The Art of Not Fighting Humans | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

Great story! "30 year cease fire"... He understands that, in time, Humanity will come after them (especially if he destroyed the ship yard and its civilians).

Translation: We fought them when they were weak and unprepared and they still made us bleed so bad that fighting on was pointless. We won. A pyrrhic victory. That's no victory at all. Now? They'll have thirty years to prepare. I am glad I am retired, for I will not deal with the monster humanity will be able to conjure by the end of that time.

Galactic Tactics - A Single battle to decide the stronger force, the weaker force retreating with minimal losses. Human Tactics - Make them suffer losses so bad that they will NEVER want to fight us again.

Humanity spent most of it's time to fight against the most vicious, most tenacious and most ingenious enemy it could find on it's home planet, even before it left Earth. This enemy was none other, than itself. Which means that all disgusting little tricks and grandiose plans, strategic marvel or monstrous weaponry, what one side could use... The other was capable to use as well. So they had to make countermeasures to those. And new weapons, and plans, if the enemy has those countermeasures as well, against which they also needed to find a way to defend themselves, leading a neverending cycle. When your worst enemy is "yourself", you simply cannot be "good enough".

The correct name is "Quintus Fabius Maximus". Hannibal learnt the hard way, how effective that strategy is.

Awesome, with a little "re-jigging", this could be the preface to a novel, (even a series of) outlining the history of the wars, the ramifications and outcomes of...

This needs to be made into a Black Mirror style series

Yes, it's so irritatingly cowardly of your enemy to decide that squaring up and losing would be a dumb move, isn't it? Almost like they've realized that if they don't just let you win they might have a chance of winning themselves...

Sounds like Earth took the Vietnam approach and rolled with it :"D

Ah The Scorched Space Tactics

That last line

I really like listening to these stories. I have a question, what AI voice / service do you use. I am a writer myself and I would like to use AI to voice over. I like the voices you use so I am just curious. Thank you for your help!

Love the narration!

I like it ❤

Nice stories

Cool Video

But the humans lost. The aliens had lost so much they decided they couldn't afford a repeat with another force using the same tactics.But the aliens got the cluster I presume although the story doesn't say so.

Makes me think of the Korean war truce.

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Is this video supposed to be in the playlist for u/MarlynnOfMany?