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to my War crimes question , i think the aliens would try to force us to get rid of our weapons , maybe even ban us from certain places and activitys until the humans start to revolt.
We as a race have a tendency to start revolutions if it get's bad enought , we also tend to unite if we have a common enemy.
Imagine the entier world united in an uprising against aliens trying to oppress us , and maybe we even get in contactg with another race with an similar history ?
Let's say there was this race of skilled warriors who got forced to lay down thier weapons because of others fearing them , and suddenly after years of humiliation there is this race of deathworlders going throught the same as them , only they rise up and contact them asking if they'd like to join.
And whats worse than humans getting angry ? Humans getting angry together with feared warriors.
And after this whole revolution thing aliens acctualy take a look at out history and realise ,,Fuck , this was a normal reaction from them''
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This is really fun to think about.
So first off, apparently the other aliens in this world don’t have the same culture of preserving (or semi-preserving) and re-teaching history, so they didn’t go through the human’s history even though we tend to not hide most of it. Especially the revolutions. Those are talked about in history classes a lot. Also the fact that they didn’t know about war crimes adds to this idea.
Or, the other option, they just didn’t think looking at our history other than like the essential stuff (ex: war tactics, and other stuff) was important.
Either way these aliens were not well prepared for the situation that they thought they had control over. I just thought that was interesting.
This is a likely scenario especially considering the fact that we don’t know how other aliens would react to having weapons and military privileges revoked. It’s likely that this demilitarization worked for other violent races (the warrior species you were talking about), so they thought it would work for us as well.
This would be a really interesting story, considering it seems that there’s a lot of flaws in how the aliens handle things that they’re scared of/how they handle things in general.
It’s likely that the humans would join with the warrior species, and would see it as a really good opportunity.
And cus of the fierce packbonding, the humans and warrior species would probably stick together long after they fought the revolution. Maybe our cultures would combine?
That’s hard to say though as human cultures are really diverse, and it’s likely the warrior species would be as well.
The “oh fuck” moment is really good though. Because if they were just more organized, the aliens could have easily found a better way to fix the “hey I’m worried the humans might kill us” issue. And, if this is the first major revolution the galactic community has had, the humans could become even more terrifying, or could become a saving grace for a system that didn’t work. Or just… “hey remember that time the [insert your version of the galactic councils] tried to take away the humans’ weapons?” “Yeah they don’t do that anymore”.
HOWEVER
I do have a bit more I’d love to talk about.
What if humans don’t get along with the warrior species well?
Like humanity agrees to join forces, but our cultures and/or mannerisms do not mesh well at all.
So we’re working towards a common goal, but we don’t work together well. What would arise from that?
Say that we won the revolution, what would happen with the humans and the warrior race? Would a war start up between them? Would there be a constant tension as we both try to set up a new form of government or as we try to reform the old method of how the galactic community handled things?
What if we lost the revolution?
Would tensions get worse? Would humanity and the warrior species be forced to stay with each other as “punishment”?
This is a really cool continuation of the idea
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So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather?
What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving.
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Ok ok ok, last humans are the weird ones, I promise! (I am also a god damn liar.)
So this ailien crew is finally retiring their beloved human/orc friend who has thrown them through the ringer so many times they’ve learned all the weirdness that comes compacted in that apex predator from earth.
It’s really sad when they have to let their human go because ofcourse besides being a space-orc their human was also space-glue and made them all love it and want to be friends forever. But their human has a family it wants to get back to and tell all these wonderful adventures they all had together. So its good bye.
But soon after the human leaves the ship and goes to their family on this fringe-y colony planet that all the races in the galaxy agree can’t be settled but humans are sending their fifth colonizing attempt anyways because fuck it, it’s what we do, the colony succumbs to a terrible natural disaster. The ailien crew rushes ba ck to save their friend (and reallynanybody) but alas, all they find is their former crew mates body clutching a small screaming bundle.
A human baby.
Well its only right to take it with them right? Yeah! To honor their friend! To have a new friend! Besides they are EXPERTS in dealing with a full grown human. A baby human has to be a breeze in comparison right? Right!
So they adopt it.
First they name it Clamchowder in honor of the human tradition of naming children in hopes of they having qualities linked to the name. It was very, very carefully selected name.
Then they discover in very rapid and horrible sucsession: Human babies don’t speak Human babies don’t walk or move much on their own Human babies do not regulate their excrement at apropriate intervals Human babies need to be interacted with and physically touched or they waste away (that was a close call untill Clamchowder latched onto Moongah the extremely fuzzy first mate) Human babies need special diet, which does not include bottles filled with engine grease. Another close call. Human babies will put EVERYTHING IN YHER MOUTH OH NO SPIT OUT THE CONTROL BUTTON PLEASE!!! And it never ever ever stops screaming, ever!
Ultimately the crew decides that this is a whole new set of problems, and even gthougb they really wanted Clamchowder to be like their dead parent they eventually realize that this is a complete different adventure.
So they become baby experts too.