This is my story! Fun fact: when I first had the idea it was only supposed to be about four or five paragraphs long, but as I started writing it just kept getting longer and longer until it became one of my longest stories.
Also you can run TOWARDS something as much as you run AWAY. The name doesn't specify which the Terrans prefer. And the correct name, "Those who CHASE", leans more towards the former.
@@greywolf9783 not really. I'm a non-native and looked up the meanings according the “Oxford Dicitonary”. Two meanings for chase caught my attention: 1st “run / drive after” in meaning to catch someone or force someone away and the 2nd sub-meaning can mean summarized “to longing for” …
Hahaha! More like,... Humans: Please don't do this! You really don't want to fuck about! It's not worth it. We can be friends, we want to be friends damn it! Xeno's: 'glasses eden then smugly says' So,... now kneel slave. Humans: It's like that huh,... well,... you have fucked about. Now you get to find out. We needed an example anyway, thanks for volunteering. We'll just become friends with your children then,... those that survive what's coming.
Those who run: -away from what can be avoided -toward what cannot -away from war -toward peace -away from destruction -toward creation We do not walk, we run.
Those who run: as dogs of war, Shepard of peace, in hallowed halls and the blasted deeps, we do not stop for what we seek Our Lover's arms, our enemies teeth, upon our families lives, with our weary feet, We do not stop for what we seek You've challenged us, in race or deed, it matters not, for you shall flee. We do not stop for what we seek, For we do not walk, We Run.
From the moment they named themselves, I knew the big root of the misunderstanding: "those who run" bears a very different meaning depending on which way they're running.
The aliens predators will learn why with some many animal predators on earth that humans are at the top of the food chain. It is not the weapons that just made it easier it was not the tools and traps. That was for after the hunt or to quick. No it was the runing that killed the beasts the predators and prey alike. The "only one" is walking back.
Quite right. I mean, the most powerful nation in the world right now is founded on the *pursuit* of happiness. One of the reasons we chose wolves as our first companions is because we both run our prey into exhaustion. We're constantly moving, constantly searching, and *never giving up.*
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 Less "tax evasion" and more "how dare you levee frivolous taxes on us without our consent." Also being forced to barrack soldiers in their homes and tolerate whatever damage the soldiers did to their property. The Crown kept piling on more rules until the colonists snapped.
We evolved as persistence hunters. No fangs. no claws. Skin as thin as tissue paper. Just long legs and hands that can lift whatever rock is on hand, or pull a flint knife across the throat of whatever unfortunate we'd been chasing. They named us well, and didn't even realize it.
During ancient times, ancient to even ancient Mesopotamia, Humans lived mostly as nomads in caves, and one of the ways of procuring food was hunting animals even other predators. How?? By slowly and enthusiastically walking our quary to their death through exhaustion or simply give up itselves to be slain without resistance... Now, if were running at you, boy oh boy..
@@prestonjones1653 its why we find the idea of the Terminator so friggen scary. Its why monsters always just walk after their victims in horror movies, its why Zombies are so prevalent. We know just how terrifying we are, and having something use our method on us scares us to our core.
Not only are we Those Who Run, but we are the only species who can easily eat & drink on the move. Plus we sweat to cool down. Our prey, and our predators, can't. So, not only to they tire, they also dehydrate, overheat and burn energy, while we just... run.
Those Who Run may have been a mistranslation, but not an error - or, at least, not an inappropriate one. We can get tired of running, but never of The Chase. Sure, we tried to run away from war - to chase peace. But when you took that option away, peace was no longer our quarry... You were. We chase tirelessly. We chase unending, relentless, and unresting, obsessing, until the prise is taken. We chase knowledge until The Universe itself surrenders. We chase justice, obsessing about unsolved Cold Cases for centuries on end. We chase peace, and we chase war. We chase sensation and experience. We have never stopped chasing The Horizon and hunting for new frontiers. We chase after love. We chase after revenge. We chase after kindness and cruelty with equal desire. We chase perfection. We chase tradition; both old and new. We chase invention and innovation. We chase the chase itself. Motivated, we run. Unmotivated, we walk. Depressed and dejected, we crawl or rest. But, in the end... We are The Ones Who Run... The Ones Who Chase. Oh, and we are VERY good at throwing things. Rocks, temper tantrums... YOU. 😈
now I just want you to write out a whole story about, well this. with the upfront threatening undertones with hope of being better beings even with our sharped claws
Few know this. But the real origin of the term "technicals" for improvised military vehicle is from one of the many local wars in late 20th century Africa. Journaiists who covered one such war needed armed escorts and started listing their payment as "technical assistants" on their expense reports.
I like it. Vague enough to be misleading, but also a very accurate description of the assistance received. Technical support and assistance means providing support, solutions, and general problem solving. If the technical difficulty is getting into and out of a situation safely, that's what an armed escort is for; as much as a fire fighting team or a team of medics when filming a dangerous action scene.
@@Darkinu2 The Balkans, the region of border gore over by former Greater Greece/The Byzantine Empire. It's a region of like a dozen of smaller states that all hate each other over religious and ethnic conflicts between Greeks, Turks and Slavs along with Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Catholics. They've all been trying to kill each other for the better part of a millennia.
Last few lines gave me chills. I like the bit where the guys noticed the human canine teeth, referencing our evolutionary past as persistence hunters. Our ability to sweat and loss of most body hair kept us from over heating.
And when the mega-fauna apex-predators of our planet hunted us, ones who killed our beloved children with fang and claw red with their blood, we chased them into death itself, and then we chased others of their kind out of rage and spite, right into extinction. And we slashed and burned the land they came from, and the only reason we didn't salt the earth was because we took it for ourselves.
Problem. You know what it is? Persistence hunting is indeed a thing, the real problem however is that it only works in hot climes where heat exhaustion will eventually kill or incapacitate the prey. it does NOT work in temperate or cold climates. By the time humanity started to move out of Africa they had already mostly discarded Persistence hunting, and those that did not sure as hell did once they started moving into regions where the climate did not allow for the practice to succeed. It is one thing many authors of HFY get wrong. Most pick up on the fact that humans were, for a while, persistence hunters. However they fail to grasp that Persistence hunting is completely reliant on the Environment and Climate. Too cold, it does not work. As for outsmarting the predators of our own world, well I put forward the case that one predator (though never of humans) sure as hell outsmarted us. The Cat. We did not domesticate them you see, they decided to move in with us.....
@@alganhar1 On the Eurasian and North American plains, steppes, and tundra, we followed the herds: mammoth, bison, aurochs, reindeer, horse, elephant. It could still be a slow chase to exhaustion, because hair and hide meant to trap heat doesn't stop working on the run. We can layer our clothing, they can't. It sucks that much more when your pursuer can walk on top of the snow slowing you down. To be fair to the folks counting bones under cliffs, after several *thousand* years of running a *handful* of animals to their death, those bones add up. Especially if mountain lions or wolves got to the landing zone before the hunters. In many places, there are remnants of enclosures used to corral animals cut from the herds in central Asia (probably elsewhere): you don't have to worry about meat going bad until after it's butchered. Some herd animals remained around the humans long enough to be tamed and their descendents domesticated. In spite of barbed wire and electric wire, we still end up chasing them!
When I heard the term those who run my first thought was “we can also run towards our prey”. Those who chase or hunt has a very definite meaning. Those who run can be interpreted into many things.
Don't forget we are also those who run into the fire to save others. We are those who run towards the danger to protect the innocent. There is also the other version, we are those who run, not to save ourselves, but for the sake of others, we run to protect them from something terrifying. For the moment we stop running, when we turn and fight, we become the monsters we have been running from in oh so long, and now it is too late for you to run, as we are faster.
I immediately thought of how many things it could mean. Are you running towards something or away from it? Are you running a government? It could’ve meant “Those who Run Everything” and it still would’ve worked.
watching this it reminded me of a tweet or tumbler post that I read one time. It was about how the way ancient humans hunted would've been like a horror story to the poor animal we set our target on. At first they would escape, have a feeling of safety and satisfaction, but when they looked up they would see a human in the distance coming closer. The animal would see its future before it came to be, and could only hope to run until its legs gave out. This story perfectly captured that feeling of horror.
Exactly humans are so terrifying that we needed imaginary stories and horrors of a cosmic scale just to give us a tiny fright. We are the boogymen of the universe, an unstoppable force with unlimited reserves. We are the death that looms over the horizon, slowly approaching but inevitable.
Look at our greatest horror films... heck, the entire zombie film universe. Humans fear only one thing. Someone more stubborn than us. Anything less, the film will end with humanity victorious. Godlike creatures of power, viciousness and wisdom? Races thousands of years more advanced? We will eventually win. It is only the relentless that we fear.
There’s a reason “When you’re not running, I’m getting closer” is so popular among human horror stories; It’s what we imagine the mentality of predators to be, because that’s the one we used.
@@grim1494 We are also the stewards of all life. Not designated, but evolved through the co-operative genes. Humans are nearly Eusocial, but also include all other life as a part of our group to some level or another, which is why we can lay down our lives to save an old tree, battle to the death to ensure a kitten survives.
the moment I heard about the lonely xeno prince falling on a technology-killing planet and thinking "whew i'm safe here", I immediately foresaw what would happen next Then the female huntress crash landed on the planet with a knife and I was like "Ohh boy that's a super-accelerated history lesson for the alien boy there"
And we sent the female hunter. Our females are relatively weak. Weaker than our male adolescents. That's all you're worth. One weakling with a primitive weapon.
Larashi: Those who run?, surely they are a species known for their cowardice.... Humans: Have you ever heard of the ancient conflict known as the Toyota war? (This is where the term technical was coined to describe trucks modified with artillery btw)
@@canarysilvertail7706 in 1983 Libya invades northern Chad, using Soviet armor and tactics. Chadians strap heavy machineguns, recoilless rifles, and antiaircraft guns to pickup tricks and with the help of western special forces, kick the Libyans out. Toyota trucks were a favorite.
@@robertschumacher2707 I grew up in Tchad, and I can tell you with certainty that they are among the scariest people alive. Hospitable to a fault, but if your are an enemy they are relentless. I've seen one of them get macheted in the calf, and he just wrapped his turban around it and walked 5miles to the closest village so the local veterinarian could suture his muscle back together. No painkillers available, but he didn't even flinch when the vet was sewing his flesh. Dude walked away after the operation. I'd say 50% of his calf had been hanging off.
Damn imagine a movie on this. The war will be like the first 30 minutes of the movie and then they can move on to the planet with the female hunter chasing the xeno etc etc. Would be a blast.
I'd do the pursuit as cut scenes throughout the movie, kind of mirroring the plot as it progresses. That way you can get a scope of how long the chase actually goes for as uniforms became patchworked, the buildup of grime and scars then when the ship picks them up a marked difference from the ships that fought in the war to show the progression of technology.
Most of the long running ongoing multichapter stories leave me forgetting what it was all about. Keeping the story in one post helps my worsening dementia keep track of the plot. Also with long running stories, I notice they start off full of action but eventually evolve into soap operas.
When I first read "Those Who Run", I remembered, those of us from the Plains would chase and herd buffalo herds consisting of thousands and chase them into canyons, in my dad's homestate of Chiahuahua, Mexico, the Raramuri can run for days, without sleeping. They run up mountains, across horizons, the Inca were masters at this too. Before we learned about arrows, we also would chase prey until it dropped dead, which could take days. We triumphed over ambush predators because endurance triumphs over ambushes. Even our minds are adapted for this, which is also why we have burnout and mental crashes.
Quite try. Some of my ancestors built ships that could race the waves and chase both trade and plunder up rivers. Some of the plunder they chased belonged to some *other* ancestors of mine.
Reminds me of the story of the mongols and the khwarezmi empire. The mongols sent emissaries to establish trade and contact with nearby kingdoms. Instead the emissaries we're all killed save one who would deliver the heads of the party to Genghis. The mongols launched a ful scale invasion and chased the shah of the khwarezmi down and killed him despite he and his family trying to hide as peasants at a few points.
indeed, Genghis Khan never conquered or attacked without him being the one attacked or spurned first, his entire position was based out of projection of Power, Challenge it and you'd be his next victim
@Voron_Aggrav On the one hand, he kinda brought the black plague to Europe, raped his DNA into a quarter of Asia, and killed entire towns...but on the other hand, he rewarded merit, he was open-minded, and Mongol territory was the safest on the planet for travel
In a time before recorded history, Humans wiped out Smilodon Fatalis. This should not be misconstrued as overhunting to extinction. This was our first war it was fought with stone tools and weapons against an enemy that had claws and ridiculously large canines almost as wide apart as our eye sockets. We won. No more stealing children in the night. No more hunters not coming home. Not from them any way. Humanity changed the rules and we have been winning ever since.
It reminds me of a few lines from If by Rudyard Kipling “If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it”
For those for whom "Persistence Hunting" is just a concept with no real meaning attached, there are a few films and videos of the hunters that used to be called "The Kalahari Bushmen" hunting for their villages. The first one that I saw was about 65 years ago was an hour or so long movie about a Giraffe hunt by several hunters that lasted several days. The giraffe finally collapsed from the arrow poison and exhaustion. The team of hunters just kept tracking it at a steady pace until they caught up to it. The UA-cam Video from a few years back is a much more recent video of a gazelle hunt where both the gazelle and the pursuit hunter are worn out, but the hunter has two team members bringing up his gear and water for his recovery.
“All the world shall be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And if they catch you, they will kill you. But first… they must catch you. Digger. Listener. Runner. Prince With the Swift Warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed…” - Richard Adams, “Watership Down”
"There was no [War] act taboo under Karal. The hope in humanity's survival lay in unconditional surrender" The Geneva Checklist: "Are you sure about that?"
They’re running, not from their enemies, no, they run from themselves, from who they wince were, and who they fear they may once again become. Not unlike the Doctor. They run not in fear, but as a mercy.
Persistence hunting, it's how we got our place on the planet, Run things down by sheer endurance and persistence, and to this day that's still how we achieve things, putting our minds to it and keeping at it for as long as is needed When we start running just give up we'll outpace you soon enough
@@Voron_Aggrav I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again the most terrifying thing about humanity isn’t our Brains or our tech, bc if we lost all of that we’d go back to what rose us to the top of Darwin’s ladder in the first place, our outlandish endurance. Not a single animal could identify any human tech from any other except by appearance, and none of it has any meaning to them. That’s why a deer will sometimes look at you while you’re scoping it bc it doesn’t understand it’s being hunted, at least not yet. But what still puts fear even into the hearts of man is the fear we put into everything on earth, that when they look over their shoulder it’s hopeless to breathe a sigh of relief if they don’t see us. Just because we aren’t seen doesn’t mean we aren’t chasing, and just because you got away from dying in that patch of woods doesn’t mean the one you ran into wasn’t the place we had planned to catch you anyway. The feeling of knowing that no matter how far or hard you run, we will always be behind you, that while you run yourself to near death fleeing from us, you were never all you really escaping at all. You were just giving us a trail and way to work up our appetites
Those Who Run is by far the best HFY story I've listened to. I normally prefer longer stories but, in this genre, longer usually just means repetitive.
Less than half power. And that was in the beginning before we kicked into industrialization. As the ambassador said at the end, we have a long lonely future ahead of us. Because only when somebody gets the bright idea of their stronger than us will they come talk to us again.
We didn't fling their stars into the void and freeze all their planets, we didn't detonate their stars into super-novas, we didn't use Relativistic Kill Missiles on their planets, We just politely deleted some war facilities and moved on.
We didn't release any plague on them. But we would had only the trouble of choosing witch one to use IF we wanted to. We didn't poison their atmosphere. But, we had so many option available to us to do that. We could have carpet bombed their worlds with nukes. But we chose NOT to do that. Why ? Because we wanted to preserve the lives of the civilians.
Those who run prefer to run to peace. Don't mistake our running for cowardice though. For if we are forced to run to war. We wont stop till we are done.
When they announced that all races picked a name for themselves I thought it would be "Those Who Survive" because throuout our history we have survived, our prey, then our predators, then our world and finally, we survived ourselves. And if these Xenos don't eradicate us, we will survive, and then we will recover, That is when they shall learn true fear. For if we survive, we will destroy that which has dared to hurt us, and we will make sure they have no chance to survive.
Everybody forgetting you can run just as easily towards a fight as from it. "Those who run" shouldn't be discounted as cowards, we're just getting to the fight faster.
A standard human, in the midst of starvation, can do about 5-10 mi a day. A determined human can easily do 25 or more. The Roman legions considered it normal to March their forces 20 to 30 miles a day for 3 to 6 months. Do not challenge us on endurance friend, we will run you into the ground.
We did cross country 10km runs every year in high school, the uniform for girls was a white shirt. The year it was racing me and my mates ran most of it backwards whilst the girls we were friends with ran it with the arms cross across their.. ah chest, annoyed at our giggling at their jiggling. That was the last year we had to run it if it rained.
Every time i listen to this story.... from 15:12 to 15:29 I imagine a growl in the Terran Ambassador's voice....the underlying primal rage that the Larashi woke up
I really enjoyed this one, would have been great to see the quote “those who run, simply die tired” which I think would also be a fitting sentiment to this story as in fact the prince was quite tired when the human finally caught up to them.
Those who run. I liked it. We run when needed from danger. However when motivated we run head long into the fight. We will run to the aid of family and stranger alike. I liked the story. ESP the capture of the last family member. Good story.
I know enough human biology/history to know where this story is going and I think I like it :D Someone should have asked the humans which direction they were running: Away, or toward. Just in case this isn't how the story ends: Humans run, until the prey dies.
"We shall glass a garden world to break their spirit! They will beg us to stop." "You fools, you didn't break them... you galvanized them and signed your own death warrant."
Over a decade ago, when i wore the clothes of a younger man. Its was an Army uniform. After completing a 10 mile run in under 80 minutes. My Sargent said, "That's why, if they run. They die tired".
When they said that the first attack would break our spirits I had to laugh. Destroying our Eden world breaks our spirits? Oh silly child. No you are just volunteered to show the universe exactly how determined we can be.
They definitely could have. I think it is a very human thing. That Humanity will develop whole new technologies because they have a grudge and a point to make.
But there was no poetry in bombardment from afar. After coming this far, there was only one goal. "Make them regret it" and that's exactly what the point of the chase was.
Sure, although we don't really know the nature of this technology disruption or why gauss shielding apparently didn't work or even something like a nuke would not fall prey to the same effect. But the primary reason was for psychological effect. They were making a point, not only to the Larashi but to everyone else. This is also why they only sent one hunter instead of a team. Still a bad call IMHO but it worked and the final point was made all that more clearly. Fuck with us and we will hunt you down no matter where you go.
And here I thought the issue was narrow minded zenos. After all, while you can run away from danger, you can also run towards it. You can run for help, just as well as you can run to give it.
Those who run? Not me. Can you imagine me running at my age ? How undignified! I keep it to a fast jog at most, on the rare occasions things force me to be hasty. Usually i do not run, i await. If i decide you are worthy of my attention, look for me in your shadow. If you see me looking back..RUN! Not that you'll escape, but it will buy you time. A few days more is nothing to turn your nose up to, think of it as my gift to you, before i deliver you to Our Father's embrace.
After becoming a member and watching oh so many videos, I am coming back here, to the story and the video that brought me to this channel to say thank you Net Narrator for making these videos.
As someone who has done some voice acting before, I absolutely notice the one time you said a word that wasn't part of what was written, just as much as I did an ENTIRE script and got a reply "You pronounced this wrong..." despite it was how me and my family (and my part of the country) always pronouncing a word, but it wasn't the "popular way that is in the news right now" way. :D I enjoy these, cheers man!
The last couple of lines gave me goosebumps. They would have passed for a villain reveal at the midpoint of a lesser story, Alas they are here fitting punctuation.
In a way, it did. We tried to run away from war, after all. Poor Xenos. They should have been more diligent about their homework - "Know your enemy." and all that. Persistence hunters, a savage history. They should have hit us harder if they were going to have a chance. That "symbolic gesture" was their biggest mistake. If they knew our history, they would have either gone for the jugular and taken the Phyrric victory, or just left us alone.
It's also possible that humanity sanitised our history when we gave it out to the universe, world wars reclassified as local skirmishes, genocides being covered up and trying to make humans seem less threatening until we'd found a good solid diplomatic/economic/social footing in the galaxy.
ohh...now that was a tasty end... i forsee a senator/ambassador to have many hushed conversations with fellow aliens ,and quite a few 'fringe' pirates paid to tell a tale or two of ther encounters and the ..habits... of the lees 'cordial' specimens of humans that shares ther lawless life in the fringe.... about how endurance predators at times not are obvious ,unless you look close.... perhaps some say ,to close...
the amount of absolute disrespect to send a single woman on a decade long mission to catch the prince. they could have sent a dozen marines just as easy!
I have been reading/listening to the stories and my goodness are they entertaining!!! They hit a mark of truth when taking humanity into account same as this story. Keep it up your had my interest now you have my subscription :)
I will say it here as I said somewhere else. The lack of critical IT support suggests a massive oversight, somewhere somehow someone's head is rolling or reeling once they learned their translation programs had made the mistake and cost an empire their entire existence.
Imagine how terrifying it must be for an alien race to think it just hit the most devious of licks on a species called “those who run” thinking they run out of fear, only to find out that running is what took us to the point in the race to the top of Darwin’s mountain of skulls for our intelligence to render it no longer essential to our existence. Before we had nuanced language, before we had tools, before we had fire, and before we even truly left our place in the middle of the food chain, we ran. We ran away from predators because fear, when responded too correctly is the most valuable tool we have. We ran towards new lands for new game and shelter, spreading so far and wide we have existed on every continent except Antarctica for around 100k years. Even when we made tools and could use more of our time building abundance we’d never seen with these advanced works of stone and flint, we still ran. This time, we carried those who could not walk because now we had the strength to carry them, and no one must fall when you have the strength to raise them up. When those same predators who would leave us running from our rightful kills stalked us in different forms all over the world, we ran. This time, with stone so sharp it could sever fingers with ease straight into our predators. To this day, the decedents of those predators only dare to hunt us when they are so desperate they’ll attack anything that lives just to get a one more meal. Even then, many risk it with other dangerous fauna far more readily than they ever have with humanity. Once we ran our way to the top of the evolutionary mountain of skulls, we had no one to run from except ourselves, and nowhere to go except for the same. We learned to run towards a future we aren’t mean to see, towards peace that could never last forever. No matter how many times we failed, we never stopped. Now imagine that alien species learning what an exhausted Antelope felt as every time they ran themselves to ground thinking it escaped the 2 legged demons that pursued it slowly and steadily, just to turn around and see them see that they had never outran them, just gave them a trail and an appetite for when it ran out of fuel before we ever truly considered a non moving break in our chase. Imagine being the species that had to learn how it felt to see “those who run” calmly chasing you down till the ends of the stars because they were made for the chase, and that youd fundamentally collapse as a person, as a society, before the humans ever stopped coming for them. Because we are those who run, and you are now those who flee
we've never actually used running away as much of a defensive tactic, it really has always been about going and getting resources: walking was an adaptation to deforestation and running was a late adaptation well into the path of deviating from other primates. what actually kicked off the weirdly wide range of force-application-viable motion and more to the point the _tool use_ that led to resource diversification and problem solving and all that jazz was a weird little defensive tactic in which we threw things as a way to discourage predators THAT is why we have hands that function as force application tools instead of just graspers and getting good enough at it to start occasionally killing those predators as a side effect of finding more and more uses for those hands and more and more reasons to specialize further into them is what triggered us to start hunting in the first place and it's that tool use that led to us essentially specializing in being an invasive species. there would be no "those who run" attribute for us without having "those who break the rules" as a basis to create and enable it. "those who chase" makes a better tagline than "those who cheat" though so humans picking this still makes a LOT of sense.
I really liked this story! The one thing I had a problem with was that shipyards that hadn’t been used since before humanity unified could just up and start producing warships. Unless they were almost entirely automated and just needed a software update and raw materials, it would take quite a while, possibly years, to train up the huge amount of workers. How to operate the equipment, how to build ships, how to build warships instead of cargo ships. Quite possibly how to design warships for fleet warfare rather than police actions, if it’s been long enough (read: longer than a few decades, maybe longer if the government planned ahead for once when they shut down the shipyards). It only took twenty years for Germany to forget how to build anything larger than a destroyer between WW1 and WW2. It’s a minor detail but I noticed it and had to say something. :)
I think they meant that they had shut them down and only kept the ones needed. So getting them working again would just be minor updates and having some of the old hands from the still operating factories leading the new people at the refurbished ones. Like when car factories shut down a factory that makes its trucks to downsize and then moves that line to a different place. Then the can expand again so they reopen that old factory, update what's needed, and train so new people using the old people from the other factory. So maybe a couple months of installation and then leaning on more quality checkers until the new people get trained fully.
Germany was forbidden to make them, so their designs were decades old when they started back up(largely ignoring the Treaty of Versailles when they did) where as other countries were still designing and/or building the other nations, not bound by that scaled back production and sold ships 1 and 2 at a time to various other nations(for example the Brits built 1 of the cruisers Argentina acquired between 1919 and 1939... Italy built the other 2) so they maintained knowledge if not the capacity of quantity
If you look at the history of the United States and what happened in 1941, the United States military was really a joke and had no real concept of what a large scale war would involve. But in a little less than 4 years Germany which had one of the strongest militaries at the time, and Japan was a great naval power it should have been a lot longer war. However as the world found out the United States of AMERICA 🇺🇸 basically has always hated war but if someone else starts a fight with it, well Admiral Yamamoto said it best about waking up a very dangerous beast. Because the United States of AMERICA 🇺🇸 was a melting pot of people who had come from around the world, the fact that if we are United by an outside force, we will come to gether and we won't stop until the enemy is crushed and then we rebuild them back. That's why China and the CCP has been using unconventional warfare and trying to destroy America from within because if they tried to attack us from the outside, the CCP would be no more and the Chinese people would have been free to try again to get a good government for the people.
@@goingfubar7182 I mean it didn’t hurt that all the infrastructure destruction was never happening in our heartland and we actually got a boom in our economy funding the Allies until Japan touched our boats and America took the chance to flex on the world, and it worked
Anyone else want to turn that last planet the prince hid on into a Renaissance Fair world? Highest level of tech would probably be steam power as it is pure mechanical power.
This is my story!
Fun fact: when I first had the idea it was only supposed to be about four or five paragraphs long, but as I started writing it just kept getting longer and longer until it became one of my longest stories.
Excellent work, there's a lot of these stories that are just "ok", but this one stands out. My compliments.
Love the last line - that was perfect.
That was a great story!!!
Part 2?
That last line sent shivers down my spine. Amazing story wordsmith!
"Those who Run" carries a different meaning when you remember that Humanity evolved as a persistence hunter
Also you can run TOWARDS something as much as you run AWAY. The name doesn't specify which the Terrans prefer.
And the correct name, "Those who CHASE", leans more towards the former.
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 to be fair, I was only about halfway through when I wrote that. And I knew what was coming as soon as Karal was declared
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 again technicals
@@greywolf9783 not really. I'm a non-native and looked up the meanings according the “Oxford Dicitonary”. Two meanings for chase caught my attention: 1st “run / drive after” in meaning to catch someone or force someone away and the 2nd sub-meaning can mean summarized “to longing for” …
@@toraxmalu interesting
Human: "Please reconsider. This will not work out for anyone."
Alien: *Glasses an Eden world*
Human: "So you have chosen... Death."
Hahaha! More like,...
Humans: Please don't do this! You really don't want to fuck about! It's not worth it. We can be friends, we want to be friends damn it!
Xeno's: 'glasses eden then smugly says' So,... now kneel slave.
Humans: It's like that huh,... well,... you have fucked about. Now you get to find out. We needed an example anyway, thanks for volunteering. We'll just become friends with your children then,... those that survive what's coming.
Human: [sigh]....Yep. [dusts off an ancient copy of the Geneva Conventions and scrawls Checklist over the top of Conventions]
@@gilmadreth680 going from convention to suggestions. Got love the lack of chill humans can have.
Human: let’s see let’s start with attacking civilians and finish with genocide
Humans are like that
"We said we're Those who Run, we never specified in which direction."
And so they learned the dangers of misunderstanding context
*ark Souls boss music kicks in*
@@ravenouself4181 Human Enemy: " Why do i hear boss music?"
Oh yes, the ancient art of Fuck around and Find out.
They apparently didn't know that humans evolved as pursuit predators.
Those who run:
-away from what can be avoided
-toward what cannot
-away from war
-toward peace
-away from destruction
-toward creation
We do not walk, we run.
They should've looked up Marathon.
Those who run:
as dogs of war, Shepard of peace,
in hallowed halls and the blasted deeps,
we do not stop for what we seek
Our Lover's arms, our enemies teeth,
upon our families lives, with our weary feet,
We do not stop for what we seek
You've challenged us, in race or deed,
it matters not, for you shall flee.
We do not stop for what we seek,
For we do not walk,
We
Run.
@@drakon489a that's a good poem
@@errorabortretry3694 Given it was a translation error why should they have? That is the point.
Have you seen the avrege human. Not many of us can actually run
From the moment they named themselves, I knew the big root of the misunderstanding: "those who run" bears a very different meaning depending on which way they're running.
Those who chase
The aliens predators will learn why with some many animal predators on earth that humans are at the top of the food chain. It is not the weapons that just made it easier it was not the tools and traps. That was for after the hunt or to quick. No it was the runing that killed the beasts the predators and prey alike. The "only one" is walking back.
Quite right. I mean, the most powerful nation in the world right now is founded on the *pursuit* of happiness. One of the reasons we chose wolves as our first companions is because we both run our prey into exhaustion. We're constantly moving, constantly searching, and *never giving up.*
@@brigidtheirishIf you want to get historical, it was founded in the pursuit of tax evasion.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 Less "tax evasion" and more "how dare you levee frivolous taxes on us without our consent." Also being forced to barrack soldiers in their homes and tolerate whatever damage the soldiers did to their property. The Crown kept piling on more rules until the colonists snapped.
We evolved as persistence hunters. No fangs. no claws. Skin as thin as tissue paper. Just long legs and hands that can lift whatever rock is on hand, or pull a flint knife across the throat of whatever unfortunate we'd been chasing. They named us well, and didn't even realize it.
We’ve got the best radiator, and always remember that heat kills
I see somebody here does not understand skin very well.
There’s always one of you self deprecating “skin as thin as paper” types
I see somebody here does not understand teeth very well.
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Unless you have a thick hide, skin provides very little protection other than from the insidious microscopic threats.
Humans tend to not like to run without a good reason. Please remember, you don't want to give us a good reason...
During ancient times, ancient to even ancient Mesopotamia, Humans lived mostly as nomads in caves, and one of the ways of procuring food was hunting animals even other predators. How?? By slowly and enthusiastically walking our quary to their death through exhaustion or simply give up itselves to be slain without resistance...
Now, if were running at you, boy oh boy..
@@proudfirebrand3946
We're the Terminators of the animal kingdom
@@prestonjones1653 its why we find the idea of the Terminator so friggen scary. Its why monsters always just walk after their victims in horror movies, its why Zombies are so prevalent. We know just how terrifying we are, and having something use our method on us scares us to our core.
@@rolkflameraven1483 I never thought of it that way. Thank you for this new perspective.
Not only are we Those Who Run, but we are the only species who can easily eat & drink on the move. Plus we sweat to cool down. Our prey, and our predators, can't. So, not only to they tire, they also dehydrate, overheat and burn energy, while we just... run.
"You made your point, and claim we made ours. You're wrong; we're just starting."
Those Who Run may have been a mistranslation, but not an error - or, at least, not an inappropriate one. We can get tired of running, but never of The Chase. Sure, we tried to run away from war - to chase peace. But when you took that option away, peace was no longer our quarry... You were.
We chase tirelessly. We chase unending, relentless, and unresting, obsessing, until the prise is taken.
We chase knowledge until The Universe itself surrenders.
We chase justice, obsessing about unsolved Cold Cases for centuries on end.
We chase peace, and we chase war.
We chase sensation and experience.
We have never stopped chasing The Horizon and hunting for new frontiers.
We chase after love.
We chase after revenge.
We chase after kindness and cruelty with equal desire.
We chase perfection.
We chase tradition; both old and new.
We chase invention and innovation.
We chase the chase itself.
Motivated, we run. Unmotivated, we walk. Depressed and dejected, we crawl or rest. But, in the end... We are The Ones Who Run... The Ones Who Chase.
Oh, and we are VERY good at throwing things. Rocks, temper tantrums... YOU. 😈
now I just want you to write out a whole story about, well this. with the upfront threatening undertones with hope of being better beings even with our sharped claws
Fantastic
Crimgbge
I love this comment lol
this should have been the conclusion of the story and the alien races reaction.
Few know this. But the real origin of the term "technicals" for improvised military vehicle is from one of the many local wars in late 20th century Africa. Journaiists who covered one such war needed armed escorts and started listing their payment as "technical assistants" on their expense reports.
Thank you for sharing. Fun bit of knowledge in a not so fun time.
Huh. I had always wondered where that came from.
I like it. Vague enough to be misleading, but also a very accurate description of the assistance received. Technical support and assistance means providing support, solutions, and general problem solving. If the technical difficulty is getting into and out of a situation safely, that's what an armed escort is for; as much as a fire fighting team or a team of medics when filming a dangerous action scene.
More accurate for these would've been Q-ships.
@@vicroc4a Q-Ship is a counter pirate/ambush ship that acts as a noncombatant. A Technical is a retrofitted civilian vehicle for open combat
"And so the Larashi learned another new human term: Balkanisation"
That got a good laugh out of me 😂
Ah yeahs time to create space serbia
I admit that that one was lost on me.
@@Darkinu2 The Balkans, the region of border gore over by former Greater Greece/The Byzantine Empire. It's a region of like a dozen of smaller states that all hate each other over religious and ethnic conflicts between Greeks, Turks and Slavs along with Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Catholics. They've all been trying to kill each other for the better part of a millennia.
@@Jesus_Officalremove space kebab
@@Darkinu2the Balkans it was one country then split into many
Last few lines gave me chills. I like the bit where the guys noticed the human canine teeth, referencing our evolutionary past as persistence hunters. Our ability to sweat and loss of most body hair kept us from over heating.
In their arrogance they forgot to study our past. We outsmarted the predators of Earth and out chased all the herbivores of our planet.
And when the mega-fauna apex-predators of our planet hunted us, ones who killed our beloved children with fang and claw red with their blood, we chased them into death itself, and then we chased others of their kind out of rage and spite, right into extinction. And we slashed and burned the land they came from, and the only reason we didn't salt the earth was because we took it for ourselves.
and then spent several millennia repeating the process on ourselves.
Problem. You know what it is? Persistence hunting is indeed a thing, the real problem however is that it only works in hot climes where heat exhaustion will eventually kill or incapacitate the prey. it does NOT work in temperate or cold climates. By the time humanity started to move out of Africa they had already mostly discarded Persistence hunting, and those that did not sure as hell did once they started moving into regions where the climate did not allow for the practice to succeed.
It is one thing many authors of HFY get wrong. Most pick up on the fact that humans were, for a while, persistence hunters. However they fail to grasp that Persistence hunting is completely reliant on the Environment and Climate. Too cold, it does not work.
As for outsmarting the predators of our own world, well I put forward the case that one predator (though never of humans) sure as hell outsmarted us. The Cat. We did not domesticate them you see, they decided to move in with us.....
@@alganhar1 We just modified the tactic to panicking the victims to get them to run off cliffs.
@@alganhar1 On the Eurasian and North American plains, steppes, and tundra, we followed the herds: mammoth, bison, aurochs, reindeer, horse, elephant. It could still be a slow chase to exhaustion, because hair and hide meant to trap heat doesn't stop working on the run. We can layer our clothing, they can't. It sucks that much more when your pursuer can walk on top of the snow slowing you down.
To be fair to the folks counting bones under cliffs, after several *thousand* years of running a *handful* of animals to their death, those bones add up. Especially if mountain lions or wolves got to the landing zone before the hunters.
In many places, there are remnants of enclosures used to corral animals cut from the herds in central Asia (probably elsewhere): you don't have to worry about meat going bad until after it's butchered. Some herd animals remained around the humans long enough to be tamed and their descendents domesticated.
In spite of barbed wire and electric wire, we still end up chasing them!
When I heard the term those who run my first thought was “we can also run towards our prey”. Those who chase or hunt has a very definite meaning. Those who run can be interpreted into many things.
Don't forget we are also those who run into the fire to save others. We are those who run towards the danger to protect the innocent.
There is also the other version, we are those who run, not to save ourselves, but for the sake of others, we run to protect them from something terrifying. For the moment we stop running, when we turn and fight, we become the monsters we have been running from in oh so long, and now it is too late for you to run, as we are faster.
@@cgi2002 beautiful
My immediate thought had been, 'In what direction?' Even when we retreat it's usually just to get a better angle.
I immediately thought of how many things it could mean. Are you running towards something or away from it? Are you running a government? It could’ve meant “Those who Run Everything” and it still would’ve worked.
watching this it reminded me of a tweet or tumbler post that I read one time. It was about how the way ancient humans hunted would've been like a horror story to the poor animal we set our target on. At first they would escape, have a feeling of safety and satisfaction, but when they looked up they would see a human in the distance coming closer. The animal would see its future before it came to be, and could only hope to run until its legs gave out.
This story perfectly captured that feeling of horror.
Exactly humans are so terrifying that we needed imaginary stories and horrors of a cosmic scale just to give us a tiny fright. We are the boogymen of the universe, an unstoppable force with unlimited reserves. We are the death that looms over the horizon, slowly approaching but inevitable.
Look at our greatest horror films... heck, the entire zombie film universe. Humans fear only one thing. Someone more stubborn than us. Anything less, the film will end with humanity victorious. Godlike creatures of power, viciousness and wisdom? Races thousands of years more advanced? We will eventually win. It is only the relentless that we fear.
There’s a reason “When you’re not running, I’m getting closer” is so popular among human horror stories; It’s what we imagine the mentality of predators to be, because that’s the one we used.
@@grim1494 We are also the stewards of all life. Not designated, but evolved through the co-operative genes. Humans are nearly Eusocial, but also include all other life as a part of our group to some level or another, which is why we can lay down our lives to save an old tree, battle to the death to ensure a kitten survives.
Honestly that is why Micheal Myers is so scary, dude somehow manages to always catch up to you even when you are sprinting
the moment I heard about the lonely xeno prince falling on a technology-killing planet and thinking "whew i'm safe here", I immediately foresaw what would happen next
Then the female huntress crash landed on the planet with a knife and I was like "Ohh boy that's a super-accelerated history lesson for the alien boy there"
I laughed to hard at this 😂
I like to imagine the female is either native American or Scandinavian (viking like)
@@TheSirsexyor decended from one of the warrior tribes of Africa or Central and South America
And we sent the female hunter. Our females are relatively weak. Weaker than our male adolescents.
That's all you're worth. One weakling with a primitive weapon.
@@nathanielspohn3004tbh I like to think there was a huge debate over who "can have the honour of chasing" the xeno prince
Larashi: Those who run?, surely they are a species known for their cowardice.... Humans: Have you ever heard of the ancient conflict known as the Toyota war?
(This is where the term technical was coined to describe trucks modified with artillery btw)
Trojan war?
@@bearstarpresents2264 The Libya-Chad war. AKA 'The Great Toyota War.'
@@robertschumacher2707 Summary?
@@canarysilvertail7706 in 1983 Libya invades northern Chad, using Soviet armor and tactics. Chadians strap heavy machineguns, recoilless rifles, and antiaircraft guns to pickup tricks and with the help of western special forces, kick the Libyans out. Toyota trucks were a favorite.
@@robertschumacher2707 I grew up in Tchad, and I can tell you with certainty that they are among the scariest people alive. Hospitable to a fault, but if your are an enemy they are relentless. I've seen one of them get macheted in the calf, and he just wrapped his turban around it and walked 5miles to the closest village so the local veterinarian could suture his muscle back together. No painkillers available, but he didn't even flinch when the vet was sewing his flesh. Dude walked away after the operation. I'd say 50% of his calf had been hanging off.
We may run away from war. But when war catches us, we charge towards the sound of the guns.
Damn imagine a movie on this.
The war will be like the first 30 minutes of the movie and then they can move on to the planet with the female hunter chasing the xeno etc etc.
Would be a blast.
That'd be sick
At least until Hollywood gets their hands on it and screws it up.
I'd do the pursuit as cut scenes throughout the movie, kind of mirroring the plot as it progresses. That way you can get a scope of how long the chase actually goes for as uniforms became patchworked, the buildup of grime and scars then when the ship picks them up a marked difference from the ships that fought in the war to show the progression of technology.
@@davidrutherford6311 I have a feeling Hollywood would make it as interesting as After Earth.
Properly done it could be a hell of a movie
They misunderstood. We do not run away from danger. We run towards it. And we keep running, keep chasing, until our foe is no more.
As another story similar to this one says " Humans are the honey badgers of space"
@@00.28. I listened to that one last night. I think it was humans are cute till their not
More the « human don’t give a f*ck »
I'd love to see more one offs of this lenght. I like the 5min ones too, but this is an actual full story.
Most of the long running ongoing multichapter stories leave me forgetting what it was all about. Keeping the story in one post helps my worsening dementia keep track of the plot.
Also with long running stories, I notice they start off full of action but eventually evolve into soap operas.
@@anathardayaldar i agree to this
Those who chase. If the mistranslation had not happened the larashi might have never picked a fight in the first place
When I first read "Those Who Run", I remembered, those of us from the Plains would chase and herd buffalo herds consisting of thousands and chase them into canyons, in my dad's homestate of Chiahuahua, Mexico, the Raramuri can run for days, without sleeping. They run up mountains, across horizons, the Inca were masters at this too. Before we learned about arrows, we also would chase prey until it dropped dead, which could take days. We triumphed over ambush predators because endurance triumphs over ambushes. Even our minds are adapted for this, which is also why we have burnout and mental crashes.
Quite try. Some of my ancestors built ships that could race the waves and chase both trade and plunder up rivers. Some of the plunder they chased belonged to some *other* ancestors of mine.
Perfect! Across the stars, across the planets, across time itself, we are “Those who chase!” One of the best stories yet!
Mistranslations have been the cause of many stupid mistakes.
Reminds me of the story of the mongols and the khwarezmi empire.
The mongols sent emissaries to establish trade and contact with nearby kingdoms. Instead the emissaries we're all killed save one who would deliver the heads of the party to Genghis. The mongols launched a ful scale invasion and chased the shah of the khwarezmi down and killed him despite he and his family trying to hide as peasants at a few points.
indeed, Genghis Khan never conquered or attacked without him being the one attacked or spurned first, his entire position was based out of projection of Power, Challenge it and you'd be his next victim
@@Voron_AggravThe man was hero and monster in one package
@@TheKyrix82 mean one mans Hero is another mans Monster ain't it
@Voron_Aggrav On the one hand, he kinda brought the black plague to Europe, raped his DNA into a quarter of Asia, and killed entire towns...but on the other hand, he rewarded merit, he was open-minded, and Mongol territory was the safest on the planet for travel
In a time before recorded history, Humans wiped out Smilodon Fatalis. This should not be misconstrued as overhunting to extinction. This was our first war it was fought with stone tools and weapons against an enemy that had claws and ridiculously large canines almost as wide apart as our eye sockets. We won. No more stealing children in the night. No more hunters not coming home. Not from them any way. Humanity changed the rules and we have been winning ever since.
Larashi: we are going to break the Humans!
Humans: nah, we are going to use you as an example
Run run run as fast as you can, there is no escape from the grasp of Man.
you can run but you will just die tired
It reminds me of a few lines from If by Rudyard Kipling “If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it”
For those for whom "Persistence Hunting" is just a concept with no real meaning attached, there are a few films and videos of the hunters that used to be called "The Kalahari Bushmen" hunting for their villages. The first one that I saw was about 65 years ago was an hour or so long movie about a Giraffe hunt by several hunters that lasted several days. The giraffe finally collapsed from the arrow poison and exhaustion. The team of hunters just kept tracking it at a steady pace until they caught up to it. The UA-cam Video from a few years back is a much more recent video of a gazelle hunt where both the gazelle and the pursuit hunter are worn out, but the hunter has two team members bringing up his gear and water for his recovery.
“All the world shall be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And if they catch you, they will kill you. But first… they must catch you. Digger. Listener. Runner. Prince With the Swift Warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed…”
- Richard Adams, “Watership Down”
Lord Frith spoke well.
"There was no [War] act taboo under Karal. The hope in humanity's survival lay in unconditional surrender"
The Geneva Checklist: "Are you sure about that?"
They’re running, not from their enemies, no, they run from themselves, from who they wince were, and who they fear they may once again become. Not unlike the Doctor. They run not in fear, but as a mercy.
When the "Weak" go marching into the frey, do prey that they shall be kind...
For they know a thing or two... about pain.
First thought was: those who run after you. Second: those who run everything.
Thirdly: those who run to a fight
@@jackmack4181 fourth those who run to war and death
Persistence hunting, it's how we got our place on the planet, Run things down by sheer endurance and persistence, and to this day that's still how we achieve things, putting our minds to it and keeping at it for as long as is needed
When we start running just give up we'll outpace you soon enough
@@Voron_Aggrav I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again the most terrifying thing about humanity isn’t our Brains or our tech, bc if we lost all of that we’d go back to what rose us to the top of Darwin’s ladder in the first place, our outlandish endurance.
Not a single animal could identify any human tech from any other except by appearance, and none of it has any meaning to them. That’s why a deer will sometimes look at you while you’re scoping it bc it doesn’t understand it’s being hunted, at least not yet.
But what still puts fear even into the hearts of man is the fear we put into everything on earth, that when they look over their shoulder it’s hopeless to breathe a sigh of relief if they don’t see us. Just because we aren’t seen doesn’t mean we aren’t chasing, and just because you got away from dying in that patch of woods doesn’t mean the one you ran into wasn’t the place we had planned to catch you anyway. The feeling of knowing that no matter how far or hard you run, we will always be behind you, that while you run yourself to near death fleeing from us, you were never all you really escaping at all.
You were just giving us a trail and way to work up our appetites
Those Who Run is by far the best HFY story I've listened to. I normally prefer longer stories but, in this genre, longer usually just means repetitive.
Wait until the Rest of the Galactic community realized Humanity was holding back.
Wait untill they realize we shot nukes at shit just to see what would happen. And that the first thing we put in space was by ACCIDENT
Less than half power. And that was in the beginning before we kicked into industrialization. As the ambassador said at the end, we have a long lonely future ahead of us. Because only when somebody gets the bright idea of their stronger than us will they come talk to us again.
We didn't fling their stars into the void and freeze all their planets, we didn't detonate their stars into super-novas, we didn't use Relativistic Kill Missiles on their planets, We just politely deleted some war facilities and moved on.
@@GodActio or turn their primary star into a black hole
We didn't release any plague on them. But we would had only the trouble of choosing witch one to use IF we wanted to.
We didn't poison their atmosphere. But, we had so many option available to us to do that.
We could have carpet bombed their worlds with nukes. But we chose NOT to do that.
Why ? Because we wanted to preserve the lives of the civilians.
Remember; A resting human is merely chasing the ability to chase again.
Those who run prefer to run to peace. Don't mistake our running for cowardice though. For if we are forced to run to war. We wont stop till we are done.
When they announced that all races picked a name for themselves I thought it would be "Those Who Survive" because throuout our history we have survived, our prey, then our predators, then our world and finally, we survived ourselves.
And if these Xenos don't eradicate us, we will survive, and then we will recover, That is when they shall learn true fear.
For if we survive, we will destroy that which has dared to hurt us, and we will make sure they have no chance to survive.
15:25 The irony if he had said "we are running" and the others suddenly realised what that word meant.
Either that or finished the humans' Karal declaration with, "Now watch us run."
I freaking loved this one! I like these long one shots! Blessings upon the author and the narrator!
Everybody forgetting you can run just as easily towards a fight as from it. "Those who run" shouldn't be discounted as cowards, we're just getting to the fight faster.
Human's ability to just keep going is pretty amazing. I'm not even a fit human and I can just keep walking all day without stopping.
A standard human, in the midst of starvation, can do about 5-10 mi a day. A determined human can easily do 25 or more. The Roman legions considered it normal to March their forces 20 to 30 miles a day for 3 to 6 months. Do not challenge us on endurance friend, we will run you into the ground.
We did cross country 10km runs every year in high school, the uniform for girls was a white shirt. The year it was racing me and my mates ran most of it backwards whilst the girls we were friends with ran it with the arms cross across their.. ah chest, annoyed at our giggling at their jiggling. That was the last year we had to run it if it rained.
Those who run away from the beast within, until the beast is doing the running.
Rhino's are arguably one of the most dangerous creatures. Unicorns and humanity has driven them to extinction.
Every time i listen to this story.... from 15:12 to 15:29 I imagine a growl in the Terran Ambassador's voice....the underlying primal rage that the Larashi woke up
I really enjoyed this one, would have been great to see the quote “those who run, simply die tired” which I think would also be a fitting sentiment to this story as in fact the prince was quite tired when the human finally caught up to them.
Glad humanity was wise enough to start off with trying for as much peace as possible before resorting to the war and violence humanity was built on.
"I challenge you to a duel!"
"Oh crap, you are winning. Uh, can I call it off?"
*"No."*
Those who run.
I liked it. We run when needed from danger.
However when motivated we run head long into the fight.
We will run to the aid of family and stranger alike. I liked the story. ESP the capture of the last family member. Good story.
I know enough human biology/history to know where this story is going and I think I like it :D
Someone should have asked the humans which direction they were running: Away, or toward.
Just in case this isn't how the story ends: Humans run, until the prey dies.
Yup ! Chasing often involve a LOT of running... AT the prey.
There's a reason we have the threat: Don't run, you'll only die tired.. 💪
"We shall glass a garden world to break their spirit! They will beg us to stop."
"You fools, you didn't break them... you galvanized them and signed your own death warrant."
Over a decade ago, when i wore the clothes of a younger man. Its was an Army uniform. After completing a 10 mile run in under 80 minutes. My Sargent said, "That's why, if they run. They die tired".
Humans, you don't break our spirits, you piss us off.
When they said that the first attack would break our spirits I had to laugh. Destroying our Eden world breaks our spirits? Oh silly child. No you are just volunteered to show the universe exactly how determined we can be.
Spite, oh what a terrifying motivator
If they didn’t want the prince alive they could have glassed the planet.
yeah but that would be the wrong name
They definitely could have.
I think it is a very human thing.
That Humanity will develop whole new technologies because they have a grudge and a point to make.
But there was no poetry in bombardment from afar. After coming this far, there was only one goal. "Make them regret it" and that's exactly what the point of the chase was.
Sure, although we don't really know the nature of this technology disruption or why gauss shielding apparently didn't work or even something like a nuke would not fall prey to the same effect. But the primary reason was for psychological effect. They were making a point, not only to the Larashi but to everyone else. This is also why they only sent one hunter instead of a team. Still a bad call IMHO but it worked and the final point was made all that more clearly. Fuck with us and we will hunt you down no matter where you go.
We were sending a message by doing it the way we did.
And here I thought the issue was narrow minded zenos. After all, while you can run away from danger, you can also run towards it. You can run for help, just as well as you can run to give it.
This was brilliant. Wish there was more stories like this.
“Walk softly with a big stick.”
-Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
Xeno: you cannot win human
Human: hold my beer
I was imagining the human at the end saying that everyone just assumed we run away, they didn't consider what we really meant, we run towards.
This one was especially good
Those who run? Not me. Can you imagine me running at my age ? How undignified! I keep it to a fast jog at most, on the rare occasions things force me to be hasty.
Usually i do not run, i await. If i decide you are worthy of my attention, look for me in your shadow. If you see me looking back..RUN! Not that you'll escape, but it will buy you time. A few days more is nothing to turn your nose up to, think of it as my gift to you, before i deliver you to Our Father's embrace.
They should be great full for those few days, how else am I gonna get my steps in?
An amazing story and the narration was wonderful as always bud! Thanks for this!
After becoming a member and watching oh so many videos, I am coming back here, to the story and the video that brought me to this channel to say thank you Net Narrator for making these videos.
All it took was two stories for me to subscribe to you
Perfection and entertainment at its finest
@Nad Senoj lol that was my first one
@Nad Senoj lmao that was my first one
That last line is fucking chilling. An incredible story.
it actualy is a realy good description of humanity
and the mistranslation is a nice twist
As someone who has done some voice acting before, I absolutely notice the one time you said a word that wasn't part of what was written, just as much as I did an ENTIRE script and got a reply "You pronounced this wrong..." despite it was how me and my family (and my part of the country) always pronouncing a word, but it wasn't the "popular way that is in the news right now" way. :D
I enjoy these, cheers man!
This is probably one of my top 5 of this writing
The last couple of lines gave me goosebumps. They would have passed for a villain reveal at the midpoint of a lesser story, Alas they are here fitting punctuation.
I thought this was going to go sown the rout of Those Who Run [from themselves/from their own savagery]
In a way, it did. We tried to run away from war, after all. Poor Xenos. They should have been more diligent about their homework - "Know your enemy." and all that. Persistence hunters, a savage history.
They should have hit us harder if they were going to have a chance. That "symbolic gesture" was their biggest mistake. If they knew our history, they would have either gone for the jugular and taken the Phyrric victory, or just left us alone.
It's also possible that humanity sanitised our history when we gave it out to the universe, world wars reclassified as local skirmishes, genocides being covered up and trying to make humans seem less threatening until we'd found a good solid diplomatic/economic/social footing in the galaxy.
This whole story was truly wonderful The last line floored me. Thanks so much for such a great story!
ohh...now that was a tasty end...
i forsee a senator/ambassador to have many hushed conversations with fellow aliens ,and quite a few 'fringe' pirates paid to tell a tale or two of ther encounters and the ..habits... of the lees 'cordial' specimens of humans that shares ther lawless life in the fringe.... about how endurance predators at times not are obvious ,unless you look close.... perhaps some say ,to close...
the amount of absolute disrespect to send a single woman on a decade long mission to catch the prince.
they could have sent a dozen marines just as easy!
Should have gone with "Those Who Run Will Die Tired".
I have been reading/listening to the stories and my goodness are they entertaining!!!
They hit a mark of truth when taking humanity into account same as this story.
Keep it up your had my interest now you have my subscription :)
Demons run when good men go to war.
Do I know Who are you talking about? Do they have a PhD, a Doctor perhaps? ;)
@@jmoneyjoshkinion4576 Dr.Who was it again?
Good men do not need rules
@@justinreijnders8992 Today is not the day to find out why he has so many
The good man was the last centurian.
I could imagine a lovely comic or graphic novel chronicling the long game of cat and mouse between the prince and the huntress.
Shivers and chills, that was a great ending
I was laughing so hard when it said they learned the word Balkanisation
We can chase towards your soon to be corpse, or we can chase the ideal of peace and prosperity. Its what you do that determines which target we hunt.
This is in the top 10% of best HFY stories I have listened to or read in recent months. Great narration as well!
Run, run, run there'll be meat when we are done.
I will say it here as I said somewhere else. The lack of critical IT support suggests a massive oversight, somewhere somehow someone's head is rolling or reeling once they learned their translation programs had made the mistake and cost an empire their entire existence.
Imagine how terrifying it must be for an alien race to think it just hit the most devious of licks on a species called “those who run” thinking they run out of fear, only to find out that running is what took us to the point in the race to the top of Darwin’s mountain of skulls for our intelligence to render it no longer essential to our existence.
Before we had nuanced language, before we had tools, before we had fire, and before we even truly left our place in the middle of the food chain, we ran.
We ran away from predators because fear, when responded too correctly is the most valuable tool we have.
We ran towards new lands for new game and shelter, spreading so far and wide we have existed on every continent except Antarctica for around 100k years.
Even when we made tools and could use more of our time building abundance we’d never seen with these advanced works of stone and flint, we still ran. This time, we carried those who could not walk because now we had the strength to carry them, and no one must fall when you have the strength to raise them up.
When those same predators who would leave us running from our rightful kills stalked us in different forms all over the world, we ran. This time, with stone so sharp it could sever fingers with ease straight into our predators. To this day, the decedents of those predators only dare to hunt us when they are so desperate they’ll attack anything that lives just to get a one more meal. Even then, many risk it with other dangerous fauna far more readily than they ever have with humanity.
Once we ran our way to the top of the evolutionary mountain of skulls, we had no one to run from except ourselves, and nowhere to go except for the same.
We learned to run towards a future we aren’t mean to see, towards peace that could never last forever. No matter how many times we failed, we never stopped.
Now imagine that alien species learning what an exhausted Antelope felt as every time they ran themselves to ground thinking it escaped the 2 legged demons that pursued it slowly and steadily, just to turn around and see them see that they had never outran them, just gave them a trail and an appetite for when it ran out of fuel before we ever truly considered a non moving break in our chase.
Imagine being the species that had to learn how it felt to see “those who run” calmly chasing you down till the ends of the stars because they were made for the chase, and that youd fundamentally collapse as a person, as a society, before the humans ever stopped coming for them. Because we are those who run, and you are now those who flee
we've never actually used running away as much of a defensive tactic, it really has always been about going and getting resources: walking was an adaptation to deforestation and running was a late adaptation well into the path of deviating from other primates.
what actually kicked off the weirdly wide range of force-application-viable motion and more to the point the _tool use_ that led to resource diversification and problem solving and all that jazz was a weird little defensive tactic in which we threw things as a way to discourage predators THAT is why we have hands that function as force application tools instead of just graspers and getting good enough at it to start occasionally killing those predators as a side effect of finding more and more uses for those hands and more and more reasons to specialize further into them is what triggered us to start hunting in the first place and it's that tool use that led to us essentially specializing in being an invasive species. there would be no "those who run" attribute for us without having "those who break the rules" as a basis to create and enable it.
"those who chase" makes a better tagline than "those who cheat" though so humans picking this still makes a LOT of sense.
One of my absolute favorite stories in a while.
Okay this was great, but the line "It's those who chase" goes incredibly hard
Another fine example of what happens when you aggravate another race, and their response is “
please don’t make us do this to you”
Those who run from danger?
Oh not, you are mistaken, its those who run *toward* danger.
Played this again for the second time a year later. Still one of my favourite stories...
I really liked this story! The one thing I had a problem with was that shipyards that hadn’t been used since before humanity unified could just up and start producing warships. Unless they were almost entirely automated and just needed a software update and raw materials, it would take quite a while, possibly years, to train up the huge amount of workers. How to operate the equipment, how to build ships, how to build warships instead of cargo ships. Quite possibly how to design warships for fleet warfare rather than police actions, if it’s been long enough (read: longer than a few decades, maybe longer if the government planned ahead for once when they shut down the shipyards). It only took twenty years for Germany to forget how to build anything larger than a destroyer between WW1 and WW2. It’s a minor detail but I noticed it and had to say something. :)
I think they meant that they had shut them down and only kept the ones needed. So getting them working again would just be minor updates and having some of the old hands from the still operating factories leading the new people at the refurbished ones.
Like when car factories shut down a factory that makes its trucks to downsize and then moves that line to a different place. Then the can expand again so they reopen that old factory, update what's needed, and train so new people using the old people from the other factory. So maybe a couple months of installation and then leaning on more quality checkers until the new people get trained fully.
Germany was forbidden to make them, so their designs were decades old when they started back up(largely ignoring the Treaty of Versailles when they did) where as other countries were still designing and/or building
the other nations, not bound by that scaled back production and sold ships 1 and 2 at a time to various other nations(for example the Brits built 1 of the cruisers Argentina acquired between 1919 and 1939... Italy built the other 2)
so they maintained knowledge if not the capacity of quantity
If you look at the history of the United States and what happened in 1941, the United States military was really a joke and had no real concept of what a large scale war would involve. But in a little less than 4 years Germany which had one of the strongest militaries at the time, and Japan was a great naval power it should have been a lot longer war. However as the world found out the United States of AMERICA 🇺🇸 basically has always hated war but if someone else starts a fight with it, well Admiral Yamamoto said it best about waking up a very dangerous beast. Because the United States of AMERICA 🇺🇸 was a melting pot of people who had come from around the world, the fact that if we are United by an outside force, we will come to gether and we won't stop until the enemy is crushed and then we rebuild them back. That's why China and the CCP has been using unconventional warfare and trying to destroy America from within because if they tried to attack us from the outside, the CCP would be no more and the Chinese people would have been free to try again to get a good government for the people.
@@goingfubar7182 I mean it didn’t hurt that all the infrastructure destruction was never happening in our heartland and we actually got a boom in our economy funding the Allies until Japan touched our boats and America took the chance to flex on the world, and it worked
@@goingfubar7182 We're also *really* good at improvising.
Anyone else want to turn that last planet the prince hid on into a Renaissance Fair world? Highest level of tech would probably be steam power as it is pure mechanical power.
A quote from Pitch Black, Richard B. Riddick," Definitely did not know what it was fukin with."
This story is almost perfect. The reading of this one is the best I've heard. The endind actually is perfect.
They would not have had a starship or homeworld when I was done. I would have removed every last one of them and then named it New Avalon.
Of course, under the guidance of the Davion family.
@@Executioner9000
Under the guidance of who?
@@calvingreene90 House Davion from Battletech. I made a terribly niche joke
@@Executioner9000
I could never suspend my disbelief enough to accept that giant robots were not horribly vulnerable to conventional tanks.