Personally, I wouldn't have left the enemy flagship intact after the enemy supreme commander said what he said. I also would've towed the peacekeeper warship back to human space, if possible, to reverse engineer the technology
The enemy flagship was crippled as they said in the end, but just to be sure, you take 30% of the civilian ships, to ensure the message is delivered. And maybe leave a big hole in the surface of the planet. As Machiavelli says "beat your enemy so hard it can't back on it's feet again"
Yeah, I would’ve thought it better to destroy the enemy admiral, as he will brainwash a new military into his own vendetta. As for the towing, I see your point. But I’d probably tow it back to council space, and then leave.
“You played your hand 12 years ago. You didn’t care what happened to us, you let the Hazari attack and butcher innocent lives on countless colonies… this is what you have sowed Peace keeper. The Hazari wanted war, and We are giving them the war they wanted. If you want to stand in my way… then i pity the children of the countless mothers and fathers aboard your ship”
Humans already have been fighting themselves for thousands of years, and likely will do so in the foreseeable future, if an enemy unites us, i feel sorry for them, for such a fighting species capable of annihilate itself has now a common enemy to annIhilate..
Nice story - but, what I don't like is, that the captain seems to be on a one-man boat pushing every bottom himself, instead of commanding a huge warship with hundrets of crew-members.
What I don't like is the physical pushing of buttons. Humans are slow compared to AI, too. A small crew of humans, making the overall decisions, with AI dealing with the rest, seems more likely. Also, with a smaller crew, far less of the ship needs to be equipped to support life, leaving more space for fuel, weapons, etc.
@ThorDyrden thats how it works in real life, even if we are on or against "space nato" if a aggressive Alien culture, attacks a frendly they are doomed, back in the day the evil races attacked good alien races, the good came out on top, and formed a "space nato" with a musketteer oath, to protect each other, and kept on attacking the evil ones, but new members are recuested to sign in on a frendly treaty, "like space nato" to keep the universe "freindly" as much as possible.
I read a halo book years ago that had a story about a guy who was named Pike I think and he was able to commandeer his ship by himself I think so the rest of his fleet could escape or so he could turn the tide you should try and find it I really liked the book it had lots of halo stories
I mean, if space ships can basically be any shape because they don't need to be aerodynamic, then why _not_ make them look like the coolest ships ever?
Aliens find a ship, battered, at sea, with an extremely high kill count: "What is the name of such a powerful human warship, Xulthar"? "The last designation numbers and letters are unreadable. But the log says: USS Enterprise".
Would be more scary to find the log of Captain Thomas Cochrane. After this, never approaching any civilian vessel again, since it could be a "surprise".
The story didn't need any additional characters. The plot was centered on one man's vengeance and his courage to show mercy. Therefore, the rest is left to the reader/listener to fill in for themselves
Now... Letting civilians live is understandable. But... You know... Thete is no way in such a situation that the human commander wouldve just left like that. The last thin done before leaving wouldve been to destroy the alien Flagship and take out that alien commander. Just on general principle.
Really liked this story. How much world building done in such a short time builds upon each action and dialogue that speaks volumes of the history and thought behind it. Looking forward to more. Thank you!
To Ray Taylor, Ref hitting the armrest - It is however a very common and normal human response done in anger, how many times have Kirk and Pickard done the very same thing!🙄👍
Tacking about star command ! This 2 generals are littlerey war crimminals and. Dossen of times broken everey rule in the book ! How they are still have there rank and not rotten away in a army prison cell for war crimes ? Dont know ?
This is basically Space Battleship Yamato armed with Star Trek's Multi-phasic photon torpedo's. Also, planets equipped with 'escape pods'? Wouldn't those just be space ships? Then a council ship magically shows up and tells him destroying a few ships is a disproportionate response when these aliens baited him to come here? And on top of that, tell him to stand down or THEY will attack as well? I'm all for HFY stories, but this whole set up seems pretty poorly thought out.
Average day in Stellaris when your fleet of 1 million fleet power meets a fallen empire thinking their hot stuff. Or rather their fleet became "hot stuff," radioactive hot stuff.
10/5/24 ( Friday ) 12.42 am. To be merciful to thy mortal enemy is to be cruel to thyself. Also, to give up on a chance to reverse engineer a superior council ship....In the end, the captain is a failure.
@@Bramswarr oh my lovely us-american focused friend. HMS Argus was an converted merchantship. The japanese purpose builded Hōshō, completing it in 1922, same year in which the conversion of the USS Langley. The world is not "circling" arround the USA.
Problem with the story i see is in the space combat between 2 ships with different technical level. The more the difference, the quicker the battle. Peacekeeper should snuff the human ship out, unless the captain finds some ingenious way to get them first, or at least disarm them.
Well many stories in the WH40K universe portraying the humans with powerful weapons fighting hostile aliens xeno species are sinister and fearsome like this one.
It took a little over ten minutes to use the phrase “Like a hot knife through butter”. Let’s add a minute or so each story until it’s eliminated entirely.
"Conan, what is best in life?...To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women!" -- will this sentiment still rule us after a diaspora into space?
A hull of steel and all big guns to serve the fleet, Unrivalled firepower riding the waves to war, A devastating blow will send their foes down below, Fearless armada now bombarding the shore, Light up the night when cannons roar, In fear of nothing, they lead the Navy into war! Unopposed under crimson skies, Immortalised, over time the legend will rise. And their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size as they fall, And the dreadnoughts dread NOTHING AT ALL!
to be fair, even if it's just ceremonial it makes just as much sense as the british having tea making supplies in their latest tank designs (yes I know the kettle is also for MRE's, I'm just questioning whether you have to build the entire MRE set around being able to boil water, so that you can make tea.)
you don't accelerate and slow down on a landing patch .. you fly into a bay so the resemblence to a water bound carrier is just funny and very impractical
"Suffer nut the alien to live." After the engagement, Captain Roy has been imprissoned and court martialed for treason against mankind, only barely escaping with his life. A penitent fleet has been sent to hunt down the remaining Hazary of which he was member of. Mankind knew, with the council ship the Peacekeeper destroyed soon the winds of war would blow against Terra and its children once more. But the Hazary would not be part of that storm.
He clearly isn't a true Stellaris fan, the obvious choice is to glass the planet. Also, whats the point of everything before that, the diplomatic catastrophe he caused, if he just backs down now?
There was such a scene in Robotech. The Zentraedi intercept a signal while the humans are tracking the SDF-1 spaceship. There is a film shot by people in the signal. While watching the movie, they come across a scene where a kungfu warrior fights and defeats a giant. As they watched the scene, they were horrified because they thought it was real.
"Hazari have committed countless atrocities against my people this is a matter of Justice." What about the "dozens" of Hazari worlds that got glassed in retaliation? Or the frigid peace?
If you remember the dozen Hazari worlds glassed were a retaliation for a previous attack by the Hazari. In this whole thing the Hazari have been the continual aggressor resulting in retaliation from the humans.
@@mycroft16 But after Earths retaliation there was a "Frigid Peace" for 10 years. Roy was all about vengeance. This was not a military action in the midst of an ongoing war.
I think this was a rouge action. He didnt mention other crew and his ship was alone. Pretty sure he took an ship and did this on his own. Redoing the ship with as much automated systems as he could.
I dislike when they treat space battles like naval battles or dogfights. Any self respecting spaceship captain should be engaging over billions of miles at least. Without friction or strong gravity there's no reason to engage in close combat at all. Also laser and beam weapons are going to be less attractive than physical ammunition because of diffusion.
Twenty years from now the Hazari return and don't make the same mistake the humans did. They kill every single human to make the universe safe for Hazari.
While this human conflict had become typical as Wars are waged against "civilized established" societies like after WW1&2. HOWEVER, ways fought against countries with less "civilized defined" states like Afghanistan, Iraq presents a different type of win/failure so that after the warring factions disperse the conditions for war, uncivilized behavior resume. Afghanistan and Iraq are literally prompted up by the presence of NATO and the puppet government pour I place to accumulate order. Not so for Germany, Japan, South Korea that recognize order and begrudgingly accepted the order imposed by Western structure of that time until their release into independence. Afghanistan, Iraq will never accept Western structured governments and remain ripe for new conflicts, aggression against the West.
