The Day The War Was Won | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

[@valtiel2589]

hehehe this one was fun to write. was playing Starship Troopers before i wrote it :)

[@scifistories1977]

Another great story!

[@KP-dy1yq]

We definitely want to know more! Great story Wordsmith

[@randomusernameCallin]

You know there a aliens called skinny in the books.

[@derekrix2896]

I could see the inspiration from starship trooper. I have really enjoyed this short story and hope to see more.

[@ptonpc]

Great story :)

[@dariustiapula]

*Humans:* This is what claymores, flechettes, shrapnels, cluster bombs etc are for!. *Aliens:* I'm sorry for your species to encountering this enemy before spaceflight. *Human:* Encountering?. Oh no we use them on ourselves. Sometimes we do a liitle bit of bug swarm of our own. *Alien:* Gasp of horror.

[@dstevans]

"The short ones had nuclear weapons at their disposal, but there was a weapon even more terrifying and destructive to the horde. I shudder and convulse even thinking about the horror and complete obliteration brought forth by it. To our utter amazement and shock the short ones joked and laughed about ancient advertisements regarding this super-weapon. It was known only by one word..." "RAID."

[@richmendelson8194]

: SHADOW LEGENDS

[@larsharris]

Kills bugs dead

[@Necrobadger]

"Lawyers"

[@CJ-jo6do]

"You humans are very effective against swarm attacks, have you fought against enemies like these before?" "Yea, in World War 1 on our home planet Terra. Except it wasn't bugs, it was....us."

[@hemaccabe4292]

Chinese loved them in Korea as well.

[@Emanon...]

Great story. Loved the twist with the "short ones" arriving.

[@jimvenanzio6561]

We are smol.... BUT FIERCE!!!

[@Tonster_AKS]

Love the description of an A10 warthog

[@Theideaspectrum]

“Run alien dogs! Come to me, come to us all come and die in blood and fire!…NO PITY! NO REMORSE! NO FEAR!”

[@Willtube4489]

Great story! Would love a whole series on it!

[@Nikoli492]

Nothing more heart warming than meeting a new alien race for the first time & working together to end a galactic crisis event.

[@Questor-ky2fv]

I really liked this one! And it reminded me of Star Ship Troopers. I have the paperback book somewhere. I've read it a number of times over several decades. I have a number of other books by Robert Heinlein, as I am a fan. I only saw the first Bug movie once on TV, and never watched the series. Although this story is very similar to the one RH wrote, it's not a rip off of it. Instead, it takes a similar story background and comes at it from a different angle. Rather than thinking of it as a copycat story, it actually reads more like a future continuation of the original story. It was very well done. The man reading it aloud had the perfect voice for the role. I could really picture him as a worn down, beat up old soldier, fighting a losing battle--until the Humans came. Great story and great reader!👏👍🐜

[@quarkedbutt3957]

If you haven't done so already, you need to read the novel to Starship Troopers. It is waaaaay different than the movie, we also got power armor from it!

[@larsharris]

@@quarkedbutt3957 the director of the movie was proud that he never read the book. He never understood the book. The points it made. The movie titanic. Yes it was about a big ship that sank, had some people due, a few names the same. But the rest was made up.

[@Hoboman-1453]

The book was so much different from the movie and 100x better

[@mikeloeven]

This is amazing on so many levels Humans discover alien tech immediately start using it to build real versions of fictional ships for fun

[@zzing]

Wonderful story.

[@WolfA4]

7:09 "BACK BLAST AREA CLEAR!"

[@williamwebb4905]

Great story. Would love a continuation. For the curator - some refresh on the art to help visualize/increase pizzaz... of the battle or close up of the human, as well as the image/likeness of the soldier who is narrating this story. Some AI art is out there I am sure which can be licensed for this... not sure about or how/if you monetize these stories. Good story, good art - just ideas for more content we can all appreciate.

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story!

[@KroMagnum4]

Nicely done.

[@moreinthelifeofwax]

Solution: more dakka!

[@ranwolf1240]

Ultra A-10s go BRRRRRT!

[@dariendukes4875]

Very good story, I love it when aliens come to appreciate us ( humans)lol

[@LM-xw7ii]

This one was really good

[@fuffoon]

I see a bad future for the big ones. Once the common enemy is gone...? Good writing. Thank you.

[@smokinggnu6584]

Millions of worlds? Cripes, the whole galaxy must be infested with the bugs.

[@robertalaverdov8147]

The milky way galaxy has 100-400 billion stars. And as many if not way more planets. At the low end 10 million planets would be as little as 0.1% of the galaxy.

[@LondonLawman]

I actually read a great short story once set from the eyes of a soldier from a high tech army fighting a low tech enemy and how can they keep fighting at such cost to life's and how much but war costs and how politically at home was causing problems. It obviously appeared to me to that it was the US Army Fighting the VC, however the twist came when the soldier read some strange street sign where he was fighting, Bourbon street, turns out in my mind they were hi tech aliens invading earth and they were fighting humans in New Orleans.

[@basilreid257]

Good story my kind of tale.

[@stuartwald2395]

While Starship Troopers is a clear source, see also the impact of Human troops coming to help Masood forces and the Weave in their endless struggle against the Amplitur and their hordes (Alan Dean Foster's "A Call To Arms" and its sequels); that seems to be a good analog for the relationship between the races.

[@JonnYKLF]

Love it!

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

Just need some bug spray.

[@tonyroldan2437]

This scenario is the only possibility for Humanities Unity and survivability, an unending war against an undening foe.

[@Darqshadow]

Doesn't have to be unending. One massive threat that we defeat together would be a hell of a glue

[@therealgreg5653]

@@Darqshadow Last 3 years beg to differ people have short memories and generations quickly forget what their forefathers fought to prevent. One generation dies stopping something while one or two generations later embrace that very thing their grandfathers and great grandfathers died to prevent.

[@GoranXII]

This is just the start. I'm expect the humans to start working on biological weapons soon enough.

[@ranwolf1240]

A cry for help, a distant whisper A foreign nation calling our name Sent to hell, to reach for heaven To serve in dark, as light in the black Sent into battle to aid strangers in need Gain independence, our forces will lead Final solution when all others have failed Liberation is coming our path has been laid We remember the fields, where our tanks held the line We remember our brothers in arms When the war, has been won And our march home begins What awaits has not yet been revealed What was won? what whas lost? Will our deeds be remembered? Are they written on stone or in sand?

[@jamespaguip5913]

Reminds me of Warhammer 40k

[@cciallel1336]

Tyranids? 😮 or xenomorph

[@Hydrasine1333]

Anyone else hear "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" to the team america theme?

[@hemaccabe4292]

Lot of great action in this story. Not very believable that an advanced technological civilization couldn't come up with a better response to wave attacks. Also, cleaning a planet from space is very easy. Just drop rocks on it. BTW, individual infantry is already obsolete. We shouldn't have it now. Definitely would be gone in 100 years. Keep trying, you have talent.

[@hemaccabe4292]

@@hawk9mm Other sci fi may be flawed. If a civ was as advanced as the Asgardians, I'd have to imagine they could sort something out.

[@pheonixblue01]

They sound the opposite of Spartan IIs

[@thebuddha4208]

Yeah, people are good at anything it’s putting massive amounts of ammunition out

[@cfoa13]

🤩

[@sasanach8]

TERRIFIC STORY

[@gregorykrieschke4023]

Napalm and flame throwers ???

[@trustgod2120]

Who does the narrarator represent if the humans are called "THE SHORT ONES"? Nephilim giants ?

[@cindaschuster6725]

💙👍

[@lib-center96]

Ah yes, the whiff of an AI generated story that can't keep 600 years and a millenium straight.

[@lewismitchell5367]

Algorithm comment

[@sluggishruggish]

On the title screen, there is a troop of humans with flying insects above and flames irrupt Ing into a mushroom cloud in the background. I assume the humans are the good guys… You have them portrayed as retreating. Going from west to east. Unless our viewpoint is looking at the battle from the north, the heroes are going in the wrong direction. Heroes typically travel from east to west.

[@Jaegerrants]

Old saying "The enemy always comes from the east" and with last century in mind term hero also not appling, I'm calling that as load of Hollywood crap.

[@sluggishruggish]

@@Jaegerrants the cowboy/good guy always wears light colored clothes. The bad guy usually wears dark colors, as in the creature that makes the noise in the dark. It’s all crap lol but there’s still a cognitive bias. Hollywood established the rules.

[@richmendelson8194]

"At Dawn, look to the East" ~ Gandalf

[@sluggishruggish]

@@richmendelson8194 then I guess I’m the enemy

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

I do not like the nigerian prince narrating.