Best HFY Stories: They Didn’t Have FTL
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
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With a dyson sphere, you can take the entire energy output of a star and direct it into one beam at one ship.
They may brag about their super shields, but they canna change the laws of physics, laddie.
Fun modern science fact. Someone discovered that if you crank up the intensity of a laser enough it will start interfering with itself.
Photons have mass, and at high enough density they'll spoil the focus of a laser. On top of that, if you cram enough energy in a given volume of space vacuum itself becomes less and less transparent, meaning that the laser literally blocks itself out at some point.
Super Shields, you say?
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@@MsAzhriaz Luckily the power of the sun is not high enough for this to be a concern! now this does make weaponizing a supernova a bit tricky.
@@Raven-rv9jrAccelerate a star to a significant portion of the speed of light, send it to the enemy’s system, trigger supernova. Biggest bomb in history
no dyson sphere dyson swarm,scientists have idea how to do it,basically if all of humanity of today put all resources into collaborating to do this we could send one mount everest worth of mass towards mercury and make a factory of solar pannels that swarm around the sun,previous solar pannels built would have their energy used to build more thus 2 becomes 4 4 becomes 8 and 8 becomes 16 and so on,within short span of time mercury would be dismantled and we would have made insane leap in amount of energy we can use as a civilization,but its stil not as extreme as a dyson sphere it operates about 70% less efficient than a dyson sphere but its stil good enough and far more plausible to build
"So they didn't sign it?"
"Nope."
"... Fine, call in the experts. It has been a long time after all"
*Happy war crimes noise*
It was a leashed dog for a long time for a reason
lol canada and japan working together with amarica's industry? the ungodly amount of war crimes would be unimmaginabal for most but i can see it
Lets add some extra stuff to the list no bigie
It's not a crime if they didn't sign... *shrug*
"Follow our Rules of War,
Or we won't"
The irony is that the ad at the end was probably sponsored by a human aid agency. I can just imagine it with in the eyes of an Angel playing in the background
I was looking for a comment like this. It IS the sort of thing we'd do, even the guys sending in the RKMs.
Posting this in case anyone forgot, but this isn't the first story where humans strapped FTL engines to missiles; one of which is called "nobody told them they couldn't".
Love that story and listen to it about four times lol
Yes there’s a few vids where they put ftl on asteroids, missiles etc
That's a good one
Here's the funny part based on how that massive Interstellar ship was described to enter the system and slow from .99c to 0.05c, I doubt they used FTL, they just laser pushed them to those speeds
@@SmoochyRoo Yes. In the short story "They didn't have FTL" the humans are indeed shown not having FTL.
I feel like this comment was intended for somewhere else.
The human ships work on the astrophysical equivalent of an autistic kid screaming in the bathroom, holding for its life in the wall while trying to give the biggest shit of their life.
oh shit.
one of the stories with geneva convention
"Follow our Rules of War,
Or we won't" 😁
"How bad could it be?"
Probably first said by General Custer at Little Big Horn.
For some odd reason I believe it has probably been used or at least thought of as long as “humans” have been around.
I know I have thought it more than a dozen times over the last 5 decades.
Also it was a guaranteed way to summon Saint Murphy.
@@Odd_Interaction fifty decades? So you've been around five hundred years? Impressive.
@ late night her should be five long hard decades starting at the age of 16.
Humans: Vibe check
Aliens: *Crumble*
Humans: You have failed the failed the vibe check
See, this is exactly why you don't break any rules of the Geneva Convention/Checklist.
If you do, it just serves as an excuse to make it longer.
It then becomes the "Geneva to-do list" ;)
>Cuts to what is essentially an ASPCA commercial, with sarah mcgloghlin singing in the back ground
>The wretched xenos child looks at the camera, "In the arms of the angels"
"Inexplicably expensive"? How? The xenos had a million ftl warships. If humanity had even 1% if that it would still be enough ftl engines to crack all their worlds.
Expensive in the sense that a warship is not expected to be a total loss. you can recover the wreck or it can simply flee, or actually win and do its mission. a missile, even if it does it job will be completely destroyed and thus the FTL engine will be lost.
@xotos4568 maybe, but without more info I would have to assume that when hundreds of thousands of ships are fighting, some FTL engines will be damaged beyond repair or salvage. So if the normal cost of sieging a planet is a fleet or two worth of ships, then it becomes very economical to punch 1 FTL stealth missile into the planet's crust and literally scorch the earth. (Assuming you don't want the planet afterwards).
I guess my problem is with the 'inexplicable' part of that sentence.
WMD ICBMs can be classified in the Same category. Mainly the warhead and rocket plus navigation all are expensive.
You can make something a lot cheaper if it only needs to work once it's only expensive to design a safe reusable ftl
The Author probably watched Isaac Arthur.
I can see it, and honestly i wish more sci fi writers did.
Compared to sci fi less grounded in scientific realism, With the kinds of tech we either know 100% is possible or have good reason to think it is, a 1 system civilization just reaching K2 on the Kardeshev scale would easily dog walk galaxy spanning sci fi civilizations.
Like a system with a full dyson swarm, a mercury> size matrioska brain and the proper infrastructure to have orbital rings, signal/power/laser relays built on automated resource extraction and manufacturing would have little issue going to war with a surprising amount of galactic scale civilizations and at worst being forced to defend only, and at best crippling the civilizationn without needing a fleet at all.
Doesnt matter how many death stars or other ridiculous super weapons are used when an RKM gonna do the same thing anyway practically speaking
@IanHarrison-n9m I actually expected for the aliens in the story to outmaneuver them (because FTL) or at least has a slight edge in weapons as they can use gravity and has an understanding of plasma more. You know, like Halo. UNSC getting beaten by the covies because they simply had shields and a faster Slipspace Drive. Or...well, Fanfics where the UNSC always beating the Citadel Council Races over the over-reliance and limits of Mass Relays and Mass Effect Drives where it can't even go beyond a few systems until it needs refueling like an old guzzler diesel truck.
Unfortunately for the aliens though, it would seem that the level of tech humanity had already surpassed everyone else in scale (among other tech field) that their disadvantages in speed and lack of knowledge in 3 specific fields just simply doesn't matter anyway as they can simply overpower the aliens lmao. Humanity are already at least nearly the levels of the Forerunners from Halo in the story, at least in terms of megastructure scaling.
Skill Issue for the aliens lmao.
No commander Chen
actually, I wrote it before I found him. I found him after someone commented on how similar humanity was to how he viewed future humanity. very interesting videos.
If brute force didn't work, then you didn't use enough of it. - First rule of warfare.
The once mighty Trodd Empire now looks kinda… (ahem)… down-Trodden… 😏
Ignored the Geneva Convention and declared war.
Find Out Phase in 3... 2... 1...
Hague Conventions: Hey can I get in on thie too?
@@Kez_DXX Done deal - Grampaw Hague came decades earlier and was the "We Warned Ya" Phase
Great job on the narration, continue your great work!
didn't have FTL... i gues even if we didn't get any traded there was a Small donation of around 200k FTL Engines at the start of the war
😉
It was 20 years of galactic economic development so I think humanity purchased and started making their own FTL systems.
Damn, another Isaac Arthur fan, I adore these kinds of grounded stories
"Even though the humans did not break any laws ..." Commits genocide? Eco-terrorism?
Moral of the story, humanity contemplates burning the stars before even getting there.
Aliens shouldn't let us leave the atmosphere. I wouldn't let humanity wander off either lol
And remember: We're omnivores. We eat EVERYTHING. Some "might" be squeamish about eating previously sapient meat.....but not everyone.
I'm pretty sure the line "Meat's back on the menu, boys." would be jokingly said after many ground engagements.
Aliens quarantine humans end result humans still geting everywhere one by one.
@@krevor4095 Look, it all depends on if they started it
@@krevor4095 Agreed, I'm too much of a skeptic to think anything humanity thinks up conceptually isn't something we're capable of acting upon.
Cannibalism is par for the course under that logic considering it isn't just a concept; there are modern examples of present-day communities that incorporate cannibalism into their diet (mostly tribal).
Bring aliens into the picture, I definitely don't trust humans not to try chewing on them. Especially if they're alien mollusks, I'll crush some alien seafood lol
@@loganshaw4527 Definitely possible, hope I'm dead before the bubble pops lol
19:48 except the humans didn't have "inferior technology"; human technology was quite literally Superior to most of the galactic powers, in all Fields except energy shielding, artificial gravity generation, and FTL.
The aliens did have... the wrong look when evaluating humanity. but in their defense, most of the big stuff was made top secret, thus they didn't know we had most of our stuff like Dyson swarm and all that.
Im suprised that they didn't surrender watching all their worlds be made uninhabitable in an instant within 6 months probably all at once
Loves a bit of foreshadowing. 👍
When SFIA meets space opera.
An actual spaceship! Because of the required sail.
Building tall vs building wide
Someone F'd around and found out. 😬
Re the solar sail and lasers....someone read Rocheworld by Robert Forward, it seems.
That so wouldn't work because time is relative! The closer you get to the speed of light them ore time slows down!!
For the crew. So they would be the ones arriving at the target system 10, 20 even 30 years later with maybe a week or two having happened on ship during the travel.
@@krevor4095 well at 99% C you would only experience time 7 times slower, so 70 years would be 10 years for you.
Well, hello there.
Best story ever 🤣🤣
Harry Turtledove...
Trot went full FAFO
Good story well read. Thank you both. UKUK
Well the author clearly took inspiration for the interstellar ship from avatar, because that is almost exactly how ISVs there work.
It is from Isaac Arthur not avatar
Great story ❤
Should have signed the Convention.
Good story
You seem to have only a few privileged viewers for there to be only 1 comment from 5 months ago...
Could be a members early access thing
@@smoxthybweh Im the author and got a preview, that why there is a comment from me from 6 months ago
Well damn
Thanks. I have a story to tell you my grandad told me
Fun story, but I think the timeline of the war is a little messed up. How does one cross hundreds, perhaps thousands of light years, to attack alien planets in only 5 years without FTL?
We didn't have FTL at first contact, but we obviously got it in the decades between first contact and the 6 months in point of the war. Whether through trade, figuring it out entirely by ourselves now we know it's possible, reverse engineered it off of some pirate with a FTL capable ship who tried messing around in one of our systems, a spy stealing the plans off of some other species, or getting our hands on some intact drives on day one of the invasion and figuring it out fast enough to launch Relativistic Kill Missiles that'll land within 6 months of the war starting.
@@donanthebarbarian5177 Very reasonable, but the story forgot to mention that. Oh, well, it was still entertaining.
@@blondluck4621well I thought it was obvious, but I am the writer so bit biased here. But basically when the diplomats came in, they made trade deal to get FTL tech, which was attempted when Anderson tried to make one with the captain but couldn't because the captain lacked autorisation.
@@xotos4568 Congratulations on a good story! in the 1930's, John Campbell had a rule: No high tech surprises. If you didn't mention it during the world building phase (in this case the first contact log) then it doesn't exist. In this case, a paragraph about how the official diplomatic visit went would cover that, the POV would probably know about it, and it's still short story form. I loved the way you handled the conversations. Well done!
I am curious, did Humanity get FTL technology. I asked because it was mentioned they had lesser technology
They do have FTL tech, but that's was currently the only widespread reverse-engineered tech. you have some cultural factors of what they consider superior tech, and some actual superior tech like shielding, faster FTL, and better fusion tech because of shielding tech(a big factor for fusion is neutron radiation wich can't be contained by magnets, nor can photons. if a magic shield could stop both, you can have way higher energy density without melting your reactor.) honestly didn't think further than that. not that good of a writer and this is one shot so I didn't put too much thought into it.
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