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[@kyriss12]

We would have attended the meeting, and gave them our rules of engagement. Human “First we got the obvious. Fair treatment of pows, no opening fire on civilians.” Alien “that’s fair” H “No nukes, chemical or biological weapons over civilian population centers.” A “that’s concerning” H “no forcing people to torture and cannibalize their own family” A “WHY WOULD YOU EVEN HAVE A RULE FOR THAT???!!!!!!!” H “back in world war 2….” A “I thought you didn’t go to war with other worlds?” H “oh no was just our planet. We call it world war because every country on the planet decided to go at it all at once. So anyway one country called japan…” A “did you just say your entire planet went to war with itself twice?” H “three times actually, three and a half if you count the seven years war. So Japan..” A “you had a war that lasted seven years?” H “five to seven years is pretty average for us. Now want to see a real ugly war look up the thirty years war, and hundred years wars. So anyway back to ww2 and the cannibalism, a country called japan got a little carried away on one of its neighbors and raped Nan Jing.” A “who’s Nan Jing?” H “Nan Jing was a city.” A “How do you rape a city?” H “weeeeeelllllll” A “you know what forget it”

[@ReaVen443]

Human history at its finest

[@EnraEnerato]

We were at war so many times and with so many people, some of the times for so long that we „forgot“ that we were at war with another, which got the historians who discovered this a bit of a stink eye for it. Yet we find such trivia amusing!

[@ReaVen443]

@@EnraEnerato Right, isnt part of Africa "still at war" with east germany (DDR)?

[@EnraEnerato]

@@ReaVen443 I'm not sure but since that nation doesn't exist anymore the need for a peace treaty is none existent anyway? Yet there are a few more times, some ancient history, some of them so recent as the 20th century in which this happened, which is funny because there may be more times we simply nhave not yet rediscovered.

[@alexanderschweinehunde167]

@@ReaVen443 Liechtenstein is still technically at war with Germany because Otto von Bismarck thought they were too insignificant to list in a peace deal. Meaning Liechtenstein has been at war for around 156 years

[@idcgaming518]

so basically it's, "you fight war games, we fight total war. We see your petty and pitiful landgrabs as something not worth challenging outright."

[@RexMK-]

I think for the Aliens, this system of War Games is like the galactic equivalent of the Geneva Convention. A set of rules and guidelines created for the porpouse to prevent an armed conflict from escalating to a point of no return and preveting hideous acts like the genocide of civilians and disproportionate escalation.

[@timogeerties3487]

Believe it or not, but in the middle ages, for lords to set a time and place for their knightages and soldiers to "duke it out" wasn't all that rare. Kept war costs and loss of lives down while settling the dispute.

[@RexMK-]

@@timogeerties3487 So this is the same but in space.

[@timogeerties3487]

@@RexMK- yes, basically

[@RexMK-]

@@timogeerties3487 Again this in kind with imagine would beasically be space Geneva Covention. Like how it is consider unethical to shoot rescue personal from the Red Cross or the use of "Pain Weapons" I guess the Aliens created this system to basically prevent massive wars that can escalated to WH40K levels of destruction where an entire planets can be rendered uninhabitable because someone decide to use all their stock pile of nuclear bombs. Also I just remember that in ancient times, the knights who were trained members of the nobility where not supouse to be killed. Basically in an armed conflict a when two knight face eachother whoever won the battle cmwas not allowed to kill the loser and then the loser was suposse to be returned home. However a knight was allowed to kill combatants that weren't part of the nobility, so imagine if a sub set of rules exist in this kind of war games for certeain kind of warriors

[@shadowhunter0815]

"We don't play war. We either do war, or we don't." Translation: "War isn't a game, you idiots! We only go to war when it's serious."

[@Chazz_K]

"For you, war is a game. For us, it is a business. And we are very profitable at that particular enterprise."

[@drakon489a]

I think it is more along the lines of "For us(aliens), humans say we 'are wearing child manipulator appendage garments when we wage war.' which sounds reasonable to us, but they followed it up with "When the chips are down for a war, We take off our gloves and swing away" so it sounds like we have a mistranslation of war or have never engaged in a war on human terms."

[@GamingWithUncleJon]

@@drakon489a Kid gloves refer to them being made from "kid" leather. AKA leather from the skin young goats.

[@drakon489a]

@@GamingWithUncleJon Kids Gloves phrase is also meaning to take care of them gently

[@GamingWithUncleJon]

@@drakon489a Because kid leather is very very soft.

[@singletona082]

'No recorded conflicts.' Should we tell them....?

[@chrisb9143]

Well guys, you need to read, agree with and sign this before we go to war. It's called the Geneva Convention. It's for your own sake, believe me.

[@aronnemcsik]

@@chrisb9143 You mean Genova Suggestions???

[@jmoneyjoshkinion4576]

Is "We Would Like to Formally Invite you to War" part 2 of this, or a great coincidence? The video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2imYqNpoN-rps0

[@enriquemendoza3653]

@@aronnemcsik no it’s until the CO dies then it’s suggestions

[@julonkrutor4649]

@@chrisb9143 Xenos on day 1: Why should we? Nobody would ever use nukes on a planet. Xenos a year later: Ok, where do we sign it. Human: on the dotted line. Xenos - at least the survivors: thank you. Human: you are welcome. And next time, listen when we teach you something about war. You don't need to learn it the hard way ... Again.

[@peterwall8191]

You missed something. Humans know war so well, they refuse to play. Push hard enough long enough.. you'll find out why.

[@skoshman1]

"Don't push the pink-skins through the thin ice."

[@da_BemBem]

Story does make it pretty clear, humanity would lose. We do play war, History is full of it.

[@dovahbear0]

@@da_BemBem mhmm we do war games but not like how its played out in this story. We do proxy wars where bigger governments give weapons to smaller countries... mostly

[@da_BemBem]

@@dovahbear0 we also do war games like the ones presented here in this story. It is especially common in pre-nation-state societies, ergo the Tuscans, Greek city-states, and many Polynesian societies.

[@dovahbear0]

@@da_BemBem oh ya... didn't the zulu nation's do that also until king shaka?

[@colinsmith1495]

The 'aggression paradox' is simple. Because we, as individuals, regularly engage in violence, we understand it. We know the risks. We know the pain, the loss, the suffering, the shame, and the danger of false pride. We can see another being threatened and FEEL what will happen to them even if it isn't happening to us, and even if it hasn't happened yet. Because of this, we carefully consider whether serious aggression is worthwhile. It's not uncommon for fists to fly, but conflicts that could end in brain damage, loss of limb, or death need to be more carefully weighed, specifically because we KNOW what violence is.

[@MazaAzi]

unless your stupid or unempathetic (Like Putin or a war hawk). In which case you will just force war any way you can for little or no reason.

[@gmailquinn]

We as a species are born of and to violence

[@timothygooding9544]

I think its more that the humans were offering to buy systems with resources and the idea of currency was not something that existed in the alien race. They didnt realize it was an offer for a deal and instead took the "and we get this star system" as a demand backed with the threat of violence

[@barstool9156]

An interesting thought. The weight of loss is not always the primary factor, witch can include the need to take revenge. Throughout modern history, America, especially around the time of World War 2 was considered the sleeping Dragon, being that they had both a large and powerful Military, but refused to go into war unless provoked. That provocation was not just the attempted capture of there land, but an attack upon there civilians and there military. They entered war, and because Japan sunk 7 boats, the U.S decided to drop two Suns on them.

[@Voron_Aggrav]

@@barstool9156 7 boats before the declaration of War got translated and passed along, but besides that you're correct, that little distinction is what fed the fervour of the war machine,

[@233Deadman]

Sometime in the future: new alien race starts sweeping across the galaxy and violently ripping through the "military" of the other races. Everyone feels sorry for humanity as the new race attacks one of our colonies, but they don't have the resources left to help the "peaceful" humans. 2 days later, Humanity inflicts the first meaningful combat victories against the new aliens, and suddenly everyone realises how lucky of an escape they had.

[@zacgarcia9082]

Yo if you havent read it theres a story series on youtube like that called why humans avoid war

[@Reaper_Rin]

@@zacgarcia9082 by who?

[@zacgarcia9082]

A bit late on this one but its by space paladin 15 the channel i heard it on was knight time narration

[@singletona082]

Humanity: We would celebrate having a worthy opponent, but htat would imply you are worthy. You are simply in our way. Begone! - Transmission from allied terran command to the Thoth before the massacre of wolf 359.

[@daddyleon]

Pretty awesome series i think

[@omargoodman2999]

And then one of those species gets the funny idea that if they take a world _inside_ our exclusion zone, it will go just as well as it had before. .. *Alien admiral:* Imagine the accolades. These inner worlds are *far* more developed and, once we arrive to contest them, the humans will simply pack up and leave us *all* the infrastructure. *Alien coms officer:* Sir, I've transmitted the challenge. *Alien admiral:* Good, good. Now, all we have to do is wait and the game is as good as won... Wait, why do I hear boss music? ... _Why does it have lyrics!?_ ... *Oh crap, they're in Latin, REVERSE COURSE! GET US THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!*

[@silence___]

Which song sir?

[@rydergolde3169]

I also wish to know which song

[@Sora-md1ye]

Perhaps One Winged Angel?

[@nocount7517]

@@Sora-md1ye Either _Zero_ or _It Has To Be This Way_

[@singletona082]

*OH GOD IT'S GOT FIVE HEALTH BARS*

[@reivercaptain510]

You treat war as a polite, orchestrated engagement with estimated values of natural resources to be gained. Select among us treat it as a way of life. We are not the same. -Guest Human military leader speaking at the cultural exchange conference

[@singletona082]

'We can't beat them at this game they perfected.' Easy to be masters of a game that you invented and crafted around stratagies you were already good at and made everyone uneasy about going off script.' Hopefully they don't do the stupid thing and mock us about how horrible we are at war. 'We do not 'Play' at War. We, are Professionals.'

[@ettibbet5493]

No let them, we need a good exterminatus to show everyone

[@nocount7517]

Professionals have standards.

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

@@nocount7517 be polite

[@nocount7517]

@@biggsdarklighter0473 Be efficient.

[@HennryHammerhead]

@@nocount7517 And always have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

[@Johnrich395]

Reminds me of a line inspired by the BBC’s Sherlock: “Pray that you are to be killed by an evil man. An evil man will take his time, sampling the killing like a fine wine, he will be slow and methodical enjoying every moment as if smoking a cigar. He will therefore lose himself in the enjoyment giving you the chance to escape. A good man however will take no such pleasure in his actions. If you are to be killed by a good man he will be as quick as possible, hating every moment of his actions, and you will never escape. No, pray that you are to be killed by an evil man.”

[@charimonfanboy]

That's a Pratchetism from men at arms; If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”

[@alexanderschweinehunde167]

“There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness, there is no reasoning with an incendiary bomb”- President FDR

[@wyvernharries4788]

The squeak at ..."discuss the battle plan'?" I hope that was intentional. Really conveys the confusion.

[@JohnnyTyrant]

This really came down to a game of definitions. It all depends on what you consider “war.”

[@joet4418]

"If you find yourself in a fair fight your tactics suck."

[@roguecarrick816]

Humans sipping coffee at the back of the class. Everyone wants to play chess. Guys we moved past that centuries ago. We turned up to the first one thinking you wanted to play 40k apocalypse, then the kill Joy's cleared things up & we put the titan away. Gonna be honest here we're humoring you,

[@Thebobkiller1]

Obviously, the aliens have yet to research human history. Or KZbin comments.

[@catfwish]

That second bit is the most meaningful statement in this comment section.

[@vanevanhaagen4011]

im WAITING for a Species to challenge that Saying. 'They wont Play war? So lets give them war.' and quickly learning what War means to a Human.

[@109Rage]

Ritualized warfare is actually fairly common throughout human history. Granted, these rules tended to only be respected between "in-groups" that respected each other, and it was total-war with more foreign groups. The Greek city-states had rules of engagement when fighting amongst each other, but completely forgot those rules when fighting the Persians.

[@bravomike4734]

The Greek city states also stopped doing rituatlized warfare with each other as they started inventing siege weapons during the Peloponnese wars and with the hate they had for each other from the centuries of previous fighting.

[@RexMK-]

Actually when you analize this ... It kinda makes sense that an Alien Civilization would choose this method of solving armed conflicts by using "War games" Is kinda like the Geneva Convention in a way, the Geneva Convention Rules of Wars exist with the porpouse of keeping the amount of devastion and armed conflict cam reach to "Minimun" Levels as well as to prevent a armed conflict from escalating to a point of no return. Like how is a war crime to both attack surrendering enemies and at the same time enemies that surrender can not use the good will of their adversary agaisnt them. Rules like these exist to, for instance preventing an army using tactics like faking a surrender to make an enemy lower their guard for a surprise attack, as this may result in that enemy merciless killing actual surrendering enemies in the future as a preventive want to avoid being attacked when not expecting them. For an intergalactic community compose of several alien races, is very likely that they created this "War Games" as a means to ensure that whenver two or more parties go to wars agaisnt one another the resulting conflict never escalated to a point of no return. For what can understand from this small story, Aliens have basically eliminated dispropocinated huge scale wars by creating a systems that ensures that whenever there is an armed conflict, all parties involved mantain some level of civilization and mutual respect.

[@apollyonsblade5461]

This reminds me of the movie with Tom Hardy where he is pissed because he wanted a "proper F***ing shoot out" and everyone else brought pipes and clubs

[@JEL625]

Next chapter. Xenos fuck around and find out.

[@paulhuston9991]

We go from chill to death row. We go from trade to geno/xenocide in a few hours.

[@kyriss12]

Reminds me of the m’bari from Babylon 5. At first glance they seem to be one of those pacifist intellectual species, but apparently they have no off switch when it comes to violence, and nearly wiped themselves out at some point in the past. So while they are slow to anger, once they decide to throw down, they back off untill someone stops moving. Bar fights become a fight to the death, family feuds don’t end untill someone’s entire bloodline gets wiped out, and the only thing that stopped them from killing every human in the galaxy was finding out their space Jesus was a human from the future.

[@drakon489a]

Hours? pretty sure it is faster than that

[@inquisitorthornside3p494]

FILTHY XENOS!

[@singletona082]

And yet they're still salty over the black star. A ship that attacked the crippled that was unable to give even token resistance. That was made so by a false distress transmission from the membari. We manage to bloody their nose, they scream about it for the next CENTURY even though they were at Earth's door ready to wipe out the whole human species.

[@smaragdwolf1]

basically, if humans decide to go to war, its in all meanings a war. Making war while permantly standing on the breaks to not overdo it, is tiring. Giving overself all kinds of Rules for War makes it tiring and stressfull, so its better to stay peaceful. Unless the right/wrong trigger lets us snap.

[@andrewmartin2321]

When we play no one dies, when we fight we fight to win. You’re doing something in between and I don’t care for it.

[@scienceandponies]

Sounds like they're foing a whole lot of fucking around and getting dangerously close to finding out.

[@timothygooding9544]

...is no one else seeing that this as potentially the humans offering to purchase the star system and that offer getting misinterpreted as a threat of war

[@rantladyt426]

to them, war is a monetary gain game. to us, war is two civilizations fighting for survival against each other.

[@russellstanley8884]

Humans play war all the time - most of our games are based on it, to a less or greater degree. We just don't "play war" as a nation for real stakes. Put something the nation cares about on the line (such as a colony planet instead of a nearly worthless empty planet) and we will do war for real, not for play. Although I do think it is unlikely we would have refused to play altogether - if for nothing else to test out how much of a disadvantage we actually would be in their wargame. If we could "Git Gud" and beat them at their own game, humans absolutely would "play war" with the aliens. Just depends on the odds of success and the stakes. And humans like to gamble.

[@nocount7517]

Oh, if only they looked at our history...

[@thecursed01]

so far, we humans lost every war we fought...and not even all of them were vs other humans....emu war...

[@ForeverOdd]

Going into this story for HFY is like asking for Coke and getting Diet Pepsi. It's fine, but not what I was looking for at all.

[@slimeinabox]

“You’re not worth our time.”

[@Boris99999]

1:00 - the “150 light years later” is the dumbest phrase I have heard in a while!

[@babla69420]

Fr

[@santi2683]

>united nations >Every ship and person has anglo-saxon names Tiresome and unoriginal

[@kiaser21]

For professionals, practice and competition must be the same.

[@glimmer6819]

I be the first. And now, there will be a **Human Aggression Paradox**, because people, on the one hand, *hate* it when someone does this, but also, they can relate and so their aggression will be tempered... hah. Also for the algortihmn hail the writer and also the squirrel narrator person and so on yadadada dadada...

[@robinchwan]

total war or no war, take your pick

[@calvingreene90]

Some alien will do something stupid and find their homeworld and major colonies glassed and not have a clue as to why?

[@rachelryan84]

Honestly I think we would make the formula into a computer game within a year with victory conditions being pushing everyone else back to their safe zone. I think what would happen would be along the lines of the government staying within the safe zone and the odd company using mercinaries for the games.

[@month32]

-What is the Geneva checklist? -Well... start a war and find out.

[@zacgarcia9082]

This is along way of saying fuck around and find out

[@m.t.fguard8309]

They pretty much said stop with your petty little games and I either we both throw hands or we put our hands on you for waisting our time

[@bradwolf07]

I had to relisted to get it. The Xenos were playing their petty games and poked a sleeping Giant. Lucky fpr them, the Sleeping Giant decided they weren't worth it.

[@Goulmy86]

Looks like they need to figure out a way to establish enemy total strength

[@Peanutcat]

Please do part 2 of this "Saving the Xenos"

[@proudamerican183]

DSF: Galaxy at War is such a good game.

[@kingcaragious]

The humans basically said "F*ck around & find out"

[@macpurdy]

For the algorithm and the narrator.

[@damonminnix4660]

They will figure out what that means if they fuck around too much. Sol Conventions will be written. (Don’t know if that is already a thing or not, if I read it somewhere and forgot or what)

[@Zael_Moonblade]

If the 'War Games' did not involve death Humanity would have claimed everything...

[@someasiandude4797]

I’m summary, either we don’t fight or fight with every weapon in existence

[@additiveartificer9365]

These children never know the ture war

[@Just_A_Simple_Time_Traveller]

Nice

[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@robertnegotei3495]

Wait till they learn about TOTAL WAR

[@mekhane.broken9678]

Well that was a nothing burger

[@marclytle644]

We either do war or we don't You do NOT want Humanity to go to war. Let us show you some of our, historical archives. *plays video of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki* *human leans over to alien* "Here comes the sun... do do doo do"

[@GentlemanBystander]

Dresden would have been better

[@brucenorman8904]

@@GentlemanBystander Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the big firebombing of Tokyo. Dresden was small potatoes compared to those three. Hamburg was worse than Dresden.

[@GentlemanBystander]

@@brucenorman8904 They also burned themselves out in a fraction of the time.

[@brucenorman8904]

@@GentlemanBystander Dresden, Feb 13th to 15th. Hamburg 8 days and 7 nights with more bomb tonnage and more aircraft.

[@GentlemanBystander]

@@brucenorman8904 Did Hamburg have a self-perpetuating firestorm that turned thermobaric? *_BURNING_* is the operative piece of terminology here.

[@Kualinar]

Yes. War is NOT a game. It's ugly and dirty. We play war games in our living room.

[@AFancyApe]

Is there a sequal?

[@beingsneaky]

As soon as I heard challenge. I knew it was not "War" but, as they said a challenge. And human being stupid humans once again go all out. I don't know why those stupid humans don't under stand a challenge. After all some wars were decided by a single combat or duel. Saved life's, time and expenses.

[@VelaiciaCreator]

When facing an entity with a childish view on system acquisition, one that believes that they can purchase space rocks with lives, the smart thing to do is get out of the danger zone. We value lives, and participating in such is letting people be harassed while minding their own business, then being told to move because aliens want their land and our troops lost the battle. It's not about a single battle... these places that could become permanent and ancestral homes would be contested until universal society collapses, meaning lives lost due to a difference in ideology.

[@xxKillgorxx]

I don't see why we let them take anything in general. It's not about systems not being worth anything, they invaded our territory and we just roll over? Stories like this where we immediately give in to play by their rules always makes me angry to listen to.

[@GentlemanBystander]

>flag bridge >an interpreter telling a flag officer how they should engage in battle >more human capitulationism God dammit >actually gets the part about transit-time for transmissions over great distances right GOD DAMMIT! HFY has apparently come to mean "Hugz Fabulous Yass (kween)". Reddit ruins every fucking thing.

[@anonymouspotato7538]

So just to be clear... you _would_ senselessly throw away human lives over a trash system that's already pretty much been mined out?

[@GentlemanBystander]

@@anonymouspotato7538 Or you could fight by your own rules, not theirs, make it clear to them that we don't play by their ritualized rules and establish, from the start, that we won't tolerate the precedent. This story is a case study of "give them an inch, they'll take a mile".

[@FizzySugarStar]

Hugs Fabulous Yass (kween) best thing EVER

[@maxmccullough8548]

I agree sir, this weakness disgusts me.

[@anonymouspotato7538]

@@GentlemanBystander Right, see, that's how you get every member of the galactic community to ally against you, which would just lead to the extermination of the human race. So you're throwing away even _more_ lives than just the soldiers'.

[@tonynelligan1930]

point??????? nice enough story but???????

[@ettibbet5493]

Reminds me of battletech with how the cland fought, then space at&t said fight us at tukkayiid, and they got rocked.

[@trevtall1094]

The humans in this story are limiting themselves to a tiny bit of space where the rules of war make them safe. This is a dumb move in the longrun so is acting weak and abandoning collonies without fighting to keep it by their rules. They might lose but atleast they'll learn how to do it. I wouldn't call this HFY at all.

[@mrbuttocks6772]

A very ignorant thing to say.

[@mikeyunovapix7181]

Think about it, They set a line for nobody else to cross and bought themselves time to prepare. Eventually, the galaxy would find out why we don't like the idea of treating war like a game in such a way. We became so good at it, that we eventually reflected and became disgusted at how savage, cruel, and calculated we can be when it came to hurting our enemies, and despite that, we can't help ourselves. By the time humanity reached the stars, they treat such a gamification of war as a vile insult to how precious life can be.

[@chaddts]

This was terrible. No conclusion at all. Boring...

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm