One Shot One Empire | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

[@douglasbaker4562]

As an older man, I can ENTIRELY relate to some idiot making me miss an important day in my family's life.

[@valtiel2589]

I was playing Arma3 while I was writing this :) it was FUN.

[@georgerowe9166]

As a father, I wholeheartedly agree that missing a child's birthday party (especially a daughter's birthday party) is more than enough to warrant the Emperor's death. In fact, he might have went a little too easy on the bastard!

[@seanhewitt603]

Typical male bravado.

[@teachme5334]

​@@seanhewitt603 typical fatherless behavior

[@socrates1954]

​@@seanhewitt603male bravado?? Trust me, it would be my youngest daughter, who's party had been messed up, that would be to one giving me those orders.

[@drdiabeetus4419]

On the flip side, now he can give his girl a birthday present of LITERALLY being a princess

[@davidorf3921]

And this is the result of forcing one human to miss his little girls 5th Birthday

[@jamiepatterson1214]

It is always a good idea to learn about another species before you believe you're going to easily kick their butts. Because when you go against a species that's known war for thousands of years, you are going to find a surprise waiting for you.

[@Cathrope1]

Give us 10K of your best toughest warriors and we'll show them such carnage that will turn them into crying younglings(?).

[@Pure_Skillz]

I was geeking out so hard when he started mentioning the gun specifications.

[@warplanner8852]

The Carlos Hathcock of the galaxy. One shot one kill!

[@Bellator_of_the_Shadow]

good thing only one man missed a birthday. imagine if 5000 missed their daughters birthday.........

[@johnmoore8599]

I think the head would be gone just from the momentum of the round. .50 caliber rounds are pretty nasty and the explosive charge wouldn't leave much of what was left after the round hit. Otherwise, the story is fine.

[@CapitanGreenhat]

Aliens... who knows what their muscle density, bone density, and other physical characteristics are like. But yea with the shapped charge, you'd expect the head to be pretty non existent.

[@davestier6247]

He has a super strong space gorilla skull

[@someguycalledCh0wdah]

More like a .5 inch hole in the front and most of the inside out the back

[@RamonInNZ]

Probably had some sort of shielding enabled hence the need for a very powerful slug.

[@mikeschnobrich1807]

I wonder how effective an exploding chemical round would work? Maybe a dirty round...

[@johninnh4880]

Long distance, the next best thing to being there. 😉

[@jesseamaya4413]

Welp, that's what you get for making him miss his little girls 5th birthday.

[@jdau2b]

Baby’s fifth birthday!!!! …..DAMN TOOTING!!!!

[@zzing]

Hubris befalls anyone who agrees to single combat.

[@mikeschnobrich1807]

In WW1, it would have been extremely unlikely for a single battle on the Western Front to lose the war. However, a single naval battle could lose the war in a day. In a sense, naval battles are a type of single combat. The American Empire is a naval/airpower that can defall to hubris easier than we think.

[@jdtheone]

Xeno: you will be our slaves Humans: no now for our response will kill your emperor

[@Zanator1]

Deadly Deadly Humans was a really good one and it made me interested in this type of story, but the rest of these are And There Was a Creature level bad. Now They Hunt us was also okay.

[@scifistories1977]

You may be interested in this then: The author of deadly deadly humans has written a new 4 part story. Part 1 is live now called "The worse species in the galaxy" set in the same universe. Part 2 out tomorrow.

[@Zanator1]

Thank you very much!@@scifistories1977

[@cjandauntieyaya1446]

@@scifistories1977 Yeah, the worst species in the galaxy is NOT human. Go figure.

[@dawidkaczmarek8639]

I love how the aliens in these stories just suck at war, it's hilarious, roman empire meets USA 😆

[@Californianbychoice]

NEVER make a father miss his little daughter's birthday.

[@nitepharmer5866]

Excellent

[@michaelbarnard8529]

I thought it would be a 20 mm. Anyway, shaped charges are not molten, but a yielding solid. They detonate before hitting the target, or on contact, because full impact will disrupt them. Their damage mechanism is an extending jet of solid metal (copper, or molybdenum if you are being fancy) , the tip of which travels at as much as 8 km/s. They also have to be traveling relatively slowly to function, and any spin has to be compensated at the cost of effectiveness. You would not make a fifty caliber one. Instead, you would likely have a smooth bore fin stabilized sabot round with a DU penetrator and maybe an explosive load (probably overkill). You might also go for a guided round.

[@ubergeek1968]

Please don't assume that the technology of today is all that there will ever be.

[@danmutz5328]

Ah yes single combat 😂

[@Coder6719]

I'm late to the party I really apreciate this story. Parents want to see their kids grow up. Folks. The sniper's name is Caroline. Piss off a father and you deserve what you get. Piss off a mother (that happens to have a particular set of skills!?)... I was just standing over here ma'am. I'm happy to help but I have no idea what he was thinking.

[@davidturner4824]

Really good story.

[@target4all766]

This will known as The 5th Birthday War

[@smokinggnu6584]

Duse must have been a Canadian.

[@johncunningham4820]

Finns are the ones KNOWN to be Shooters................................

[@seanhewitt603]

His head was not up his ass, so, nope. Oh, and he did not use a plague blanket or a baby molesting priest, on stolen land

[@FallenDante00x]

And that's how it is done. Funny thing is, I don't think the Geneva Convention applies to Alien Spieces......intentionally.

[@adrianbeckmann3778]

So a species has intergalactic travel, but it has no understanding of ballistics, ranged weapon combat, etc etc. You have to suspend disbelief on such a grand level in order to find this a little entertaining.

[@jaynecobb6711]

Maybe the weapon to them is so primitive that it would be like a modern equipped soldier going up aginst a person with steel ball bearings and a high powered hunting slingshot. You would be amazed at what kind of damage a high power slingshot and steel ball bearings can do in the hands of a expert. You can kill a man, no problem, with a high powersling shot and the right circumstances.

[@proudamerican183]

*Stares in Stargate Asgardian*

[@mikeschnobrich1807]

The American Empire lost several wars to an enemy not much better equipped than with slingshots.

[@proudamerican183]

@@mikeschnobrich1807 Hey hey hey. If you're gonna bring us into this, at least be historically accurate. We didn't "lose". We just chose not to "win". There is a difference. Such as with our "loss" in Vietnam. That wasn't a military thing, it was a political thing. The people wouldn't/couldn't endorse the war anymore so politicians withdrew.

[@Kaliburz]

When there are no rules & the enemy "cheats"...... ya use history against them....

[@drdiabeetus4419]

There was two ways this could go; Douglas MacArthur or Simo Häyhä. It went for the finn

[@demigod_inc]

The classic game of Regicide

[@wilsmith44]

I love these shows, Who is the narrator? I forget his name I listen to him manytime in the past

[@hansdampf640]

the narrator is Alexander Ivanovitch. (his friends call him AI) 🤣

[@yuikkiuy2161]

what iss the source of the background image?

[@RECoyote]

Servers them right

[@johncunningham4820]

Putin...............................please................................

[@CountryGeek-hr8tk]

The Finns are known far and wide for the best snipers in the last 100 years. Maybe they would help us out instead. Russian snipers aren't terribly good. But sleazy Joe is only the puppet, they need to aim for the WEF people and Obummer.

[@Cathrope1]

Yeah

[@CountryGeek-hr8tk]

Zelinsky first.

[@johncunningham4820]

@@CountryGeek-hr8tk . No . PUTLER FIRST .

[@CountryGeek-hr8tk]

@@johncunningham4820 I guess you've been watching and believing the talking heads on the idiot box. *Nothing* they say is true. Go find Col MacGregor in one of his many interviews out there and you'll realize that Putin/Russia is the good guy in that conflict.