“Nitrogen started replacing helium” I’ll bet there were more than a few giggles among the infiltration team

@Netherdan

Ай бұрын

Some might have even started imitating Minions

@JRRodriguez-nu7po

25 күн бұрын

It is even easier to breathe helium/oxygen than nitrogen/oxygen. Perhaps it was done to make more difficult for the non humans.

@davethompson3326

15 күн бұрын

Chip and Dale briefings intensify

@DragonJohn

15 күн бұрын

@@davethompson3326 I hope there was at least one argument XD

Don't. Touch. The. Boats. We take that personal.

@pheonixblue01

Ай бұрын

Japan has anime voices for you to hear.

@williamcastro3017

Ай бұрын

Try to surrender,o or die. 🥵

@sodkumagarasdod

Ай бұрын

Habitual Linecrosser ? 😅

@Bilskirnir3124

Ай бұрын

@@sodkumagarasdod Indeed. Did you hear it with his Japanese accent?

@sodkumagarasdod

Ай бұрын

@@Bilskirnir3124 of course i did. 😁

A standard seize and investigate, something that STARTS with disabling a strange ship rather than making attempts to communicate, is a HELL of a way to make first contact and not a very smart way at that. You're absolutely bound to run into someone that not only doesn't appreciate being shot at, but will shoot back and likely bring friends to the party.

@whyjnot420

23 күн бұрын

And, in this particular setting your second sentence will have already happened a bunch of times. Since it basically says they got away with it for so long because they were so strong. That doesn't happen when everyone just rolls over. Do something enough times and it becomes the rule. Even when it is in actuality a statistical probability. (Sometimes that is even right. Think about some of thermodynamics which boil down to statistics and averages and whatnot, but you can't get around them.) Enforce that "rule" long enough and it becomes the norm. When something is the norm, you need more than "this thing that has never happened, might happen" to challenge it. So then I would say that the real issue here is that there is no intermediate challenge shown to occur. That is to say; If the "rule" has always held true, why then is there any meaningful controversary about it in the first place aside from "well it is aggressive"? Something, anything should have been shown to have happened for it to be even questionable. But no, the story goes from hunky dory to you done f**ed up without anything inbetween and suffers for it. Due to this "rule" always holding true without anything of substance challenging it. A narrative of "I don't understand" would have worked better than "We should have known it was coming". edit: btw, were I one of the aliens arguing in favor of the policy, whenever given the "its aggressive" argument I would respond with "no, its assertive"

"And it was then that we all learned to fear the wrath of those who sailed under the banner of the Flying Squirrel."

General: "Sir, isnt it short sighted to expel other species from our border like that?" High Command: "Not this shit again. As if anyone could do anything against us." -Later- General: "Uhmm sir? There is a group of battleships holding our biggest military base outside the core hostage." High command: Suprised pikachu face

"Sir, what should we do?" As a Terran, I would suggest opening hailing frequencies and begging forgiveness, above all, don't open fire, don't attack. We might feel merciful. It's doubtful, but there's always a chance. There needs to be more of this story.

@Furzkampfbomber

Ай бұрын

Kinda reminds me of a story about a huge strip of space where, because of some strange cosmic phenomenon, every species within its confines turned utterly mad and subsequently against itself to the point of its extinction. Except for us humans, who were unaffected by this phenomenon since 'we were all a little bit mad right from the start' (which arguably is totally true, if you ask me). Anyway, when the first humans turned up in 'normal' space, this not only scared all the aliens crapless, it also made them immediately attack us out of fear, sheer arrogance and because they were 'seemingly not accustomed with the concept of warning shots'. Meaning, they attacked, a human ship fired a warning shot in return, which was only seen as 'too stupid to aim' by the aliens and encouraged them to go all in. In the end, humankind ripped everyone a new one, but decided to let it slip and go back to its own business in the end - and from this point on had a field day playing the strange and utterly mad weirdos everyone was expecting and so terribly afraid of.

@kevincaruthers5412

Ай бұрын

@@Furzkampfbomber Would love to read that story. If you remember the name, I would be appreciative. :)

@Furzkampfbomber

Ай бұрын

@@kevincaruthers5412 Dang, I'm sorry, I can not find this story anymore despite going so far and searching my entire watch history for certain key words. Tell you what, I'm going to bookmark this and in case I will ever remember what this story was named or stumble upon it again, I come back and inform you. Not at least, to be honest, because this is buggering my own autistic brain immensely right now. :D

@kevincaruthers5412

Ай бұрын

@@Furzkampfbomber Thank you for the effort! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

@Furzkampfbomber

Ай бұрын

@@kevincaruthers5412 No problem, I just hope that one day I will find this darn story again! And have a great weekend too!

Those aliens forgot a saying that the Terran alliance bluntly reminded them of " there's always a bigger fish."

Got to love with the "proportional response".

The general should immediately broadcast their surrender, and request a parlay to explain and discuss options. Any other response, would be folly.

@yomogami4561

Ай бұрын

that's what i was thinking

@merlinathrawes746

Ай бұрын

A little hard to broadcast a surrender when all your comms are being jammed.

@yomogami4561

Ай бұрын

@@merlinathrawes746 shutting down weapons and shields are usually accepted but we are talking aliens

@mlogan2k2

Ай бұрын

@@merlinathrawes746 Power down all shields and weapons, and pray to whatever gods you worship that they notice and get the message.

@silverbird425

Ай бұрын

@@mlogan2k2 I don't think the Terrans have come to parley.

A classic. Standard Seize and Capture Procedure? Yeah, it was only a matter of time before someone took offence to having their home invaded. The Captain had better be apologetic as all hell.

A bit of advice to the General. Have all personnel who can escape on the warships go and surrender. You might still be able to make peace and clear up the misunderstanding. Or at least temper the Terrans wrath by making it clear what happened was a combination of bad policy and a bungled first contact and apologize profusely. It might work. Better option in the long run to trying to fight the crazy war apes.

@madkow007

Ай бұрын

HA...lol crazy war apes. Pretty much covers it

Great story; Excellent narration! That ending reminded me of "The Last Starfighter" "Commander, what do we do...? We Die!" LOL!!!

@stinkyfungus

Ай бұрын

It doesn't hit right unless you have an automatic monacle with an unusually loud motor for such an advanced race... that rotates over you eye for dramatic effect before delivering the "we die" line.

Yeah, somebody done fucked up. Many thanks!

Don't. Touch. Our. Boats.

Yeah, thought that "seize and investigate" policy was a really bad idea right from the start. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. "W Surrender, General."

@involuntaryanalysis

14 күн бұрын

Congratulations, tell them what they've won. A lifetime supply of species-wide existential dread, and ALL the post-traumatic stress.

I have heard this story before, but this well done. Thank you for putting life into the story.

I'm kind of surprised the end didn't involved their comms being hacked and the last sentence being "One chance. EXPLAIN YOURSELVES"

@Cl0ckcl0ck

Ай бұрын

No need. The Terran Federation had the database from the ship for a while so knew the Federation 'seize and investigate' protocol.

@vladyvhv9579

18 күн бұрын

Even better, "You have 5 minutes to evacuate before we open fire."

They were full of lawyers schooled in Federation Law…

@TrueFork

Ай бұрын

oh dear the federation will go bankrupt

@williamcastro3017

Ай бұрын

One word “RUN”! I am running, Run faster!

Wow. Talk about a First Contact gone wrong. I'd like to know what happens when the 12 ships arrive. Thanks for narrating and posting this very interesting story. My compliments to the author.

@silverbird425

Ай бұрын

Mmmm I thinks its fair to say that 12 proper warships vs a fleet and fleet base will be messy for both sides, but if a scout ship can KO a flag battleship, the helium suckers are going to lose.

@TrueFork

Ай бұрын

some casualties on first contact can probably be expected due to misunderstandings, the Terrans in the first ship were no doubt pissed but their higher ups will probably realize that the wise course of action would be to try diplomacy first. With the data they retrieved they should know about the controversial procedure so they likely have a strong case for demanding various reparations and concessions without having to start a war.

@vladyvhv9579

18 күн бұрын

Just go watch The Fat Electrician's video about the US's "Proportional" response to that time Iran almost sunk one of our ships.

I really enjoyed this one. If this story continues it can go two directions BUT both directions are interesting possibilities. I hope the story continues.

Xeno: Seize and investigate, what could go wrong? Hooomans: War paint comes out, boss music begins to play.

Love how the Humans in this story are essentially Xenomorphs

Rock on Sir Squirrels!

On the topic of what to do: Surrender has historically worked better than the alternatives a lot of the time (though not everywhere and not always)

19:36 I appreciate how even the scrolling text seems to skip a beat, just like the alien's hearts, when the Terran Alliance shows up. For the allmighty literate rodent! For the algorithm!

That was a scary story very well told. Good job, Squirrel. Bad business that “ seize and investigate.” FAFO.

An excellent story. Thank you for sharing it.

Descrioption of the Classified Symbol : An upright cylinder with two circles at one end.

I've read this one before. It's one of my favorite stories. Glad to hear it being told by my favorite story teller!

Was this one of those remasters? I swear I've heard you tell this tale before. Not complaining, love listening to you tell these tales. Just wondering. :)

OI! No Letter of Marque! A pirate! A whole nation of pirates! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!

FarmWhich delivering another fantastic short as usual ❤❤❤ For the Agro-rythm!

One of my all time favourite Hfy stories 👏🏻💪🏻

I feel like this is a play of the start of the Barbary Wars.

Here is a like and comment for the story, for entertaining me, to help your channel grow, to appease the great and powerful KZread algorithm demons, and get you the recognition you deserve.

Hope you're doing good buddy. I bought The Nature of Predators book. Whenever I read it, your voice is the one I hear in my head.😅

@rexmann1984

Ай бұрын

However, as for this story Net Narrator did better with it. Sometimes I feel like the right narrator for the right story can make or break it

First thought that comes through my head is that whoever programmed that classified symbol lock was an idiot, the system should've automatically transmitted the entire data package where the symbol was seen to the high command the instant it was detected due to the perceived threat level...

"Sir, what do we do?" Jesus.... just feckin' APOLOGIZE already!

So…basically….they brought Zenomorphs onto their ship….then handed them advanced technology. That’s…not going to end well.

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Oh yeah, I remember NetNarrator doing this one a while back

DON'T. TOUCH. THE BOATS. - Anime Bad Guy

good story and enjoyed the narration thanks

The general didn't know, but, we absolutely know : Brown pants time ! Followed with blood splatter everywhere.

Oh man, I hope this story continues

Oh man, it ends like that? Now I just want more.

Fantastic story and narration once again! Thanks to both the author and Agro.

Don't tread on me.

@Netherdan

Ай бұрын

No step on snek

@goldengryphon

18 күн бұрын

@@Netherdan ~ NO ~

For DA SKWERL and his Nest

Good story!

As always great story

Given that all data on "Federation" members, worlds and non-aligned species was included in that data dump, I wonder how many other fleets of 12 went to different targets.

@madkow007

Ай бұрын

My guess is after going over the data, 12 is all they need for the whole federation lol

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

Thanks brother keep it up

Spifflemonk would have handled that contact more effectively.

Play stupid games: win stupid prizes. Or in other words FAFO

What you do is you open every single channel and maybe start waving some flags broadcasting the most sincere and heartfelt apology you can manage with all the power your generators can muster.

Ask politely, "May we be of assistance with anything?"

Good stuff

Well, that was a breathtakingly arrogant and bolloxed First Contact. I wonder why it went badly?😸

They are still lucky that the symbol wasn't a red cross XD

@madkow007

Ай бұрын

Was my thought at first, that would not go well at all

I would love a followup of this story

Definition of FAFO.

Algorithm. Good story!

Hope the author has a part two coming out.

Squirrel time

2nd, 12 July 2024

@TheJMPD

Ай бұрын

Ooo, how nice for you! That achievement will take you far...

How is your recovery going from your sinus surgery going? Your voice sounds great

Honestly, if you know you were in the wrong, or at least the probably stronger people probably ready to pummel you thinks you were regardless of your own opinions, and you know they spoke at least one of your known languages, you hail on all frequencies and request to speak. And apologize. While we don't like our boats being touched, I think they would understand enough it was a different culture and give them ONE shot to give a reason NOT to react with a "proportional" response.

@chrissouthgate4554

Ай бұрын

On the other hand - War of Jenkins Ear!

@sharibigay4712

Ай бұрын

That was my thought, at least give it a try.

MORE please!

yeah, going to have to ask you to signal that surrender and hope for the best... move along.

Could this be the beginning of “There Will Be Stitches”? Background story?

Glory to Terra.

@TrueFork

Ай бұрын

no step on snek

Was that symbol a great big X by any chance? Possibly with the word COM underneath it?

For the algorithm 👽👾🤖🌌🛰🚀🛸🌠

For the algorithm

Xeno FAFO, for the algorithm.

Part3?

💪😁👍

My advice: Apologise humbly and beg for mercy. It's your only chance. If that doesn't work, then you may as well try praying to whatever gods you believe in.

@goldengryphon

18 күн бұрын

Praying should be part of it no matter what. Your gods, our gods, random gods, ...

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Surrender

What could go wrong? All we were doing was seizing any and all unknown ships and reverse engineering the tech and then letting them go. I mean they were weaker than us in the Federation right?

Catch and release isn't a very good first contact protocol. Better to try to talk first.

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FAFO...

Great story

this. is. how. you. Find Out!

👍 Seize and investigate regarded hostile.