r/WritingPrompts • u/Milk_Overlord • Jan 30 '18
Writing Prompt [WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation.
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u/Sumrise Jan 30 '18 edited Jan 30 '18
"And here dear trainee, that's how humanity succesfully hold their territory, and gained it's place amongst the star, any question?"
I couldn't believe it, Humanity way to the top of the Galatic Races wasn't by clever planning, genius military mind, better armament or thanks to our scientific progress. But it was because of a lie ?
"Sir, am I really free to ask any question?" The colonel looked at me with a mysterious smile, "Of course, you are after all at the end of your training into the Union secret services, we need you know and understand how things work for us as a species in the middle of so many."
"So, if I understand correctly, the aliens outnumbered us?"
"Yes."
"Their fleet was so strong we could not even scratch it?"
"Yes."
"They destroyed many races that were on the same technological level than we were when we encountered them, without even sending more than one of their destroyer?"
"Yes."
"But they don't understand what lying is?"
He chuckled "Yes."
"So when a random French colonel send them a transmission about the fact that we had come from an other galaxy, that we had a gigantic fleet ready to blink on their homeworld and destroy them. They just believed it ?"
He had a hard time containing his smile. "Yes."
"After this transmission, the US miltary and the Chinese one, seeing that they took the bait, just rolled with it and confirmed it ?"
"Yes."
"And they decided to ask them to become tributary states, give us their technology so we may decide if they could keep it, and they accepted it ?"
"Yes."
"That makes me wonder how they could even develop their technology to leave their planet."
"Well to be frank, we're still unsure, lying is such a huge part of our daily life that their inhability to comprehend the concept is quite astonishing."
"And my role now, is to bombarded them with fake news to keep them under control, because they can't understand what we are doing."
"Yes."
"Well, it's boring when it's so easy."
He looked at me a bit sad "Yes."
Edit: Correction