Overpopulation?
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The thing I like about a lot of these stories is that we, the readers (or "humans"), can immediately identify things within the story without being directly told. Like "oh, everyone is pulling out? yeah, that's nukes incoming".
the humams being made a classc4 seems like some kind of conspiracy to killoff a species that would threten the power of the ones in controll of the space goverment
Same model of rockets were sending terrans to their moon 50 odd years ago. So, yea high Earth orbit is doable.
What was described was a three stage fission-fusion-fission device like the Tsar Bomba not a regular fission-> fusion device. The third plutonium metal stage undergoes fast fission my means of the neutrons generated by the second stage, the third stage is basically a supercharged atomic bomb with a buttload of extra neutons reflected into the plutonium so it undergoes much more complete fission and generates more energy than the previous two stages combined.
The rerally scary thing is that the Tsar Bomba as designed was meant to be 100+ megatons, but the soviets got nervous and dialed it back to 50, and even then it was still more like 60 megatons.
I laugh at the notion that Sol is a "moderately sized sun/star." FYI, our sun is in the top 10% size wise. It is actually something of a giant.
I additonally despise the idiocy of "overpopulation" trope foisted by believers of Paul Ehrlich and Malthus.
Humans: disappear from battlefield suddenly.
Alien commander: what's happening???
Final Boss music: starts to play……
Finally something that is not pure BS off hi tech society dismissing a nuclear attack. A nuke is a nuke.
Almost a Pyrrhic victory, considering fallout and damage from the EMP generated by the nuclear devices. Regardless, it would be hard to rebuild.
One of my favourite HFY stories… Thankyou 🙂
30,000 megatons of deterrent
So will there be a sequel ??
More arrogant and stupid aliens time to introduce them to the error of their continued existence and correct that oversight
can nuclear bomb even penetrate energy shields?
Oh, look! A common enemy.
Part 2 lets fucking boogaloo
17:17 😂😁😎
Mriv
Aliens: We're here to enslave you, truly you are blessed-
Humans: KILL IT WITH NUCLEAR FIRE!
Learn how to pronounce words
It’s horrifying that such destruction is held in objects one can hold in their hand. Not hands, plural. Hand. Singular. That’s so fucked.
Here comes the sun
Nice to find an author who can actually talk about the mechanics of our nukes. How fission created fusion. How MERV works.
I thought this was a reupload,
they had the chance to play startrek, now they are playing 40k.
thanks for the starship technology. we'll return the favour
This gets me so turnt! Is there more?
“Rockets would be as effective as throwing pebbles at a charging beast.”
My dear general J’tuc, may I interest you in one of humanity’s oldest ballistic weapons, the sling. You would be surprised what a small rock can do when moving at the same or greater speed than the charging beast and cracking it right between the eyes.
By far one of my favourite ones yet.
lol welp that point after the celebration Humanity would look at those destroyed wrecks and go “LOOT THAT BODY!” And NASA and military funding will go through the roof and no one would be mad about it.
Lets be honest, after this event in 20 years our society unifies and unlocks all the secrets of their tech, 10 years after that we colonise most of our solar system, after another 10 we make it to alfa centari, in a further 30 years all local systems are colonised and our space millitary which has been growing since the first invasion is now an armada with hundreds of millions of volenteer soldiers
At the 80 year mark they arrive to see an armada that dwarfs theirs with improvements to the tech, with lets be honest a giant space tow-ship to hurtal a giant asteroid into their capital world (because it is too much effort to design a death star) (back to our roots as 'cavemen' throwing rocks) in the name of revenge. After a short skirmish and trip to the alien capital, the humans will go back home having left their message in the shape of a crator. A message that will forever outlaw ever going near the newly dubbed 'Human' space for all alien races.
Humans are monsters and they breed like rabbits sure, but you cant deny there is nothing stronger than a unified humanity with a one track mind of war and hatred. If only we could put our petty differences aside in reality to prevent a future like this before it even happens. Unite and look to the stars instead of across the lines on a map we ourselves draw to seperate those we deem different due to language, religion, skin, hair and eye colour.
But even in a theoretical world after the above scenario, we will once more fragment and war with ourselves for petty reasons and history will wrince and repeat once more.
I guess if you wanted a low budget and rather negative continuation you now have it.
Come forth in meet the new dawn the enemy of man