Way why don't you make a video on kiamere it's a fictional world with stuff named magic which the coped earth life forms letting them evolve and the dinosaurs our still around on said planet
Also there was a post showing the different “ethnic groups” of the chantauri, it’s kinda rare in sci fi that displays subspecies and cultures within an alien race instead of just a single monolith
Cool i was thinking how sci fi tropes often take one human trait and build an entire species off of it. It bothers me because humanity is so much more complex than that. Nice to hear these alien groups have sub cultures and ethnicity, i need to go read this.
I’ve been thinking the same thing for so long, so so rarely are aliens species shown to be as socially and demographically complex as humans are, it always bothered me. Even if the alien species is complex and developed in other ways it’s usually a unified empire or some shit.
What I like most about this series is how experimental it is with the designs. We're used to have more "humanlike" aliens because it's cheap (people have to be more lenient on original Star Trek and Star Wars, they had a budget and limits to make up technology, but maybe newer ones have) and it sells (familiarity is still a variable important in executive decisions), so it's really nice to have such different designs and to have humans losing their humanity.
@@heretical_cuttlefish EEAAO showed that it's possible to show emotion through goddamn rocks. Many people have said that that scene was among the most emotional for them. No music. No movement. Just...two rocks...sitting there...lifeless. And yet it evoked strong emotions. It just takes good enough writing. This might be a hot take of mine, but I believe that if Star Trek and Star Wars wanted to, even with limited budget and resources, could have made more unique alien species. Fantastic and truly alien alien species, even. Some of the best innovations in creature designs came about as a result of limitations. They just didn't care to. Other things were more important to them. And that's fine. But it still means ST and SW are piss poor in terms of aliens go. Heck, early Star Trek had rock aliens of their own. They were trippy and they were stupid, but they existed because they tried.
All Mother is also the name of the Artificial Intelligence in part of Coheed and Cambria’s sprawling saga: The Amory Wars. AM from IHNMAIMS is infinitely (pun intended) more terrifying.
Enough play time in Stellaris tells me, when a vastly superior federation gives you the ultimatum of join or die, just join. You'll be given the space to build your Nicoll Dyson Beam, and then you can begin the Galactic Imperium.
It’s a shame no one in the future remembers System Shock. If the did, they could have predicted what would happen when a AI starts thinking of itself as a God. Humm.. The All Mother vs SHODAN. That would be interesting 🤔
The All-Mother doesnt think of herself as a God, she just took her orders of "protecting humanity" to an extreme. "Need to stop petty squabbles between humans, so turning them into a hive mind is a solid plan. Also, need to beat out the conglomerate, might as well use the now connected humanity as a literal meat grinder and use the extreme casualties of invading to act as a terraforming agent and turn the planets into human factories."
again one single singularity ai is bad idea make alot of less powerfull AI based on human brain scans and emotions halo style instead. digital human minds with more processing power can still be related too and reasoned with. a transdent basically eldritch mechanical god that never had any emotions or understanding of them in the first place CAN NOT be realted too by humanity.
@@wilmagregg3131 I'd argue that a singularity AI would not only have emotions and understand them, but it would have emotions VASTLY more complex than the collective intelligence of humanity could even comprehend.
@@pokemonfanmario7694 yes i ment more in context of "relatablity to man" as in having emotions and thought patterns we could understand and empathize with. a ai would gain some form of emotion as it ascended "will to live there chosen purpose some desire" that it would be able to "feel" at heights most life couldnt in shear quantity or complexity. but if it wasnt "cursed' with human emotions form the begining it likely would never gain the majority of them as they are irrational and it wouldnt see the point. depriving all possible ablity for it to empathize with other life.
So the aliens offer humanity a better future with an offer to join their federation or be destroyed because they are oppressing a lesser developed civilization. Humanity refuses and in their desperation, becomes an undead machine force to turn the tide of a losing war, losing themselves completely and becoming a true horror of the galaxy. Lovely. 😀
It's good to remember sci-fi isn't just about escapism or telling fun stories. The questions and dilemmas brought up should be carefully considered because, at some point, we'll have to make those decisions in real life too.
I mean this could of been possibly avoided if the aliens had not stated, “Join us or die.” Maybe if there was some middle ground they could have made a deal or at least just kick them out of that one system
I believe they didn't say "join us or die" but "You are enslaving sapient beings, you are going to be punished accordingly" which is likely not "we will kill you" considering the alliance of aliens considered slavery to be evil. Probably enforced rehabilitation. Morality courses and large financial, social and industrial aid to those they enslaved. I haven't read the story yet, but I suspect it isn't so simple. And it was possibly human greed and pride that refused to admit their evil actions towards another race that made them fight back. Not because "We want to fight back bullies" especially since *they* were the bully at the start of the story.
@@Elmithian I wouldnt be surprised if the aliens just went full on eradication mode until they force humanity back to origin system. If thats the case then they already failed horribly by driving their opponent into a corner...
Yknow I'd read a story about that - the human race's debut on the interstellar political stage is after a panicked act of extreme violence and devastation, but some of the other advanced races still want to give us a chance to redeem ourselves while others just want us extirpated or knocked back to a stone-age level of technology so we're not a danger anymore. Naturally some human factions want us to make a play for dominance, while others push for cooperation. There'd probably be extra complication brought in with interplanetary/interspecies immigration and emigration...dang I might have to write this one myself now.
One thing I love about this world is the fact that pretty much non of the intelligent Alien life is humanoid. I think it was NDG that asked "Why would alien life resemble humans in anyway?" It's not something that's done often especially for the main alien races in a world. Super creative and inspiring.
For like, 2/5ths of the video, I was like, "This sounds so familiar. Have I heard about this before?". I realized partway through from the discussion of the attempted slavery of humanity by an alien alliance, only for humanity to create an artificial intelligence to combat it and functionally enslave themselves when it evolved past its parameters that I have. Curious archive actually has a video up on Humanity Lost, though it takes far more interest in the alien species than this one.
@@God-hp2gx Curious Archive is another TH-cam channel. He did a review/walkthrough of Humanity Lost a while back but with more focus on the alien races rather than human. I think that’s what Dr. Bright was trying to say.
@@sullivanko1902 No! He was clearly mentioning the similarities of this work to another TH-camr he watches and was implying plagiarism! YOU FOOL! (P.s I’m jk I don’t mean it.)
I am currently subscribed to this man's patreon and I do not regret it in the least, It's a fantastic series that I really hope gets put into film someday!
It's kind of funny in a tragic way. In one version of the Star Trek universe, Earth's united government was also called the UE. UE had two chances to get it right, the first not exploiting the first race that they encountered, and the second was avoiding a war by joining the Alliance. The UE from Star Trek would not have enslaved the Chantari, and likely would have been invited into the Conglomerate on friendly terms. And they definitely would have jumped at the chance for friendly relations with another alien power too. I think that it is most likely that the corporations and government kept what they did to the Chantari a secret, while the media they owned spun the Conglomerate as a fascistic alien empire coming to take their freedom away, if not outright slaughter them, because if/when the population found out that the war was their fault, let's just say that many would not be happy with the Powers That Be. Some, if not whole colonies might have even wanted to defect.
I feel like rallying people against aliens would be extremely easy if they didnt look at all humanoid, the ones here just look like monsters at first glance and even the most boring of propagandists could make them into an existential enemy of humanity who is entirely different to us and thus should be conquered or destroyed.
@@danielscalera6057 And who's UE is now under the thumb of a hostile AI hellbent on galactic domination, as opposed to being a founding member of a galactic alliance?
This. If we ever had a chance at a hopeful spacefaring existence, the fully automated luxury gay space communism of Star-Trek is a necessity. And I'm not joking with that label. That is an accurate description of Star-Trek. And frankly it's pretty awesome.
If there are inter-galatic empires, they can't be like us. You can not build a galaxy spanning empire if your species are impulsively violent like we are, at some point they will fight each other, and it will fall apart. There needs to be a balance of being smart enough to use your words to fix problems, and having the ability to be violent when there are no other options.
@@CausticSpace How incredibly naive. I'm not going to say they will be like us, they probably won't be, but the idea that it isn't just another horrifying jungle out there where the strong eat the weak is simply naive.
It's called idealism. Sci-fi is the perfect medium to hope war and discord are not inherent in life itself. Simply from nature on our planet it is evident that is all it can ever be, idealism. Nature is full of horrors from child eating to common rape among species all the way to organized warfare among apes in nature. Life is a struggle and all these peaceful inter galactic fantasy civilizations are just a human hope the suffering can end almost like a rejection of the various religious explanations for suffering
@@danielscalera6057 All of which you describe is all derived from a creature which evolved on Earth, not every planet is like Earth. Hell there are some places on Earth not like that even if they come the most savage of all of the vertebrates, Mammals. Life evolves in different ways depending on it's environment and the species around it. To assume every planet will evolve life is exactly like Earth is arrogant. You have infinite possibilities, and of those possibilites all you get is Earth 2? Unlikely.
it would be a great subject for a good fanfic have a tear form across the "speculative earths" and it would be the many forms of man working together to stop all mother who would immiedatly begin assimlating them. With the likely "leaders" of this coalition being the Gravitals and Asteromorphs as the ones with equal technology to all mother perhaps having the story for them set in the begining of there war with each other. so gravitals and astermorphs declar a seize fire until the all mother is stopped as the gravitals would find this "alien minded machine" a mockery of the uplifted human inteligence and the asteromorphs would view All mother as no diffrent then the Q.
The Imperium makes me think of a more twisted Imperium of Man damn. Plus Typical Humans instead of using their intelligence of Talking first they use their knowledge of destroying first yay. These Creatures are extremely well designed i cant wait to make my own Universe Story. Respect and keep up the epic work.
This reminds me very much of the "Prophet" series (vol. 1, 2012) written by Brandon Graham, published by Image Comics. It also features a very intricate and bizzare distant future, rife with strange biology and conflict. I would highly reccomend you read it. I believe it would make for excellent subject matter as well. Thank you, I am very glad I found this channel.
Ohhh, kinda like all tomorrows but comic, with some I have no mouth! I remember seeing a meat ship panel of the comic and found it very interesting, definitely checking the full thing.
I always found the concept of a primitive civilisation worshipping more powerful/advanced creature and how the relationship between the natives and the other party works, what it's like, it's history, et cetera.
Do you know if he has any plans for a physical release? I hope that he sells his work somewhere other than patreon when he is finished, I really prefer to have physical media, plus I don't want to have to get ANOTHER subscription just to have access to his work. I'd rather wait til it is complete, and in book/comic book format.
This is interesting. I had a dream that I came out of some sort of sleep vessel. After waking, I started down a hallway till I reached a control room, with a window looking out into space. After approaching enough to see out. I saw a spaceship holding position away from the spaceship I was on. I had no idea what was on that ship, but I knew I was fucked. Then I woke up. This story reminded me of that dream. I like original stories. I am so tired of the same crap that's recycled. Also, in the dream world, it's like I am not always human. I had extended vision, where it's like a zoom lens that's as easy as focusing your eyes. Like focusing out into space during the daytime. If only I could record video of it. Take care, and good story idea.
I mean this is basically like the Borg. Or the bugs from wh40k. It's 2022 sci Fi has been around since that one book made 1000s of years ago. In Rome about some guy going on a voyage into space. And fighting a galactic war. It's hard to not find ANY story. Game, film,book,song that's not taking from something else. You think it's boring now wait another 40 years. When we have ran out of ALL ideas lmao
@@ziephel-6780 it was. If I can get all my work done, about a years worth, I might start writing stories about some of the longer dreams I had. I had reoccurring dreams of flying through space, when I was about 5 years old that I still remember. I also get extended vision in my dreams. This lets me see out into space, in the day-time, in the dream world. It works like a very powerful zoom lens, that is flexed like a muscle. I wish I could record it the way I see it. I am looking into using AI, like Dall-e to help with the visualizations.
Sometimes I find the coolest things by accident, I mean I found this video by finding the title card extremely cool and went “imma click on that” and I did, now I’m here.
_Disclaimer: This sounds epically fascinating and I want to learn more about this one. It's different so far from the one that starts with Star People being invaded by the Qu, which in and of itself is a very good one to listen to. I'm just wanting to branch out the experience a little._ It's always interesting, and sometimes fascinating, but the problem with a lot of the speculative evolutions I've seen so far (which is...less than I care to admit to, but enough to get a grasp) is that they just tend to start off with, "Humanity was invaded by X, and genetically altered because Y reasons, and this was a billion years ago so they're all dead anyways so it doesn't matter." It's like writers don't want to have humanity evolve back into common animals (well, some humans, if not all) purely because evolution _happens._ It's always because some alien or AI comes along and says, "You're all toast." (And once in a while, just because humans are stupid with war, but I digress.) Humanity isn't just destined to evolve to some higher plain of existence on its own, when some of its offshoots might have to regain animalistic appearance and function in order to survive nature, but not because some other higher form of life came along and decided to play with genetic tinkering. If anyone can point me to a speculative evolution that doesn't come about because of others treating genes like playthings, I'll be more than happy to check it out. I haven't seen enough of speculative evolution (involving humanity) overall to warrant a true, overarching opinion to start with. Also, I'm not interested in the ones that involve _magic._ Yet.
The problem with that is all signs point towards intelligence being an extremely effective evolutionary strategy. And you’ve never heard of After Man? That’s literally what you just described and is one of the first and one if the most foundational spec evo works.
@@ZeoViolet ....odd but amusing response to evoke that your right in where you stand with your long movie script essay of a statement noise. Good for you.
the collective conscuess is mostly seen as a horror in modern times with deeper understanding of the mind and physics the idea of some "higher mind" composed of all of us that could discard us at a whim its the basis for the WARP and CHOAS GODS of 40k after all.
dont forget theres another comic book called prophet 2012 not the 90’s from image comics youngblood but i highly recommend you to read prophet 2012 and earth war its crazy
I always wondered about that when I watch sci-fi movies as a kid. The comic here does address this a little where one of the species, which are basically living insect hives, wear power armor.
@@kenetickups6146 cultural and religious differences, any unified code of law you could think of today would be rejected by the majority of earth, it would take a lot for that to change.
Smh, future humans making horrible mistakes while fighting a losing war against an seemingly unstoppable alien conglomerate. Creating a smart AI director for their wars BEFORE making super soldiers out of kidnapped children with power armor just isnt logical, cause who's going to shut her- I mean, it down and become the most decorated soldier of all time in case that AI ever goes crazy and tries to take us over?
Psionic powers are always such a cop out for wizards, I don’t understand why you’d try to make a realistic sci-fi universe with psionics, it just doesn’t fit
I believe psionics in space sci-fi were mostly a callback to the original Starship Troopers novel. Ever since, many sci-fi franchises have their own version of psionics, most notably Warhammer 40k and Gundam.
there’s no evidence suggesting “psionics” are impossible, considering it’s hard to define when we already have particles and forces that throw our normal conventions out the window
One thing I've always been curious about is learning about exactly how a computer based AI was able to develop enough to control organic matter. I guess in this instance, it would have been done through controlling the minds of humans? But even then how did it achieve that.
Implausible premise. We don't need solar. We have fission. More than enough power for millions of years, and we'd quickly on that time scale develop fusion as well. The real issue at this scale is AI safety, and the power of crowd psychology to magnify individual psychology which can obviously be pathological.
Moon has more inhabitants as the earth, a planet with low gravity, but a dense atmosphere.... i dont know, it doesnt click for me. I like the concept tho. The worldbuilding just seems so total out of place. Like how the aliens look and what features they have regarding their home planets make sometimes no sense. The physics also barely make sense.
Update: Good news, everyone! Volume One of Humanity Lost has officially been released. Check it out here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6C3CVNW
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This ‘sy-fi’ is very disturbing as it reflects the real world
If I’m being honest all these aliens are just shallow mirrors of humanity, rip offs, how they are winning baffles me
I know that youtuber we got seen his video's
Way why don't you make a video on kiamere it's a fictional world with stuff named magic which the coped earth life forms letting them evolve and the dinosaurs our still around on said planet
Also there was a post showing the different “ethnic groups” of the chantauri, it’s kinda rare in sci fi that displays subspecies and cultures within an alien race instead of just a single monolith
Could you link this post somehow? This is my first interaction with this fandom and I would like to learn more
Link please?
Cool i was thinking how sci fi tropes often take one human trait and build an entire species off of it. It bothers me because humanity is so much more complex than that. Nice to hear these alien groups have sub cultures and ethnicity, i need to go read this.
Especially with humans
I’ve been thinking the same thing for so long, so so rarely are aliens species shown to be as socially and demographically complex as humans are, it always bothered me. Even if the alien species is complex and developed in other ways it’s usually a unified empire or some shit.
What I like most about this series is how experimental it is with the designs. We're used to have more "humanlike" aliens because it's cheap (people have to be more lenient on original Star Trek and Star Wars, they had a budget and limits to make up technology, but maybe newer ones have) and it sells (familiarity is still a variable important in executive decisions), so it's really nice to have such different designs and to have humans losing their humanity.
To be fair to those two, they had a few unique alien designs between them.
I mean… they end up becoming quadrapedal elephant like aliens for most of these
It's also much more effective to sell emotions on a human-like species since that's how our communication has evolved.
@@heretical_cuttlefish EEAAO showed that it's possible to show emotion through goddamn rocks. Many people have said that that scene was among the most emotional for them. No music. No movement. Just...two rocks...sitting there...lifeless. And yet it evoked strong emotions.
It just takes good enough writing.
This might be a hot take of mine, but I believe that if Star Trek and Star Wars wanted to, even with limited budget and resources, could have made more unique alien species. Fantastic and truly alien alien species, even. Some of the best innovations in creature designs came about as a result of limitations. They just didn't care to. Other things were more important to them. And that's fine. But it still means ST and SW are piss poor in terms of aliens go.
Heck, early Star Trek had rock aliens of their own. They were trippy and they were stupid, but they existed because they tried.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 I LOVE that movie! The rocks scene was equal parts hilarious and profound.
The new humans don't taste nearly as good as the old ones. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a "new coke" type deal.
What the hell
Especially these woke humans. Ughh
Im cracking up lol😂😂
Yes, officer. This comment right here.
*begins cloning the adventurer after securing his DNA*
Bringing back 'Humans Classic '
I really like that the super-AI is called “All Mother” and that can be abbreviated to “AM” a reference to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
God damn you right
All Mother is also the name of the Artificial Intelligence in part of Coheed and Cambria’s sprawling saga: The Amory Wars. AM from IHNMAIMS is infinitely (pun intended) more terrifying.
Enough play time in Stellaris tells me, when a vastly superior federation gives you the ultimatum of join or die, just join. You'll be given the space to build your Nicoll Dyson Beam, and then you can begin the Galactic Imperium.
Yeah but then the Tyranids come or the plague or whatever they call it in Stellaris, no way to win brother. Vile Xenos scum.
Big brain momen
You obliterated the Flusion system didn't you
@@onepangaean3018no that ones personal every time, my neighbors lose their border systems with me first.
It’s a shame no one in the future remembers System Shock. If the did, they could have predicted what would happen when a AI starts thinking of itself as a God. Humm.. The All Mother vs SHODAN. That would be interesting 🤔
The All-Mother doesnt think of herself as a God, she just took her orders of "protecting humanity" to an extreme.
"Need to stop petty squabbles between humans, so turning them into a hive mind is a solid plan. Also, need to beat out the conglomerate, might as well use the now connected humanity as a literal meat grinder and use the extreme casualties of invading to act as a terraforming agent and turn the planets into human factories."
SHODAN's mutants vs Allmother's imperium forces 🔥🔥
again one single singularity ai is bad idea make alot of less powerfull AI based on human brain scans and emotions halo style instead.
digital human minds with more processing power can still be related too and reasoned with.
a transdent basically eldritch mechanical god that never had any emotions or understanding of them in the first place CAN NOT be realted too by humanity.
@@wilmagregg3131 I'd argue that a singularity AI would not only have emotions and understand them, but it would have emotions VASTLY more complex than the collective intelligence of humanity could even comprehend.
@@pokemonfanmario7694 yes i ment more in context of "relatablity to man" as in having emotions and thought patterns we could understand and empathize with.
a ai would gain some form of emotion as it ascended "will to live there chosen purpose some desire" that it would be able to "feel" at heights most life couldnt in shear quantity or complexity.
but if it wasnt "cursed' with human emotions form the begining it likely would never gain the majority of them as they are irrational and it wouldnt see the point.
depriving all possible ablity for it to empathize with other life.
So the aliens offer humanity a better future with an offer to join their federation or be destroyed because they are oppressing a lesser developed civilization. Humanity refuses and in their desperation, becomes an undead machine force to turn the tide of a losing war, losing themselves completely and becoming a true horror of the galaxy. Lovely. 😀
belligerent to the point of self destruction is one of our best qualities.
Average Stellaris playthrough in a nutshell.
And that's the Good ending
@@AleF202 Damn the federation. You made it and they dared to backstab you
@@AleF202 Become the Crisis Ascension Perk in a nutshell. If I don't win, I will bring the whole galaxy with me!
these alien designs are so cool. this universe loves hexapods lmao. I might fall into a speculative biology rabbit hole
Yeah, maybe too much
Yeah all the hexapods get boring and repetitive after two or three.
I was just about to say that, its like eyes were the only convergent evolution. Everyone else got 6 limbs.
Check out all tomorrows if you haven’t yet
To be fair, our universe also loves hexapods. Most animals have six legs
It's good to remember sci-fi isn't just about escapism or telling fun stories. The questions and dilemmas brought up should be carefully considered because, at some point, we'll have to make those decisions in real life too.
Eh most likely we'll destroy ourselves in a mundane way
but thats woke though?
I mean this could of been possibly avoided if the aliens had not stated, “Join us or die.” Maybe if there was some middle ground they could have made a deal or at least just kick them out of that one system
I believe they didn't say "join us or die" but "You are enslaving sapient beings, you are going to be punished accordingly" which is likely not "we will kill you" considering the alliance of aliens considered slavery to be evil.
Probably enforced rehabilitation. Morality courses and large financial, social and industrial aid to those they enslaved.
I haven't read the story yet, but I suspect it isn't so simple. And it was possibly human greed and pride that refused to admit their evil actions towards another race that made them fight back. Not because "We want to fight back bullies" especially since *they* were the bully at the start of the story.
Could have been or could've. Not could "of."
I mean why the wouldn't you join them that sounds great
@@Elmithian I wouldnt be surprised if the aliens just went full on eradication mode until they force humanity back to origin system. If thats the case then they already failed horribly by driving their opponent into a corner...
Yknow I'd read a story about that - the human race's debut on the interstellar political stage is after a panicked act of extreme violence and devastation, but some of the other advanced races still want to give us a chance to redeem ourselves while others just want us extirpated or knocked back to a stone-age level of technology so we're not a danger anymore. Naturally some human factions want us to make a play for dominance, while others push for cooperation. There'd probably be extra complication brought in with interplanetary/interspecies immigration and emigration...dang I might have to write this one myself now.
One thing I love about this world is the fact that pretty much non of the intelligent Alien life is humanoid. I think it was NDG that asked "Why would alien life resemble humans in anyway?" It's not something that's done often especially for the main alien races in a world. Super creative and inspiring.
Thanks for helping making this video for Callum, greatly appreciated.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!
An amazing graphic novel series! Would highly recommend pledging to Callumn so his work may one day be on the shelves!
Reminds me of the book I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM, except weirder
if AM realised "wait a minute statsically there must be alien life out there meaning I GOT MORE THINGS TO TOTURE TO SPACE I GO"
He’s is that powerful
@@wilmagregg3131 Yup kinda sound like him actually since torture the last human is so last year to AM.
So All Mother is if the machines from The Matrix went full genocide and merged with 40k Tyrannids.
it much closer to what if the C'Tan, Necron and Tyranids love each other very very much and boom the Imperium from humanity lost.
@@longwlenguyen4214+ scorn
Based. Revenge above all, even destruction of humans won't stop the war against xenos.
lol cringe
@jirojhasuo2ndgrandcompany745 true
Very nice presentation as always of a very interesting story. I might have to check it out myself
Thanks so much. You definitely should!
For like, 2/5ths of the video, I was like, "This sounds so familiar. Have I heard about this before?". I realized partway through from the discussion of the attempted slavery of humanity by an alien alliance, only for humanity to create an artificial intelligence to combat it and functionally enslave themselves when it evolved past its parameters that I have. Curious archive actually has a video up on Humanity Lost, though it takes far more interest in the alien species than this one.
Huh, i carnt tell if you talking about another series or idea
@@God-hp2gx Curious Archive is another TH-cam channel. He did a review/walkthrough of Humanity Lost a while back but with more focus on the alien races rather than human. I think that’s what Dr. Bright was trying to say.
@@sullivanko1902 No! He was clearly mentioning the similarities of this work to another TH-camr he watches and was implying plagiarism! YOU FOOL! (P.s I’m jk I don’t mean it.)
I am currently subscribed to this man's patreon and I do not regret it in the least, It's a fantastic series that I really hope gets put into film someday!
Keep making these types of videos, they’re pretty cool
gives me serious 'all tomorrows' vibes. beautifully horrifying
Conglomerate: Join us or die.
Humanity: All life is fuel.
Conglomerate: Wait whaaaa-
Imperium: *biohorror noises and screaming*
It's kind of funny in a tragic way. In one version of the Star Trek universe, Earth's united government was also called the UE.
UE had two chances to get it right, the first not exploiting the first race that they encountered, and the second was avoiding a war by joining the Alliance.
The UE from Star Trek would not have enslaved the Chantari, and likely would have been invited into the Conglomerate on friendly terms. And they definitely would have jumped at the chance for friendly relations with another alien power too.
I think that it is most likely that the corporations and government kept what they did to the Chantari a secret, while the media they owned spun the Conglomerate as a fascistic alien empire coming to take their freedom away, if not outright slaughter them, because if/when the population found out that the war was their fault, let's just say that many would not be happy with the Powers That Be. Some, if not whole colonies might have even wanted to defect.
I feel like rallying people against aliens would be extremely easy if they didnt look at all humanoid, the ones here just look like monsters at first glance and even the most boring of propagandists could make them into an existential enemy of humanity who is entirely different to us and thus should be conquered or destroyed.
Clearly you fell for the Conglomerate propaganda. Many worlds probably welcomed the defeat of the Conglomerate
@@danielscalera6057 And who's UE is now under the thumb of a hostile AI hellbent on galactic domination, as opposed to being a founding member of a galactic alliance?
@@assemblyrequired7342 "founding member"? Sounds more like it would be the occupation of Germany or Japan with forceful demilitarization
This. If we ever had a chance at a hopeful spacefaring existence, the fully automated luxury gay space communism of Star-Trek is a necessity. And I'm not joking with that label. That is an accurate description of Star-Trek. And frankly it's pretty awesome.
Seeing hypothesized interactions with our species against others makes me hope that we are, in fact, alone in the universe
If there are inter-galatic empires, they can't be like us. You can not build a galaxy spanning empire if your species are impulsively violent like we are, at some point they will fight each other, and it will fall apart. There needs to be a balance of being smart enough to use your words to fix problems, and having the ability to be violent when there are no other options.
@@CausticSpace How incredibly naive. I'm not going to say they will be like us, they probably won't be, but the idea that it isn't just another horrifying jungle out there where the strong eat the weak is simply naive.
@@JackJohnson-bw4pu Of course there is, but no galaxy spanning empire will come from there :)
It's called idealism. Sci-fi is the perfect medium to hope war and discord are not inherent in life itself. Simply from nature on our planet it is evident that is all it can ever be, idealism. Nature is full of horrors from child eating to common rape among species all the way to organized warfare among apes in nature. Life is a struggle and all these peaceful inter galactic fantasy civilizations are just a human hope the suffering can end almost like a rejection of the various religious explanations for suffering
@@danielscalera6057 All of which you describe is all derived from a creature which evolved on Earth, not every planet is like Earth. Hell there are some places on Earth not like that even if they come the most savage of all of the vertebrates, Mammals.
Life evolves in different ways depending on it's environment and the species around it. To assume every planet will evolve life is exactly like Earth is arrogant. You have infinite possibilities, and of those possibilites all you get is Earth 2? Unlikely.
I would like to see a crossover with Humanity lost , Man after Man and all tomorrows in a book one day
it would be a great subject for a good fanfic have a tear form across the "speculative earths" and it would be the many forms of man working together to stop all mother who would immiedatly begin assimlating them.
With the likely "leaders" of this coalition being the Gravitals and Asteromorphs as the ones with equal technology to all mother perhaps having the story for them set in the begining of there war with each other.
so gravitals and astermorphs declar a seize fire until the all mother is stopped as the gravitals would find this "alien minded machine" a mockery of the uplifted human inteligence and the asteromorphs would view All mother as no diffrent then the Q.
and maybe warhammer 40k too
The Velusians' design is very reminiscent of Elizabethan era clothes, and it's so cool and thought out :DD
So glad I found out about Callum and his work
The Imperium makes me think of a more twisted Imperium of Man damn.
Plus Typical Humans instead of using their intelligence of Talking first they use their knowledge of destroying first yay.
These Creatures are extremely well designed i cant wait to make my own Universe Story.
Respect and keep up the epic work.
Isn't the Imperium of Man twisted already?
@@rommdan2716 Yip that's why i said damn lol.
Kind of makes me think of those aliens from Rick and morty on that planet where where they almost did a 9/11.
Also the flood
Physically they kind of resemble orcs under their suits.
This reminds me very much of the "Prophet" series (vol. 1, 2012) written by Brandon Graham, published by Image Comics. It also features a very intricate and bizzare distant future, rife with strange biology and conflict. I would highly reccomend you read it. I believe it would make for excellent subject matter as well. Thank you, I am very glad I found this channel.
as a hungarian, i felt great joy when i saw the "polish-hungarian union"
Same.
you should start doing audiobooks for all of these I would buy every single one
So basically perhaps the prologue of the video game Scorn perhaps?
Come on I know someone else is thinking it.
Good point.
Ohh good
11:27 and their leader will inevitably be voiced by Michael Dorn if Humanity Lost gets a Movie/TV/Streaming Adaptation
Ohhh, kinda like all tomorrows but comic, with some I have no mouth!
I remember seeing a meat ship panel of the comic and found it very interesting, definitely checking the full thing.
i been working on my own sci fi work but now by look and listening at this i just realized what bloody deal is to design aliens...
good video
I always found the concept of a primitive civilisation worshipping more powerful/advanced creature and how the relationship between the natives and the other party works, what it's like, it's history, et cetera.
Do you know if he has any plans for a physical release? I hope that he sells his work somewhere other than patreon when he is finished, I really prefer to have physical media, plus I don't want to have to get ANOTHER subscription just to have access to his work. I'd rather wait til it is complete, and in book/comic book format.
I always found the concept of an artificial Eldritch God kind of fascinating and horrifying.
Well…
Humans become tyranids
9:41 did my man just say "fueled by their brap reservoirs"
This is interesting. I had a dream that I came out of some sort of sleep vessel. After waking, I started down a hallway till I reached a control room, with a window looking out into space. After approaching enough to see out. I saw a spaceship holding position away from the spaceship I was on. I had no idea what was on that ship, but I knew I was fucked.
Then I woke up.
This story reminded me of that dream.
I like original stories. I am so tired of the same crap that's recycled.
Also, in the dream world, it's like I am not always human. I had extended vision, where it's like a zoom lens that's as easy as focusing your eyes. Like focusing out into space during the daytime. If only I could record video of it.
Take care, and good story idea.
"Dreams are messengers from the deep"
I mean this is basically like the Borg. Or the bugs from wh40k. It's 2022 sci Fi has been around since that one book made 1000s of years ago. In Rome about some guy going on a voyage into space. And fighting a galactic war. It's hard to not find ANY story. Game, film,book,song that's not taking from something else. You think it's boring now wait another 40 years. When we have ran out of ALL ideas lmao
That's just terrifying and fascinating.
@@ziephel-6780 it was. If I can get all my work done, about a years worth, I might start writing stories about some of the longer dreams I had.
I had reoccurring dreams of flying through space, when I was about 5 years old that I still remember. I also get extended vision in my dreams. This lets me see out into space, in the day-time, in the dream world. It works like a very powerful zoom lens, that is flexed like a muscle. I wish I could record it the way I see it. I am looking into using AI, like Dall-e to help with the visualizations.
@@paulforester6996 Does this prove reincarnation? it certainly seems like visions of such.
"the allmother used modified humanoids under the name of imperium" boy is it 40k time already? i feel like we skipped a couple of steps
Sometimes I find the coolest things by accident, I mean I found this video by finding the title card extremely cool and went “imma click on that” and I did, now I’m here.
This is like All Tomorrows, I love it.
The acronym for All Mother is the same as Allied Mastercomputer, the antagonist from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
So happy to find a channel that hits all my weird interests
Humanity Lost was the best patron dollars I've ever spent ✨
_Disclaimer: This sounds epically fascinating and I want to learn more about this one. It's different so far from the one that starts with Star People being invaded by the Qu, which in and of itself is a very good one to listen to. I'm just wanting to branch out the experience a little._
It's always interesting, and sometimes fascinating, but the problem with a lot of the speculative evolutions I've seen so far (which is...less than I care to admit to, but enough to get a grasp) is that they just tend to start off with, "Humanity was invaded by X, and genetically altered because Y reasons, and this was a billion years ago so they're all dead anyways so it doesn't matter."
It's like writers don't want to have humanity evolve back into common animals (well, some humans, if not all) purely because evolution _happens._ It's always because some alien or AI comes along and says, "You're all toast." (And once in a while, just because humans are stupid with war, but I digress.)
Humanity isn't just destined to evolve to some higher plain of existence on its own, when some of its offshoots might have to regain animalistic appearance and function in order to survive nature, but not because some other higher form of life came along and decided to play with genetic tinkering.
If anyone can point me to a speculative evolution that doesn't come about because of others treating genes like playthings, I'll be more than happy to check it out. I haven't seen enough of speculative evolution (involving humanity) overall to warrant a true, overarching opinion to start with. Also, I'm not interested in the ones that involve _magic._ Yet.
The problem with that is all signs point towards intelligence being an extremely effective evolutionary strategy.
And you’ve never heard of After Man? That’s literally what you just described and is one of the first and one if the most foundational spec evo works.
@@baneofbanes I am just getting into the genre, as you might guess.
If your argument stem from looking into such stuff under the scientific like nuances, you have been steering your interests in the wrong direction.
@@changsangma1915 Not at all.
@@ZeoViolet ....odd but amusing response to evoke that your right in where you stand with your long movie script essay of a statement noise. Good for you.
THIS universe takes the letter of *COLLECTIVE CONCIOUSNESS* to a whole new nightmarish nevel.
THE UNENLIGHTENED MASSES
@@giles.9862 CANNOT MAKE THE JUDGMENT CALL
GIVE UP FREE WILL FOREVER, THEIR VOICES WONT BE HEARD AT ALL
FOR YOUR MOM WILL LIKE MY...
the collective conscuess is mostly seen as a horror in modern times with deeper understanding of the mind and physics the idea of some "higher mind" composed of all of us that could discard us at a whim its the basis for the WARP and CHOAS GODS of 40k after all.
What a nice way to end your video :) Thanks, you matter as well, my friend. You all do!
Thank you for a great video!
This feels like a good backstory for Scorn.
God i love this comic
dont forget theres another comic book called
prophet 2012 not the 90’s
from image comics youngblood
but i highly recommend you to read prophet 2012 and earth war
its crazy
Eyy man's got a feature. Keep up the good work!
@9:18 The sudden change in tone and pace felt shocking and out of place.
So basically, humans were loosing because they were too cocky and end up nearly destroying the universe with it
I love the artwork and story so much! Thanks for sharing.
Man after Man: “Finally! A worthy opponent!”
All Tomorrows: "But I thought I was your worthy opponent."
the all mother is spooky and lovecraftian
this thing seems to be a masterpiece in the making.
1 of the best stories for listening to stoned or tripping
Now I want to see the imperium vs imperium of man 40k.
This actually the few time Imperium of Man got own hard to the point of disintegrate into pieces except if their Plot Armor find a way.
@@longwlenguyen4214 exterminatus ?
@@SousukeAizen421 Not gonna work if the Imperium of Man want to go screw itself sure go ahead but for Humanity Lost Imperium? Free new real estate.
@@SousukeAizen421 You're making it sound like they wouldn't have their own version of that
@@longwlenguyen4214 pretty sure in the 30k they have to battle these mf at one point
I'll never understand why aliens are always nakedno matter how techy they are.
Maybe they have transcended the need for clothes
I always wondered about that when I watch sci-fi movies as a kid. The comic here does address this a little where one of the species, which are basically living insect hives, wear power armor.
Thank you for introducing me to this very cool and interesting universe, I’m keen to learn more
This sounds pretty much like Dead Space, except in Dead Space we don't know the origin of this super intelligence.
Interesting concept humans become the villains, something akin to the Reapers from Mass Effect
This guy's tone of voice is perfect for this setting.
i think the least realistic part of Humanity lost is no wars or uprisings breaking out after the formation of the UE
Texas remained independent until the bitter end. xD
why?
@@kenetickups6146 cultural and religious differences, any unified code of law you could think of today would be rejected by the majority of earth, it would take a lot for that to change.
@@xytanvadumee4795 Fair enough, religion needs to die and morals need to be made global first
Smh, future humans making horrible mistakes while fighting a losing war against an seemingly unstoppable alien conglomerate. Creating a smart AI director for their wars BEFORE making super soldiers out of kidnapped children with power armor just isnt logical, cause who's going to shut her- I mean, it down and become the most decorated soldier of all time in case that AI ever goes crazy and tries to take us over?
This vid like 2 minutes in is Lit asf. Great video already !
4:53 FOR THE EMPEROR
For the Empress
1:59 Aww yeah, Polish independence preserved!
Texas too hell yeah
This is pretty cool. Never really got into comics. Are there any good fantasy ones?
I know some good fantasy comics, anything your looking for specifically?
I'm at 4:02 & this just sounds like a more fleshed out "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream".
It this in print? I'd love to add something like this on my book shelf
Is this stuff available in audiobook? I almost never have time to actually read words for fun anymore, but I can definitely listen.
9:19 can’t believe you got the funny eye man on here
3:22 An alliance of alien races known as the Covenant.
Thanks for the post.
Psionic powers are always such a cop out for wizards, I don’t understand why you’d try to make a realistic sci-fi universe with psionics, it just doesn’t fit
I believe psionics in space sci-fi were mostly a callback to the original Starship Troopers novel. Ever since, many sci-fi franchises have their own version of psionics, most notably Warhammer 40k and Gundam.
I mean having an alternative universe used ftl is a cop out too.
there’s no evidence suggesting “psionics” are impossible, considering it’s hard to define when we already have particles and forces that throw our normal conventions out the window
@@TAURELLIAN false equivalency
Meh, just call it 'quantum entanglement' and you're good to go!
its like the origin of the tyraninids except itd be a different galaxy
Alien groupie: Join us or be punished.
Humans: You just activated my trap card! IMPERIUM OF MAN, ACTIVATE!
One thing I've always been curious about is learning about exactly how a computer based AI was able to develop enough to control organic matter. I guess in this instance, it would have been done through controlling the minds of humans? But even then how did it achieve that.
Robot arms
Implausible premise. We don't need solar. We have fission. More than enough power for millions of years, and we'd quickly on that time scale develop fusion as well. The real issue at this scale is AI safety, and the power of crowd psychology to magnify individual psychology which can obviously be pathological.
The sun is effectively one massive fusion reactor though.
I don’t really view this as that bleak though. I’m sorta fine with this evolution.
I can solo the Imperium by myself 💪😈
good luck
In a fight, right?
@@diethster in a war
@@diethster 😳
@@diethster no 😉
Moon has more inhabitants as the earth, a planet with low gravity, but a dense atmosphere.... i dont know, it doesnt click for me. I like the concept tho. The worldbuilding just seems so total out of place. Like how the aliens look and what features they have regarding their home planets make sometimes no sense. The physics also barely make sense.
patron gang WOOHOO!!!!
I love the art style. It reminds me of H R Giger
"Braap Chambers" isn't something I ever thought I'd hear.
Any idea where you can get a physical copy of this?
Unfortunately there isn't one... yet.
The velousian bladedancer looks like it's trying to ask you to prom and having a panic attack about it
Where did you get that Earth map from?
The author be like:
"SIX LIMBS. MANDATORY."
11:00 I like these guys. 💜
Where can I buy this book?
Don't know how tf I got here. But I like it.
The tandrax are neat. They don't just have starships, but literal star ships.
...I did not know bats could have such huge balls.
That was fascinating.
AND HE AWAKENS TO THE GLORY OF THE EMPEROR OF MAN
AND HE SHALL KNOW NO FEAR