Aside from their card games, it is very unlikely for a Terran to ever bluff. After all, calling someone's bluff is practically inscribed in our collective history.
@samboyd1828 Жыл бұрын
ah, the time honored tradition of "bet." and "fuck around, find out"
@NXTanglАй бұрын
Yeah, we don't bluff. If we're overstating our capabilities on one front, it's because we're concentrating forces somewhere else.
@erushi5503 Жыл бұрын
"Violence committed once makes for a Wise King, violence done repeatedly makes a Tyrant" -Machiavelli(Paraphrased)
@amorphoussolid8512 Жыл бұрын
"if violence needs be done to a man let it be so severe that his sons retribution need not be feared"
@aaverageweeb566010 ай бұрын
A good king commits all his atrocities at once
@piedpiper1185 Жыл бұрын
"Planets are valuable" We can always mine the debris field.
@DragonJohn Жыл бұрын
yeah, but harder to grow wheat on an asteroid
@peterhacke6317 Жыл бұрын
@@DragonJohn On the contrary, it is a lot easier to ship minerals, if there is no gravity well holding your shipments captive.
@melkiorwiseman5234 Жыл бұрын
@@peterhacke6317 When it comes down to the final analysis, viable biomatter will always be more valuable in the long run rather than dead minerals. That's something which Earth corporate executives are only just beginning to understand (although still without taking appropriate action so far as anyone knows).
@Nyet-Zdyes Жыл бұрын
@@peterhacke6317 True... but minerals are rather hard to digest.
@Saviliana Жыл бұрын
@@DragonJohn Oh just wait you heard form the asians......(Yes we did have done research and planned plans for building farms on asteroid fields)
@willgallatin2802 Жыл бұрын
The most effective type of weapon is the type you only need to use once. Everyone gets the picture, and decides to negotiate.
@erushi5503 Жыл бұрын
use that weapon multiple times, and you got a lot of people very very angry and when a mob is angry even giants seize to exist the terrans here in this story followed Machiavelli's theory very well, scare them with the weapon and tell them your not afraid to use it again, but at the same time showing that you still want a logical way to stop the fighting
@Nyet-Zdyes Жыл бұрын
Paraphrasing an old general (Clausewitz?)... FORCE is always the primary reason TO negotiate... even when it's a "force" as gentle as a merchant and customer haggling over the price of a product.
@FuzzyMarineVet3 ай бұрын
In 1977 I was posted to the 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa. I spent six months as a member of Camp Guard on Camp Schwab. When posted to an armed guard post, we were instructed to use the first round of ammunition to fire a warning shot, directly through the center of the intruder's chest. If the intruder failed to heed the warning we were free to fire anywhere we thought would solve the situation.
@danieljensen794 Жыл бұрын
No no no no no....Folding you like a pretzel is a ligament threat. I have watched professionals fold clothes with people inside of them. Jiujitsu is a real thing.
@terrysaunders7107 Жыл бұрын
Oddly, the terrains made no mention of sun Snuffer's. Quite nice of them not to resort to total war protocols on the first scuffle.
@noppornwongrassamee8941 Жыл бұрын
Gotta hold something back. Besides, sun snuffers are only really useful on systems with multiple inhabited worlds. Otherwise, you only need a planet buster to kill everything worth killing in a system.
@Furzkampfbomber Жыл бұрын
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 Also, planet crackers still allow to mine precious resources later on, as Dead Space has tought us. Something, considering they make a sun go nova, sun snuffers won't. Which _really_ would be a waste.
@JacenHawk Жыл бұрын
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 That assumes a lack of significant orbitals around the non-inhabited planets.
@markfergerson2145 Жыл бұрын
Hm. I’d still like to see a tale involving the Nicoll-Dyson laser.
@peterhacke6317 Жыл бұрын
@@noppornwongrassamee8941 sun snuffers are great once your enemies goes from inhabiting planets to building dyson spheres/swarms
@RodneyG669 Жыл бұрын
Planet Buster weapons are easy, just line up a monster asteroid and push it up to near the speed of light with engines. It would do more then enough damage.
@barelyasurvivor1257 Жыл бұрын
For the blessed Algorithm, and the Squirrel
@MervDeGriff Жыл бұрын
I'm a happy lil gryphon. I have learned one thing from my human friends. It's a MAD, MAD world.
@TRabbit1970 Жыл бұрын
“We didn’t do anything wrong, hardly” Roger Kuykendall
@Uzzgub Жыл бұрын
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
@mrtodddelaroderie Жыл бұрын
May daily dose of Agro! Thank you brother!
@allenmorgan1007 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!
@amorphoussolid8512 Жыл бұрын
Fold you like a pretzel is actually not a bluff or even that harsh of a threat. We have judo and bjj. The art of folding clothes with people still inside them. Besides, even after a planet is split I bet we could still mine the chunks. So, not even close to Total War.
@bigearl3867 Жыл бұрын
You never know where that red line is with Terrans. Oh you can cross a few, but the trick is to know when to stop. And that's why there is gamblers anonymous.
@brianjuergensmeyer8809 Жыл бұрын
A big how-do-you-do to Mr. Al Go Rithm, and wanted to say thanks for yet another story. I've always been a big proponent of using enough force very quickly, rather than waiting and having to push all the chips to the middle of the table.
@blueberrycat4726 Жыл бұрын
Re-watching this because why not. 😹
@icefire5799 Жыл бұрын
I want to congratulate you on yojr thumbnails i find the absolutly normal eyes extremly eyecatching.
@bertcombs9944 Жыл бұрын
You are very talented, you have a good voice even when you don't feel well. Have you tried biting a lemon wedge when you feel your throat starting to hurt? Used it when I was in the US Army
@Wastelandman7000 Жыл бұрын
Somehow O noble Narrator, I missed this. but, now I have found it!!
@simogamez Жыл бұрын
thanks dude I loved it. best part was at the end of the vid and the look you had as you turned away. well done
@kevincaruthers54123 ай бұрын
We're sorry. Due to the rising cost of ammunition We will no longer be providing a warning shot.
@Ryu_D Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video.
@zachsmith1676 Жыл бұрын
So they a bug race… time to equip the flamer… the *HEAVY* flamer…
@anathardayaldar Жыл бұрын
I once saw someone twisted into a pretzel.
@Fuxy22 Жыл бұрын
Challenging a teran on their horrible weapons inventory is a exercise in stupidty to begin with... especially when many use weapons as entertainment...
@Nicmadis7 ай бұрын
"I believe you will find that our words are backed by planet busting weapons.""
@KwaterbugBUTCHER Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice!
@RealArcalian Жыл бұрын
Greetings Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo There are two things I like about this story. Well, three, the first being that it is genuinely HFY. The second being that our Civil Wars made us stronger, when far too many stories assume the opposite. And third, the aliens were *actually sensible for once.*
@lupaswolfshead9971 Жыл бұрын
Same
@TRabbit1970 Жыл бұрын
“Navy Day” Harry Harrison
@jasonbull6560 Жыл бұрын
Always good, you keeps telling I'll keeps listening. 👍
@victortahlor4038 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the reading
@jackreisewitz66327 ай бұрын
"Chemical and Biological weapons would be too extreme, even for the humans." But apparently using a planet busting weapon isnt see as "extreme" !?!?
@jackaubrey8614 Жыл бұрын
Nice one! Understated..... :)
@TheDurid1 Жыл бұрын
8:09 Crud, reminds me of how the bolo grand war started. Destroying an entire planet. Mind you, that instance was an act of intimidation, not as a warning shot.
@yomogami4561 Жыл бұрын
thanks for the story and narration
@safetysam628210 ай бұрын
The warning shot…a possible war crime that targeted civilians. This story was written in absence of the Geneva convention.
@internetzenmaster89526 ай бұрын
Counterpoint: the Geneva convention only applies to humans. Aliens aren't signatories, therefore it does not apply.
@pandablair4226 Жыл бұрын
Your voice acting is pretty good
@klappstock943 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm the story and the voice
@davidragan9233 Жыл бұрын
Stick an alcubierre white Torsion Drive on a thick spike or have the tail end of the spike leaking antimatter (Similar to a MoaB) and you could punch through a Star and make it go boomy.
@TS-bj8my Жыл бұрын
Well read.
@t.p.34563 ай бұрын
For the algorithm 👽👾🤖🌌🛰🚀🛸🌠
@Wastelandman7000 Жыл бұрын
Dear xenos, let me introduce you to the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction.... We may die, but we'll take you with us.
@MidnightSmoke Жыл бұрын
Here is a like and comment as payment for the story.
@cameltanker1286 Жыл бұрын
Don't poke the bear.
@genericuser984 Жыл бұрын
neat
@renaissancepress247 Жыл бұрын
***Not*** bluffing 😉
@TheJeikou Жыл бұрын
Comment
@merlinwizard1000 Жыл бұрын
33rd, 2 August 2023
@jasonbull6560 Жыл бұрын
Please sir,,,can i have some more?
@merlinwizard100011 ай бұрын
71st, 13 September 2023
@microkrop9580 Жыл бұрын
story aside, its funny scary on how quickly humans can innovate in violence when in war