Humanity Rising (The Complete Story) | HFY

[@KarterBigs]

Oh I remember this story, I'll give it a re-listen! For those who don't know this is all actually based off of a Stellaris play through 😂😂😂

[@fk301094]

lol

[@JCTheSniper15]

I did not, but it is pretty well written.

[@hiki9911]

Makes sense. All the mechanics sound fimiliar

[@redthecalm6366]

Karter bigs doesn't know her azz from her mouth

[@bennettbush3906]

@@hiki9911I was literally thinking the same thing

[@jasonrife6595]

Tell me you play stellaris without telling me you play stellaris. Great story tho

[@Pokerface-tr1ds]

Although I am not a big Sci Fi Fan, but with each day passing, I find myself craving for more.

[@atvarnic]

Great story made walking the dog a must do task he went out three times in a day 😅

[@RespectMyAuthoritaah]

I know. I walk my dog three times a day every day. First thing when I get up. As soon as I get home from work and the last thing I do before bed. Each walk is a training session of heel, sit and stay. Basically companion dog training. Each walk includes a play session midway that lasts about 15 minutes. It has gotten to the point where if I am busy, Cujo (the fifth of that name and a Shetland Sheepdog) will bring me his traffic lead. If that doesn't convince you that dogs are good companions, you have no heart.

[@bennettbush3906]

@@RespectMyAuthoritaahI flipping love my German Short Hair. When I got him my parents were a little nervous, they grew up around German short hairs and they were a bit mean (they’re words). I started training him for pointing and retrieving and he’s been great so far. I’m gonna take him on a pheasant hunt next year and see how he does.

[@RespectMyAuthoritaah]

@@bennettbush3906 Short hairs are great hunting dogs and companions.

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

@@bennettbush3906 had several growing up and never had a mean one

[@jacobgriffin613]

This is a good story and I like how some of these stories connect with each other, it definitely adds depth to the stories.

[@ChadLetourneaurhavoc]

It was very well done, I found it captivating and will listen to it again in the future. And i think ill need to replay Stellaris as well 😊 Thank you to the Author

[@sonofthunder2665]

Hope there is a sequel! one in which humanity learns from the debri and tech left by the kho and become advanced enough to truly put up a fight against them without having to rely on some natural phenomenon.

[@estebanslavidastic4382]

That should be a secondary plot. Primary plot is: the arrival of the unbidden

[@FatKat67]

I'm halfway through my third listen. Good story. I've heard it before and it is worth another listen.

[@alfredotto7525]

Finally, a story that isome what believably. Good story.

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

Except for that whole stellar north and west LOL. But that could have been a hat tip to the original Star Trek

[@theemperor1379]

@@TerrellScott-h7y Not really, it's based on a stellaris playrun. So, if you've played it, you'd get it.

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

@@theemperor1379 haven’t played plot but did see that it’s offered for PC. Thought I would give it a shot

[@gk5891]

"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute". I love the callback to the Barbary Wars. Despite the use by Thomas Jefferson during his successful presidential campaign with the Barbary Pirates a primary issue, this foundation of future American Diplomacy actually originated as a quote by Robert Goodloe Harper the Federaliist Congressman from South Carolina during the XYZ affair.

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

@ XYZ affair? Hmmm… would that be the war of Northern aggression?

[@pauldwalker]

this was an excellent series.

[@Questor-ky2fv]

Nice story! Also, such feats of superhuman strength, although not common, actually do occasionally happen for real. There are records of such things happening. Strong emotions can trigger a big spike in our adrenaline levels, bringing about the strength necessary to save lives. It's mind-boggling to know just how amazing our bodies are.😃🤗

[@SeedlingNL]

The reason our bodies limit our power is because it risks severe injury if not. Muscles and ligaments can tear, and even bones may break as the muscles are overstressing them. A desperate mother may be able to lift a car of a child's body, but she's going to be in a very bad condition once the adrenaline wears off...

[@HRBladeAU]

Stellaris vibes

[@reasonabledoubt459]

It’s based off an ongoing game of Stellaris. ;) The sequel ‘Humanity: Threatened’ Will begin with the story ‘The Struggle’.

[@HRBladeAU]

@@reasonabledoubt459 Ye i noticed :D i love Stellaris, i actually just started a new game recently with the Arc Welders origins since by trade and work im a welder lol. I had my suspicion that it was Stellaris, but then it mentioned Titan and im like "yep it is awesomeee" I believe it is currently the mid/late game or its about to be anyways since you defeated the nomads, although it could just be the khan mis game crisis never spawned. Btw are you the creator?

[@jerrodbrown5475]

Great analogy, I agree.

[@reasonabledoubt459]

@@HRBladeAU Yup. :) I wrote this one, among many...many...many others. I just wrote the first chapter of the next arc not ten minutes ago. This one will feature a coalition of rising regional powers that threatened my Republic in the postwar period when I was in economic recession thanks to overspending to fend off the Kho. It took a lot of effort to rebuild my finances and stabilize the damaged systems in time to face the threat of other Empires again. In short, I was stagnant while they grew, and I was the logical choice to attack while I was still rebuilding my fleet when the first one of them invaded. I knew that if I lost this war, the chances of my long term survival in the game was slim, and that I not only had to win, I had to win 'big' to make sure my neighbors were crippled and new neighbors overawed for a long, long time. So this was the most do or die situation I'd been in yet. The Kho wanted to humiliate me, the new threat actually wanted to conquer me. As far as where it is 'in game'... I would characterize it as 'early mid' since it's a massive galaxy and at this stage I still didn't really control but maybe 1/5th of it? Maybe even only 1/6th. However I knew that if I handled this incoming threat after 'The Struggle' I would rule about 1/3 - 1/4th. But that would also put me on the border with a lot of other species that I'd never fought before and had only tenuous relationships with and almost no intelligence. Future stories will focus more on individual characters against the backdrop of politics, and hopefully that'll be something listeners will enjoy. I much prefer character writing to event oriented. :)

[@HRBladeAU]

@@reasonabledoubt459 Well I love it! Good luck and have fun, I await the future stories! For Freedom!

[@dawnalli8785]

Wonderful!

[@kevinkelley9670]

Admiral Pike is a bit thick if she didn't understand that the war had already begun with the Inta-ka-na's response "come and get them".

[@RespectMyAuthoritaah]

I saw that too. It could have been a little bit better written to support the narrative.

[@PreacherwithoutaPulpit]

Very good story, well done.

[@Posh_Quack]

Pretty good so far, seems like it would be one hell of a video game btw.

[@farrglehorn8216]

Apparently it's based off a game of stellaris 😂

[@Posh_Quack]

@@farrglehorn8216 no wonder I was thinking it was similar...

[@hansachter5657]

Very well done! This one's a keeper.

[@RespectMyAuthoritaah]

Really well done. Thank you.

[@robchapin3317]

Excellent story!

[@manjisaipoe517]

Another listen, for the Algea Rythym! Peace❤😊.

[@danpowell5286]

Good story guys, good story.

[@NotQuiteUseful]

Louisville becomes the capital of Earth? As in Kentucky? How that happened has to be a story worth listening to by itself.

[@sparkeyjames]

Probably the authors home town. So why not. Right?

[@tonymahon8723]

Kinda makes the whole thing totally unbelievable. Obviously written from a parochial point of view.

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

LOL I am guessing DC was razed to the ground because of all the foreign entanglements and silly spending bankrupting the company

[@cindaschuster6725]

Freedom is Never Free!

[@PhthaloGreenskin]

This is why you never allow open First contact protocols. Always aggressive or Cautious unless you're a Rogue Servitor.

[@campion04]

Good stuff 7/10

[@darksouls4046]

Listen to to these while I build in Space Engineer love the content!❤❤❤❤😍

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

Just saw they make this game for PCs, gonna have to buy it and give it a try

[@mikhalize]

This is fantastic!

[@JoeKlein-it3vx]

Loved it! I like to envision stuff like this when I play Stellaris. Great work.

[@starclone4]

Excellent story 😊 !!!!

[@kaykaymishka5548]

Great story!!! ❤

[@JulieGlover-j5f]

Really like this, wish it was available in ebook format

[@kawangerald4271]

Nice story!!

[@danieldpa8484]

Very good!

[@hailtheiam]

They are few and far between but finally a good story

[@pax1sw]

👍That was a great story, I really enjoyed it. 😁

[@josecarranza6516]

"to bodly go where no man had gone before..."

[@alejotassile6441]

our hyperlanes blockaded sounded a lot like "Hyperlinks blocked"

[@jons387]

I'm hearing and I'm liking !!

[@jamesgammage3725]

Listening through this and other stuff while I play Stellaris and after a while I was like the DeCaprio pointing meme. lol

[@Tamarodoc]

Not first

[@TerrellScott-h7y]

What a great story with men, my forefathers that fought against tyranny and started our republic. That last part seem foreboding, about electing and power mad idiot… or in our case a stolen election. Well, what a great story. Thank you to both the author and the poster

[@deviantlight2510]

Stolen election, you say? If you are American, are you talking about how your democrat Party stole the election? That was 4 years ago, not recent. If you think Trump stole the election, then you need to hold your breath forever. It will be a benefit to your entire country 😂.

[@ihspstanktribe]

Defeat by capitulation...i like it.

[@AsarKeziah1]

Im thinking back to the 1st season of Star Trek Discovery when a Klingon spiritual leader said the Federation was a threat because of their "we come in peace" philosophy. All the egalitarianism and potential profits from trade treaties with the Federation weakened other fractions will to fight them and encouraged many to join them. Without having to go to war the Federation would eventually conquer everyone they encountered. Thats what we see in this story, knowing your enemy will treat you well, that you'll probably have more personal freedom as their subject than a subject of your own nation etc ment in most cases nations surrendered more willingly.

[@svartamiel9556]

Console stellaris myself but i love this..found myself listeing to these stories lately, quite calming and enjoyable at the same time.

[@e.prevost94]

One of the better stories I've heard here in a while, although the ending was a bit disappointing

[@reasonabledoubt459]

The ending… sets up the sequel. ;)

[@hiki9911]

1:12:07 almost sh*t my self hearing the “FIRE!”

[@robinkelly1770]

Rabid anti slaver President John Brown As in "John Browns body lies a smouldering in his grave"😮😮😮

[@jameygroves8561]

John Brown, zealous abolitionist. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah...

[@MadaraUchihamizukage]

Took me longer then i would like to admit to realize who president brown was.

[@Gibretep]

Building battleships as they travel... Where did the extra crew come from? let alone the resources.

[@thesarcasticcatfish5215]

100% stellaris/SoaSE

[@charlescouncill]

Thank you!

[@dougtig2]

NUTS😂😂😂😂😂

[@marcleewinser8534]

John Brown was a great man. Thr fairly angry Santa Claus of Justice.

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

Don't they understand the humans have already fought this battle before second world war Pacific Japan's dream of a great battle defeating the American Fleet

[@davidtautuhi1389]

Is that all need too end this.

[@Myrrdhin83]

Therenis a few things that caught my attention. The first is the mention that a white star with a gas giant older than earth. If that star is white dwarf ok but if that star is A type star the gaz giant cannot be older than earth. An A type star have a main sequence life time of about 2 billion years si the planet would have form with the star if mean the gas giant would have been younger.

[@Myrrdhin83]

Again, I find alien to be too stupid. I can't fathom that they wouldn't have stellar physics figure out more than human.

[@FennecTECH]

Don’t touch our boats?

[@rafael882]

Shout out to my home city Louisville. Capital of the human empire lol.

[@WhyamiHere673]

Personal note 1:23:42

[@jodyeyre9840]

❤

[@weslooos]

enslaving and using sentient spiecies as test subjects? yeah no that aint no fear responce.

[@duaneamos5476]

Nonstrategic mine should not write war stories. Any ship that goes superluminal will destroy anything in front of it with minimal damage.

[@miloradowicz]

It's a panegyric to humanity. Its purpose isn't to be realistic, but simply believable enough. Or even wanna-believable, feel-goody. Critiquing it is like picking at propaganda: anywhere you point, there's gonna be a hole.

[@mistermerica8174]

Not the ai generated sacred dark wiki page😂😭

[@rbtsubs]

Really? Even the names are unimaginative

[@theemperor1379]

It's from Stellaris my dude. Literally auto generated names.

[@Motobro699]

This makes me want to play stellaris 😂

[@KoolAid-p7z]

No Unmanned drones?

[@youngrev]

Amazing story…. Not so much the John brown thing…. But amazing story, nevertheless

[@amarukud1013]

Min 37 sun zo the art of war

[@LeviathanWebWorks]

I like the ai art attempts, but Pike is a black lady and the AI i think managed to NOT whitewash her like one time

[@fatalvenomX]

You know the color of one’s skin doesn’t determine how they talk right? True the ai isn’t the best at accents or dialects but that doesn’t matter in this case. It’s actually rather fascinating how often people’s voice doesn’t match their appearance. Though if you’re insistent please do tell how they’ve been whitewashed if there are details I’ve missed. Before you ask yes I am black and noticeable so in terms of appearance.

[@failegion7828]

​@@fatalvenomXThe story literally describes her color my dude. Multiple times. "Mocha" being one of them.

[@o.5command]

2:11:50

[@kurtnewyork9374]

So many advertisers.

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

Ok sci-fi writers need to get over the word confederacy for bad guys. Like there was an Indian confederation before the revolution, are they bad guys? Like union is used in fare more authoritarian ideologies than confederation/confederacy. Like we get it, you don't like slavery, no one does, outside punitive slavery, but that's a matter philosophy, if you damaged public property, who do you pay? You can't pay the tax payer, so your labour is used to pay back the debt you incurred by damaging public property, who knows, maybe we'll actually get some potholes filled for once, imagine that, a world without potholes, all we do is take people, instead of sitting in prison, they get to patch the roads, In July/December (depending on hemisphere) like seems fair? Stole a car? State pays the vic compo, and works that compo out of you, the one responsible for the damage.

[@reasonabledoubt459]

Well, no, I don't think most people like 'punitive slavery' either. Slavery is 'always' bad. There are no exceptions. Punitive slavery sounds like a viable option, but the problem with that it is...ironically, the same problem that takes place with 'regular' slavery. And that problem is that you depress the wages of everybody else by offering a cheaper alternative. But as an aside, you also create an incentive to create a punitive slave labor force. In short, you create a criminal underclass expressly to get their labor which...is exactly what happened when the civil war ended. Slave catchers became police officers, and minorities were often arrested, charged, and convicted, or whole new laws were written, not for the purposes of protecting the public interest, but expressly to lease them like...slaves, to get cheap labor. This had the side effect of depressing the wages of white laborers at the same time it enriched the people who were leasing the cheap labor of the frequently unjustly convicted. All. Slavery. Is. Bad. Side not, the southern Confederacy was extremely authoritarian, highly centralized, and far more so than the Union at the same time. The South passed extreme laws regarding sedition and espionage, made the first draft in American history long before the Union one was enacted, and of course obviously...they acted with extreme authoritarianism over their slave owning class. Not to mention the attempts of their religious leaders attempting to add theocratic declarations to their constitution, and George Fitzhugh, one of the leading writers and thinkers of the time articulated the Southern cause as 'reactionary and conservative, a rolling back of the excesses of the reformation, of reformation run mad.' As he put it, 'It would have been well for us if the seemingly pompous inanities of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Bill of Rights and the Act of Religious Toleration had remained dead letters' and that 'All men are created equal, is an infidel doctrine'. So... when people think 'Confederacy' yes... there are 'other' confederacies out there. The Iroquois Confederacy being yes, one clear example. But the strongest cultural touchstone is that of the slaveholding authoritarian traitors, who would do anything to continue their tyrannical oppression of an underclass determined by no fault or accident but birth. As for why one might take issue with that...that would require a considerable amount of self reflection that no one else can help with.

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

@@reasonabledoubt459 like im a foreigner, but the way we're taught the civil war was as a betrayal by the north culturally, betraying the trust between states with political lobbying. I don't support the confederacy or anything like that, I just hate that it's so ubiquitous, it's so fuckin lazy. Like it's always empire or confederacy. Like be original, the chiss ascendancy absolutely slaps as the name of an expanding civilisations territory. Fuck American cultural touch stones, why would a global government have a two party system? Why would a global government be on the American continent to begin with? Wouldn't it make make more sense to put it in the fertile crescent? I get that America is the major producer of sci-fi writers, but god damn do they push Americanism so hard. Like why can't we have the story of how earth unified ? I want the total global war story, that sounds far more interesting. Like did America take over the world? Just annexing one state at a time? Why is America's obvious imperial phase glossed over?

[@reasonabledoubt459]

@ Now that WOULD be an interesting story… Though to answer your question about why the government is there? I chose my home city. :). No other reason. It’s a little reference or nod to my favorite place in the world. Side note, the short version of our civil war is that it was a slaver’s rebellion wherein the slave owners preferred to rip the country apart rather than hurt their bottom line by seeing slavery come to an end. Certain characters and governments are based loosely on the events of that era, though they’re not exact copies. I do borrow from other eras though. Yamamoto was based on the real world Japanese counterpart. An admirable leader no matter the side. Yi is based off his Korean counterpart and he uses a strategy similar to the historical counterpart. Rorona Zhan is based off a combination of Talleyrand and Bismarck. Things like that, and the more you know of history, the more little nods and references you’ll find along the way to different times, people, peoples, and places. But I do like your idea, perhaps that’d be a good prequel.

[@tonymahon8723]

​@@kingbillycokebottle5484I agree. I've always liked the concept of a 'Federation of United Sentients of Earth'. Be totally inclusive of everyone on this planet. Demonstrate that unity from the start by giving yourself a title that leaves little doubt as to what your ideology is.

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

@@tonymahon8723 yeah I like that. It also leaves room for when we accept that the races of humanity are all different apes, so a human unity is already cross (sub)species (seriously the more we learn the more it looks like we were still monkeys when we left Africa, or that the monkey went into Africa from Europe and back out again, and mixed with other apes that were also from the same family tree, genetics has exploded our understanding of our collective of hominids) unity. Just sticks in my craw that everything is so American focused. Like if human history is to gleam us the future, humanity needs a Napoleon to be united under. Too many interests for global governance without sacrificing democracy at the local level. I doubt anyone would vote for that so obviously America went on a mass imperial phase and conquered earth, mixing the diversity of humanity in some sick flex to the Soviets "this is how you destroy local identity, stupid"

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

These crew numbers are pretty small, 300 men to a cruiser? That's just the engine crew size of our cruisers of ww2. Should be about 1200, spose systems got automated but if that's the case shouldnt the human fleet in the first battle against the sacred dark be absolutely monsterous? Like the availability of crew has always been a big issue, humanity should have thousands of cruisers at that size, at that size with that high a population to draw from for crew, should be able to knock out ships faster than the US in ww2 fully crewed and all

[@reasonabledoubt459]

I'm generally acting under the assumption that most design choices would be meant to maximize efficiency and minimize the labor cost. That's kind of the industrial trend we've been on for the last few hundred years, so a smaller crew for anything not meant to engage in a boarding action would be the logical outcome. Also, this was based on a game of stellaris, the cruisers are not especially large vessels. :) The other thing to keep in mind, it's not just crew size that determines how much you can build, it's your ability to supply and sustain it, and I didn't have the highest fleet capacity for a fair amount of time. I put a lot more into developing technology. Worked out pretty well, but I won't lie, there were times I wished I had a bigger armada.

[@herbtapp3031]

Mixing fiction with nonfiction is a difficult task.

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

@@reasonabledoubt459 there's something to be said about quantity having a quality all of its own. My point was more about crew size than the logistics of supply, like I'd assume they have nuclear reactors aboard, would they need fuel? What fuel? Is it a gas or a liquid? My naval autism has been triggered and it won't rest till it has answers hahahha

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

@@herbtapp3031 that's for sure. I just can't wrap my head round how it'd work. As I said, all our ships ATM have crews in the hundreds, over 1000 for larger ships, like battle cruisers and first rate ships of the line to use an outdated term.

[@tamarawalters-p3q]

​@@kingbillycokebottle5484in the story it mentioned "energy harvesters" and "energy storage". Energy harvested from the sun, like solar panels? Space travel as it is now are severely limited by air, water, food, and weight/ mass. You can only pack so much in a tin can and still be able to get it all the way up into space. Once we have orbital shipyards, we can overcome part of that equation and design larger ships. I really like the Leviathan. The idea of repair and replace ships while on the march is game changing genius.

[@snappa77]

So Admiral Pike is described as Angela Bassett but the AI casted Michelle Phiefer. LMAO 😂

[@0dirty]

Xenomorphs?

[@HerbalMilitant]

Sarah Morgan disliked that.

[@7thCosirius]

🙋‍♂️

[@redfog42]

"Don't tell him, Pike!" 😁

[@009dracko]

FAFO

[@pinalvirani3135]

😅

[@SomewhatFringe]

USA! USA! USA!

[@tonymahon8723]

Not badly done, but why is everything based from a US point of view? Everything from the military make up to the politics, its Yankophylic. And one would hope to christ that by the time of these events, thete would be enough free thinkers that a god would no longer be necessary, so whille the phrase 'God speed' may be traditional, a new concept would be in use.

[@steven_sybert_5666]

Because lets be honest U.S culture will absorb the others before long. As it should.

[@channingdeadnight]

Probably because the writers are American. And it's usually preferable to write about your own culture rather than accidentally misrepresenting another one.

[@tonymahon8723]

@@steven_sybert_5666 Jesus, how colonialist of you? Anyone would think that the American way of life is super fantastic. TBH, I think your culture has had a detrimental effect on any country exposed to it. We were a lot better off before we were inundated with sepppo TV programmes and Hollywood movies that portray how life was supposed to be (but wasn't) in the great old US of A. SMH.

[@hansachter5657]

Well quit your bitching and get to writing. Make a compelling story from another cultural viewpoint or shut your hole and enjoy the stories you got free of charge.

[@hawkaiserthefinalbrave1859]

Because we are number 1. Stay in the dirt eurobum