Humanities most badass moments.

Discussion in 'Space Battles Main' started by DWXXV, Dec 29, 2007.

  1. DWXXV

    DWXXV Manus Celer Dei

    Post moments when humanity comes from behind or comes out of nowhere and does something epically cool. Pref against some sort of Alien aggression.
    Examples:
    Footfall
    Humanity is attacked by an alien force with orbital superiority. They make an Orion spaceship ITS POWERED BY A BUNCH OF NUCLEAR BOMBS for thrust. And they proceed to own the aliens. Made more awesome by the writing style. Anyone whos read the book knows what im talking about.
    Dune: Holy crap did the atriedes plan far ahead....
    Gunbuster almost comes to mind, but ive never actually seen it.

    Anyone have any others?
     
  2. Jupiter

    Jupiter Haruka's ancestor

    Gurren-Lagann eps 6, 15, 22, 25, 26, & 27
    the last 3 eps of Gunbuster and Gunbuster 2
     
  3. Q99

    Q99

    Comics are full of these, but one that comes to mind is the Ultimate Galactus trilogy, since it's in a universe where they don't have a long history of such actions and ends with Nick Fury saying how humans can beat anything (and how when he dies, wondering whether he'll need to fight god for the throne or if god'll just step aside for him). Their solution incomporates a telepathic assault from 6 billion minds and a portal to a young universe to use part of it's big bang as a cannon.
     
  4. IXJac

    IXJac Citizen

    Well, it's not quite humanity (being primarily crewed by Dolphins) and "badass" isn't quite the word I'd use either, but the entire journey of the Terragens Survey Starship Streaker comes to mind. Essentially unarmed Streaker repeatedly takes on the battlefleets of the baddest races in the five Galaxies and humiliates them.
     
  5. Julius-Kaiser

    Julius-Kaiser Echelon

    Dirty Harry without a doubt. Feeling lucky punk?
     
  6. Q99

    Q99

    Mostly befuddles, evades, and escapes them, but it was funny at the end
    with their Retired-order armor (and even that was pushed to the limits) waltzing for the Earth blockade as long as they could and then signaling to discuss surrender, and then the humans being confused why everyone ran. The anti-Earthers didn't realize the shape the Streaker was in and thought THEY were being asked to surrender, and after seeing the pounding it took, the entire blockade thought discresion was the better part of valor and fled :)


    I want Brin to make more Uplift novels about what happens after.
     
  7. Q99

    Q99

    Oh yea, a new one!

    Webcomic Starslip Crisis Warlord with a world ship has a piece of art called the Spine of the Cosmos in addition to his military might, which can be used to enslave everyone who sees it and hears the context of the art, and the Worldship both has a huge screen on each hemisphere and is broadcasting the context via vibrations to ship's hulls so there's no way to not see and hear it. Warlord Katarakis has pretty much conquered everything.


    What follows is possibly the most badass museum curation in the history of fiction.
     
  8. Avernus

    Avernus Abomination

    In The Bully and the Crazy Boy, where humans drive off a technologically superior and even more intelligent alien race, by being crazier than they are. By being willing to do suicidal things like surrender a space station, let on occupation troops and then blow it up. Or in the big confrontation between the alien's fleet and what's left of the human fleet, ramming together a bunch of ships on converging near-c trajectories, creating a huge blast in the middle of the battle that rivals the Sun ( "Let's see your damned shields stand up to that !" ), killing both sides. And then while the alien command ship tries to escape, the captured human admiral who explains all this bites down on his tooth full of berserker drug, breaks free under high-g acceleration, kills his guards and heads for the power room. "And the fury of unchained atoms conquered all.
     
  9. Nonite

    Nonite Perä-Amilaari

    Known Space humans seems pretty "bad-ass", from their initial standpoint in the man-kzin wars.
     
  10. SGTschlock

    SGTschlock Sensei aishitemasu

    ...FUCK!!!

    I wanted to post about the Michael nuclear powered space battle ship :(
    [​IMG]
    Fuck the Enterprise, this is what I wanna conquer the cosmos in.
    I'm gonna have to read this sometime. Kinda reminds me of this thread, where they discovered that computer game AI that behaved irrationally actually won faster and more often than the rational AI.

    But fuck, that Admiral sounds like one of the most bad ass shit heads ever.
     
  11. Avernus

    Avernus Abomination

    In The Cosmic Rape, an alien hive mind species that conquers by assimilating other hive minds encounters humans, the only species that's evolved single-body sentience. Other species are animals as individuals, with only the hive mind being sentient. They decide to induce the formation of a hive mind among humans, which will then be subjugated by their own much larger one. In the end, they succeed in creating the human hive mind . . .

    Which being composed of individually sentient beings, is as far beyond their hive mind as humans are beyond animals, and promptly assimilates THEM.
     
  12. Warhammer 40K has plenty of examples I'm sure. Especially the Catachacans.
     
  13. Reaper_93

    Reaper_93 SB's Fav. Dungeon Master

    World War 2.
     
  14. Sven

    Sven Pure handsome

    Yeah. Because the Holocaust was awesome.
     
  15. Reaper_93

    Reaper_93 SB's Fav. Dungeon Master

    More like "humanity came out of nowhere and bonded together to overcome an evil, incredibly powerful regime (of other humans) despite massive differences in philosophy".

    Assuming you weren't just agreeing in a sarcastic manner, as it is hard to tell without smilies between the two types of sarcasm from mere text.
     
  16. Sheridan, a human, kicking the First Ones out of the Galaxy.

    Now that is sheer guts, badassery, and crazyness.
     
  17. Killah

    Killah BANNED :p

    Star Wars: Basically pwning everyone and setting up our own government that shat all over every other species, to live in überness. Only to be dismantled when the other humans decided they didn't like it...
     
  18. Damar

    Damar They hate if you're clever and despise a fool

    I think that's a rather way-oversimplified and black-white view of WWII. And the Soviets were just as 'Evil' as the Nazis, and wouldn't have minded turning their guns next upon the Allies if they had the opportunity.
     
  19. Sven

    Sven Pure handsome

    Question: Was I being sarcastic, or do I really think the Holocaust was awesome?:p:p:p:p:p:p

    The smileys are a hint.
    :p
     
  20. FireCrack

    FireCrack Irrationaly Rational

    That was the one where the humans didn't have any guns so they turned their engines towards the enemy and were like "WTF PWNAGE!!!"?
     
  21. Sabertooth

    Sabertooth Troll Lord of the Tal´Darim

    Problem was the unholy numbers of B-29s, B-24s, and others that would make the German bombing campaings there simple firecrackers.
     
  22. Chuut-Riit

    Chuut-Riit The laziest man on Earth

    Exactly that one. I even have that awesome "The Kzinti Lesson"-picture from atomicrocket.com (that site about realistic space warfare) as my wallpaper. :)
     
  23. Damar

    Damar They hate if you're clever and despise a fool

    It's not like the Russians were bad at the number game themselves, the Sturmovik had over 36,163 planes built.
     
  24. Reaper_93

    Reaper_93 SB's Fav. Dungeon Master

    True, but it doesn't make it any less badass that humanity got its act together and underdog'd the hell out of Germany.

    Well, no, I knew you were being sarcastic about the holocaust being awesome, but I couldn't tell whether it was an agreeing sarcastic or a disagreeing sarcastic (regarding my statement about ww2 being "a badass moment in humanity"). I think it was disagreeing based on the context, and was such based on my lack of explanation of why WW2 was, in fact, a badass moment in human history.

    Anyway, point is, defeating an incredibly powerful army that was backing a regime headed by incontrovertably evil people (if not necessarily inhabited by them) by getting the rest of humanity's act together for once counts as badass in my book.
     
  25. consequences

    consequences Still Not a Nice SJW At All

    The fact that they managed to dig themselves out of the idiotic shithole ARM had dug for them is fairly bad-ass. The fact that let ARM continue to be the shadowy bunch of wankers controlling everything from behind the scenes, not so much.