Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Emergency Landing

[Kaarme]

@Meridis Are you sure humans can't eat the bugs? Chances are they would be extremely rich in protein and taste of lobsters.

 

[mikoreimu]

bugs... ? Bugs.... !? BUUUGSS !!! ITS A PLANET OF BUGS !!! RICO's ROUGHNECK !! HOO RAA !!

 

[flannan]

@welcome2atlantis - well, the galaxy is really, really big. And their warp is so slow they travel in cold sleep (which suggests warp times measured in months or years).
Worse yet, they have to contend with a hostile alien civilization.
My experience with Master of Orion clones tells me it's perfectly reasonable to not know where the homeworld is under these conditions, even if some inhabited planets are known.
Worse yet, alien civilizations might not have a proper inhabited "homeworld", only a depleted husk of a planet that is hard to find and harder to identify as their birthplace.

 

[fuzzyk]

Haha, “sci-fi authors don’t know scale“ strikes yet again. 😂 200,000 people, several “major cities”, yeah right.

 

[sylvacoer]

@mikoreimu - or they're tyranids, and this poor Imperial "captain" better be as tough as a Scion dealing with a Warp-infested feral world.

 

[KingRagnarok150]

not to sound stupid but is the MC Male or Female i can't tell?

 

[dudsuper8]

i dont understand how sci fi messes scale up so badly. like 200k people dying during an entire planetary invasion???? stalingrad resulted in millions of deaths and that was just a single city... like our wars with even less advanced weapons killed more people... the 30 years war killed millions and that largely only took place in germany and we only had early muskets and pikes still... wh40k is one of the only scifi universes ive seen get scale right. like look at how much we can produce as single nations, a group of planets should be fielding armies in the billions and have hundreds of thousands of ships

 

[Guspaz]

@dudsuper8 It was a colony planet with a population of 200k. Everybody died. Where’s the problem with the scale? Not every colony planet in sci-fi would have a population of billions...

 

[dudsuper8]

@Guspaz 200k on a single planet is ridiculous. that is the size of a city. there is not much colonizing being done when your population is so small. a population in the tens of millions would be reasonable

 

[valconius]

Finally, one of the few good scifi isekai appears. I only had to wait five years.

Consider the population of the Mongols descended from the Golden Horde in Western Russia. At the time of their exile and ultimate extermination, they numbered 200,000. Or, consider the Cumans, small enough that their ethnic identity was ultimately exterminated in a single battle gone wrong against the Eastern Roman Empire. Both culture had hundreds of years of rich military history, yet their populations never reached the many millions achieved by their tributary states. All of the settlers from these scifi planets probably had the same cultural background, so they probably hit a comfy population level. Most human cultures did not wildly breed. For example, British Java had scattered indigenes, including literal bronze age nobodies out of an isekai who got vaporized when that supermassive volcano erupted. Over time, the hybrid Chinese-indigine-British agriculture dominated and Java came to see a baby boom a full century before the rest of us. Every culture was quickly subsumed, but previously, even with migration and war and exploding volcanos, Java retained a rich variety of cultures mostly alien and incomprehensible to their fellow Javanese. I presume the default state off humanity is not to exploit the land till it dies, because such cultures die, selecting only for those culture that can strike a balance... and, irrespective of tech level, such cultures only reproduce very slowly and might hardly grow at all. Since every scifi planet is a mini-Java without external factors influencing development, it wouldn't be surprising that low-fertility space Amish might be selected for by an Empire for colonization efforts. After all, your reach is vast but not limitless, and what better way to control the stars than to seed them with vibrant but mostly compact and easily controllable cultures that have little chance of getting uppity and starting Empire on the own?

I had a while blurb on technology that got deleted... Basically, a modern welder or electrician is stupider than a hunter-gatherer because
1. Less adaptable
2. Professional skills inferior to ethnibitany etc
3. Dependant on civilization superstructure
4. Probably less well-read/cultured (most people don't even read a book a year; reading isekai trash puts you in the 90th percentile of well-read humans) with inferior mental landscapes to those of tribals unaccustomed to flashy led screens doing the visual thinking for them.
Basically, if the galactic empire had an explicit policy of inhibiting liberalizing interstellar trade, a 200,000 person colony staying small is probably reasonable. Most cultures, NOT MOST PEOPLE, do just fine left to their own devices and die out only when they for example get the strange idea of building giant easter island statues, and they typically slowly improve their standard of living anyway. Of course, this particular isekai planet better have a pop in the tens of millions because the first thing genghis khan told his people is BREED because he needed moar dakka.

 

[Guspaz]

It was also a farming colony. I’d imagine you don’t need a huge number of people to manage a farm when you’ve got thousands of years of technological progress in automation. Even today, farm equipment can largely drive itself with self-steering driven by GPS, with the farmer only intervening to clear obstacles and rocks and refill things. Imagine in three thousand years how much farmland a single person could manage. You don’t need millions or billions of people to farm them.

 

[Wilhelm_Stenvall]

@Guspaz You gotta keep in mind that machines need maintenance. Even if a machine can repair a machine, a human would still need to be there if anything goes wrong. Considering how there's over 500 million farms on earth alone, a farming colony would exceed that. All that equipment would definitely need more than 200 thousand people to maintain.

 

[Guspaz]

@wilhelm_stenvall Sure, but we’re talking about thousands of years in the future, in a time when a spaceship can literally repair itself using AI. And, for all we know, it could be a new colony in the process of growing. The population of the USA is 328 million. What was the population 80 years after the first census? 210,372.

 

[Tiniuc]

This is something I've wanted for years now! Scifi person isekai'd to a fantasy world.

 

[whyCannot]

i wonder if his gun uses bullets or lasers or something like that.

 

[CheerTheDead]

"Those who are connected to humanity"?

Are you kidding me?

It's "those who are related to mankind" or something similar.

What kind of translation is this?

 

[VIVIT]

the 200K people colony is ok if we're talking about 2-4 SMALL settlements max, being agricultural irks me a little existing betters ways to do in a scifi settings (AKA arcologies) but saying BIG cities rust my jimmies bad considering the first statement

@dudsuper8
the only thing that 40K fails bad is logistics, no matter how bad administratum is you cannot sustain a red tide-tier for years even with said logistic run smoothly (or any heavily industrial planet to the matters)

 

[Retards_Rise_Up]

tfw no AI gf

 

[EVReborns]

i read it too fast, but what happen to the girl when only MC and the girl alive?

 

[Rygaran]

I cant help but think that the whole story, since him entering into the training machine, is just that, the training. Would be interesting and disapointing tho.