Seems legit. I can see humans slapping on a supercharger and some space drag slicks after getting their first ticket and blazing past the next police cruiser with middle fingers raised while screaming "ticket this you pig!"
So, a society of supposedly well adjusted people with no crime respond to traffic enforcement with a declaration of war, followed by alliance with soul eating abominations. This doesn't seem well thought out.
I think you missed the point, it was a comparison where the humans made their own cops to police themselves with their own laws meanwhile the universal police had never had anything to do with humans, no treaty, no contract, no relations, no representation. its as if walking around at night on the sidewalk in America, but a Chinese(nationality, not race) police officer came by and arrested you because of a curfew law in China
@@0range_panda982 No one chooses the polity into which they are born. This scenarios is more like that. Earth has been in "Cop Space" for its entire recorded history. No one knew, because aren't responding to things that don't break the laws. Earth never went outside it's system any appreciable degree. Imagine a child, running around, acting like a child inside their home. No one cares. Same child runs outside, naked, and starts playing in traffic. Cops show up. The people who should be in charge get a fine. The child didn't make a choice to be part of their jurisdiction, and the parents probably didn't either. This is the story of a bunch of brats who ran into traffic naked and responded to there being a larger community outside their own by setting fire to the local law and letting all the lifers out of max security. Nothing about "Why is that the law?" Nothing about "How are the laws made?" Nothing about "Hey, we really want to go fast and you seem to have a way that isn't illegal. Maybe we can work something out?"
@@0range_panda982Nah, more like a sovcit “I wAs TrAvElInG” rubbernecker got pulled over on the highway and claimed his rules extend to those of the greater populace. Humanity really is Florida Man.
@@0range_panda982 No, it lacked a well fleshed out reason. To me it came across as an ACAB narrative, and a poor one at that. Honestly, it would have been better with your narrative, they get a ticket and told to pay. Reason is they exceeded the limit in an area because of some XYZ. Here is where you develop the point which this story sorely lacked.
Hey, it's not just because someone took away our toy, they also gave us a speeding ticket! For simply going ftl in an ftl ship. Honestly, what were they expecting us to do with an ftl ship? They're using ftl tech and probably something bigger too if they can stop and confiscate an ftl ship, so they're breaking their own laws while saying we can't. The bastards!
Can you imagine what happened when the human race started selling FTL technology to the other races. Then everybody in a galaxy be breaking the speed limit
Bad bad boys aha yeah ah ha, yeah ah ha, ah ha (2*) bad bad boys, come with me, come with me(2*) I feel positive this time, I wan't to go away ah ha bad bad boys, come with me, come with me, yeah
You and I We've been going the distance Aiming for the sky With a secret ambition It's not our thing to walk the road that's paved We're not the ones who roam the trail that's blazed And there's a flame in your eyes that's igniting mine I know I've seen it before In the gaze of the prowling lion I'm not afraid anymore! Let's break the rules! And really put our backs into it Max out, pursue it What's a better time than now to cross the line? Don't brake, let loose And make sure that your heart is in it Start line to finish For every second rushing by we're losing time You and I Breaking free of our prisons We defy The control of the system The thunder's growing louder in our hearts A storm is rising, this is where it starts! Let's break the rules! And really put our backs into it Max out, pursue it What's a better time than now to cross the line? Don't brake, let loose And make sure that your heart is in it Start line to finish For every second rushing by we're losing time We're losing time You and I And there's a flame in your eyes that's igniting mine I know I've seen it before In the gaze of the prowling lion I'm not afraid anymore Let's break the rules! And really put our backs into it Max out, pursue it What's a better time than now to cross the line? Don't brake, let loose And make sure that your heart is in it Start line to finish For every second rushing by we're losing time Let's break the rules! And really put our backs into it What's a better time than now to cross the line? Don't brake, let loose And make sure that your heart is in it For every second rushing by we're losing time We're losing time (this fits this way to well)
@@douglascunningham6319 we released space Hitler tho and joined him, over a traffic ticket First time in humanity world peace and no crime? Then one traffic ticket we wig out flip out throw a temper-tantrum. All to become the mafia and start doing space war crimes everywhere we go. Doesn't make any sense.
I'll bet if the UP said you're fine going 99.9999999999999999999999999% the speed of light, the humans wouldn't have given a shit, but instead they had to be rude...
But at that speed it will take us over 4 years to get to the nearest star. It would take us almost 6 hours just to get Pluto. Without some kind of warp drive or FTL drive the human race is never leaving the this solar system
Yeah, the entire premise was just poorly set up. A lot of people like it because of the entire anti-cop vibe in it. But honestly it could have been so much better.
It's all I need To get to where I'm going fast Speed demon I can hear the highway scream Speed demon Can you feel the thrill of my machine? Keel - Speed Demon
Started okay, but it feels like the writer was pushing his/her beliefs too hard and destroying the storyline which had been started. So much potential wasted.
Cthulhu: (getting broken out of space prison) Wow.. humans? Here? Damn if it ain't been a spell, hows it going dudes and dudettes? Humans: Yeah, hey there big guy, not so good. Seems these corrupt space piggies have decided to try and curb stomp us humans. Cthulhu: Oh.. yeah no, not gonna happen. Cthulhu: (shouts) Hey Typhon, Apophis, get over here. The humans set us free and need a little help. Lets do that. Humans: FUCK YEAH! *Space Police get turned into mush as their souls are devoured* Cthulhu: Ok humans. Ya'll pretty bad ass, why don't you come work with us. We'd really prefer not to have to devour all of your souls, we kinda like you little guys. Humans: Sure, why not, we always secretly wanted to be the bad guys. Now we really get to be the bad guys. Cthulhu, Typhon, and Apophis: (looking at each other in growing glee) Cthulhu: (Whispers to Typhon, and Apophis) I think we have created a monster. YESSSSSSSSSSS!
Lol at the people getting mad at the "political filler". That's not political, that's science. Elon Musk has said UBI will be needed once Optimus gets to a certain point. Do you really *want* to have to work your entire life? You realize we've effectively been made into slaves because our economy needs people for labor, right? Try not paying your property tax and see what happens. Now imagine an age of abundance where you will truly own your property and can have whatever you want.
it literally is political, and not science. theres no science with conclusive results that says x or y economical system / policy is "better, as these are really really hard things to quantify and test. you then mention elon's opinion, literally after appealing to science, which is ridiculous. additionally, we havent been made into slaves because our economy "needs it". we have been made into slaves so that people like well, elon can make more money in a single bathroom break than our families make in their entire life time. oh and i think its worth mentioning im actually a leftie which very much agrees with ubi. yet not at all for the reasons you provide
im wondering, is it because you disagree with the points raised? if you agreed would you happily finish the story? to clarify i am not trying to judge you or something. obviously i cant, as i dont even know you. im just genuinely asking
@@lemonandgaming6013 Thanks for the reasoned question. It destroys the suspension of disbelief. Fiction, particularly science fiction, is an escape from the tedium and insanity we live in for most who consume it. Take another work on this page... The Black Ship... it has strong females, a positive portrayal of a Monarchy, and I couldn't tell you a thing about the author's politics. Could be male or female, could be a commonwealth author or not... I don't know, and I don't care. I like the story and I can't predict what the author might say next. If you ever read some of the 1960s books that drag in Malthusian insanity, or other dated, failed, political "hot topics," you get an involuntary eye roll. Same for the 1980s "Ozone Layer" hysteria. That is the moment you know, you're not reading a story, you're sitting for a sermon. In every sermon, you know with boring certainty exactly what will be coming from the "righteous pulpit." I'm a Xennial... there are few points raised by anyone I agree with... beyond the fact that Alice in Chains was better than Nirvana, and I'm tired of people pretending otherwise. Cheers
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They got charged with Grand theft starship. That's a first. 🛸
Whats next? Space war crimes?
Don't forget the illegal parking.
GTS coming soon.
🚓
"Breakin' the law! Breakin' the law!"
"To hell with the law!"
(screams in Rob Halford) "You don't know what it's like!!!"
Humanity: I am the law!
Just remember, it can't be a crime against humanity when the enemy isn't human.
Well at least those universal police’s din’t have a Judge Dredd on their side
Thank drokk! The most infamous traffic cop is Torquemada though. Be pure, be vigilant, behave!
I honestly don't think Judge Dredd could do much against the Lovecraft Mafia
Seems legit. I can see humans slapping on a supercharger and some space drag slicks after getting their first ticket and blazing past the next police cruiser with middle fingers raised while screaming "ticket this you pig!"
United Murica Spaceship Camaro
Is this the alternate 40k timeline where humanity goes full chaos?
You say chaos, but they're quite orderly in this story.
This is just the prelude to the Great Crusade of 30k
That was essentially my thought as well. More specifically I thought "Is this what happens with no Emperor?"
just make a deal with the devil and physics don't apply, can be like superman and just fly
There's a reason nobody's ever made a song called fuck the Universe Fire Department.
Or EMTs. Don't get me wrong, those two can arrest you; however, you had to have done something really bad to have them do that.
Now i wanna post a writing prompt like this one, but centered on the universal fire department rather than the police, lol.
So, a society of supposedly well adjusted people with no crime respond to traffic enforcement with a declaration of war, followed by alliance with soul eating abominations.
This doesn't seem well thought out.
I think you missed the point, it was a comparison where the humans made their own cops to police themselves with their own laws meanwhile the universal police had never had anything to do with humans, no treaty, no contract, no relations, no representation. its as if walking around at night on the sidewalk in America, but a Chinese(nationality, not race) police officer came by and arrested you because of a curfew law in China
@@0range_panda982 No one chooses the polity into which they are born. This scenarios is more like that.
Earth has been in "Cop Space" for its entire recorded history. No one knew, because aren't responding to things that don't break the laws. Earth never went outside it's system any appreciable degree.
Imagine a child, running around, acting like a child inside their home. No one cares.
Same child runs outside, naked, and starts playing in traffic.
Cops show up. The people who should be in charge get a fine. The child didn't make a choice to be part of their jurisdiction, and the parents probably didn't either.
This is the story of a bunch of brats who ran into traffic naked and responded to there being a larger community outside their own by setting fire to the local law and letting all the lifers out of max security.
Nothing about "Why is that the law?"
Nothing about "How are the laws made?"
Nothing about "Hey, we really want to go fast and you seem to have a way that isn't illegal. Maybe we can work something out?"
But this was from a society that rounded up and executed people for the "crime" of being rich! That was the point in the story I stopped listening.
@@0range_panda982Nah, more like a sovcit “I wAs TrAvElInG” rubbernecker got pulled over on the highway and claimed his rules extend to those of the greater populace.
Humanity really is Florida Man.
@@0range_panda982 No, it lacked a well fleshed out reason. To me it came across as an ACAB narrative, and a poor one at that.
Honestly, it would have been better with your narrative, they get a ticket and told to pay. Reason is they exceeded the limit in an area because of some XYZ. Here is where you develop the point which this story sorely lacked.
OK... JUST DONT shoot the dog of any intergalactic hitman.🤣🤣
All of that chaos because someone took our shiny new ftl capable starship. Well I guess the un cops shouldn’t have committed grand theft starship
the US dropped two suns because of boats, not far fetched, humans dont like their toys taken away
Hey, it's not just because someone took away our toy, they also gave us a speeding ticket! For simply going ftl in an ftl ship. Honestly, what were they expecting us to do with an ftl ship? They're using ftl tech and probably something bigger too if they can stop and confiscate an ftl ship, so they're breaking their own laws while saying we can't. The bastards!
LMAO 🤣
civil space forfeiture
Can you imagine what happened when the human race started selling FTL technology to the other races. Then everybody in a galaxy be breaking the speed limit
Great story! LOL!!! Mankind joins the Galactic Mafia!
Yes
I like that you kept the prompt.. Can you include more on how you make them? It takes nothing away from your creations and adds more content
There is a link in the description. They get those stories from a Writing Prompt subreddit
Went up against a Class 4 species and told them where to get off.
Thanks for the laughs! I needed that.
Now I have an urge to create some space travel RPG with this a (significant) part of the background story.
I've had several of these on as background noise but this is the first one I had to stop and ask myself what the hell I just heard. Rock on.
Reject humanity embrace Cthulhu.
I cannot stop laughing at all the ridiculousness in this tale. LOVE IT!
Mass Effect First Contact what it shouldve have been
The illegal parking thing got me to laugh.
First contact: Space speeding ticket.
Humanity: *Pulls down aviators* Its war then. Prepare for space genocide.
"Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do..."
This was not what I expected but it was very good!
Bad bad boys aha
yeah ah ha, yeah ah ha, ah ha (2*)
bad bad boys, come with me, come with me(2*)
I feel positive
this time, I wan't to go away ah ha
bad bad boys, come with me, come with me, yeah
so...are we the baddies?
happy gas mask noises
We didn't bribe the right politician.
Yes, absolutely. Responding to first contact being local law enforcement towing your car with "FU War!" means you're the bad guy.
It Looks that way, doesn't it?
No, its worse... we are 100% woke...
The drivers from SE Texas doing 50 over light speed
🤣These stories are just so funny.
I love hearing your stories.. Keep working dude.
Space pigs. 😂😂😂
Pigs in Spaaace! Beware of Miss Piggy.
Oh, ok. This is just the origin of Warhammer 40k. Got it. 👌
3:13 no crime they said huh doubtful it's probably just more well hidden
from no crime to we are the crime lol
Love it!!! Sounds like what we humans would do. 😂😂😂
4:29 we are really stupid huh
You and I
We've been going the distance
Aiming for the sky
With a secret ambition
It's not our thing to walk the road that's paved
We're not the ones who roam the trail that's blazed
And there's a flame in your eyes that's igniting mine
I know I've seen it before
In the gaze of the prowling lion
I'm not afraid anymore!
Let's break the rules!
And really put our backs into it
Max out, pursue it
What's a better time than now to cross the line?
Don't brake, let loose
And make sure that your heart is in it
Start line to finish
For every second rushing by we're losing time
You and I
Breaking free of our prisons
We defy
The control of the system
The thunder's growing louder in our hearts
A storm is rising, this is where it starts!
Let's break the rules!
And really put our backs into it
Max out, pursue it
What's a better time than now to cross the line?
Don't brake, let loose
And make sure that your heart is in it
Start line to finish
For every second rushing by we're losing time
We're losing time
You and I
And there's a flame in your eyes that's igniting mine
I know I've seen it before
In the gaze of the prowling lion
I'm not afraid anymore
Let's break the rules!
And really put our backs into it
Max out, pursue it
What's a better time than now to cross the line?
Don't brake, let loose
And make sure that your heart is in it
Start line to finish
For every second rushing by we're losing time
Let's break the rules!
And really put our backs into it
What's a better time than now to cross the line?
Don't brake, let loose
And make sure that your heart is in it
For every second rushing by we're losing time
We're losing time
(this fits this way to well)
More of this please
Galactic Mafia! HFY!
I’ve heard the speed of light referred to as a speed limit, but this is ridiculous!
Pulled over for tinted windows.
This is excellent narration. Is this a natural person's voice or a superb voice to text?
its ai text to speech.
Are we the baddies?
No we're just freedom loving. Imagine a 9 or 50 light year oneway bus ride. Yeah I can't either.
@@douglascunningham6319 we released space Hitler tho and joined him, over a traffic ticket
First time in humanity world peace and no crime? Then one traffic ticket we wig out flip out throw a temper-tantrum.
All to become the mafia and start doing space war crimes everywhere we go.
Doesn't make any sense.
Great story!
I'll bet if the UP said you're fine going 99.9999999999999999999999999% the speed of light, the humans wouldn't have given a shit, but instead they had to be rude...
But at that speed it will take us over 4 years to get to the nearest star. It would take us almost 6 hours just to get Pluto.
Without some kind of warp drive or FTL drive the human race is never leaving the this solar system
We decided to break out of our prison.
Ubi wouldn’t create a post scarcity future as it requires someone else to work to finance it.
Replicators ala Star Trek would do that.
The political bit ruined the story but the part about illegal parking after hearing about the rest of the laws broken had me chuckling aloud.
Seems like charging armed robbers with excessive idling or some other none crime.
Guess it really is a LAW of physics.
How did the Police find or catch our speeding brothers if they don't have FTL too?
Oh they do, "rules for thee, not for me"
Yeah, the entire premise was just poorly set up. A lot of people like it because of the entire anti-cop vibe in it. But honestly it could have been so much better.
It's all I need
To get to where I'm going fast
Speed demon
I can hear the highway scream
Speed demon
Can you feel the thrill of my machine?
Keel - Speed Demon
We have Star Destroyers?
GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!
Ain't nothing "free".
The word free is free to say
This is obviously spoken by an a.i and , I suspect, written by one as well . Interesting.
wtf did i liste to? :)
cheers
I like this
Sovereign Citizens go to space?
Started okay, but it feels like the writer was pushing his/her beliefs too hard and destroying the storyline which had been started. So much potential wasted.
Cthulhu: (getting broken out of space prison) Wow.. humans? Here? Damn if it ain't been a spell, hows it going dudes and dudettes?
Humans: Yeah, hey there big guy, not so good. Seems these corrupt space piggies have decided to try and curb stomp us humans.
Cthulhu: Oh.. yeah no, not gonna happen.
Cthulhu: (shouts) Hey Typhon, Apophis, get over here. The humans set us free and need a little help. Lets do that.
Humans: FUCK YEAH!
*Space Police get turned into mush as their souls are devoured*
Cthulhu: Ok humans. Ya'll pretty bad ass, why don't you come work with us. We'd really prefer not to have to devour all of your souls, we kinda like you little guys.
Humans: Sure, why not, we always secretly wanted to be the bad guys. Now we really get to be the bad guys.
Cthulhu, Typhon, and Apophis: (looking at each other in growing glee)
Cthulhu: (Whispers to Typhon, and Apophis) I think we have created a monster. YESSSSSSSSSSS!
This is bad. Cthulhu and his friends have no idea what they've unleashed. 😱😱😱
@@joshuasepeda3289No. No they really don't. Muhahahahhahhaaaaaaaaa
@@ElainCorrine 🤫🤫 Don't tell them. Let them learn the hard way. 😇😇
"writing prompt" 🤣
Why would anthropologists work on space ships also people say non carbon based life as if carbon based aliens would be any less different than not
Lol at the people getting mad at the "political filler". That's not political, that's science. Elon Musk has said UBI will be needed once Optimus gets to a certain point. Do you really *want* to have to work your entire life? You realize we've effectively been made into slaves because our economy needs people for labor, right? Try not paying your property tax and see what happens. Now imagine an age of abundance where you will truly own your property and can have whatever you want.
it literally is political, and not science. theres no science with conclusive results that says x or y economical system / policy is "better, as these are really really hard things to quantify and test. you then mention elon's opinion, literally after appealing to science, which is ridiculous.
additionally, we havent been made into slaves because our economy "needs it". we have been made into slaves so that people like well, elon can make more money in a single bathroom break than our families make in their entire life time.
oh and i think its worth mentioning im actually a leftie which very much agrees with ubi. yet not at all for the reasons you provide
This is how I want this to go ngl
So humans said F the police
Anthropologists? Philosophers? What zoomer wrote this?
Couldn't finish the story.
The political filler ruined it.
bro relax it's just satire, nothing here is real
Cool?
Stinks of communist ideology
im wondering, is it because you disagree with the points raised? if you agreed would you happily finish the story?
to clarify i am not trying to judge you or something. obviously i cant, as i dont even know you. im just genuinely asking
@@lemonandgaming6013 Thanks for the reasoned question.
It destroys the suspension of disbelief. Fiction, particularly science fiction, is an escape from the tedium and insanity we live in for most who consume it.
Take another work on this page... The Black Ship... it has strong females, a positive portrayal of a Monarchy, and I couldn't tell you a thing about the author's politics. Could be male or female, could be a commonwealth author or not... I don't know, and I don't care. I like the story and I can't predict what the author might say next.
If you ever read some of the 1960s books that drag in Malthusian insanity, or other dated, failed, political "hot topics," you get an involuntary eye roll. Same for the 1980s "Ozone Layer" hysteria.
That is the moment you know, you're not reading a story, you're sitting for a sermon. In every sermon, you know with boring certainty exactly what will be coming from the "righteous pulpit."
I'm a Xennial... there are few points raised by anyone I agree with... beyond the fact that Alice in Chains was better than Nirvana, and I'm tired of people pretending otherwise.
Cheers
"Fuck the police!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
A, and I CANNOT stress this enough, CAB
Police are good
@@ohioanempire They're a good idea. More and more often they're terrible. And in America? There's no such thing as a good cop.
@Necrobadger I know several cops. Trust me, there are good cops. I don't know about the cities but around here the cops are good.
@@ohioanempire Then they'll be either fired soon or delegated to desk jobs or treated like shit till they quit.
@@Necrobadger one has been a deputy for longer than I've been around
ate the rich!
A final solution to a particular group?
No
Way to hyperbolic for my tastes.
Woow .. woke bs! Sorry, couldn't finish this one!