Quackbang out

"It's not a war crime if war hasn't been declared yet"

I mean yeah, that's pretty obvious.

"Germany using poisonous gas, targeting and shelling of civilians and USA using flamethrower, napalm and nukes be like" : 👀

"It's not a war crime if nobody finds out"

So be it...

well... maybe the author didn't intend it but since these are silicon based lifeforms then like how carbon based lifeforms expel CO2, silicon ones would expel a form of silicon dust, almost like sand. So the dust around the planet would likely be the deconstructed remains of a significant number of that aliens' peoples. not likely what the author intended but from a chemistry standpoint thats what would happen if there were actually silicon-based life forms.

@@hamsta11 reminds me of the {sorry if this is a random tidbit] but of how the gems from steven universe react to human jewelery considering since thats basicaally a necklace of hearts just on a chain/string for fancy human to wear-

​@@hamsta11I'm relieved I'm not the only science geek that thought that 😅

Glassing a planet send the message "Nothing personal". Dusting a planet... that 2 degrees above "Nothing personal" and below "You just made it personal". The "You made it personal" can only be resolved one way, not with blood and gore and viscera. No, no, that's still "Nothing Personal". The "Personal" Realm, DNA deconstruction. A slow, yet effective, method of murder that the species starts to crumble before their own eyes, year by year. First, it starts with the lost of feeling in limbs, followed by nerves no longer working. Muscles start atrophying, followed by calcification of the skin. By a certain year mark, no births given, and most of the population is dusted. Most intakes are unsatisfactory and the population scrambles to find a cure. Little to they know, that their entire code is corrupted and finding new code to be capable with theirs is God-Territory. By the time something of a semblance of a cure is found, 99% of the species population is dust, and the 1% is infertile. Amazing what humans can come up with, when we're angry

Elder Gods "They grow up so fast" wipe a tear away.

"Your investments to that human in Rhode islands worked" "Yup, its great"

Well, as you know, the premier loves surprises...

Yea just don't pull a Saddam Hussein and claim you have the ability to really f up your neighbors then Truck your abilities across the border

Well considering they only took the supplies to keep themselves alive and I'm guessing here did not game end their victims, it is tolerable and not worthy of total annihilation

@@vexile1239 Perhaps a strongly worded letter? 😉

It sounds like Humanity doesn't have an issue with just basic piracy. Sounds like they're so far ahead in the game resource wise, they would rather people take what they need if they are desperate enough to resort to such actions. It's only when you start actively doing it for gains beyond survival that they have issues, and those that do so probably don't exist for very long after they are found to do so. I feel like all the other races will go ask Humanity about this, and they'll be like, "Yea, want to see the recordings?"

​@@donaldscholand4617maybe delivered by rail gun to the pirates front door step

@@chrislaf89 From how I saw it the first thing that really pissed off humanity was when they killed unarmed civilians when committing the piracy, not just piracy for personal gain.

Ooh, yes! Edit: possible edit, 'As it lurched forward, leaving the dead world behind, a single light was visible on it's hull, illuminating two words, 'Unbridled Retribution'.

@@TheMonkey747 Anytime mate

Hehe of course it did :)

Oooohh! I like it!

It has a license plate. FAFO.

Canadians are walking war crimes 😂

Of course it does if it didn't almost every war everyone would be reminded why its needed because the fucking Canadians forgot to leave a fight for the rest of us and "glassed" 9 planets and 3 of them were accidental

Since yt be is here ill add with this but because intelligence on our selves is just that great no one actually rember if those planets existed or not the 3 that were acientendal

it isn't a war crime the first time

Whi needs protection when everything else is either ash or ir dead

​@@quinnhasse9170humanity has a built in need to survive. If survival has to be made by total eradication of a species humans will do it. This is probably our most defining instinct.

​@quinnhasse9170 we don't need protection, they need protection from us. It's why humanity(In space) always seem to try the options of peace first since we know the savage cleansing fire that burns within our history.

"I am not getting payed enough to care"

Given the implication that humanity was doing fine even when other species were struggling, they could probably afford the losses without suffering much harm.

"We getting robbed?! LETSFUCKINGGOOOOOOOOOOO"

Oh no...

Misliš na povremene smernice iz Ženeve?

*Ethnic cleansing intensifies*

But showing your true strength also invites hostility. Looking at what humanity had up its sleeve, we'd scare everyone into an alliance against us. Keeping it low key may loose an occasional cargo, but, its still cheaper than all out war. So there could be good reasons for keeping everything on the down low.

​@@Wastelandman7000I don't think Humanity really cared/cares about the materials being taken, especially by those in need. It was only once they started killing unnecessarily that they took notice.

Now, that is a good idea. You know soon as the first done that, and was under humanities protect - how long before every one asked the same. There you go INSTANT PEACE AT THE POINT OF A SWORD.

Makes sense, though. No faster way to get every human in the area to go rabid protector than to hurt a child.

@@brigidtheirish the planet wasn't a child. it was named after a kid-specifically a spoiled brat who acts like her life is so miserable despite being more well-off than at least 90% of the planet's population and yet gets showered with media attention. at least, I assume that's who the planet was named for. I can't think of any other "Greta"s that are all that important.

Greta may not refer to the climate activist Greta Thunberg. It is or was a common name derived from Margret. Both Heinlein and Asimov have used it in their books, both as character names as well as names of places.

And you can choose to surrender. The sooner you do the better off you are

Yep. WWI, WWII, Pol Pot, Stalin's purges, examples abound of what happens if we don't keep the beast under control.

I mean, it's quite apparent that Humanity has kept this secret for a long time before this war, and somehow over 8 thousand cycles, no one remembers that war. Seems like humans are the very adept at making sure such information is kept out of everyone's databases, but the purpose of this was to allow others to know what happens when you fuck with humans. You play stupid games, you win....a dusty planet.

Ooh, that's a good one!

i love that twist

Worth energy!!!!

Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, corn for the cornflakes!

Re: Humanity What's this we hear about a Geneva convention? Re: Galactic Council Attached are the documents you asked for. Have a good day.

Probably something along the lines of "Oh shit."

​@@Wastelandman7000Now they know humanity with a single ship was able to do that to the home planet, and honestly with a singular shipped they can drop Lee decimate an entire solar system. Ignoring what they can do with warp drive, and the extreme ability of their ships in addition to the shields- which just the publicly known Shields are the best around. Which leaves the implication that like all the other stuff, the concealed human shields would be all so far above anything else. They would probably be terrified, not want to let humanity mail because of fear, and they're probably going to try and avoid humans. If you suddenly found out that someone or broadman sake some species inhabiting your town was able to destroy the entire continent if it wanted to. How far away will you go away from this thing without question, how little would you want to interact with it, how little would you want to even be remotely near its state? Also humanity might be considered a threat that no military action should be taken towards whatsoever, which should anything like this happen-even though they've already been proven to be soft targets for piracy.

I see this as confusing as well. My intuition believes it to mean humanity wants this to happen, like a cruel joke, but in the end it likely is just because the writing process isn't fully thought out.

The term drawing fire comes to mind. Perhaps they are appearing weak so that the truly weak aren't victimized and the bullies are found out and punished. They also probably don't want to be perceived that way, and they might have elements of their history where stuff has happened and this led to the care they took to not actually wipe out the offending species in this story.

I agree. Look at the Shaolin monks. They are pacifists but they do not shy away from they'd do to you if you FIFO.

Walk softly but carry a big stick.

"Appear strong when you are weak and appear weak when you are strong."

"We Thought Wrong" is the one you seek, I believe.

Rythm is a danca

It's all fun and games until your home world gets dusted.

We could expand our lifetime to 1000 yrs now,with current scientific level.

@@dusanradin5868 While plausible, also, what kind of quality of life would that be at our current level?

@@GabrielArchon Dont ask me,my live quality,right now is shitty,at best,but given the chance of prolong it by few thousands of years,and tech to live on some other world(or even on a fleet) quality would probably be better than today. Not neccesary,but,still.Can you imagine yourself living as long as an Asari,or longer?

​@dusanradin5868 I would only accept this kind of Tech as long as all people have access to it. If only the elites do, that opens up a can of worms

And 'The Gloves Are Off'. Culture Minds are running humanity's ships.

Humanity: "How do you do fellow civilizations?"

Could of easily expanded the war stories. Way too many choices could of been done with this story. Still an excellent little story.

These humans seem extremely culturally (and probably genetically) advanced. Making the delay between "fuck around" and "find out' believable to me

Probably to prevent internal strife and organize a casus belli, because sure humanity can erase an entire space empire but the issue is if the other half of humanity decides they don't like what the other half is doing and then proceed to enact a war in heaven.

NO they sound like they have finally learnt.

Agreed.....just saying.....