The Real Reason Nobody Wants To Fight Humans... | Best HFY Stories

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The story explores a galaxy where humans act as ruthless peacekeepers, maintaining order through overwhelming military might. When a new power, the Xylari, emerge with a philosophy of progress-through-conflict, a brutal war erupts, pushing the humans to horrific extremes. Disillusioned allies like the Weyam are forced to question their understanding of humanity and the true price of peace. Ultimately, the war ends not in decisive victory but mutual exhaustion, leaving both humans and the galaxy fractured as they confront the terrible potential for darkness within themselves.

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[Estranged]

"terrifyingly disproportional"
No, It was a perfectly proportional response.
If you get it, you get it. If you don't, the Fat Electrician will guide you.

[alexanderjaruk]

"The Xylari openly declared their philosophy, that war and conflict was necessary for the galaxy to progress."

The response from humanity was as simple as it was profound, and puzzled the overwhelming majority of the galaxy with what it said:

"You claim to be scientists, but have just proved that you are actually idiots, because you have absolutely no fucking idea what the hell you're talking about. War doesn't create progress, it creates annihilation, as you will soon learn."

Little was heard from humanity for the overwhelming majority of the rest of the war, a hideous age of dark bloodshed and slaughter lasting a full thirty years. They would show up to certain pitched battles faced by close allies, but every attempt to enter human space even by said allies was, at best, politely rebuffed and turned away at the Jump-point: and if any hostility occurred in response, the ship, or even entire fleet, would simply never be heard from again.

Then, almost as quickly as it began, this age of war came to an abrupt close, as in a perfectly synchronous set of devastating blows an armada of small-ish moons accelerated to within a fraction of a percentage point of c, slammed into every single Xylari-contrled world, shattering them like so many eggs shot with an identical number of bullets. The death-tole was in the trillions, and the galaxy, knowing intuitively without ever being told who ABSOLUTELY had to be responsible, finally had the answers to the question they long had asked about why they didn't fight human beings: Humanity was both willing, and clearly able, to use levels of "Disproportionate Retribution" the rest of the galaxy hadn't even considered if they were POSSIBLE, let alone feasible. For them, war was a way to acquire resources otherwise unavailable, for humans, it was a way to END a threat to stability. This dichotomy between the two outlooks was so profound, they hadn't considered the possibility of the human outlook even existing, until the Xylari, who also had a radically different outlook, forced the humans to reveal the true depths that their philosophy was capable of being driven to, and starring into the "Black Hole" level depth of annihilation "the Xylari way" had ultimately brought upon their own kind, (With less than ten thousand Xylari surviving anywhere in the galaxy within in less than 10 years after the surgical obliteration of their empire), everyone else came to not only reject their dark philosophy, but, in point of fact, war itself to a significant degree. If THAT was what it took to become an apex-level "Warrior Race", no-one else wanted absolutely ANY part of it.

[ejtepunl]

Story started well, then began contradicting itself, made no sense given its title

[carlfranz]

Like a lot of wars, no one blames the one who started it.

[Vaquero]

Nobody comprehends the concept of total war anymore. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Sherman's march to the sea...total war brought an end to those conflicts after years of bloodletting.

[darkangelziggy]

Reminds me of Babylon 5 with Humans as the Vorlons and the Xylari as the Shadows

[gregwochner]

There’s 24 minutes I’ll never get back

[arkandrada]

Lesson of the story… Be a sheep… The wolves will be well feed…

[wargeneralbonez]

The reason why Humans are OP. Because God is on our side.

[xedalpha]

Xylari: *pokes humans*
Humans: Im warning you...
Xylari: *pokes humans again*
Humans: I'm WARNING you...
Xylari: *pokes humans more*
Humans:

[wallriderlastlight]

The real reason why Earth is off LIMITS

[kimcooper]

Using wife's phone today not her opinions Uhm I'm not getting this so to all the other sentient species it's ok to use bio war on civilians, refugees and spread it to the galaxy but the humans hit only the enemies planets makes no sense does it?

[brianbarwick]

No one wants to fight humans because of the helldivers

[OldieBugger]

This story resonates with current times: USA and Europe against the Muslims? Russians? China? All of above?

[edhenderson]

Glassing the Xylarin home world to inflict unacceptable casualties upon them to stop an implacable and unstoppable enemy is not without precedent. The WW-II Allied aerial fire bombings of the German city of Dresden which caused a city wide fire that was so intense that at one point, it caused a self-feeding, self-sustaining gigantic fire tornado that sucked the very air itself into it with such forceful winds that both people and debris of all kinds were literally picked up off the street and sucked into it from one or more blocks away. Also, the fire bombings of Japanese cities like Tokyo, with all Japanese cities having been constructed at that time with wood and paper products and thus they became city wide raging funeral pyres. These are examples of extreme wartime measures taken to stop an enemy that refused to even consider the concept or possibility of defeat. Even then, Nazi Germany did not surrender until the entire country including the last remaining city blocks of it's capitol Berlin, had been taken. Japan also remained firmly commited to fight to literally the last man, woman, and child, all of whom were in training in 1945 to fight and willingly die fighting an expected Allied invasion of the homeland. Both sides estimated Allied casualties from an invasion of Japan at over 1 million, and Japanese casualties were estimated severe enough to cause the Japanese race to be almost wiped out. It took the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the radioed promise of many more if Japan didn't surrender, to finally break the Japanese will to fight. So this storyline is not without precedent.

[josephboustany]

Its HFY
"Humanity, F**k yeah!"
Not FHY
This story is a bog standard "F**k humanity" type of story we see in every damend movie game book ....
Why would this Ever be classified as HFY????
Every other genre hates humanity leave this one alone please

[kinglolmon]

It's like world war 2 but in fiction

[ChronClocK]

How many times are you gonna contradict yourself in a single story? Conceptually its a good story idea, but the writing execution is some of the poorest work I've ever had to listen to.

[patrickdurham]

I like the narration this story sucks though.

[gprivat_my_selection]

BS! Better look at coloured revolution!!
BS!