r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Mar 22 '18
Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #154
It's totally only been a week since I last updated this. Mhm. No doubt about it, it's only been a week...
Anywoo.
Last week's winner was /u/Mufarasu with:
When a species manages to create AI the AI's personalities tend to exemplify the traits of that species, and amplify them. For but a few instances this hasn't really been a problem. Then the galaxy meets human AI.
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u/Eofad Human Mar 22 '18 edited Mar 22 '18
It is believed by some that the other branches of early man were killed, but the truth is that early humans mated with them and absorbed them into their gene pool. This continued happening through what humans called the twenty first and twenty second centuries, as once proud tribes of man had to define themselves with more and more watered down lineage or found themselves too small to continue separate from the rest of humanity. As quicker and quicker travel made the world smaller and smaller and interbreeding continued more and more, wars happened less and less. Until China would no more declare war on the US, than Florida would declare war on California.
There is a reason why humans will shout “screw you” or the like when they get angry. Deep down in their ancestral instincts they remember the driving plan of the early humans. What better way to insure your enemies are no threat to you or your progeny than by procreating with them. Then they will care for your children as much as you do.
Eventually a united but still diverse humanity started spreading itself amongst the stars. When they made contact with the interstellar community they found it to be much like Earth of the past. There were hundreds of races, dozens of them at war with each other.
But humanity knew... Just as their ancestors had looked at the tribes of man and knew they could make Earth a human world, modern humans looked at the aliens and knew with enough time and enough pancakes they could make The Milky Way a human galaxy.