Best HFY Sci-Fi Stories: Where Empires Go To Die

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[@dalemorgan8263]

"Lemme go _rewrite human nature_ real quick." _internal cackling_

[@nadjasunflower1387]

I'm glad for you it was internal cackling...for me it was sipping some Irish wiskey, and having to swallow real fast in order to not spray it all over my monitor. LOL

[@vinyak123rohatgi]

early bird contributes to the algorithm.

[@QuinnCook-j2q]

Indeed As the saying goes: the early bird gets no sleep

[@cedkira]

Appreciate the reference to the current situations happening today

[@SmoochyRoo]

I know right? Gives me hope

[@cedkira]

@SmoochyRoo unfortunately this channel also story glazing the team mowing the lawn.

[@alfredsutton4412]

For the talented writer. For the reader who entertains us daily. For the algorithm that controls us all.

[@musicduck-a]

I Couldn't Have Said It Better. Agreed!! 👍💯💯💯💯💯

[@Iluvantir]

“No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once, we will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.” ~ G'Kar, Babylon 5 So true.

[@benjaminsinclair9255]

No dictator…no invader…can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. - G'Kar

[@BeeKisses]

Human tenacity is only matched by our spite

[@Amelia_Scp_and_Halo_fan]

so when our spite match our tenacity, we can square our détemination. is that right?

[@thesilentscreamer1595]

As a Vietnamese, it brings me joy that the Author brings up Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. While I wasn't from that generation, I admire our forefathers for the sacrifices they made for the freedom we have today.

[@MarkJohnson-ro1ed]

I'm Australian, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong faced us once in battle and then avoided us at every opportunity. We do not take prisoners, leave survivors, or care about 'War Crimes'.

[@SmoochyRoo]

​@@MarkJohnson-ro1ed That's a vile thing to brag about from someone who's nation lost a war against literal emus, and in the end y'all still had to retreat from Vietnam.

[@user-sq5mr8ut1o]

see I came into this expecting space Afghanistan, and that's exactly what I got. Also surprised there weren't any comments made about the Rockies and Appalachians, those would be a nightmare to go through or over. Every cave, every little outcropping of rock, ever little cluster of boulders could be one more nest waiting to swat what ever flies go by

[@nadjasunflower1387]

yup...grew up in the Appalachians that run through northern PA...know that land like the back of my hand...and because most of the towns (even though small) are in the valleys, it would be easy to see when someone would be leaving town to come give you some trouble, and set up to give them a good 'ole country welcome. 😁

[@EricWood-j3x]

He did mention the Rockies, "Idaho was my own personal byword for Hell." The Coeur d'Alene, Cleawater, Bitterroot, Selkirk & Cabinet mountains are part of the Rockies running from South/Central Idaho up into Canada. Not sure about the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, they might be considered Cascade Range

[@bigjay875]

Excellent story explaining the human condition

[@brianmeadows1137]

Any Warlike aliens try to occupy Arabs going to regret it.

[@GarmrsBarking]

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Che Guevara

[@Nempo13]

There must always be another to take up arms against the darkness. That is the core of true family beyond kin, and the unifying link that brings day to night and allow the fallen to rest.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

Another couple of good ones. "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." -Emiliano Zapata. "When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out." -Ho Chi Minh. Not saying I agree with everything they said and did, but they do have a point here.

[@aco319sig3]

"There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." -- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Navy) That was just talking about America. Imagine an entire world like this.

[@reuvenpolonskiy2544]

It would be actually true only for nations like America, which respect the right to bear arms - specially to resist tyranny - and they have a proud tradition of it. Most of the states - including mine - treat their population like prisoners or chattel, forbidding arms to them.

[@singletona082]

'Where Empires go to Die.' ....afganestan?

[@johnschofield3418]

That was my first thought as well

[@Amelia_Scp_and_Halo_fan]

same for me. Earth and it's future colonie would probable be space afganestan for all of the other empires.

[@Logajam.]

Indegenous species is defective. Remove and replace with more useful client species. Moving on.

[@howardchambers9679]

I was waiting for him to try to pronounce "indefatigable" lol. He almost got it right!

[@stevewatts3502]

I swear, I think he does it on purpose. Anything over 4 syllables 🎲🎲 ...AND, I think (from the edit stutter) he must have googled it too! It's kind of an endearing foible, imo.

[@timobrien2813]

Thank you both. UKUK

[@akmon3490]

People seem to forget how empires meet in the east of Europe , even the Ottomans knew wiser to keep some just vassals as the didn't have funding to keep their last conquests. Each and every one on the Balkan peninsula cost coffers and men to keep in line. Yet one at the end over the Danube province remained a vassal for they paid in blood and gold to be free. Yet the ottomans never knew the mistake they made, each time they show weakness that region was first to rebel. When they pushed into Napoli the province rose up, the ottoman army of hundred thousand men turned around. They sought the Austro Hungarian empire to help rid them of the ottomans yet their knight were arrogant and lost in the swamps. They were there each time unrest was ripe. And they were there letting the Russian empire pass through their lands to fell the Ottomans once , and the ottoman empire's back broke .

[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

*Alexei must return, we shall reunite the russian peoples against the impures Invader from the great empire. For God, Alexei and Russia!* Some lunatic in the warlord state of Komi.

[@brianmeadows1137]

Actually, any group of people being oppressed.

[@Logajam.]

Only works if they don't want to kill us.

[@spartastic4]

Feed the algorithm

[@reuvenpolonskiy2544]

If the aliens were really wanting to get rid of humanity they would have used orbital bombardment of earth with nerve gas, untill it would fill the whole atmosphere. But for some reason they wanted humanity alive, they needed them. Interesting to what end. I hope the story will be expanded on that.

[@nijadbahnam9859]

Nice story . Well written . But things that annoy me in such scenarios , interstellar civilisation, would be able to draw resources from Astroid fields a thousand gold they can from a planet . If they want to invade a planet, it would be for other reason like religion , cultural or political.

[@thomasjetzer2823]

Nobody would invade a planet period. Have you learned in history class about what a logistical nightmare the D-Day Landings were? That journey was barely a hundred miles from friendly shores. Now imagine having to transport, deploy and supply enough troops to conquer a planet literally lightyears away from your nearest supply hub. No society bound to such talent-wasting concepts such as slavery, extremist politics or theocracy would develop the capacity to do this.

[@daavocadoguy5733]

banana

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

The forgiveness of humans of those they conquer is less common than believed. There have been empires from neobabylon through USA that have acted magnanimous in victory. There's been also like Assyrians to communists that have been utterly brutal to the vanquished. Not being a historian I cannot hazard a % but for every example of benign conqueror like Rhodesians I think of a brutal like the Congo. Also some peoples get conquered and stay conquered while others not so. The human spirit is diverse on this point. Yes, kinda heavy for a fun little story.

[@sleepygryph]

It's a neat story, sure but it leaves out a key part of insurgencies; they're often funded/supplied by outside "unaffiliated" parties. As long as someone is willing to pour their resources into a conflict but at the same time remain outside of it the conflict will rage on. Case in point in Germany after the war there were two insurgencies, one short lived and one that lasted until the fall of the Soviet union. The first were the diehards that didn't believe the war was over. They had neither resources nor popular support and were quickly and brutally beaten down (during the occupation years leading up and immediately after the surrender entire families could be executed for the misdeeds of one member). The second one though was a communist insurgency. They would constantly launch terror attacks meant to spread chaos and destabilize the government but when the Soviet Union fell it dried up as fast as it started.

[@Mr.Grinns]

Funny that he lists every revolution and insurgency besides the largest and most influential one. The american revolutionary war

[@Zaluskowsky]

❤

[@Jszar]

What, no mention of Ireland? 800 years of resistance to English rule, and they don’t get a footnote in a story about insurgency. I’m disappointed.

[@Nevir202]

Might want to fix that editing arror on the last line. Including that blown take before the good one kinda spoils it.

[@JohnTheRaeder-xf5sh]

Noice

[@Swordfish42]

Caw caw caw

[@Engie50Limerick]

3rd, nice & early to this upload for once

[@LENZ5369]

The Afghanistan myth/meme is one of the weirder ones; it's seems it is propagated solely by people unwilling/incapable of doing a google search. I have anecdotally noticed it's largely still an American and Western Euro thing, I'm curious if it has spread outside the 'western cultural sphere'.

[@slimking28]

Great story. But this comment is on how you butchered “indefatigable” 😂😂 Like you do know google well help you pronounce word right?🤣🤣🤣 You just🤣 you just need to plug it in and hit the speaker button😆 Look “n-de-fat-t-guh-a-bol”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh god, I had fun.🤩

[@Gh05tk3y]

Good story but you repeated half sentences a few time so not a great reading. Still better than most ai readers on the platform.

[@NetNarrator]

My bad, that's easily fixable on my end. Timestamp?

[@ralphdunn1373]

1st