The Guns of Terra | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

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  • @wesfoster1178
    @wesfoster1178 Рік тому +339

    Imagine watching a planet being exterminated when suddenly human ships show up blasting Free Bird and responding with "proportional" force.

  • @reddyredwolf3931
    @reddyredwolf3931 Рік тому +510

    From Space Switzerland to Space America.

  • @theasterian7037
    @theasterian7037 Рік тому +160

    “Human ship, identify yourself or you will be fired upon”.
    “Bless your heart. This is the ISS Texas (guns charging) and we were praying yall say somethin like that”.

    • @zacharychavez3482
      @zacharychavez3482 Рік тому +23

      In the famous words of some youtuber I can't remember at the moment...
      "You've yee'd your last haw!"

    • @FirstIsa
      @FirstIsa Рік тому +13

      I would be far more concerned if it was the ISS Wisconsin..
      Big Whisky deleted a hill because Korean artillery hit it and, well it did nothing, the 155mm shell hit a turret shield and lightly wounded three soldiers. It just launched a volley at the artillery in response that turned the hill into a valley and probably left the soldiers parents wondering why it felt like they got kicked in the crotch by an angry bull.
      A space fairing version of the Iowa class would probably just delete star systems.

    • @karal_the_crazy
      @karal_the_crazy 11 місяців тому +3

      @@FirstIsado a bit more than delete star systems

    • @RomonAnor8632
      @RomonAnor8632 11 місяців тому +4

      @@FirstIsa Temper, Temper.

    • @Community_GuideIines
      @Community_GuideIines 9 місяців тому +2

      ​@@FirstIsaTemper Temper

  • @gabe9125
    @gabe9125 Рік тому +398

    The Compound: “Hey, why does such a wealthy, neutral nation not have universal healthcare?”
    Ameriterra: *flips on speaker system, Fortunate Son starts playing*

    • @wakcedout
      @wakcedout Рік тому +12

      Honestly they’d better in that situation lol

    • @proudamerican183
      @proudamerican183 Рік тому +33

      Also known as "the universe's best UNhealthcare".

    • @Sum-kj8jo
      @Sum-kj8jo Рік тому

      Quack bang ​@@proudamerican183

    • @B1gLupu
      @B1gLupu Рік тому +14

      Best unhealthcare credits can buy!

    • @56Firedead
      @56Firedead 11 місяців тому +6

      ​@@proudamerican183welcome to the UN healthcare systems.
      Distributing our potent health and life modification tools to ensure the stability of the UN. unhealthcare it just works.

  • @therealgreg5653
    @therealgreg5653 Рік тому +170

    This what I imagine it is like in Stellaris when someone attacks one my 2-3 world size allies and suddenly my 200k patrol fleet jumps in

    • @salamilidontfit
      @salamilidontfit 11 місяців тому +3

      Real asf

    • @anderewisp1
      @anderewisp1 11 місяців тому +3

      200k? Thats lowballing for me...

    • @Hypercube2017
      @Hypercube2017 11 місяців тому +4

      Or when pirates decide that today’s a good day to die trying to raid a mid-game empire.

    • @Hoboman-1453
      @Hoboman-1453 7 місяців тому +1

      @@anderewisp1 that’s why it’s a patrol fleet😂😂

  • @savibang4412
    @savibang4412 Рік тому +142

    What it truly means to have the Mantle of Responsibility

    • @fuckoffndie
      @fuckoffndie Рік тому

      Self appointed and self serving.

    • @_Offensivebias_
      @_Offensivebias_ Рік тому +7

      Indeed my child

    • @Adv_studying
      @Adv_studying 11 місяців тому +1

      The responsibility for this galaxy has been ordained unto us🫡

  • @theGreenChangeling
    @theGreenChangeling 11 місяців тому +32

    Race X: *raises fist*
    Humans: "Ahem!"
    Race X: *lowers fist and skulks away with tail between legs*

  • @ede7722
    @ede7722 Рік тому +129

    And that's hopefully the path humanity will take when we finally reach out it into space. The good guys making a difference to help defend the weak and vulnerable. I hope we will make a difference, the right one.

    • @ubergeek1968
      @ubergeek1968 Рік тому +3

      That is what so many demand of the USA, yet... look what it has led to

    • @varlunmulland3992
      @varlunmulland3992 Рік тому

      @@ubergeek1968 The problem is, once a government becomes corrupt (and they all do given enough time), there isn't really a means to uncorrupt it, aside from revolution.

    • @Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent
      @Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent 11 місяців тому +3

      ​@@ubergeek1968most of the hate is due to jealousy of not being #1. Except look at the ones complaining.

    • @hainleysimpson1507
      @hainleysimpson1507 10 місяців тому

      @Quetzalciatl Why would we be jealous of mass shootings, high suicide rates and not being able to afford basic housing? And the ridiculous amount of high powered gangs, with entire arsenals and decommissioned war vehicles and weapons. And the shitload of militias and history of genocide without and outside the USA caused by the USA

    • @tw3f4tes52
      @tw3f4tes52 9 місяців тому

      @@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_SerpentA far more substantial amount of “hate” comes from Americans saying idiotic things like this

  • @IronWarhorsesFun
    @IronWarhorsesFun Рік тому +137

    a lone corvette fighting the entire enemy fleet? GIVE EM HELL ROCCI!!!! also i love the absurdity of ENTIRE FLEETS just appearing in space. WHERE WHERE THEY HIDING lol.

    • @johncunningham4820
      @johncunningham4820 Рік тому +31

      Cloaking Tech . Short Jump Tech . Ludicrous Speed . Who cares . Not there , and suddenly T H E R E ! and shooting . At You .

    • @IronWarhorsesFun
      @IronWarhorsesFun Рік тому +15

      @@johncunningham4820 In space nobody can see your fleet of its human

    • @jpatricklloyd7360
      @jpatricklloyd7360 Рік тому +3

      Combat ftl

    • @PostprandialTorpor
      @PostprandialTorpor Рік тому

      @@jpatricklloyd7360Adama Maneuver

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 Рік тому +7

      And that lone corvette just drifted away. It was probably salvaged later alongside any surviving crew.

  • @labbit35
    @labbit35 Рік тому +50

    (Aliens appear and attack
    Humans: *smacks lips* oh boy I’ve been waiting for this since FOREVER

  • @danielleriley2796
    @danielleriley2796 Рік тому +12

    I like that. You kick off a war and your leadership gets a text message… “Remember the Neptune”

  • @vincent_hall
    @vincent_hall 11 місяців тому +13

    I love these stories.
    Thank you.
    This tale puts us humans in the most impressive position
    But it's still a warning.
    We need to be part of or allied to the most powerful civilization or we can be on the receiving end of immense violence!
    Nobody wants to be in that position!

  • @shadowtheme96
    @shadowtheme96 Рік тому +27

    Chills. Absolute chills.

  • @tonyjanney1654
    @tonyjanney1654 Рік тому +16

    Good story, However, I heard the rescuing human shoulder yell to the small corvette "Give em Hell, Sammy B."

    • @haveraygunwilltravel
      @haveraygunwilltravel Рік тому +3

      Yep. Samuel B Roberts. Laffey would work too.

    • @Andrew_Sword
      @Andrew_Sword 8 місяців тому

      wait whats this!? its, by god its the sammy b with a metal chair.

  • @exterminater267
    @exterminater267 10 місяців тому +7

    “Human neutrality is not negotiable. Prepare to die.”

  • @TheGelatinousSnake
    @TheGelatinousSnake Рік тому +13

    It’s very anticlimactic how boring real decompression would be. When the difference is only 1 atmosphere of pressure, nothing impressive can happen.
    Big hole? All the pressure gets lost in a moment. Not much of a woosh unless you are next to the hole.
    Small hole? You can plug it with your own skin. The difference is just near vacuum vs 1 atmosphere of pressure. Imagine the most pressure your thumb can hold back on a garden hose… far less than that.

  • @johnmoore8599
    @johnmoore8599 Рік тому +69

    We all know how playing policeman works in world affairs. If only it worked as simply as this.

    • @tenjenk
      @tenjenk Рік тому +8

      well in RL events the claim was "policemen" but we learnt that it was more "sabotage areas into instability and when shit hits the fan, roll in to establish control with no plan for sustainability". Thats more like cops crashing into a bar and arresting people for the disturbance.

    • @dennis2376
      @dennis2376 Рік тому

      Yep, and the UN is still on Cyprus 60 years on. No peace to be seen.

    • @drewwar9344
      @drewwar9344 Рік тому

      Yeah, but the world would be in a much worse place than if it wasn't being policed by us I mean we've created the league of nations the united nations and the european union And sure are these things perfect no but nothing will ever be perfect But the fact remains things could be far worse

    • @Mglue3
      @Mglue3 Рік тому

      We guaranteed the seas for travel and kickstarted the rebuilding of western europe. But yeah been a real mixed bag since then. Need more Eisenhowers and JFKs and less Trumans and Kissingers.

  • @thedarkknight3440
    @thedarkknight3440 8 місяців тому +2

    no one is talking about the deeper themes it is about what power over death means good story

  • @ScorpiusZA.
    @ScorpiusZA. Рік тому +17

    Just because a neutral doesn't fight, doesn't mean that they are helpless and can't fight. Its the ones claiming neutrality that you have to be careful of.

  • @SparkeyAvalon
    @SparkeyAvalon 11 місяців тому +2

    Well... If it can be imagined, it's possible.
    Not very probable for 2 reasons, one of which is that it's highly likely that we are alone in the Universe, but still nice to think about.

  • @DavidDavidunderthebridgeChampi
    @DavidDavidunderthebridgeChampi 7 місяців тому +1

    Historically the Swiss were are a very strong martial force. Just because you are neutral does not mean that you are cowards that won't fight.

  • @Wolfen443
    @Wolfen443 Рік тому +7

    Humans as saviors, interesting a bit like Star Trek except Star trek even goes in war rampages once in a while.

    • @aocg1914
      @aocg1914 11 місяців тому +1

      In star trek, even in war the federation, dont use the weapons at %100, because "directives"..
      But, earth ships (section 31), will rain you nukes with joy as a welcome..

  • @mandolinic
    @mandolinic Рік тому +6

    0:42. It's "razed", not "raised".
    raze
    /reɪz/
    verb
    completely destroy (a building, town, or other settlement).
    "villages were razed to the ground".

    • @annguyen-tr3ne
      @annguyen-tr3ne 11 місяців тому

      To be fair, it probably AI read

    • @MichaelBarry-gz9xl
      @MichaelBarry-gz9xl 11 місяців тому +1

      No the planet fell, then they raised it. Get with the times

  • @baltham0
    @baltham0 11 місяців тому +2

    It takes an alpha to quell an unruly pack of dogs.

  • @galacticalliance4801
    @galacticalliance4801 Рік тому +11

    i thought for sure it was humans fighting a losing battle at first but nope, were just the saviours.

  • @Venerable_Banana
    @Venerable_Banana Рік тому +4

    💪😎 Aliens beware of our guns.

  • @ronaldcosmore9607
    @ronaldcosmore9607 Рік тому +1

    Hey nice story thank you

  • @mikeymike3034
    @mikeymike3034 Рік тому +3

    Talon the 2nd wouldn't happen to be related to Talon from another story "Forgotten by Design" would he?😮

  • @TheChosenWarriors777
    @TheChosenWarriors777 Рік тому

    Good job 🤒🤒

  • @samhavoc1066
    @samhavoc1066 Рік тому +33

    Interesting how many "human" metaphors an alien will use in telling a story... 😉

    • @beverlycrusher9713
      @beverlycrusher9713 Рік тому +7

      @@draganromcevic6337 well remember, it was testimony, there is no telling how long he had ben on earth or what he picked up from the humans he was around before he told his story, using human metaphors could be old hat for him when he gave his testimony.

    • @mousepotatoliteratureclub
      @mousepotatoliteratureclub Рік тому

      The story was probably localised for a Terran audience.

    • @Mglue3
      @Mglue3 Рік тому

      Translation artifacts.

  • @uncharted7954
    @uncharted7954 10 місяців тому +1

    Send the nightlords.

  • @Sprutky
    @Sprutky 11 місяців тому +1

    So humanity is led by Switzerland

    • @N4than177
      @N4than177 8 місяців тому

      I mean, it turned out well. We got more investors than ever and nobody dares to mess with us.

  • @jacobjohnson2603
    @jacobjohnson2603 11 місяців тому

    walk softly and carry a big stick

  • @danielleriley2796
    @danielleriley2796 Рік тому +2

    Neptune is NOT BLUE AT ALL. It’s pasty white and you can’t see the storm because it’s white on white on white…
    Tournament out that the first pics from voyager for the first time had a note next to the Neptune pic, “Not true colour, enhanced false colour for definition.” Yeah that caption lasted 5 minutes and not Neptune was blue.
    So for the next 40 years every single pic of Neptune when received from space craft or the hundreds from Hubble were photoshopped to be blue JUST BECAUSE THATS THE COLOUR IT IS RIGHT? So when Hubble took pics of it the picture processors said “Shit another couple of hundred white Neptune pics yet again. What’s wrong with this heap of shit? Everyone knows it’s blue even though it’s almost exactly the same gasses as Uranus. Oh well a few days in photoshop and I’ll fix hubble’s mistake yet again, funny how every other pic it takes seems to be correct colours? Hmm, oh well.”
    Yep. No shit. Zillion dollar telescope takes great pics of everything but Neptune so we will just ‘fix those up’.

  • @khylerbane4523
    @khylerbane4523 9 місяців тому

    “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” - Karl Marx

  • @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi
    @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi Рік тому +1

    Who is reading this ? Just in case I might need somebody to do voice :)

  • @americandad4864
    @americandad4864 Рік тому +2

    Oh no , not a Space Ukraine 😳

  • @Sum-kj8jo
    @Sum-kj8jo Рік тому +1

    Foxtrot Alpha Fubar Omega

    • @PerStenback
      @PerStenback 11 місяців тому

      Hate to break it to you, though Fubar is an acronym in itself. I know, I'm fun.

  • @jackjohnson40
    @jackjohnson40 9 місяців тому

    Human ppppower!!!

  • @worldcomicsreview354
    @worldcomicsreview354 Рік тому +1

    Pax Humanum

  • @carloreneeventura8714
    @carloreneeventura8714 Рік тому

    Oh what's that? You can't preach peace and have a Gun??
    I say *NAY*

  • @kirillsukhomlin3036
    @kirillsukhomlin3036 Рік тому

    Haha, blue Neptune... it was revealed real color is more of a gray just a month ago.

    • @scifistories1977
      @scifistories1977  Рік тому +2

      Yeah, the story is over 2 years old, so we can forgive the author on this one, I think.
      (Not specific to you so please dont take it as such) I do love how these details can get to people though, but no one says aliens aren't real or there's no such thing as FTL, but get the colour of a planet wrong and you're in trouble!

    • @kirillsukhomlin3036
      @kirillsukhomlin3036 Рік тому

      @@scifistories1977 sure, no offence at all. The video was posted just a month ago, so I though: „what an irony“. Great stories, listened to dozens of of them yesterday.

  • @swiftmatic
    @swiftmatic Рік тому

    TransStar: Condition Prime Total Red

  • @Tryst1982
    @Tryst1982 Рік тому

    #1prioritytarget, yass slay queen!

  • @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi
    @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi Рік тому

    "decimating" that means "killing one in ten" not "destroying"

  • @definitelynotobama6851
    @definitelynotobama6851 11 місяців тому

    POV: you weren’t created in God’s image

  • @joebollig2689
    @joebollig2689 Рік тому +3

    “Razed,” not “raised.”

  • @comicsgatekeeper9746
    @comicsgatekeeper9746 Рік тому +1

    Decimated doesn't mean what he thinks thinks it means

  • @kennymoad873
    @kennymoad873 Рік тому +2

    I started listening to these sci-fi space stories and now my feed is being spammed by these AI reader programs