Imagine being unhappy with an armada of ships that can "only" jump a few parsecs at a time... It's no wonder the algorithm spat upon the "Grand overlord of the protectorate of Infinite Suns Z'karak's plans". There's just no pleasing some creatures...
also they assumed that the ships that beat them to the artifact were scavengers and didn't change that assumption after five fighters wiped out an entire swarm; that should have clued them in as to what those fighters were.
in their defence, the humans apparently considerer it a piece of antique junk, so jumping a few parsecs at a time might be considered slow, and therefore he wanted somthing better
A parsec is a little over 3 light-years. So being only able to jump a couple parsecs at a time is barely better than flying a lightyear distance relativistic sublight speeds.
@@GuukanKitsune How do you figure? If you can go... say 3 parsecs in a single "jump", whether that jump is instantaneous, takes a few seconds, or minutes, or days, or weeks, or even a month; you cut at least a decade off your travel time, possibly much more depending on how fast your sub-light engines can propel you through the intervening space...
@@ihtfp01 There's how long your jump systems need to cool down or recharge, and whether or not you can even do so while traveling at sublight. A jump of any kind would require a LOT of energy, a lot of which would become heat. And heat is kind of difficult to get rid of in space. Making more than one jump per day might destroy your jump drive by melting it. And the cooling period might be even be much longer than that, on top of banking enough power in a capacity to make a jump in the first place. Can you bank any power for a jump while also powering your sublight engines? Likely not, they would need that much. It could potentially take a month or more to cool down and then charge the jump drive for a single jump, during which the ship is otherwise not moving. Assuming that's so, three and a bit light-years per jump, once a month, is while considerably faster than making the journey at sublight relativistic speeds, it would still take 116 years to go from Earth to Proxima B, the nearest known habitable exoplanet at a mere 1400 ly. Assuming you can jump once a day, which is likely the fastest rate of jumping, that same journey would be over 3 years... to basically go the galactic equivalent of hopping from the middle of one sidewalk tile to the next. If you were going somewhere way further, say, a quarter of the way across the galaxy, 25k ly, that is STILL a trip of almost 70 years making one jump a day. And even if you you were able to power your engines full burn while charging the jump system, you would not speed this up in any way because you would be traveling so slowly in comparison to the distance you need to travel you would practically be standing still between jumps. It's better, yes... but still impractical to the point of little difference. I too would be searching for a way to either vastly improve the jump distance or a better ftl system any opportunity than a mere 3 parsecs a jump. And all this is assuming you can travel at sublight relativistic speeds between jumps, if you can only travel normal speeds between jumps, one hazard that prevents the pattern of daily jumps from immediately continuing can delay the journey by weeks, months, or even YEARS while you clear it at regular burn speeds so you can make another jump, and there is a VERY SIGNIFICANT chance of this happening with EVERY SINGLE JUMP. So you would want to make as much of the trip as possible per jump, and as few jumps as possible. Making a 3 parsec maximum jumping distance still ludicrously inefficient and unfeasible for interstellar travel.
Ah, Humans. Still quoting pop culture, even in a galaxy far, far away. Blue Squadron got all the action - Poor Red 5 spent the entire battle standing by.
Their is something I believe is called the Fermi Paradox. Without dumping a lot of information on you, the basic run down is if the Galaxy is as old as we think it is, with many of systems existing longer than ours has been then their must be plenty of life out there that have mastered space travel, so where is everyone? The idea is that if it’s this impossible to get in contact with other life in the galaxy then at the very least we are the first to reach as far as we have. In short we might in fact be a precursor race in our galaxy. People that have reached a level of intelligence and power to reach and travel space before anyone else.
Our own form of life is about 4 billion years late to the pre-party, does that mean that everyone that came before us would be 4 billion years more advanced?
I like me a HFY curbstomp...but I gotta wonder, why did this alien armada look at this whatever it was, and decide it was the ultimate artifact of domination and power? Like, this armada thought they were the ultimate force out there and were coming to claim this thing that would cement their dominion over the entire universe.....and it seems like they were taken out by an amateur airsoft group.
if it was portal like they believed they could send their ships anywhere instantly. Imagine not having to wait weeks for supplies or reinforcements to fly through space to reach you
@@ravenousghoul5076 Sure, but how and why did they come to this conclusion? What led them to this thing and to the conclusion that it would be this ultimate tool/portal/whatever? From the aliens POV in this story that's clearly what they think it is. From the Human airsoft teams POV it's apparently just some leftover junk that they ROFL over the idea of anyone wanting to have
@@MrGoesBoom The old penny farthing bikes look ridiculous and can't compare with the functionality of a low end mountain bike. However if you took that antique bike back to ancient Rome you'd revolutionize travel for the empire. The aliens see a massive ring larger than an entire fleet, the center of the ring is somewhere else. It doesn't take a PHD in Stargate to guess what it does. Now imagine that in this story the humans who made that gate now have ships that can all do what the gate does on their own without even needing a massive stupid stationary ring. To the aliens the ring is way advanced and to the humans it's outdated technology.
@@MrGoesBoom my headcannon is that it is a portal, one of the early ones humanity build. We are just so far ahead of them in technology. The attackers severely overestimated their own might. And figured that this portal had to be one of the most technology advanced thing in the universe because it's ahead of their own technology.
That was never in doubt, which makes the ending really lame as it looks like it was supposed to be "surprise! the Old Ones were humans all along!". It sounds even weirder when the only interaction the humans have had with the locals since their civilization got to space was to murder anyone getting close to the portal, otherwise the aliens would have recognized them as humans or old ones or guardians of the gate but instead they were assumed to be some random pirates. This story would make so much more sense if the plot was that aliens were coming to conquer the portal from humans but underestimate the military ships guarding it because the human civilian ships they have studied are much less advanced tech.
no it was attempt at making a ring world from halo or something from an old scifi that just didn't work and they just left there because they forgot about it mostly.
@@ndt_dynamite2247 I wasn't reading it, I was listening to it while talking to someone so of course I would miss some parts and even then don't be so rude, you can do that can't you? Thank you.
I keep seeing "Raltz Bloodthorne" in Green on your Patrons & Channel Members, and I'm wondering... When are you going to do his entire works? Or at least one of his books? :)
I don't expect much quality from the average HFY story, but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The aliens are too stupid and one dimensional to qualify as characters, or even people; the humans are idiots who were probably sent to guard that unused portal as punishment for being idiots, a job that should be done by robots. Hopefully that means the whole thing was really a holodeck game that one guy programmed just so he can quote a movie he can't even remember the name of while playing on easy difficulty and using the godmode cheat.
My biggest problem is that they saw five fighter craft with the ability to bend space; that sort of thing isn't what scavengers would have and the armada should have realized their mistake.
@@henrypaleveda7760 Maybe the alien leader realized they had came through the portal when he didn't see a carrier ship anywhere....but then the sensible reaction would be to ask if there is a bigger fleet ready to come through. My main issues are that everyone's motivations are unclear and the humans act closer to a bunch of pirates than anyone we should be cheering on. The alien leader wants to take control of the portal and it is implied he isn't a pleasant person, but for all we know his alliance is defending the galaxy from evil slaver empires or only wants better trade routes. Doesn't really matter, because the humans clearly do not care. If the author wanted to make the humans look good they should at least have mentioned something like "the portal leads to a human/allied alien colony the evil aliens want to attack". We aren't told why the humans are there either. The portal is not in active use and humans and aliens have no contact so why would there be anyone guarding the thing? The humans are so undisciplined that it is unlikely they are members of any self respecting security force, and given they have magic invulnerability they can't even claim they had to defend themselves; closest thing to reason to fight we see is one guy setting up a lot of aliens to go boom so he can take a selfie of it. They are acting like kids in a game who kill random NPCs for fun... The best case scenario here is that this was all a test simulation and now those guys will be forever banned form being allowed anywhere near either weapons or any aliens... Worst case scenario is actually that they are what passes for human military these days: That means humans have declined to the level nobody cares about things like military discipline, diplomatic relations with aliens, or not letting crazy people have access to spaceships and WMDs... I'd call that the very opposite of what HFY stories try to depict humans as, so this story is particularly full of fail.
@@AnalystPrime I mean a couple of things are implied in the story. First, the xenos are considered so low tech, that letting them get our "antique pieces of junk" would be the equivalent of giving the Romans nuclear weapons to deal with Carthage. Second, humanity is implied to be so high on the Kardashev scale, that those xenos are the equivalent of ants to us. Those fighters were the equivalent of using a magnifying glass on a sunny day, to fry a few ants for the sake of curiosity.
I mean that's most HFY stories for ya - aliens too stupid/oh so pitiful compared to us etc. while humans have the biggest dicks and can easily stomp everything no matter how much more above them.
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When a fairly new starfaring civilization discovers an old part of the human built gate network in stellaris endgame.
Imagine being unhappy with an armada of ships that can "only" jump a few parsecs at a time... It's no wonder the algorithm spat upon the "Grand overlord of the protectorate of Infinite Suns Z'karak's plans". There's just no pleasing some creatures...
also they assumed that the ships that beat them to the artifact were scavengers and didn't change that assumption after five fighters wiped out an entire swarm; that should have clued them in as to what those fighters were.
in their defence, the humans apparently considerer it a piece of antique junk, so jumping a few parsecs at a time might be considered slow, and therefore he wanted somthing better
A parsec is a little over 3 light-years.
So being only able to jump a couple parsecs at a time is barely better than flying a lightyear distance relativistic sublight speeds.
@@GuukanKitsune How do you figure? If you can go... say 3 parsecs in a single "jump", whether that jump is instantaneous, takes a few seconds, or minutes, or days, or weeks, or even a month; you cut at least a decade off your travel time, possibly much more depending on how fast your sub-light engines can propel you through the intervening space...
@@ihtfp01 There's how long your jump systems need to cool down or recharge, and whether or not you can even do so while traveling at sublight.
A jump of any kind would require a LOT of energy, a lot of which would become heat. And heat is kind of difficult to get rid of in space. Making more than one jump per day might destroy your jump drive by melting it. And the cooling period might be even be much longer than that, on top of banking enough power in a capacity to make a jump in the first place. Can you bank any power for a jump while also powering your sublight engines? Likely not, they would need that much.
It could potentially take a month or more to cool down and then charge the jump drive for a single jump, during which the ship is otherwise not moving.
Assuming that's so, three and a bit light-years per jump, once a month, is while considerably faster than making the journey at sublight relativistic speeds, it would still take 116 years to go from Earth to Proxima B, the nearest known habitable exoplanet at a mere 1400 ly.
Assuming you can jump once a day, which is likely the fastest rate of jumping, that same journey would be over 3 years... to basically go the galactic equivalent of hopping from the middle of one sidewalk tile to the next.
If you were going somewhere way further, say, a quarter of the way across the galaxy, 25k ly, that is STILL a trip of almost 70 years making one jump a day.
And even if you you were able to power your engines full burn while charging the jump system, you would not speed this up in any way because you would be traveling so slowly in comparison to the distance you need to travel you would practically be standing still between jumps.
It's better, yes... but still impractical to the point of little difference. I too would be searching for a way to either vastly improve the jump distance or a better ftl system any opportunity than a mere 3 parsecs a jump.
And all this is assuming you can travel at sublight relativistic speeds between jumps, if you can only travel normal speeds between jumps, one hazard that prevents the pattern of daily jumps from immediately continuing can delay the journey by weeks, months, or even YEARS while you clear it at regular burn speeds so you can make another jump, and there is a VERY SIGNIFICANT chance of this happening with EVERY SINGLE JUMP.
So you would want to make as much of the trip as possible per jump, and as few jumps as possible. Making a 3 parsec maximum jumping distance still ludicrously inefficient and unfeasible for interstellar travel.
Ah, Humans. Still quoting pop culture, even in a galaxy far, far away.
Blue Squadron got all the action - Poor Red 5 spent the entire battle standing by.
I almost saw a Y-wing while reading this
Reminds me of playing master of Orion on easy. Miniaturization of tech is fun.
I hope the custodians team implements that in stellaris.
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FTA and gather intel on your enemies before trying to blast them out of existence!
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Their is something I believe is called the Fermi Paradox. Without dumping a lot of information on you, the basic run down is if the Galaxy is as old as we think it is, with many of systems existing longer than ours has been then their must be plenty of life out there that have mastered space travel, so where is everyone? The idea is that if it’s this impossible to get in contact with other life in the galaxy then at the very least we are the first to reach as far as we have. In short we might in fact be a precursor race in our galaxy. People that have reached a level of intelligence and power to reach and travel space before anyone else.
Our own form of life is about 4 billion years late to the pre-party, does that mean that everyone that came before us would be 4 billion years more advanced?
I hope we get many interesting new stories.
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I like me a HFY curbstomp...but I gotta wonder, why did this alien armada look at this whatever it was, and decide it was the ultimate artifact of domination and power? Like, this armada thought they were the ultimate force out there and were coming to claim this thing that would cement their dominion over the entire universe.....and it seems like they were taken out by an amateur airsoft group.
if it was portal like they believed they could send their ships anywhere instantly. Imagine not having to wait weeks for supplies or reinforcements to fly through space to reach you
@@ravenousghoul5076 Sure, but how and why did they come to this conclusion? What led them to this thing and to the conclusion that it would be this ultimate tool/portal/whatever? From the aliens POV in this story that's clearly what they think it is. From the Human airsoft teams POV it's apparently just some leftover junk that they ROFL over the idea of anyone wanting to have
@@MrGoesBoom The old penny farthing bikes look ridiculous and can't compare with the functionality of a low end mountain bike. However if you took that antique bike back to ancient Rome you'd revolutionize travel for the empire.
The aliens see a massive ring larger than an entire fleet, the center of the ring is somewhere else. It doesn't take a PHD in Stargate to guess what it does. Now imagine that in this story the humans who made that gate now have ships that can all do what the gate does on their own without even needing a massive stupid stationary ring. To the aliens the ring is way advanced and to the humans it's outdated technology.
@@MrGoesBoom my headcannon is that it is a portal, one of the early ones humanity build. We are just so far ahead of them in technology.
The attackers severely overestimated their own might. And figured that this portal had to be one of the most technology advanced thing in the universe because it's ahead of their own technology.
I called it! I knew they built it!
It's HFY after all.
That was never in doubt, which makes the ending really lame as it looks like it was supposed to be "surprise! the Old Ones were humans all along!". It sounds even weirder when the only interaction the humans have had with the locals since their civilization got to space was to murder anyone getting close to the portal, otherwise the aliens would have recognized them as humans or old ones or guardians of the gate but instead they were assumed to be some random pirates.
This story would make so much more sense if the plot was that aliens were coming to conquer the portal from humans but underestimate the military ships guarding it because the human civilian ships they have studied are much less advanced tech.
seemed like they did when they weaponized folding/twisting space, or at the vary least reverse engineered the tech.
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I wonder what the the artifact is used for? A massive industrial perfect coffee maker?
no it was attempt at making a ring world from halo or something from an old scifi that just didn't work and they just left there because they forgot about it mostly.
Probably wasn’t worth even salvaging, but hey it’s a new pice for the museum
Its SCP-294.
It literally said that it was a portal. Get yourselves some reading comprehension, please.
@@ndt_dynamite2247 I wasn't reading it, I was listening to it while talking to someone so of course I would miss some parts and even then don't be so rude, you can do that can't you? Thank you.
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Silly ass pirates thinking they were powerful because they found the artifact.
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I keep seeing "Raltz Bloodthorne" in Green on your Patrons & Channel Members, and I'm wondering... When are you going to do his entire works? Or at least one of his books? :)
i was unaware... just started the playlist last night, and felt like a right-royal idiot. I Love Ratz' stuff, and like your narration!
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Why do i hear "The Force" Suite as i read this ahahaha
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I don't expect much quality from the average HFY story, but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The aliens are too stupid and one dimensional to qualify as characters, or even people; the humans are idiots who were probably sent to guard that unused portal as punishment for being idiots, a job that should be done by robots. Hopefully that means the whole thing was really a holodeck game that one guy programmed just so he can quote a movie he can't even remember the name of while playing on easy difficulty and using the godmode cheat.
My biggest problem is that they saw five fighter craft with the ability to bend space; that sort of thing isn't what scavengers would have and the armada should have realized their mistake.
@@henrypaleveda7760 Maybe the alien leader realized they had came through the portal when he didn't see a carrier ship anywhere....but then the sensible reaction would be to ask if there is a bigger fleet ready to come through.
My main issues are that everyone's motivations are unclear and the humans act closer to a bunch of pirates than anyone we should be cheering on. The alien leader wants to take control of the portal and it is implied he isn't a pleasant person, but for all we know his alliance is defending the galaxy from evil slaver empires or only wants better trade routes. Doesn't really matter, because the humans clearly do not care. If the author wanted to make the humans look good they should at least have mentioned something like "the portal leads to a human/allied alien colony the evil aliens want to attack".
We aren't told why the humans are there either. The portal is not in active use and humans and aliens have no contact so why would there be anyone guarding the thing? The humans are so undisciplined that it is unlikely they are members of any self respecting security force, and given they have magic invulnerability they can't even claim they had to defend themselves; closest thing to reason to fight we see is one guy setting up a lot of aliens to go boom so he can take a selfie of it. They are acting like kids in a game who kill random NPCs for fun... The best case scenario here is that this was all a test simulation and now those guys will be forever banned form being allowed anywhere near either weapons or any aliens...
Worst case scenario is actually that they are what passes for human military these days: That means humans have declined to the level nobody cares about things like military discipline, diplomatic relations with aliens, or not letting crazy people have access to spaceships and WMDs...
I'd call that the very opposite of what HFY stories try to depict humans as, so this story is particularly full of fail.
@@AnalystPrime I mean a couple of things are implied in the story.
First, the xenos are considered so low tech, that letting them get our "antique pieces of junk" would be the equivalent of giving the Romans nuclear weapons to deal with Carthage.
Second, humanity is implied to be so high on the Kardashev scale, that those xenos are the equivalent of ants to us. Those fighters were the equivalent of using a magnifying glass on a sunny day, to fry a few ants for the sake of curiosity.
I mean that's most HFY stories for ya - aliens too stupid/oh so pitiful compared to us etc. while humans have the biggest dicks and can easily stomp everything no matter how much more above them.
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