Dead space story hive mind10/9/2023 ![]() ![]() "I would like to point out that the Greek city-states over centuries had fought with one another. ![]() But even in her state of disunion, she defeated the gigantic Persian Empire. To be sure, Greece could never unite and was therefore ultimately conquered. Do you remember? But your people always missed the point. "But our very disagreements are our strength! Your Federalist party used to speak of ancient Greece a great deal once. We can never agree if we had a single island to live on, we would split it in three. They can never disagree, can have nothing but a single government. They have no such thing as politics we have nothing else. Among the Diaboli, individual consciousness is low, almost nonexistent. You wanted to force the human governments to unite against them and that notion was politically unrealistic and completely impossible. Here is an excerpt from the conversation at the end of the story: Maybe one of these covers will ring a bell. 78, March 1957 which is available at the Internet Archive. ![]() Under the title "Ideals Die Hard" it was reprinted in Authentic Science Fiction No. " 'In a Good Cause-'", a 1951 novelette by Isaac Asimov, also the answer to this question. I vaguely remember that all of this is revealed through a single conversation at the end of the story, but that's the extent of my memories on the subject. I believe it's also revealed that the war was intentionally started by a human organization to give humans a common enemy. Humans are constantly fighting, so our strategies quickly adapted to the enemy's, and we were able to rapidly reverse-engineer the aliens' superior technology to use it for ourselves. Because they're a hive mind, they are perfectly unified in strategy, politics, and scientific research.Īt the end, it's revealed that this race is doomed to lose, because it's unified. I remember that humans are at war with a hive-minded alien species, and this species initially stomps human fleets in virtually every battle. Each piece I can remember is a concept which is present in numerous stories/movies/games, which further leads me to believe that this is much older than the 90's. Unfortunately, the only details I remember are very generic, so Google searches haven't been terribly helpful it all centers around a specific scene, which I believe is near the end of the story. I read this story in the mid/late 90's, and I believe it was in a Sci-Fi anthology or a magazine (such as Asimov), so it's possibly much older. ![]()
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