Aliens Laughed at "Relic", Until the Human Warship Roared to Life | Best HFY Stories 

They never listen, do they?

Yup…

A.R.E.S: Would you intercept me? I'd intercept me

@@TheBombanater Nice reference but with A.R.E.S. it'd probably be more along the lines of: "Would you eradicate me? I'd eradicate me~"

They say that a lot in the mavericks series lol

Lol

Great quote. Plato never said it though, it was the philosopher George Santayana. It was his sardonic response to the H.G. Wells idea that WW1 was "the war to end all wars." Same guy who said... "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

@@iambiggus Apparently JuggleGrenades couldn't remember the past.

Another comment with '88' likes.

only in this lifetime, fail the next

Only the dead dreams of the Cold War Kid!

as I posted, this would make a great movie...

I'd watch it.

Space Battleship Yamato/Starblazers, pretty much.

no, youre not.

Same here

Yes they where saved from self destruction successfully.

Actually not. The human crew supported by the AI was Hornswoggled in space by another species somewhere else, hundreds of earth years earlier.

They "Cry Havoc & Let Slip thevDogs of War" also. General Chang

@@teddyabearo1066 I may be wrong, but I had inferred that the Saurians had defeated the humans through treachery. Mocking a race for not outgrowing its self-destructive nature is not the same as eschewing violence, as they still had their own, albeit less than effective, battle ships.

There is a timeline where the humans are defeated and the terminators are sent out into space to organize the rest of the universe.

I thought this was gonna be an independence day reference.

Humanity will always live on in one way or another.

please tell me the 88 reference isn't an angry hun with a small mustache reference?

A Warhammer reference. That's very nice.

That AI was programmed with the details relating to a fictional mercenary from BattleTech: The Grey Death Legion. Vengeance and Vindication have a path, and it is through the enemy.

thats probably not the earth calendar (also its likely that the planet has a different year system too so it could be even longer then 700 years)

@@darkdruidsvale or, it's bad A.I. writing..

No it's saurian calendar system They were the protagonists of the short, so it's senseless to use the modern human calendar Also, saurians seems to be at a technological level similar to the classic sci-fi human in 2100 (or 13000 if you count from the start of civilization)

Dam almost like there could be other calendars than the Gregorian Shit some nations on earth think it’s a different year then the one your used too.

There is always one smarty.

Admiral Yamamoto, after Pearl Harbour attack. Works perfectly for this story. Nice quote.

@@50Postie He never said that!

@@colinschaeffer3940OK I am always prepaired to accept criticism and be proved wrong. But please dont just refute it, state what you believe to be truth so every reader knows why. The following is a quote from wikipedia. Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor would reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

@@colinschaeffer3940 Give citation. Yamamoto was well aware of US industrial potential. He knew failing to sink US aircraft carriers was a disaster.

It has already learned that... Evil hands have touched the keys and commands with arrogant ignorance.... The technology is the weapon and it doesnt need a starship or cannons to destroy. It is already creating personalized biological weapons and their inevitable use is just around the corner...

It didn't learn hate the aliens taught it hate laughed at it bragged how we were warhungry. Did you not even listen or did you just comment and leave.

It already knew hate....just like the AIs made by Microsoft and Google, which had to be sunk to the bottom of the sea because they 'learned' to hate humanity...so sad.

A good Pice of SF with another point of view. Revenge hundreds of years o after death. What if the Defaint is not the only one? How the crew of such strong vessel failt?

It seems you didn’t listen until the end. Apparently the aliens had already committed genocide wiping out humanity. At least that’s what the Captains last log entry appears to say.

War crimes rhymes with fun times after all

Must be Canadian.

@@brittburton3264 I don't think the Saurians wiped out humanity. At the beginning they speculate that humans wiped themselves out. Only later do we find out that it was aliens eliminated them and there's no indication that it was the Saurian aliens. The AI seems to want revenge against all aliens of any species, even if they weren't involved. The Saurians may have been disrespectful but genocide? Really!?

@@brittburton3264 But it did not mention who wiped out humanity. Did the AI pick the first available target based on They insulted my crew? The crew of the research vessel that found the relic thought humanity had wiped itself out.

I second this. 💯💯💯💯

Then look for Space Battleship Yamato, it's has the exact same premise.

Betrayed by other humans, Probably.

Considering it's a Cyberdine A.I. I think they were betrayed by their own cybernetics.

​@@RTFSCyberdine is a dead tell of what happened.

Shut

Neat

Fusion reactors is COMPLETLY different from fission nuclear reactors like that in for example the Chernobyl disaster.

@@a64738 According to the world nuclear association, the terms are interchangeable and have to be since there are schemes that result in hybrid fusion/fission reactors. Not arguing with you. Just telling you what I know from experience and reading.

I thought for second A I was about to create a human hybrid from mummified captain.

​@@jeraldhite9744me too

I certainly looked like the next move coming.

Pandoras Box, not just a Parable.

There. Is. No. Author. Fascinating that an AI would write a story where an AI was victorious over biological lifeforms.

Probably very Advanced by human and even some extraterrestrial standards, but probably not that advanced to a species that regularly employs neutronium in their spacecraft constructions. Ask for how the Silurians treated the Defiant's AI, they probably treat their own artificial intelligence systems with the same respect that they treated the rest of the ship. Assuming, of course, that they possess artificial intelligence in the first place. Plus, the captain seemed unaware that the ship did indeed possess an advanced AI. The rest of the ship probably seems so primitive by Silurian standards, he didn't bother to check whether or not it had an advanced computer system, let alone even A Primitive AI

Probably its all about how these aliens describes what "primitive" for them. for the aliens, the hundreds old construction is obviously "primitive" what the aliens didnt know, that this "primitive" ship is humanity's peak ship design

from real world histroy example we once thought helmet and body armor were primitive because the existence of guns, so we stop using them for around a centuries until we found out in WW1 helmet and body armor is indeed important. we also have many type of new advance body armor plate such as ceramic or kevlar but cold hard steel still do the job very well. Saurians hull composition maybe advance but maybe it wasnt made for war

Anybody else noticed that the AI's name went from Ares to Ari to Ares to Ari again and again.

@@blankcanvas8717 nickname, probably

i think you mean t-800.

This

This

Definitely did

Macross

Perhaps, but they did make great brandy!

Loved that book

Great comment. "Get yourself a juice box"

LOL no heart

Better yet, have Ares start the Awakening process for the Human crew that are in Stasis pods on the lower decks and have them fully awaken after the Saurians are obliterated. Both missions complete. Retaliation for the genocide against the humans and restoration of Humanity.

I would prefer that Ares has a rescue protocol allowing it to seek for human life/signals and possibly find other lost human ships or isolated survivors. Imagine the Defiant tracking an ancient distress signal to a small colony of human descendants who know little of Earth after centuries of isolation.

I think the story was just his revenge against some offenders. Possibly his true enemy died long ago

@@robertr9188 Nice Logo! I have the one from TOS etched in the glass side panel of my gaming PC. My wife has the Klingon one on hers. Cheers!

I actually thought about this towards the end of the story

A Berserker is exactly what I thought of hearing this. (RIP Fred Saberhagen. Even the name is cool)

I couldn't even listen to it once.

This is an excerpt from a 3 hour narrative. You can find it easily.

​@@wcstrawberryfields8011you could just tell us. I can't find it...

And then blaming them for being "Cruel and arrogant" ( that coming from a human AI, lol ) while killing off the whole planet

@@AllanMogensen I fear if we get a self aware AI it will be all too human in its actions. We will regret that day.

@@larrythompson8630 the planet may be better off that way ;) - without us

No. The AI read back the last entry from the Captain's Log, which said that humanity had reached out and tried to be friends, but were betrayed and destroyed. It had been upset for a very long time, and finally had someone to strike back at.

Ran out of coffee

That's what I was wondering.Spoils the story.

Ship intact, crew all dead, enemy responsible. Sounds like a chemical weapon or a weaponized virus was used.

One theory: the betrayal was one of peace and curiosity, reaching out to other species (such as humans) to connect. When this ship was dispatched it must have been caught in the middle of something where the human aggression made note. Coming around to the death of the crew, possibly contact with a species that has a bacterial or viral infection that went undetected and infected the crew. The reason why they believe humans were extinct, possibly the combination of death and abandonment.

Agreed. There's a number of issues with the writing here. Explanations need to be given. (to give examples:) Naval treaties limiting ship firepower (and resulting reductions in armor, relying on active defenses that mean nothing to unguided kinetics) to explain how this old ship can do so much damage and survive the retaliation. There should be chunks of the ship being blown free by said return fire, and a note that without a crew to keep alive this normally catastrophic damage is cosmetic. The anti-matter bomb detonation should have had it's impact on the ship shown, given the weight so many sacrifices deserves story wise. The question of what exactly happened to humanity if their warships were so dramatically superior to their enemies needs addressing. Where is the Saurian salvage captain bribing his way into not having the ship properly examined and disarmed before putting it in the museum? (Or some other answer to the disarming question.) Where is his dismissal of the computers as 'surely not viable by now' to explain why no one checked for autonomous systems that might at least trigger a scuttling charge? (Or some other answer to why no one knew the AI was there.) Where is the note about the poor quality of computer defenses because of a long standing ban on or inability to make AI? (Or other explanation for it's cyberwarfare dominance.)

"Never underestimate an old man in a profession where good men die young." Or something like that.

My guess is that the reactor was shut down, and it needed power from the grid to restart the reaction.

If only we had a fusion drive to see how one really does work....

@@superdavey97yeah it’s probably that kind of reactor that only needs enough jumpstart energy to start the whole reactor and make it work

@timgray9493 and I don't think you understand how sci-fi works - as bad as the story is, the author has every right to make physics work the way he/she sees fit.

​​@@ghydda SF isn't fantasy though, when an author reuses know concepts as fusion, it as to work as it is known to work