We were hopeful, once. Young, energetic, naieve. We are wiser now. ~ High Lord Of Terra, 5th edition rulebook, Warhammer 40,000

that's... tragic... humanity of this story paid the price in their innocence, and with innocence lost, they stopped caring. spite and anger is what drive them now.

"Is experience the same as pessimism?" "It's worse."

who could pay the price for 1 km? *every Canadian soldier in history raises their hand.

“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.” -Ennius

I was actually hoping that the humans from Sol system would have appeared and helped the splinter sect of human colonists.

"To hope is to invite Doubt. To have mercy is to invite cowardice. Humanity has none of these. To hate is to know strength. To have contempt is to know salvation" Inquisition Stormtrooper - unnamed.

Death korp of krieg from a distance: they're confused but they got the spirit! Keep it going bois oh and try to take an objective will you?

I was kind of expecting a peace sect of humanity that had broken off from the main branch and engaged in a centuries long competition with their more warlike brethren. The competition was to see what society would thrive the most, a peaceful one or an aggressive one. They had to admit defeat and were reuniting with their warlike kin whose fleets from Earth on the opposite side of the Galaxy were to begin arriving shortly. They were pleased to hear about the new conquest targets being given them and were even more pleased to find out that they were total bastards whom they could "Slaughter without restraint or remorse. So I don't give a damn if you sign this or not. You have about 3 weeks until they show up and start taking everything! From everyone and won't give a damn about any pieces of paper."

The aliens did done messed up when they requested for 40k to be made reality.

Humanity Starts up Sabaton "the price of a mile" and watches as the GALAXY TREMBLES.

Passhendale in the third battle of flanders has losses of around 250'000 on each side for a gain of 9.6km which gives roughly 25'000 dead for each kilometer on each side.

Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march

It's cute that the writer thinks we wouldn't have followed them to their holes and exterminated them. There wouldn't be any signing of any surrenders or conquest, we'd wipe them out to the last strand of DNA and destroy any data we had on their physiology to ensure they could never be resurrected in any way.

Thousands of feet march to the beat

Damn,never piss off an angry human. For the algorithm.

Here for the inevitable Sabaton fans

8:02 that description of the soldier appears to match *A SPACE MARINE OF THE BLACK TEMPLAR CHAPTER!*

Greetings Mentlegent For the Rhyhtm that is Algo The enemy provoked what they got. I note, however, that it wasn't Earth they were fighting over. I kept waiting for human reinforcements from Earth to show up.

Why did i explicitely had the thought of every assault was deemed "The Somme", and "The Verdun" fronts since they were historically similar with casulties. And yet volenteers still streamed because the aliens neglected an Inportant rule. Mankind already called dips on that planet, and by god every life we expend, regretable or not will be done so to reclaim it. It's like every species ( in some stories) always give up around the end of the 19th century in our history books and think "Well they don't have all that funny mustaches and beards but they're relatively the same. Nothing to worry about". Ypu took shit and Mined it to hell, Put up some razor wire with artillery, machine guns, dogged defenders with guns ready and tracked locomotive logistics as well as Bunkers???? Looks like someone skimmed the WW1 section of our history books.

This is a prequel to one of the stories Agro has read.

Humans "keep F-ing around xeno scum" Xeno's "or what?!?!" Humans "you'll find out!"

Good old kill zone look never fails to scare an enemy

Do not open Pandora's box. You will not like what comes out to play.

"Twinstar Solar System" ..i see..... oh you poor Aliens. How was the War against that Colony?

So tell me what‘s the price of a mile? Although the start reminds me more of gallipoli

Have a great day Agro, take care of you and yours

They lived long enough to become Heroic Villans of Justice.

Bold of the author to think that humanity will not be the one doing the conquring in the first place

Emperor! We come for you!

When all else fails, we drown them in our own blood

careful least you wake the sleeping giant because he's pissed and disillusioned

There is no way humanity failed any landings given our history...

sounds like Krieg shock troops to me

The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of "Men who wanted to be left Alone". They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the "Men who wanted to be left Alone" are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. . . . Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these "Men who wanted to be left Alone", fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy . . . . but it will fall upon deaf ears."

Living such an easy life that you never would have to fight for survival does not make you greater, it makes you a spoiled child that looks down on those that built everything you whine about.

Quantity has a Quality all it's own. . .

Humanitys mistake was being too complacent. 9:35 Humanity will learn from this mistake, obliterate the elves and take what they have stolen.

"THOUSANDS OF FEET MARCHING TO THE BEAT, ARMIES ON THE MARCH

Listening to this after playing Helldivers hits different

hear the sound of the machine gun hear it echo in the night

I can envision this story as a prelude to the Space Cadets songs Kill All Xenos and Wars of Expansion.

"Sabaton price of a mile in the background" when the when the aliens attacked us and solider started talking

For the disembodied voice!

I've found it weird how so many HFY seem to prefer the metric system, because when I looked at all the countries that have a flag on the moon, not a single one uses the metric system...

There are reasons why you don't poke the sleeping bear. If it wakes, it's likely to eat you.

They awakened the fallen empire

Thank you for the reading

The algorithm can take a hike but have no problem leaving a like

*THE DEATH KORPS OF KRIEG*

*When humans become mindless war machines:*

"Peft" hahaha, usually you're so good about catching typos. Edit: 10:45 for people for didn't catch it.

why you send in the kriegers if you want to break the enemy xeno

Reminds me of America immediately after WW2. They’re taking over so nothing like this can happen again. Of course, then politics happened, so look how long that promise lasted.

The Cult of Sacrifice is strong with this one. Vraks anyone?

Glorious

In the song what's the price of a mile someone in the comments section calculated the number of deaths relative to how many miles they took. It was 83,333 people per mile.

they should have began to think why humans wanted no further, they sould habe also listened, for wen a human draws a line in the sand, do not cross it.

we know what we are. restrained not harmless

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

Fueled by coffee and hate.

Very Kriegsman like this one. I approve!

Hear the sound of a machine gun Hear it echo in the night Mortals firing rains the scene Scars the fields That once were green It's a stalemate at the front line Where the soldiers rest in mud Roads and houses All is gone There is no glory to be won Know that many men will suffer Know that many men will die Half a million lives at stake Ask the fields of Passchendaele And as the night falls the general calls And the battle carries on and on How long? What is the purpose of it all What's the price of a mile? Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men's lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out

For the Algorithm11!

Thousands of machineguns, keep on firing through the night Mortars blaze and wreck the scene Gone's the fields that once were green Still a deadlock at the frontline, where the soldiers die in mud Roads and houses, since long gone Still no glory has been won Know that many men has suffered, Know that many men has died Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone As the men crawled, the general called, And the killing carried on, and on, What was the purpose of it all? What's the price of a mile?

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Disembodied Voice!

can you post a link to the article plz?

That was awesome

Huh. A story not based on human superior weapons.

What's the name of this if anyone knows? Is this part of a book series..?

🎶What's the price of a mile? 🎶

Forgive not the violent greed of the sneering xeno. Repay fire with annihilation.

Where can I find the art for the thumbnail?

WWII in a future setting.

Good story but what's a kilometer

Sabaton strikes again.

Hope everyone understand now why the IDF acts as it does.

We have a twin Sun solar System 😂

That felt like bad writing though.

For the algorithm

cool

Zerg rush wins :(

*What's the price of a mile*

How much is the price for peace seems more app

Why Isent the rest of humanity helping this unga bunga colony?

7th, 1 February 2023

I don't really understand how ground wars feature so heavily in sci-fi when targeting installations from space with relativistic kill weapons is a thing. However, still a good story.

algorithm

Depressing. There is no celebratory tone to this story. I personally think this story does not really fit r/HFY

I absolutely hate the metric system if for no other reason than the goddamn advocates spouting endless dribble about its greatness while not being able to do anymore than regurgitate basic math in a subpar manner. There is no creativity nor beauty in the crap that is the metric system and I will hate it forevermore!

Thousands of feet march to the beat it's an army on the march.

I could afford it I got that oil money