Send in the Human

For millennia, military and civilian forces have always kept a small unit or squadron in reserve for emergencies. If things start going wrong, whether it be in combat against an enemy, in an emergency against a disaster in space or on a planet’s surface, or just in peace keeping in the cities and stations of the Galactic Collective, they have always kept a reserve to be sent in when things go wrong.

137 years ago, a new race was discovered spreading out from their home world and humanity or Terrans, were introduced to the wider galaxy and the races of the Collective. The Collective was not made up of every race in the galaxy but it was the largest cooperative group known and they were the ones who found the humans first.

Over the years, the humans spread out further and have introduced their chaotic ideas into virtually every corner of the Collective and for the most part it has been a good experience except for the odd disruption.

The various species have all learnt that when a human says something like ‘Whoops.’ or ‘What does this do?’, they should instantly retreat and wait for backup to arrive to clean up the mess. In most incidents, the human is still alive and slightly singed, but the mess still has to be cleaned up.

Once the humans started joining our military forces and our civilian guard units, the chaos continued but with more serious consequences for anyone who didn’t instantly react to the warning vocalizations of the humans involved. And when a few or group of humans get bored, commanders were advised to step in fast to defuse the situation with appropriate human relaxation items. And sometimes defusing the situation was literal.

But about 18 years ago a thoughtful commander decided to try and harness the humans’ chaotic behavior and they created a human reaction force. A squad of 12 humans were given a bunch of equipment and told to create gear for themselves and then released into battle where the enemy was starting to overwhelm our forces.

Results were beyond expectations. Enemy breakthroughs or heavy attack were stopped in their tracks, and then forced to retreat when the humans started inflicting horrendous casualties on them using unconventional tools and weapons that didn’t make sense when examined later on. But they worked for the humans.

Years of experimentation in both military and civilian arenas brought us to the latest tactic for units in trouble.

Commander Trusp was observing the reports coming in from the scene of a riot between two street gangs who were threatening to overwhelm his guard forces in the area who were trying to hold off the gang members, protect the properties under threat and protect civilians in the vicinity who were trying to hide or avoid the gang riot.

When Trusp saw that the gang members were starting to focus their fire too close to a large group of civilians, including a group of younglings, Trusp knew he had to act fast.

Picking up a communicator Trusp gave a single order “Send in the human.”

Trusp knew that the human was watching the feeds of the riot and that the threat to the younglings had been highlighted, so he knew what the human would be ready to do. But the gang members had caused millions in damage, injured a lot of civilians and some of his guards and now they were threatening younglings.

Trusp had no regret about what was about to happen and he trusted that Daniel would do his usual chaotic best. As for the gang members, too bad. The street cleaners would work over time on them.