Shouldn't have enslaved humanity [OLD VERSION]

by NoobMaster69

Brought to you by the Vega Corporation

Author's Note:

Alright, before I proceed, I just wanna copy and paste some of my comments to answer your frequently asked questions. Now, I realize that some of my explanations were a bit vague, which caused a lot of misconceptions, so bare with me here, and take these answers as Canon:

Keifer's accent is medic from tf2
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They have around 50k nukes
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Question:Just one little thing about the bunker annoys me though, no mention of any type of factory to produce spare parts or resource depots (iron, steel, copper, various other metals and compounds, oils, refined oils, etc,etc...) where are they gonna get the spare parts from or the resources to make those spare parts?

Ans: There is, but I'll get to that later. We've only been through a mere fraction of the contents of Utopia anyway. I might either gradually reveal Utopia's other facilities or make a separate chapter with a more detailed description of Utopia itself.
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There's a remaining 160000 people left to do all those things you mentioned and more. 160000 working people are more than enough to maintain a population of 400000. And seeing as they only take those that are at the top of their field; the top doctors, top engineers, top lawyers, most popular celebrities etc, they'll be even more capable that 160000 regular people.

And as for the US being the superpower, they are the strongest... but not much stronger than the other nations. You have to take into account that this has nothing to do with how powerful your weapons are since it's an enclosed space and everyone has access to the same weapons.

They can't use tanks, jets, bombs, chemical weapons, biological weapons, and wmd's. The only thing that matters is how many people they have who can use a gun, and how good they are at using them.

The US has the highest number of soldiers, because more countries joined them than anyone else, but you have to take into account the other combined nations as well.

Pretty much all of Africa is one country now, technically making them the second strongest. Europe has some countries that joined the US, but most of them came together including the UK. Asia is split between China, Russia, and the US. Almost the entire middle East has now combined into one nation. And lastly, almost all of South America has combined into one nation.
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Americans make up the largest percentage of the population.

But if all the other people from the other nations combine, they will a higher population than the Americans.

Like, for example, Americans make up 35% of the population, Canadians make up 3% of the population, Israelis make up 5% of the population, Hungarians make up 1.5% of the population, South Koreans make up 4% of the population and so on. (This is not canon, just an example btw)
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Question: Do you have any idea on what you just said right their?

60% of the Utopian Human Race is made up Military personal, and you are saying that "Most" are American Soldiers, that implies that 70% out of all the military personal in Utopia are American.

Which means out of the 400,000 People underground, 168,000 of them are actually Americans and heavily armed ones as well!
And that's not even counting the American Civilians and along with the President and his family!

Do you honestly believe that Communist China, Authoritative Russia and literally every other Nation that hates America or opposes their "World Police" Status, are to accept a proposal that ends with them being force to submit to the will of Uncle Sam?
Well Human history has thought me enough to know that the answer will be a big fat no.

Not even the United Nations could agree to such a idea, as the American Military could in theory pull off a Military Coup in Utopia and enforce American Value's on Everyone with a Military Junta in charge.
Renaming the United States of Utopia to the United States of "America".

Also the USU is a name that I find hard to be accepted as multiple nations would reject that name as sounding too "American" and instead propose a "United Nations of Planet Earth" (UNPE) name instead, but that's just nitpicking.

Also did you forgot that everyone else has Special Forces?

Ans: I think I probably worded that wrongly. What I meant to say was that the largest portion of soldiers were Americans (e.g. 25% of Utopia's entire military).

And they accepted an American sounding name because they 'joined' America for the sole purpose of becoming stronger. On paper, all the nations of the USU have an equal say in things, and America joined the rest of them just as much as they joined America. But unofficially, we all know that America's the big boss of the USU.
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Some of them don't have questions to it because it's just additional info rather than an actual answer to a question.

Utopia

Cozy Glow P.O.V.

"Ugh… where am I?" I spoke to nopony in particular. I grogilly opened my eyes, but shut them again immediately afterward with a wince. That had to be the brightest light in the history of lights. It was like Celestia's sun was right above me and somehow not burning me to death.

I tried opening my eyes again, more slowly this time. I still had to use my hoof to shield my eyes from the light right above me, but they were gradually adjusting to the blinding light.

"Tirek, what is that?" I asked in a sleepy tone, thinking I was still in Tartarus. Of course, I was left with no response. My eyes were eventually adjusted to the light enough so that I could open them without going blind. What I saw left me both confused and amazed.

The room I was in appeared to be a bedroom. It was slightly below average in size, being only about ten meters by ten meters big. It was very luxurious though, having a bed which was slightly larger than an average king sized one, which was probably the comfiest bed I had ever slept in, and felt like it was filled with water rather than springs and fabric. The room itself looked like it had come straight out of a fantasy novel. It was nearly completely devoid of colour, having spotless white walls, white cupboards, a pair of white chairs on either side of a glass table, white bedsheets and pillowcases, a white light that emitted from the ceiling which made everything look even more white, and a white nightstand with a white table lamp that produced a white light when I turned it on. The only things that weren't white, were black, with a couple of black shelves on one of the walls, a wardrobe with one white door and one black door, and a strange flat panel that looked to have a sheet of glass over it and had several shelves lining the sides of it, which hung from the wall directly in front of my bed. The word 'Vega' was visible at the middle-bottom of the panel.

In the background, A strange song played. It was something I had never heard before, and its style was completely unique to me. Despite its strange and alien nature though, the song was calming, and worked well as a form of background noise.

On the wall on the right side of me, was something that finally broke the bland colours of the rest of the room. It was an open window which showed a clear blue sky, something I could use to pinpoint my location, if I was even still in Equestria. I got off the bed and slowly made my way towards the window and looked out of it. I guessed that I had to be pretty high up, because I couldn't see the bottom. The sky seemed to stretch on forever.

Wait… what? No matter which angle I tried to look at it from, it always showed the same side of the front view of the same clouds, which were slowly moving in the light breeze. Wait… light breeze? I didn't feel anything though, which I thought was strange, coupled with the strange window. It was almost as if it was a moving picture, but it looked so real. It was real, wasn't it? That's when I decided to stick my head out the window, only for me to bump my snout against something. That's when I realised, it was a moving picture. Either that or a magical barrier, which was the most likely option.

But it was so real though, looking exactly like what you would expect to find from looking out a window. I reached out to attempt to grab a passing cloud, only for my hoof to come into contact with the same barrier. I tried again, only for my hoof to stop at the same barrier once again. In frustration, I hit it with force, but nothing happened. I tried again, hitting it twice, and with more force this time, but to no avail. That was when I realised that I might be trapped.

I began to hit on the barrier repeatedly. Or, I would have if that hadn't happened. On the third hit, the scenery changed to that of a vast desert, which caused me to jump back in surprise, letting out a soft scream in the process. 'What the…' I thought as I recovered from my shock. I don't know if it was curiosity or stupidity, but I went back to the strange window one again, and tapped it three times in quick succession and flew back quickly. The window switched once again, now showing a luscious green rainforest. I tried it once again, and this time I found myself in the middle of a calm ocean, with a small island in the background. I triple tapped the window once more, and the display went blank, now completely black with a sheet of glass visible over it, similar to the other panel that was present in the room.

"I think I broke it," I said out loud.

"That deduction is incorrect," came a monotonous female voice. I tried to pinpoint the location it came from, but it seemed to come from all around me.

"W- what?" I asked, startled, "Wh- who are you? Where are you?"

"Three questions detected. Generating optimal response. Optimal response identified," the disembodied voice came again, "That deduction is incorrect. I am an Artificial Limited Intelligence System Emulator, also known as A.L.I.S.E. for short. The location of my Central Processing Unit is classified.

"Where am I?" I asked.

"Please refrain from asking further questions until you have regained a stable state of mind," the voice replied.

That was something I took offense to, "Excuse me? Are you trying to say that I'm craz-" the voice cut me off.

"You have, presumably, involuntarily inhaled an incapacitating agent known as Zephir Gas, or more commonly known as Knockout gas. Zephir Gas contains several different types of Nonbenzodiazepines, some of which may result in memory loss, temporary paralysation, temporary loss of cognitive function, permanent brain damage that may or may not result in a vegetative state, or in the most extreme cases, death," the voice said, "You are currently displaying several symptoms of memory loss, and as a result, I will be unable to assist you until you have regained a stable state of mind."

"And how exactly do I -" the voice cut me off once again, which was beginning to get rather irritating.

"Please proceed to the kitchen. An appropriate medicament has already been prescribed, and has been prepared for you," the voice said, "You may find your prescribed medication within the refrigerator."

"I'm sorry, but this is an enclosed room. How do I get to the kitchen if there aren't any -" I then noticed what I assumed were two doors. They blended in with the wall so well that I hadn't even noticed they were there. One of them was built into the right side of the same wall my bed was backed against, and the other was in the left wall. I didn't notice them before due to the lack of having any visible handles, and the only reason I was able to identify the doors was because of the faint black outline that surrounded them.

"Are these… doors?" I asked Alise.

I received no response, so I asked again, "Hey Alise, are these doors?"

"Yes," the voice answered simply.

"There aren't any handles, how do I open them?" I asked her, and was ignored.

"Alise?" I called out and received no reply.

"Helooooo? Alise?" I was ignored once again.

"Alise? Alise? Alise?!" I called out repeatedly and was met with silence.

"Hey Alise, you there?!" I said one last time, and unexpectedly, she replied.

"How may I be of assistance?" Alise asked.

"I called you like, a dozen times! Why'd you ignore me?!" I said, frustrated.

"Correction. You called me six times," she said which only served to irritate me further, "You did not use my activation phrase, and therefore I was unable to determine if you were referring to me. Use my activation phrase 'Hey Alice!' in order to request for assistance."

"Who else could I be referring to? I said alise," I retorted.

"There are three individuals with the name Alice. I was programmed to only respond to my activation phrase in order to avoid confusion," she said.

"Does it look like there are any other Alices in the room?" I asked.

"That is not programmed within my pre-recorded identifiable input questions. Please rephrase the question to one within the pre recorded input questions, or input a request for an additional Appropriate Input Question to be added at the Vega Corporation headquarters on 22nd Fegel Street in New York or input a request by calling 917-248-XXXX (not gonna put a real number cuz I don't want all 1.5k of my readers to call the random number up and get me sued)."

I fell silent for a while, attempting (and failing) to comprehend what she just said. "Okay lady, whatever that means," I said confused, "So how do I open the doors?"

She didn't reply. I sighed, followed by clearing my throat, "Hey Alise, how do I open the doors?"

"In order to open and close the doors, place a hand gently on the sensor beside the door you wish to open," the voice answered.

I would've asked what a sensor was, however, I spotted two squares beside each door. They looked to be built into the walls, having a slightly different colour compared to the rest of the white present in the room, along with having a slight depression compared to the rest of the wall, which was completely straight.

Thinking these were the sensors Alise was talking about, I walked towards the door beside my bed and placed my hoof on the 'sensor', and then proceeded to try pushing the door open, only for it to not even rattle. That was strange for such a small door, seeing as the hinges wouldn't be able to keep it in such a firm grip. It should've at least shook slightly, but shaking this door was like trying to shake a wall.

Then, the voice came back, "Apologies, but you may not exit until you have regained a sound state of mind," she said, "Please proceed to the kitchen. An appropriate medicament has already been prescribed, and has been prepared for you. You may find your prescribed medication within the refrigerator."

"I'm guessing that's the door to the kitchen?" I gestured at the other door. I received only an awkward silence in return. "Right," I said awkwardly and began to make my way towards the other door.

I placed my hoof on the sensor and was about to push the door open. But to my surprise, the door just moved forward slightly, followed by sliding towards the left, behind the wall of what I presumed was the kitchen. And this all happened… all on it's own, without anypony moving the door through magical means. 'Self-opening doors. This is some pretty advanced magic," I thought to myself, 'Not powerful, but advanced.'

I entered the room and the contrast between the kitchen and what was probably the bedroom immediately made itself clear. While the bedroom clearly had a white coloured theme, with almost every single thing in the room being white in color, the kitchen was the exact opposite. I could tell because the lights automatically turned on the moment I entered the room.

There was a black kitchen countertop with chairs surrounding it in the middle of the kitchen, with several cupboards built into it, along with a sink on top of it which did not have a handle to turn the water on. Also present on top of the counter were a basket of several fruits, some of which I had never seen before, a rack of several knives, a bar of soap within a soap dish which was beside the sink, a small potted fern, a blender, and a literal gold plated toaster.

Against the back wall was another countertop, this one stretching nearly the entire length, beginning at the right wall and ending around two meters away from the left wall. On it was another sink with a dish rack beside it and a bottle of what I assumed was dishwashing liquid. Several glass bottles of unknown sauces and liquids; one of which I identified as vinegar were also on it, along with smaller glass bottles that contained various spices that included salt and pepper. On the extreme left side of the counter, built into the top of the counter itself, was another one of those black slabs, however this one looked different than the one hanging from the wall in the living room, and had two white circles printed on it which contrasted against the rest of the black slab. Below each circle, were several white symbols, along with small words below it. A clock with the word 'timer' below it, a plus symbol with the words 'temp. up', a minus symbol with the words 'temp. down', a fire symbol with the words 'view temp.', and a circle with a line cutting through it that said 'power'.

I then noticed what was probably the fridge. It was a large, black, rectangular box, containing two doors; a smaller one at the top which had a green light that read '-18°C' and a larger door which was twice the size of the one on the top which read '4°C'. It looked like they were measurements of some kind, but I didn't know what those measurements meant. On the bottom right of the smaller door, I saw the word 'Vega' written in small letters.

I opened the door to the fridge, and found it to be completely empty other than a single medicine cup containing a black liquid which was in the middle of the middle shelf of the fridge. Reluctantly, I picked the small cup up and stared down at it.

'This better not be poison,' I thought before gulping down all of the liquid in one big sip. The liquid was extremely bitter, which caused me to scrunch my face in disgust.

Then, it all came back to me. The flying metal creatures, the footsteps coming from the third pillar, the masked creatures, the red gas, the syringe shooters, the electrical spears, Cerberus's roars of agony and him being taken down by the masked creatures, and finally… the human in a lab coat who wore a similar mask.

"Humans..." I whispered.

Comments

[Pensive]

New chapter ya- oohh that's a long author's note... Eh, I suppose it was coming sooner or later. And at least I won't have to dig through comments for answers or repeating the same questions.

[Pensive]

In the background, a strange song played. https://youtu.be/PxZJzuVG6W8 It was something I had never heard before, and its style was completely unique to me. Despite its strange and alien nature though, the song was calming, and worked well as a form of background noise.

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Why place a direct link when you could've made the text the link? And yes, I know I'm being nitpicky, it's just not common I see a direct link when other's would've just done:

[url=https://youtu.be/PxZJzuVG6W8]a song[/url]

to get

a song

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Also, yeesh ponies must have a metabolism faster than light if the medication had immediate effects. Unless it was some kind of advanced nanite tech.

[NoobMaster69]

10908984
That's why I unpublished it immediately after uploading the chapter. I really hoped no one had read it yet lol

[NoobMaster69]

10908984
It wasn't nanite tech, they're not that futuristic yet. It was just fast acting medicine, like one of those things that people from the movies inject into others and make them fall unconscious instantly.

[Pensive]

10909011
Hmm, must've been bad luck cause I just so happened to be in my tracking library as it was uploaded. Actually, I happened to be in my tracking folder as four stories, including this one, had all been uploaded.

10909016
I see, no faster than light metabolism then, I would've paid to see the scientist figure that one out.

[NoobMaster69]

10909017
Good luck on your part...

[rikithemonk]

To the Author. Don't empanada everything. Not only is it unnecessary, it harms the potential of the story. No factory mentioned is fine, much like no condom manufacturer mentioned, or no toilet scenes in the story. Everyone with common sense knows they are there without pointing it out.

Oh, and just so you know, Fantastic story, very original and well-thought-out. Can't wait for more.

Monk
“Not telling you too much about humanity's special power, but I can give you a big hint! It is pure, concentrated spite.” -Knight Breeze

[29000 Kevin]

Thanks for the clear up of confusion and answer, I was under pressure to help with setting up an BBQ party so I rushed that comment and it came out a tad bit too aggressive then again I'm pessimistic on Humans being able to easily agree to stuff (go figure).

Also I didn't really take into account of the fact that other Nations have also joined up with the United States of America, still was confused on all the Special forces stuff but 25% estimate shouldn't start a war at least.

Anyway apart from that hiccup from Chapter 1, I'm greatly enjoying the story you've have written up,

Also noticed the suspiciously familiar Leader of the Republic of Wadiya 🤔.

[sykko]

"That is not programmed within my pre-recorded identifiable input questions. Please rephrase the question to one within the pre recorded input questions, or input a request for an additional Appropriate Input Question to be added at the Vega Corporation headquarters on 22nd Fegel Street in New York or input a request by calling 917-248-XXXX (not gonna put a real number cuz I don't want all 1.5k of my readers to call the random number up and get me sued) ."

You could have used the prefix 555 as it's a fake one they use for movies and TV shows.

[Soron]

10909260
I also don't think everyone would join up as one to create Utopia, most would want to retain their national identity and power, it would be more logical for most to join up as blocks of nations (like the European Union). While sharing tech with other blocks to fasten the process. Probably ending with one or two (smaller) Utopia per continent. Which is also a better idea for humanity as a whole, as each one would be a failsafe in case the others failed, i mean, how many things can go wrong in a million years? a whole freaking lot, don't put all your eggs in the same basket.

[3-tap]

This was a alright chapter, that along with no logic holes created through subpar phrasing made it better

[NoobMaster69]

10909260
They could only build one bunker, and even so, they needed very single country to work together to build it. So at that point it was either cooperate or die. And also it wasn't about saving each individual country, it was about saving the human race and that had only 400000 spots available.

[NoobMaster69]

10909539
That would take much longer and they probably wouldn't be able to finish that many luxury bunkers.

[NoobMaster69]

10909392
Enplane?

emplane
/ɪmˈpleɪn,ɛmˈpleɪn/
verb
verb: enplane

1. go or put on board an aircraft.
   "some travellers spend the night before emplaning the next day for New York"

[gamerj14]

10909539
Also in real life exist all kind of private(and own by governments ) bunkers design to protect selected people (not counting individual Doomsday preppers) all around the world, what happened with those? Are those the reason why exist humans on the surface even thought all global population was fated to die, are there other bunkers (albeit smallers ) also using the stasis technology yet to awaken? (it seem unlikely that the government secretly guarded that tech and prevented other to try it even with the risk involved)

[NoobMaster69]

10909710
most of them weren't 7km underground and most didn't have the resources or money to build one with extremely thick reinforced steel.

[NoobMaster69]

10909447
yea it's the same aladeen

[rikithemonk]

10909681
Everyone's a comedian.

Corrected

[littleman001]

So the world of FiM is what became of Earth after a meteor strike and the ponies and other creatures are the result of earth animals interacting with the radiation from said meteor?

Boy, does that put the show in an interesting new light!

[Bahamuttone]

However, the radiation was estimated to have a half life of at least 1,000,000 years.

That means the radiation would STILL be QUITE high after a million years... as it would be only half strength...[It's not proper usage of the term as the half life is of the "thing" emitting radiation, but on the practical side it's okayish.] Additionally due to HOW it works in nuclear physics long lived radionucleids tend to be WEAK emitters as fundamentally they decay slowly. They STILL can be dangerous as the quantity gets high and distributed...

[NoobMaster69]

10909988
They were exposed to the radiation in low amounts over the course of a few thousand years, so they developed immunity.

And also, how on earth do you know this stuff??

[NoobMaster69]

10909953
Magic is radiation.

[Bahamuttone]

10909996
Yes... but here you are saying that the half time is one million years, so if the starting radiation is dangerous you WON'T be planning on going out just after one halving. The typical timescale is WAY higher, more something like waiting three or four time the halflife [as with each the amount of radiation halves.] For some it's not reasonable like the ⁹⁰Sr or ¹³⁷Cs which have half lives of about 30 years.
The ULTRA long lived isotopes like ²³⁸U has a relatively low radioactivity, the danger it poses is inhalation and the increase of risk of lung cancer as the tiny amount of radiation over time would accumulate, but still it's NOT going to be immediately lethal. The way you are going [in the presentation here, I still have to go on the whole story] makes it looks like there is a SERIOUS danger. Serious enough to implement a plan to safeguard part of humanity as the majority is NOT expected to survive AND the source of this is something that should be around for something like ten million years... Those numbers are not that reasonable... I mean something like Fallout is already on the edge of plausibility, and the whole thing with the Vaults is fundamentally a scam... so... it's a bit shaky...
For how I know about this... well I like to read, and I have a LOT of free time in my work.

[NoobMaster69]

10910060
Well, it makes sense to those who don't study freaking ROCKET SCIENCE.

But anyway, the radiation was lethal at its full radioactivityness but just barely so. It was basically just lethal enough to kill everyone, but they waited 1 mil years because that asteroid crashing would have brought a lot of radiation with it.

[citruspeppercorn]

Imagine being cut from the list because they needed room for the theme park.

[Pete100]

"There are three individuals with the name Alice. I was programmed to only respond to my activation phrase in order to avoid confusion," she said.

Who are the others?

"That is not programmed within my pre-recorded identifiable input questions. Please rephrase the question to one within the pre recorded input questions, or input a request for an additional Appropriate Input Question to be added at the Vega Corporation headquarters on 22nd Fegel Street in New York or input a request by calling 917-248-XXXX (not gonna put a real number cuz I don't want all 1.5k of my readers to call the random number up and get me sued) ."

Good call.

I placed my hoof on the sensor and was about to push the door open. But to my surprise, the door just moved forward slightly, followed by sliding towards the left, behind the wall of what I presumed was the kitchen. And this all happened… all on it's own, without anypony moving the door through magical means. 'Self-opening doors. This is some pretty advanced magic," I thought to myself, 'Not powerful, but advanced.'

Is it possible that they could combine magic and technology?

[DivineCross]

You say they have 50k nukes, I guessing that means 50k ICBMs, could they have more in just the warhead form. Ready for mass production of missile body

[ShadwSonic]

"That is not programmed within my pre-recorded identifiable input questions. Please rephrase the question to one within the pre recorded input questions, or input a request for an additional Appropriate Input Question to be added at the Vega Corporation headquarters on 22nd Fegel Street in New York or input a request by calling 917-248-XXXX (not gonna put a real number cuz I don't want all 1.5k of my readers to call the random number up and get me sued) ."

Future tip: if you really want to avoid the number being real, have it in the form of 555-XXXX (with each X replaced by a random digit). That specific lead-in for the phone number is intentionally never used in reality, so media has used it for decades to avoid that exact situation you fear.

[Insert Clever Name]

If you're really worried about accidentally using a real number, you could just make up a hollywood number. Just make sure you use 555 for the second set of numbers

[The Spy of the Tiger]

10955666
Personally, I'd just use [phone]. Why? It's the phone number to the FBI.

[AgentKorpsman]

11266497
I did not know that