We Were Winning the War Against the Humans, Then They Brought Swords | HFY | Sci-Fi Short Stories
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- We Were Winning the War Against the Humans, Then They Brought Swords was written by Dakota Clarke.
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My armor is contempt, my shield is disgust, my sword is hatred.
In the Emperor’s name, let none survive!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
The Emperor Protects!
The Emperor Protects!
I love this community!
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The Black Templars send their regards
Great, so long as it isn't their armies! Lol
Would you look at the time (Purge o’clock)
@@ryanhampson673 Did I just hear a heresy?!
For the Emperor!
@@SimonRiley135 Heresy!?
Seriously, having a mech bot with a giant energy sword being operated by a teen with a PlayStation controller might just revolutionize warfare.
With respawn points and replacement drones, all we would need is faster than light bandwidth and the universe is ours for the taking, all from our own couches!
Would be so cool of that were our reality today.
Quantum entanglement is the answer to an FTL bandwidth issue.
Just wait until humans bring out hockey sticks.
Hahaha Yeah! Just have to be sure the humans take their gloves off before starting the fight though, otherwise they'll get stuck in the penalty box!
And then the Hanson brothers attack...🤣
And welded by teenage girls, hockey is played by the "fairer sex" in Britain, it's like close combat!!.
@@CrusaderSports250 The real hard version is Shinty. A man's sport for playing against other men, because men do not use full power in sports, when facing women.
The Maple Syrup War crime sticks
🤔 a marine, covered with impenetrable armor, carrying a giant sword?
Oh yeah, that's a good idea! 😂
Hahaha Glad you liked it! I was grinning ear to ear as I checked it for edits.
They are called medieval knights
@@StephenHolmes-mv7yf Nay, my good sir, they are MELEE MARINES! We must slay the alien vermin, we must remove them from our lands! Lol
@@Sci-FiVault it was a pretty good story. Did you write it?
@@billcook7285 Glad you liked it! :) No, I didn't, my writing team did. I just feed them ideas based on what y'all like, but they do their own thing from time to time too. (Marines with swords was my idea though! Bwahaha!)
When technology fails resort to primitive methods.
One reason why to this day most troops carry a knife. It's always a reliable oh shit back up weapon.
True!
Just be glad they didn’t take the other choice…Battle axes!!
And then hire a bunch of angry loggers and such to do the swinging! Probably load them up with just enough whiskey so they can have a good time before they go out to make some alien sushi! Hahaha
Or two handed hammers a true game of wack a mole
Hah, i was thinking "sticks with sharpened nails" (as seen in a Simpsons episode.
Or the best of the weapons of the past, Halberds.
I think that's them, right? Axe on one end, sharp pointy spear on top, hooked spike or hammer on the other side, all on a long pole. Spear, axe, and hammer.
@@GyorBox The Spear was the most effective and widely used weapon for melee combat, across history.
Using swords against something 3' tall would be like only attacking legs.
Well, now I'm imagining the great Emu War of Australia with a bunch of Aussies attacking with swords now as those are shorter as well. ...I think the results of the war would be about the same as it was with guns for them. Hahaha
Maybe scythes would have been better suited for the task, although I doubt an alien species would see the dark symbolism that would lie in that...
If you study old sword fighting techniques, going for an unarmoured or lightly armoured leg, below a shield (or shieldless) was highly used. Take an opponent out of the immediate fight, with s leg strike and either come back to finish them off or take prisoner later. Many would die from the leg wound in any case.
@@Thurgosh_OG I know regimental highland broadsword. Practiced with proper pendular and weight mock weapons. Leg strikes are quite normal but being limited to low strikes only would be taxing.
A 9 iron with a sharped edge would be an excellent choice.
The fool who brings a gun to a sword fight .
Lol! I was wondering how long it would be before someone mentioned this!
@Sci-FiVault would be even better if swords were chainswords and armour had jetpacks .
@@nijadbahnam9859 I wanted jetpacks so bad on this one!
😂😂😂
Stupid until the ammo runs out. Check out WWI, WWII, and just about any other conflict.
The rewards for tolerance are treachery and betrayal.
Yep. You can't meet evil halfway and expect good things to happen, quite the contrary.
Good story, though I question whether a race that is naturally armored would develop swords, maces, picks and spears yes but swords? That leads to the question how would they know what a sword is?
I'd think they likely would still. Swords are just lengthened daggers and, arguably, the best use for a sword is for piercing, as is the case with spears. (The Romans knew this and their legionnaires were trained to stab, not slash. Stabbing actions were also harder to counter, particularly for the "barbarian" adversaries who were more accustomed to slashing attacks.)
@@Sci-FiVault Well I agree with you somewhat, you forgot the Romans also fought in formation with shields making the over had swing harder and leaving them more exposed to counterattack, the quick thrust doesn't do that. Also, the overhand wing takes more room so the formations would be looser.
@@eblkii6314 Yep, that's true.
Somehow I would have the impression that if they are an aggressive species that that been battling and overwhelming all manner of races for as long as they believe they have, swords would have just been one more weapon that lesser races had brought to the battlefield. And such a history would have had a share of losses on the part of the people doing that. But it's not really brought up in the story, so consider it speculation.
@@Sci-FiVaultha ha but the you thing like Claymores where the sheer mass of the weapon was its advantage if you hade the strength to wield it.
Or the Japanese Katana a designed to slice armour made primarily out wood or bamboo.
It very much depends on want the opponents defences are as to to what the most efficient weapon.
Hell once chemical projectile weapons such as guns became standard body armour was reduced almost completely in favour of increased mobility.
"Next you're gonna tell me they're training attack trees or something..."
You know what, that wouldn't surprise me.
Hang on, I'm getting a message in... it's from... the Lorax! He says he's training an army. :P Hahaha
Ents for the rescue^^
@@tranquilthoughts7233 Lol Yeah.
@@Sci-FiVaultMacbeth is calling and wants his walking forest back
@@frodo7287 Lol
when the space marines arrived, with hatred to xenos, and sharpened, energy blades! also nice art, its looks dope as fuck!
Glad you liked it! Thanks. I was thrilled with the art on this one. :)
@@Sci-FiVault yeah much better what other channels use usually
Yes, let us grow and train attack trees.
Maybe some murder vines, too.
Hahaha Sounds like Poison Ivy's dream come true!
I actually had to double-check this video because I uploaded one with... Hmm... Maybe I shouldn't spoil this for ya just yet! :P
There's another video on this channel where there are alien trees that attack, I thought it was a fun little story. It's titled "The Trees Speak".
Attack trees - Groot
Murder vines - Kudzu
@@mamatmag I had the ents in mind.
The Last March of the Ents.
For The Emperor!
Huzzah!
The knights of old saved the day😊
Indeed! :)
To the everlasting glory of the infantry
Now fix bayonets, ask no quarter, nor give any
Yes!
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
7 out of 10 points for this one. If thousands of our people not only died but got deleted by those energy barriers than there is no snowflakes chance in Hell that we would settle for everything less then their total unconditional surrender. Peace is made with other humans. not with animals that have no compassion and empathy towards others. and if they cant learn those after the total surrender, they go extinct. For they would be a threat until put down for good.
I hope I can get a 10/10 on the next video! :)
Fresh Colognes. 😅
Sometimes you gotta go back to the drawing board to move forward.
Very true.
I AM IRON MAN!
Lol
For the emporer! Rip, and tear!
Swords are cool, but.... Acorns? Meet flamethrower. No reaching down with swords, just reduce them all to cinders...
That would be so dope!
...Tasty as well! Hahaha
Great story and I enjoyed seeing it from the enemy viewpoint, well done.👍
Thanks! I'm glad that you liked this story. Hope I can keep putting great ones out like this! :)
Might seem weird but I'm glad this story has a clear end and outro. I have these stories in a playlist and it's sometimes frustrating when the next story starts playing before I can vote or comment.
Glad you like the outro! I like videos with them as well for the same reason--autoplay can be annoying when it jumps the gun on us.
Narration halts at some really odd points, making the delivery a little less fluid occasionally, but overall a really good story. Kinda imagining the marine squad rushing the command base, blasting "I'm Still Standing" and "Free Bird" over their comms all while while they rip through the enemy forces, lmao.
On a more dark note: Nothing in the known universe is more dangerous and terrifying than a human with a sharp object and the training to use it properly. The Fres learned this lesson the hard way.
Lol! I totally agree with that with the music choices. Just reminds me of what the tankers in the Gulf War did as they rushed across the border (worth Googling that one. Lol)
And Lol! True.
Sorry about the narrations halting at weird times for you, I try to get everything that I can for those.
A most glorious battle my brothers!
Only real issue I'm hearing in the vocorder at this point is things like '"Commander!" a young soldier named...' should have more of a pause between "Commander!" and 'a young soldier named...' at @01:25. There are several other instances, most of which I'd normally ignore because of the pronunciation of words that often shows up wrong, but this one seems to get most of those right, or at least acceptably close. Thumbs up.
Sorry about those, trying to work things out and figure out what it takes to fix that issue. My AI struggles with titles for people. I've figured some things out, still trying to take care of the remaining gremlins.
@@Sci-FiVault Understood. I'm not up on how to format text for an AI to get the speaking done well. Even words like read and unionized which have two different pronunciations. (Ask a factory worker and a chemist to pronounce the latter, and yeh, quite different.) Some of it can be derived from context, at least that's how we deal with those situations, but teaching an AI to do that is beyond what I know. And just inserting more comma's is probably not going to help. This might be a place where one of the 'lost letters' of the english language could be used as a marker for 'add a pause' or 'this is a character title' that on it's own is not spoken, but becomes markup language for the AI speaker. I'll admit that hiring someone to voice coach an AI might be as expensive as hiring someone to be a voice actor for a whole collection of stories. On the other hand if you can find someone who can do that, and got the resulting model into the open community, I'm sure that there are a lot of people who would appreciate it, not just the listeners. It's likely to put a few people out of work in the voice acting community though. (I know a few) I don't think they would appreciate it much.
Good story!
The Phres were DEFENSIVE. Seemingly they employed little or no offense. Humans kept trying until they found something that worked.
As soon as a military shifts to just defending, they lose the war every time. People will always find a way to bust through the best defenses.
...Or go around, as in many instances as well.
@@Sci-FiVault *Laughs in early 1940s Belgian Forest Detour*
Yea, some of us know about flanking quite well~
Good wrinkle. Humanity losing at the start was nice. A few holes to fill but good start. Ai reads with a weird cadence.
Glad you liked it! I'm fiddling with the AI narrations and hope to get things sorted out there soon, we'll see of I can make him behave. Hahaha
Faraday suits against the lighting
That's a cool thought! :)
I mean, hell, we already have that today.
Epic-ness to a new level! Also where is the artwork for this I wanna use it as my desktop.
Thanks, glad you liked it! :D
As for the artwork, I have it behind a paywall, sorry. It's up for members only, but you can pause the video at any point and screenshot it if you want to cheat the system and not pay the 99 cents for the membership. Hahaha
Image is AI generated by me, so use it for all the desktops you please. :)
Funny story... in the beginning I had subtitles and translation to german on, after watching some japanese videos. It translated the commanders name to something like "frisches Kölsch". Thats a beer from cologne...
Ha! That is funny.
I upload the text for subtitles to ensure accuracy with them and to hopefully help translations. If that does in fact help, then I guess we have Commander Beer reporting for duty! Hahaha
Well that was different and fun
Agreed! :) Thanks for the comment.
So basically boggarts from Kingdoms of Armalor with futuristic tech.
Talk about beating to death the word "Fres" or "Fresh"!!
if you have an armor that disrupt the fields for you to get through, why not an armored vehicule that you can pimp with sawblades to mow down the Fress... it would be easier to reinforce than individual harnesses that are limited by the weight the human can bear... and if it's powered armor, the armored vehicule still makes more sense: easier to produce, easier to be proeficient in...
Sounds like a good sequel to me!
Or just lawm mowers....they were kinda short
Oh, brother allow me to introduce you to the haybine.
If u think more, an armour was a cheap test that worked, and they got sword training already, now with Ws not Ls they can make ammo out of it, vehicles etc etc
@@progamasEjogos Good points!
A good story, well written & decent grammar & flow unlike some of the other sci fi stuff on here.
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment as well. :)
It wasn't that training sword in the picture right? 😅 Also just a side note swords were historically NOT USED against armored foes. Instead crushing or piercing weapons were used against armored foes such as war axes, maces, flails, war picks, and many others. Swords were used only as last resort and when used people expected to die very very soon because it was almost completely useless against armor.
All I'm picturing for the story is the big honking swords I see in some anime commercials that are impossibly huge. Lol That'd cut through the aliens easy!
@@Sci-FiVault give them buster swords and mechs lol
@@Axzuin Well, now I'm just picturing some big mechs with massive maces going around smashing everything.
Just imagine what the USMC would do given that sort of stuff! Lol
@@Sci-FiVault mech marines hulk smash with maces 🤣🤣🤣
@@Axzuin Lol!
I'd watch that movie.
Instant thought space marine lol keep up the good storys ❤❤❤
Glad you liked it. :)
Great story hope to hear More like it
Glad you liked it! :)
Very good story 👏
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Good one, really like this one. 👌
If we ever fight them again, our "Ace in the sleeve" are gonna be a Scythe. I mean, they are only 3 feet so no need for the back pain of using a Sword, 😂
Lol!
I think you might be a burner account for the Grim Reaper. :P
Have you ever swung a scythe??
They use muscles that rarely get used even in dedicated body builders.
Your back will hate you for weeks as will your glutes & hamstrings.
Yes humans are streaming human propaganda through your secured military channels. Directly.
Propaganda streamed to people across all mediums and channels 24/7. Gotta love it.
@@Sci-FiVaultAll net, all channels! Would you like to know more?
War hammer 40k baby haha
Warhammer plus acorn aliens! Lol
Great story
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
Everyone knows swords are cooler.
Hahaha Very true!
As a former Marine... I liked this story. This is exactly the kind of mission I can envision for "Future Marines". However, I have two questions: Is this an AI generated story? Or... is this just an AI voice narrating a _human_ generated story?
AI reader.
Story from Reddit HFY/HSO.
Humanity Fu.... Yeah!
or
Humans are Space Orks.
Good story
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment.
Anything a sword can do, a projectile can do better,
Anything a projectile can do a bigger projectile can do better! Lol
...Hang on, let me build a planet-sized railgun now. You never know.
Space Marines 40K
Good story!
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Where is this story from?
It's from my writing team. We just do original pieces on the channel so far. :)
@@Sci-FiVault that’s awesome! I was worried because I don’t like supporting plagiarism, but that’s cool!
Fun tale
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting. :)
Couldnt we have deployed" Ortho home defense" bug spray? Or RAID?
Ha! All I can picture now is a space marine version of the exterminator from "Ant Bully" entering the fray! Could be all sorts of fun.
AAAROOO!
Weres the archers
That could be fun!
❤❤❤
Thanks! :)
Nice story. Too bad much of it was rendered almost unintelligible by the presentation of the AI reading it.
Yes non believeers Acorn scrum
Lol
Except slashing blades are basically completely ineffective against armor plates. Just replace every time they say "sword" with rondel dagger.
Usual inadequate AI voice, but this story was fun for once.
Sorry you didn't like the narrations, but at least you enjoyed the story! :)
The entire story is built on a mistake. Swords were a sidearm, not a primary weapon.
Subpar AI narration.
Don't be lazy, stop using stupid windows read or whatever the f software it is and read it yourself.
i THINK. tHE ai. iS rUBBisH