Best HFY Reddit Stories: Are we really that bad at naval warfare or are the Humans just that good

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[@charlespk2008]

When one alien race, who believes in worl peace, meets humanity, who has accepted “fuck around and find out”.

[@dholmes3307]

Humans believe in peace. The ones who are successful know that it is bought with blood and maintained through superior firepower.

[@michaelreifenstein2114]

hogan: "sharp, stop showing off." sharp: "yes sir."

[@nyet_maker7948]

Quoting the Sharpe series, thats my style Sir!

[@MrBizteck]

Quoting Sharp .... now THAT soldering.

[@AvenValkyr]

"We just happened to be strolling by. You good??"

[@TheMelbournelad]

It’s literally like someone going by and seeing someone having a flat in heavy rain and you have an umbrella and an impact drill

[@zidniafifamani2378]

Just like Gang Warfare Drive by

[@jr44dc]

Lmfao

[@davidbell1619]

Why would he be worried, he fought against odds and survived. His and his fleets Honour is intact. Humans admire things like this,not otherwise.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

well i guess one can chalk it up to a unintentional or author intentional try to leet the fact millions of years of not just evolution difference in pure wetware structure , but also societies , cultures , and civilization norms has to show somehow but yes , regardless of side most normal humans respects anyone that fights agenst superior foes for the sake of duties or oaths , i think only thing that can top that is those fighting still having the mental presence to also reconsider side if finding evidence their cause is flawed or misslead and acting on it

[@therasco400]

Note that it is mentioned that the coalition are the ones who made them the but of the joke, they mentioned 2 other species who are good at naval warfare, I can imagine there are far more aliens in it. They would also take great enjoyment of poking fun at them while understanding that they likely would face the same shit. I can't imagine the humans ever making fun of war in which people died.

[@The_Viscount]

Despite the actual French troops performing admirable during the Second World War, their government's poor response and bad reactions led them to surrender a month after the invasion of France. To this day, in America we still joke about French surrender or French cowardice. The truth of the matter is that the Free French and French Resistance were incredible during the war, and the Vichy French tended to surrender to the Wester Allies so they could switch sides and in the hopes of liberating their home from the Germans. I'm sure the educated and higher ranked officers understand how hard the durivians fought, but that doesn't stop the rank and file and civilians from making jokes.

[@rebekkahdavi8493]

“Ludicrous speed?” They went to plaid??

[@bremer1701]

nah, they watched space balls

[@raptorhuman1645]

They're **Humans**. What'id y'xpect.

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

If only they could've heard the comms of the human ships, they'd be really terrified by how the humans are just giggling, cracking jokes and someone's probably blasting music while someone else yells yeehaw as a movie reference.

[@usevisine3198]

Awww, the Human fleet really just wanted an excuse to shoot some guns.

[@mattbrown5511]

Got to do something with old ammunition.

[@theplaintech]

@@mattbrown5511 Yes. Ammunition has an expiration date. You can't just let it languish on shelves in the back of the warehouse.

[@mattbrown5511]

Unless you are sure it has been properly stored and handled. The real question is, "How sure are you that the ammunition has been properly stored and, handled and cared for?". @@theplaintech

[@deanlawson6880]

This was a nice fun "space-opera" short story. Pretty sure there's a Sun-Tzu Art of War lesson in there somehow. Something along the lines of, Make your enemy react to what they think you're doing, and how powerful they think you are, not what you are really doing, or how weak or strong you really are (or something like that). In other words, bluff effectively.. Heh.. Nicely done by the small Human Contingent. Really good story.

[@mothmagic1]

Yes some the teachings of Sun-Tzu are still valid today and will still hold good in the future

[@johnnyrotten3175]

The Humans are just showing off😂😂😂

[@johnflesner8086]

We do that.

[@mattbrown5511]

Cheeky bastards, aren't we?

[@murphymmc]

Hubris allowed 55% of the Durivian fleet to be destroyed. If your ally is that much better than you, call them first or don't pretend to be better than you are by attacking a superior force using predictable tactics.

[@mattbrown5511]

Hubris almost always summons the fall.

[@shanegraham2500]

Centuries of derision? Wow, The Coalition are assholes.

[@jeffjames4064]

Nepotism, nine times out of ten it'll bite you in the ass.

[@RegularBard]

"Roughly the size of Sisyphus' boulder" So is that like 3/4 of a washing machine? Or just one Detroit pothole?

[@gunmonkey1185]

Only humans would dare to pull off a buff😂

[@mikaelferrer1645]

Humans to Darivians: we are just build different pal!

[@Bob.Jenkins]

Nice story - but a better and more beneficial ending would state that the Humans saluted the defenders courage in attempting to hold back an overwhelming force. This possible ending has three benefits: 1. It would have countered any derision of the defending Species 2. It would have indebted the defending Species to Humans and 3. It would have highlighted the generosity of Humanity.

[@tiger28312]

Generosity? Brother that ain't us

[@mattbrown5511]

I can see you have never been in combat.

[@salmanariffin4916]

Like the saying: Respect me for my humanity or fear me for my savagery

[@baohoang4966]

This Terrain fleet were considered as Patrols task force!! They're just on overwatch duty. And they've said themself, they're out of ammunition and can not expect another full scale fight!! I mean... with their basic cannons, they will still gonna kill all the enemies, but for what since they've already scared and run!!

[@leadingauctions8440]

This story had beautifully detailed battle scenes.

[@switch158]

I quite enjoyed this, other than a spaceship having ailerons and control surfaces. What are they meant to control in a vacuum?

[@Shade_Santiago]

I would imagine nearly every human military ship would be jet black since the military loves camo

[@kenoschmidt6389]

Nice Story!

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

Wait wait.. so you’re really telling me the frigate reached “ludicrous speed”

[@danielleriley2796]

You need subtitles so we can read the correct text when the AI stuffs up.

[@Quantum_Prophet]

they are just that good

[@macmcleod1188]

This put a smile on my face.

[@diaperjoeisaped1723]

Lol, he got the position because his relative was a big shot!😅😅 This is exactly what Wachovia did. And the rest is history.

[@CrazyRFGuy]

My only issue with these readings is the cadence is off and some word pronunciations are off. Very nice work those few things aside.

[@mcjitsu]

to all you science nerds (of which I am one), back off a bit. You want a good story? Time to suspend your disbeliefs ;-)

[@Bellator_of_the_Shadow]

The humans wouldn't have poked fun at them for that. They would have simply moved on

[@Matthew10950]

Maybe even tipped a slight complement. They stood their ground and took their pounding. The humans found them still standing to their guns in a forlorn hope. Soldiers tend to respect that.

[@stephenbeck8753]

He asked the humans to “leave the premises”. 😂

[@malcolmanderson6735]

"Everyone noticed that the ball was listening to hyperspace waves" ??? WTF How was anyone noticing that? How do you detect passive scanners?

[@quinnfable2694]

Great story.

[@akoskedves5799]

3:35 hell yeah :D

[@MrBizteck]

Aileron roll.... in the vacume of space. Yep I think your right.

[@wstavis3135]

Yeah, that annoyed me too. Then the "smoke screen".🤦‍♂️

[@comicsgatekeeper9746]

Premises premises premises

[@theeddorian]

Aileron rolls in vacuum? Control surfaces? Seriously? And smoke screens?

[@mothmagic1]

Laughable

[@malcolmanderson6735]

"Sentient needles of death". ??? Was this AI assisted?

[@GavinCowieIndeed]

Any thoughts about using real people for the voiceovers?

[@Ventorath]

That costs money or effort + some amount of talent (a bad audiobook narrator is awful). There are a million channels like this one that have AI reading stories and posts from Reddit and elsewhere on the internet. Manga / Manhwa as well. They do it for a reason. They don't have to put much work into them and people still flock to the videos because it's convenient to put on while doing something else. There are a few channels that actually narrate. There is unlikely to be a transition from AI to Actual Narration though. If they're gonna Narrate, they're gonna do it from the start.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

There is no camouflage in space. No one is going to sight weapons using nothing but their eyeballs. Control Surfaces? Those only work in an atmosphere. Not in the near vacuum of space. Your ships don't have to be aerodynamic. As long as your structure can handle the stresses and sudden changes of momentum, you could build a ship with empty spaces all over and thru it, allowing enemy fire to go straight thru without hitting anything even as they successfully target your ship. All by reorienting your ship to allow the incoming fire to pass thru after the enemy fires their weapon so long as that weapon is not a light speed weapon and you have the time. That is one of the reasons you want to engage a target as far away as possible, to give you more time to react to the situations.

[@bluefmi]

"There is no camouflage in space. No one is going to sight weapons using nothing but their eyeballs. " if you are NOT using your eyeballs, then you are using machines and AI how do you make the AI "feel" the space around your ship? with heat detectors, visual detectors, gravity detectors etc just like the human eye, those can be fooled to NOT see. by minimizing or removing your heat signature, controlling the gravity, etc the AI of a guided modern missile being fooled by stealth planes is "camouflage" good snipers learn how to blend in the surrounding areas by removing their visual signatures it is literally the same concept

[@bluefmi]

"you could build a ship with empty spaces all over and thru it" except that all walls need to stop the vacuum and cold from outside. that means more weight just for basic walls that would make the ship much less able to turn on a dime / more expensive fuel wise to change direction that is in the very fortunate case where you are NOT using armor. if you are NOT using armor, then at best it is a scout or harasser ship. those need to be fast and as light as possible, not bet everything on a stray missile missing by going through a hole except that some missiles can be programmed to detonate on proximity not on contact, and if they are well programmed, an explosion right in the middle of one of those empty spaces could even rip a ship in pieces by affecting a much larger area

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

@@bluefmi Have you ever seen a depiction of a habitat ring? Would you actually cover and armor the spaces between the ring, spokes, and hub? Why can't the ship be just in armored modules connected by armored tubes? Think of something like the Borg Tactical Cube from Star Trek Voyager. A bunch of small cubes connected by tubes between them. About half the volume it takes up is just empty space. As for missiles using proximity fuses that is going to be very difficult to get accurate. We are talking about ships moving at small fractions of light speed. A ship moving at even one thousandth the speed of light is moving 300 km per second. That missile will have to detect it is in proximity, probably within tens of kilometers of target, calculate when to detonate and begin the procedure to detonate. Which does take time. All while hoping that ship doesn't make a minor course change that will place it possibly 100 km away from where the missile has planned to detonate. Remember that missile is going to be moving much faster to cover the distance. So any calculation it makes must take into account it's own speed. So it might be 100,000 km away when making these decisions and then get new data on the target's new position with only half a second to detonation point, and still 40,000 km to go (the missile's speed being maybe as high as 30% the speed of light). Missiles slower than that will be sitting ducks for laser point defense systems. I think you are using game mechanics and modern capabilities to determine what would happen. This is not however the case. The bigger the ship, the bigger the engines can be. The more fuel you can carry to power those engines. It's the Square/ Cube Rule. Increasing a ship to twice it's size (increasing all proportions by 2) increases the surface area by 4 times and the internal volume by 8 times. The armor on the outside could stay the same thus increasing it's weight by only a factor of 4. While at the same time increasing the engine power by a factor of 8 if you want. And you don't keep the cold out. Heat radiates away. There is no stopping that, just slowing it down. However as you increase the size or number of things that cause heat to be generated, how fast it radiates away becomes a concern. Radiating heat away is the least efficient method of getting rid of heat, but the only means of doing it in the near vacuum of space. And increased surface area can also aid in radiating heat away as there is more surface area to do that on. So again bigger is better. But at some point you will likely have to put purpose built radiator panels on ships to get rid of enough heat, these would be relatively thin panels jutting out from the ship, maximizing surfaces area by having a large surface area for a minimum volume. But if you don't get rid of the heat as you build it up, you will eventually bake your ship from the inside out.

[@GrigoriZhukov]

LOL ok kid you keep thinking that.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

@@GrigoriZhukov I'm going to bet your experience so for consists of video games and sci-fi shows, all done by people who have no idea either. Do you really think weapons can be sighted by eyeball from 300,000 km or more away? And remember right now we don't sight weapons more than a few hundred meters away by eyeball. It will all be done by electronics like modern ACTUAL warfare is done now. Camo is to defeat the eyeball, not electronic sensor. And do you really think any control surface can alter your course with nothing to push against? All those control surfaces on a modern aircraft move to redirect the AIR flowing over them. There is no AIR in SPACE.