written language on stone, there were likely other civilizations that didn't make it, nor were they remembered due to some cosmic or natural disaster or just plain eugenics. Even bones don't last. So it's likely not a big secret. It's just hidden from those not interested, and once you know, you're kept out of the general population. After all, what would you say in this situation to family, news, friends, sic. Humans have planet-destroying tech, they've had it for centuries ? A smear campaign would then have to be launched to silence you, sic.

[@stevenc49759]

The ability to remove a direction. Is something only humans have the audacity to do.

[@madmacstoo-w7w]

Isn't the Milky Way galaxy big enough that they needed to establish an academy in another galaxy, 2.6 million light years away? The whole story starts on a level of implausibility.

[@JACCO20082012]

Humanity kicked everyone's asses so hard that they had to go to Andromeda.

[@AnthonyBowen-i7p]

Sounds a lot like Alan Dean Foster's books "With Friends Like These..." and "...Who Needs Enemies." where the starting plot has humans being locked onto their planet by a Galactic imposed force field because they were too violent. Now there is an enemy too powerful for the Council, and so they are revisiting Earth to see if humans have changed. A great read

[@Tawhiri]

- "sir, where do you need firepower?" + "that direction, there's a pl-" - "confirmed, removing the direction now"

[@damnyiffers]

Humans learn with every success and failure. War hits us with the most challenges in quick succession. Therefore we learn the most from war and conflict.

[@DRAONWEED]

Paraphrasing a comment of chancellor Palpatine to Anakin," those who have power fear to lose it." sounds like this Galactic counsel.

[@WarBeasty]

Humans: "We saved your civilization! We suppose we'll go down in galactic history as heroes, revered and respected, right?" Aliens: "Yeah, about that.. We're gonna erase you from the history books.. we're also gonna take your technology and step on your progress from here on out." Humans: "Well, that's gratitude for ya, you jerks!"

[@kenkleinsasser8165]

Authors of all of these AI ET/Humanity War Stories: ChatGPT, write me story where the Humans are basically the Canadians of the Galaxy.

[@robertwhitehead8671HMCS]

Well if ET wants WAR thay never signed the Geneva Suggestions did thay ?

[@uwetheiss970]

Why canadians? I didn't hear the humans in the story say "excuse me" all the time. What other stereotypes do exist?

[@KayGoldammer]

​@@uwetheiss970 poeple who invent war crimes

[@uwetheiss970]

@@KayGoldammer Which warcrimes have canadians invented? And what does "invent" mean in this context? Are this warcrimes only an idea that where never put into the real world?

[@dabigork]

​@uwetheiss970 a large amount of the Geneva conventions is because of the Canadians look it up.

[@ScharfeZungel]

Humans 2,000 from now: TENNO HEIKA, BANZAAAAAAIIII!!!

[@zaneelliot6963]

At the end of this story, Cartman should be heard saying, " Kick ass! "

[@pietburgmans40]

Ok, as I understand it most of this story takes place at Space School... yet for some reason there's military hyper secrets in there, locked behind "biometric security" that gets fooled by... a student bringing someone else's keycard. Special USB with super secret data gets accessed by an unknown device and... doesn't trigger an alarm. Never mind that Lira's first idea to find out what happened to humans was "dig in the super restricted archives" rather than "ask the teacher who's been telling us about all of this for the past couple of days". And apparently Humans are still part of the galaxy at large, otherwise they wouldn't have allies and the technology to communicate to begin with. Fair number of iffy points here. Hate it when my suspension of disbelief evaporates.

[@Buletspunge555]

Poor writing is poor writing. You sussed it out well. Don't be mad at yourself unless you regret giving the author your time. I bailed on it within 3 minutes because it was already shaping up to be child like and questionable ;).

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

Never underestimate the human capacity for SPITE.

[@goatkiller666]

So this school and these students are in the Andromeda Galaxy. Which is a bit over 2.5 Million light years from the milky way. Any species, or collective of species that can live in one galaxy and speak meaningfully about the goings-on in another… If you can push a ship fast enough to cross that distance in a decade, you can launch asteroids the size of Manhattan at every planet in the Milky Way, at speeds close to, or even well beyond light speed. Not even a supernova can release as much energy as a simple rock moving that fast.

[@erikjrn4080]

If you're traveling in flat (-ish) space, and according to Einsteinian physics, you can't cross those distances in anything less than 2.5M years, no matter how hard you push. However, if you push very hard, you can bring a lot with you, and you and it will arrive at near light speed (>99%). An asteroid moving at that speed would indeed be destructive beyond comprehension. Clearly, though, the fictional universe for this story isn't based on subluminal technology. No unified, galactic civilization could function on subluminal technology, much less an intergalactic one. That means it's based on a hypothetical, superluminal technology. In fiction, those come in two variations: simply presupposed, and based on scientific speculation. Both tend to share a significant trait, though: the speed of light isn't exceeded, or even closely approached. Instead, they rely on some form of "short cut", be that through hyperspace, space warp, wormhole, alternate dimension, quantum teleportation, or other fictional, improbable, and/or impossible mechanism. You seem like a hard sci-fi guy. While no superluminal drive is rock hard sci-fi, some are closer than others. One of the closest is warp drives, which compress space, so that a spaceship can cross more space in less distance, effectively getting from one place to another sooner than its speed would allow through normal space. The primary limitation is then not how fast the ship travels, but how much it can compress space. If the space between the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way could be compressed to a meter, an average couch potato could hop from one to the other; no acceleration to speeds beyond casual jogging would be required. An example of a scientifically based, hypothetical, superluminal drive, based on the warp principle, would be the Alcubierre drive. If we accept the premise that the technology is possible, which we must, when discussing science _fiction_ (as opposed to science fact), it becomes perfectly plausible that a civilization could have warp drives, and yet be unable or unwilling to accelerate anything to beyond a tiny fraction of luminal speed, much less frivolously hurl Manhattan sized asteroids between galaxies at near light speed. Personally, I share your preference for exploration of the technology and science that would be required for a story to work. However, the absence of such exploration isn't the distinction between good and bad sci-fi, but merely the distinction between harder and softer sub-genres. In this case, the technology is simply presupposed, making it as soft as sci-fi gets. Your pwn isn't as good as you think. Also, you'd be surprised at the energy of some supernovae: if the energy of a supernova could be harnessed, we could have Manhattan accelerating away from us at a very satisfying rate, with no risk of it ever returning.

[@davidt.5513]

@@erikjrn4080 But wouldn't hyperspace come close to the speed of light? I mean it is a dimension where objects travel faster than light. Or am I wrong?

[@erikjrn4080]

@@davidt.5513 _Hyperspace_ isn't exactly a well defined term, and exactly what it is varies between fictional works. However, when it's defined, it's more often as a dimension where distance works differently, than as one where speed works differently. In that case, things would be closer to each other in hyperspace. You'd jump to the point in hyperspace corresponding to your current point in regular space. You'd then travel a reasonable distance, at a reasonable speed, to a point in hyperspace that corresponds to a point in regular space that's unreasonably far from your starting point. Then you'd drop out there, and appear to have traveled faster than light. Of course, this is if the sci-fi author makes any attempt at describing some sort of mechanism, at all, and knows enough about physics to realize the demands of such a description. If not, hyperspace might be absolutely anything.

[@plmokm33]

@@davidt.5513 Yea it also doesn't exist as far as we know lol

[@Wolfen443]

So this story is about what Farscape did in TV, but humans are heroes and feared.

[@korndog87]

so glad ur still at this man! great lil stories NO1 else seems to be exploring GREAT STARTS to a bright future!

[@arceejackson8936]

Funny that they already sorta know but are shocked anyways.. thats adorable

[@nzbidzel]

28:00 ALT : Meanwhile on earth the encrypted message was received in a secure facility, serveral minutes pass and the response was unnerving "We know, we have always known, and yet we choose to accept... we care not this should show humanity is not a threat, we act only in defense not aggression, and humanity will not be wiped "

[@danieldoherty5695]

Oh cmon , humans are never going to let some bug eyed alien dictate to them

[@DeathclawJedi]

How TF Did you make this thing? Well sir that is a bit of a mystery. What we do know is it involved a 5th of Vodka, Tequila, and Scotch, A Professor Kreshnev A Doctor Gomez and some Space Trucker named Billy Bob.

[@paddyfitz71]

Sounds very much like the way goverment's around the world treat their people ya their bosses, the ones they purport to work for

[@kingdilbeck4590]

Humans in the Marvel movies figured out time travel to save everyone.

[@Not-Ken-Molestina]

Sounds like the start of the great crusade of the imperium.

[@jamesansley4679]

Glory to him on terra

[@ljubisagolub1234]

Why would the humans give up their tech and arms? This is how it should have gone. Aliens: “that’s it! No more war for you! Hand it over!” Humans: “Nuh uh” Aliens: “fuck you mean Nuh Uh?” Humans: *powering up Blackholethrower. Automatic mode activated.*

[@Pluto_TradesSMC]

Imagine an FTL drives turned into a gun that fires blackhole into peoples air space. imagine getting unexisted without even knowing what hit you

[@jamescross6109]

These ai stories are the future. I predict in the near future, you'll be able to select a genre, set a few parameters, and have ai create a whole movie for you in minutes. The future will be flooded with this type of thing. Kinda cool, but it could devalue the industry.

[@arceejackson8936]

Considering how the story went.. it seems like it could be at best a mess of plot holes and meaningless plot twists and suckerpunch storyline. Very dr suess.

[@gg3251]

templar space marines: CRUSADING TIME‼

[@zaqzilla1]

God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see. - Gunnery Sgt. Hartman

[@DeannaPaki-x2m]

0.12 be good to have a pt 2. Cool story, thanks

[@michalwintz7083]

Moral of the story don't mess with humans.

[@Tubewatcherdude]

With all these ridiculous stories that are supposed to bolster humanity as an unstoppable race of intelligent savages when realistically if aliens did exist and decided to kill us off the would, watching an alien witness a helicopter fly would be priceless.

[@themysticaldrone4517]

The first half of this summed up is really just "Humanity space nuked the Ghorn from Star Trek"

[@MarkSmith-zg5hq]

Galactic - singular- war? Which Galaxy? was the war fought in the MW where humans live? Galaxy this, Galaxy that! Which one?

[@DennisKenneybees]

So the humans were able to defeat an enemy that the Galactic Councel could not but the Galactic Councel was able to defeat the humans and take their technology. Illogical.

[@TheTwistedCam]

No. 3. Yay. Great story bro.

[@BadMoonRising777]

I really want to hear the rest of the story, please.

[@CrusaderSports250]

Is this the point where the princess puts data into a droid😊😊.

[@Neil-bw1qm]

If any man think that he knows anything. He knows nothing, as he aught. I find that very powerful. I think...

[@HettycTracyn]

This story is amazing! I hope there’ll be more of it… maybe even an entire book/series?

[@fakecubed]

You'll take my vortex cannon from my cold dead hands. Try writing a story yourself instead of using an LLM.

[@mycroft16]

The council sent the fleet to Earth after we just spoke about humans being so dangerous because whem backedninto a corner they become extremely creative and even more determined? Great... dobthe one thing you shouldnt do. That will probably work.

[@johnkochen7264]

Is this an exercise in seeing how many different ways you can spell Corax?

[@davidt.5513]

That's what I thought 😂

[@jyndev4570]

The reoccurring theme in a lot of these HFY stories is the massive hypocrisy of the 'galactic community'.

[@davidbowers4270]

If earth was americas military with the Tenacity of the French foreign legion

[@HO-os8ry]

Um who exactly would enforce this ban if humans are league's above they entire combined might lol

[@JACCO20082012]

Holy AI generated story Batman.

[@lawrenceburchett7411]

Yes nice, continue the story, please...

[@andrewstrongman305]

I can't tell if this was written by a child or AI, but either way it's utter nonsense.

[@jarigustafsson7620]

because these stories are just copypaste over copypaste over copypaste.

[@Au_THOUGHT-FELLsans]

Three words that strike fear into the council in heard from any human three simple words that mean nothing coming from others spell doom if spoken by earths native species *"Fine let's fight"*

[@mugenokami2201]

I thought it was: hold my beer

[@ichigof6921]

Are we talking about humans...or Canadians? 😂

[@isocryd]

Why would you have a copyright notice if this is, supposedly, your own material? I'm calling shenanigans.

[@BLK03COBRA]

Did chat gpt write this?

[@dominickramirez8912]

@HFYFictions is there a second part?

[@112313]

Um...terran here sounds so much like some nation rn.

[@theseekerofancienttruth3873]

When do we get a Part 2?

[@brihdratha]

When the AI gets advanced enough

[@kevingoodhope7768]

If I were a human student in that room I would have screeched my battle cry.

[@pepleatherlab3872]

Someone's been listening to 2112 over and over again. 😁

[@yoboyrob201]

This doesn’t make sense. How would they possibly take anything from humans after they defeated a race they couldn’t?

[@MarkSmith-zg5hq]

There are dozens at least of satellite small galaxies between the MW and Andromeda half around the MW and the rest around Andromeda and lots of other dwarf galaxies along the way.

[@Izayoink_Saccuy]

R/humansarespaceorks

[@ab-du6sw]

let's talk about something REALLY annoying like auto generated subs that you can't turn off.....

[@amandahugginkiss792]

Enjoy the Mjolnir inspired armour but a little disappointed that we still wear open faced helms that far in the future

[@jarradjob8708]

This one is AWESOME!!

[@nickdavis6237]

Break the blockade at any cost. Keywords: at any cost.

[@-----REDACTED-----]

Badly enough written that it could come from the writers of the Witcher, the Acolyte, or the Rings of Power series…

[@ashidokono6012]

You should not try to force subscribers, if you're story is good will subscribe