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Can't remember where I read it now, but it was an internet short story I read a few years ago where the concept was, civilisations can go down different technology paths - turns out most Galactic Civs discover space, anti grav and FTL travel fairly early on, perhaps around the time of electricity, whereas for Humans we somehow managed to miss all that and got stuck on our one planet just racking up super advances in other areas - we then get invaded by a warlike civ of small space dog things that were dominating the other space faring races with tech basically equivalent to the 1800s - they then come out from their rickety spaceships with muskets, deploy in lines, shoot the human envoy coming to greet them as first contact and then get utterly smoked by all the human tanks and troops that had been deployed. Humans then reverse engineer this 'tech tree' they had been missing, and the space dog commander who had been injured/captured finally realises the mistake they had made - they had now unleashed/unlocked humanity from our prison and we were now able to go out amongst the rest of the galaxy and 'do our thing'. Great read, kudos to the author whoever you are.
First order of business defeat and subjugate the warlike canines and tame them. Now with mankind’s best friend we can manifest our righteous rule over the galaxy.
I read one short in an anthology in which an advanced military defeats the combined armed forces of earth in 25 minutes but during the ensuring occupation various humie entrepreneurs introduced the troops to the joys of buying on credit and gl;eefully accepted assault landers; tanks, and any other loose hitech off world gear as collateral - and swiftly foreclosed on such when payment went into arrears. In a year the earth had a spacefaring military ; in a generation had spread out across the empire and trashed the economy of untold planets what with items like land transports that rolled out with new models but few improvements every year... and in fifty years were running the show.
This story seemed end in mid sentence, without a real ending. After all that build up of humanity being the hob goblin of the galaxy, there was no payoff to the story.
@@debra-qq1np Fuck it lean in to it. Always good to remind people of the monster you can become if pushed. Too many view kindness as weakness, so yeah until they learn that lesson lean in to it fully.
@@debra-qq1np If Humans like any other intelligent species; we would try to be less scary to them. If all the other intelligent species are jerks that do not treat Humans honorably, then Humans might want to make themselves even scarier by Dramatic Hostility that is loud or acting more crazy. More crazy is people who are not crazy pretending to be crazy to be scary...but a risk averse species might consider all Humans to be crazy as in being too risk seeking. For this narration specifically the Aliens do not seem bad, just fear what they do not understand; Humans. So for this narration Humans would likely make themselves less scary and try to be friends.
@@rianmacdonald9454one of the reasons the Mongols and the Roman’s did so well, they leaned into the boogeyman myth. Basically “don’t step out of line or piss us off, because you won’t like what happens next.”
@@tarn1135 The US has the current most powerful Military worldwide, and that leads to criticism within the country and from other countries too. Still if you compare the current US Military to the Mongol Empire or the Roman Empire? With that perspective the current US Military is very polite and civilized relatively. It was a normal thing for the Mongols or Romans to completely exterminate everyone in a region...and the US has never done that. Normal as in not unexpected, but I have no idea how often either was angry enough to do genocide. RE Boogeyman Myth? If they sought to make themselves seem even more dangerous I have never heard of it. Could be they did; I am no historian. What the Mongols and Romans REALLY did with lots of evidence was pretty ruthless.
Interesting choice of the term Thrax ... I'm a Thrax, born raised in Thrace, a Greek province. Thraxes AKA Thracians were indeed formidable warriors in our ancient past, indeed vicious by the account of other Greeks, but now we are a peaceful lot, rather simple in fact, mild tempered and polite. Only when Turks try to do something funny at the borders we get exited grub our guns and run to the border for a turkey shootout ... we are descendants of Ares after all... But if you ever come in Thrace you'll have the time of your life, mark my word.
I was there in 1991. I can confirm the people were pretty damned chill. I was waiting on a bus for the driver, I was the only person on the bus which was supposed to be the last one of the day going from one town to the next. The driver walked out and looked in the door of the bus at me. " . . . it is late !" he said in English. I had spoken to him earlier, his English was quite good, he was about the same age as my father, and he had said that once he lived in America. I asked him what he meant. "This bus is late ! and maybe it will go tomorrow !'. I looked unhappy, and he said "It is good, we go tomorrow. Tonight is no good". I was a bit unhappy, and had no choice but to agree. I hopped out, put my pack on the ground and took out "Let's Go" to look to see if there was some back packers or pension in that place. He rolled a cigarette and said " Will you eat?". He took me to a private house, maybe his relatives?. They were not even a bit surprised, quite calm, and fed me. They gave me a kitten to play with in a very beautiful garden, full of spring blossoms on some REALLY big fruit trees ( maybe apricots or peaches.) and sweet-pea-flowers on dozens of trellises the women of the house had done a VAST amount of work in their garden, it was a work of great art and industry. They gave me a bed, and bitter black coffee, bread, fruit and butter all home made, for breakfast. Then he drove up all smiles in the bus quite early, and the Nanna of the house patted my cheek and told me I was a "good boy, and go with christ". :) I was a dumb 19 year old, I have often thought I should have kept their address, and sent them a letter when I returned home, and a Christmas gift to the Nanna for her kind heart.
there are no Thracians anymore... Rome made sure of that... after defeating them in battle those who survived were sold as slaves in the 4 corners of the empire so they would never be ''Thracians'' again... a genocide!... just like Carthaginians... gone forever... docile Slavic groups were invited to use the Thracian land!... taking someone's land doesn't make you THAT person!... and another thing... the Thracians... were never Greeks!... just a neighboring nation... sometimes allied, sometimes not... DO NOT CONFUSE TODAY'S NAMING OF THE LANDS WITH THE ANCIENT TIMES... the Thracian ancient land you can find it in maps of that time... what's called ''Thrace'' today [east and west] is not what it used to be... just like Macedonia
Native Thracians =/= the Greek colonists along the Thracian coast. Entirely different people, different cultures. Both ancient Thracians and ancient Greeks would be extremely offended if they heard you referring to the Thracians as Greeks. They did not respect each other, at all. Greeks already have an impressive history to be proud of, it's poor form to be trying to steal the history of other peoples.
I thought this was the 4chan story about why humanity never encountered any other sapient species, only worlds of dead civilizations within the local group. Turns out, no other sapient civilization from our local group ever discovered FTL before going extinct to the point sapients from outside the Local Group see it as uninhabitable. So being the only thing to come out of there, humanity was seen as boogeymen, and they leaned in on it with scary power armor.
Yeah that was an awesome story, with the massive ship appearing out of 'the Veil of Madness' (also the name of the story). One of my personal favorites.
"They are the universal visage of death, and they have ever been hated for it." Oh stop with the flattery. A fellow can only hear so much before he doubts your sincerity of expression.
Yes but not the way the humans did. We ended it in two months. They where at it for YEARS. They didn't really want a war. They wanted a pissing contest in the form of little battles here and there. Humans killed every damn thing they could find and most likely whined that there was nothing else to kill.
I think there is. Hooded Mystic had a video that had almost the exact same description of humans being a representation of death, but in that story humans were miracle working doctors saving lives
Imagine that, if ALL other sentient species were evolved from herbivores, while humans were the only species being carnivore/omnivore, they would look at us as the "predators" and we would USE IT.
@@SovietReunionYT Listened to that in the car yesterday and liked it. Definite "Alien" vibe with a fun twist. I think there was even a "nuke them from orbit to be sure" line in there, somewhere. Loved the homage.
Pretty sure it's an AI voice; there are some obvious tells in other stories (pronouncing #1 as "hash 1", etc.). I don't say that as a bad thing - this narration is much better than some of the other channels with real people. It is hard to be a good narrator.
Good story. I have only one issue: the biological warfare angle. What are the odds that an alien life-form is based on a chemistry so similar to our own that an earthly pathogen, no matter how engineered, could affect it.
Pretty good. Considering some microbe on earth, can eat most any chemical compound. Learn about extremophile microbes in volcanoes and around oceanic floor vents. Those are probably more alien to us than actual aliens would be.
Actually possible, but it wouldn't be species specific pathogens that they'd be vulnerable to. It'd be the general "I'll eat anything organic" organisms that they would be most likely to be infected by. Of course, genetic engineering throws all that out the window if you're given enough knowledge to tailor the pathogen to the aliens' biochemistry.
For the most part, hiring barbarian mercenaries never turned out well for the Imperial Power that employed them. Janissaries eventually come to wonder why they should die for others to profit.
Not just Jannisaries. Theres the mamelukes, the huns, the Rus, Goths, Gauls.....hundreds if not thousands of peoples started as mercenaries, then decided to settle where they had been paid.
@@thehayguy It happened also at the end of the Roman Empire, Aetius 'army that fought against Attila was principally composed by others barbarian allies, and Attila had fought for Rome as mercenary.
"Class, let's start with introductions to get to know one another before we begin the semester." "Hi everybody, my name is Bob Boggart! I enjoy bringing death to my enemies and scarring the minds of all who behold my grotesque visage: let's have fun this year, okay?"
The word boogeyman predates the colonization of North America, coming from Bogey Man, a type of malicious fae predating the christianization of the British Isles... so no. The Appalachian hillfolk brought that with them from the Old Country.
It would be hilarious if aliens were just totally freaked out that we domesticated predators and actually want to be around them Actively going out of our way to help and raise them We just go to an alien planet, get to know them and their culture, see a big dog thing, adopt it and make alien dogs, for the aliens to be freaked out by, and totally surprised that it worked too Humans just being feared by all sentient civilizations, but also adopts everyone’s most feared predators from each planet as pets Some mouse species completely freaked out that we keep cats with us, and that the cats want us around too
I get that it's the chiq thing right now but hearing story after story of " Earth is dead and withered away" is just boring now. Every story is so anti-human.
For me it’s the silly implication that some how extraterrestrials would be any better. There are tons of organisms competing for finite resources in any ecosystem creating an evolutionary pressure to be the better predator of the better survivor. This general theme is unlikely to be unique or special to earth, so it stands to reason humanish behavior in this context would be the norm. Animals compete for food, territory, rank in packs/herds, mating privileges, because other animals got to close and were taken as a threat or just plain annoyed the aggressor. All human like behavior, or should I say human behavior is animal behavior. If you compared humans and human society to every alien/alien society we’d probably be remarkably average.
Good news! There’s a new way that guarantees more positivity in an my individuals life, if you are sick of something then ignore and avoid it and seek out things you enjoy instead. Then you will not be doing what psychologists call “speaking to negativity” because if you speak to negativity it will eventually speak back to you and then you will be in a conversation with negativity. In matters of taste, always seek what you like. I only love a small percentage of the world’s music and I’ve grown tired of some music I used to listen too. I don’t tell others that it’s stupid or passé now because I’m tired of it. I let them enjoy it and move on. Try it.
nah, I love sci-fi so I like to watch/listen to these. Unfortunately, this is the same story I've heard in like 6 other videos here. If you don't like my comment you could've followed your own advice, however, you didn't and you commented on it. Why? Because you want to see less comments like this. Just as I'd prefer to see some new storylines. You're allowed to critique my opinion just as I'm allowed to critique the story. Peace@@MrMightyZ
Good on you but just remember are you looking to to have a burger from a milkshake, its a phrase are you trying to have something that is something else truly and completely something else making it become something you want instead@@n8_sh00ts8
Man, weird that in a universe where *physics is the same everywhere* and *chemistry is the same everywhere* , somehow evolution ended up going wildly differently in seemingly similar environments. In all likelihood the evolution of tool-using intelligence is going to follow a similar pattern anywhere in the universe because it all shares the same rules. The only way to get something wildly different is *a wildly different environment* . Considering our solar system has SEVEN such environments and not one produced complex life, let alone intelligent life, that provides a handy bound for exactly how "different" an environment would need to be before complex life re-appears: more different from Earth than every other planet in the solar system. That would mean any "very different" life would find our environment lethal and vice versa.
Sentience is the ability to have feelings; and Sapience extends beyond that into reasoning, intelligence and advanced conceptualization. Within this framework, dogs are sentient but not necessarily sapient. They have obvious emotions and can reason/problem solve to an extent. But they are not discussing the meaning of life or making plans for tomorrow. They live in the moment. (Which is why we love them.)
@FamilyManMoving you have it backwards. Sapience is the ability to know that fire is dangerous. Sentience is the ability to know that fire is dangerous and use fire as a tool. Only a Sentient species could build starship.
Short stories like this have to pack a lot into a short time frame. If you want a more engaging story, try "the black ship." It's being written in real time and will offer you more than the short stories (15 chapters are currently available with more on the way). Here is the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C-WUXFdANvs.htmlsi=dvmfsj9SpPueFLcZ If you take a listen, I'd be interested to know what you think.
@@seanwilliams4087 It still means 10%, even if some dumb asses like to disregard semantics, but you are correct that people seem to pretend it means the other.
It's not like there would be terms like 'obliterate', 'annihilate' and others that would be better suited. But when we live in the age of acronyms, it seems like we should be thankful that people can still use complete words and sentences instead of string of letters, even if they would use the wrong ones.
The link to the original story is in the description but here it is again: www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/sio47x/the_galaxys_boogeymen/ It's a one off story and the original author (who has deleted their account) unfortunately, didn't write any more parts. I could possible have a go myself at creating another part (I've done this on quite a few stories) If enough of you say "yes" I'll give it a go.
Are these stories serialized? I listened to 4 so far and they all conclude like they hit a brick wall. I suspect the AI reader needs an upgrade. Better yet, hire a human.
