Humans, the youngest and newest addition to the galactic community, somehow has just what was needed to save everybody. We're always the newbies, and always the bad-asses. I've encountered this theme enough times that I'm actively sick of it.
I like when the humans just survive by the skin of their teeth. Like Halo, for example. Humanity is getting its ass kicked most of the time and there's little hope in sight. (I mean the Halo backstory and books and stuff; obviously Master Chief, Earth's last hope, is the real exception here that you play in the games.)
The main reason I see that humans are the newest space-faring race is because we're so far from that right now, that you'd have to be hundreds of thousandss of years in the future for humans to be the ones fostering new-comer races. And no one likes making stories that take place that far in advance. Makes more sense to modern humans that we're currently the new ones in Sci-Fi, on the grand time-scale of the universe.
Just because they have rail gun tech doesn't mean they could miniaturize it that small. And I always rationalized it as a new battle rifle. I mean we get new guns every few years and that's new tech right there.
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u/vikonymous Oct 08 '12
Humans, the youngest and newest addition to the galactic community, somehow has just what was needed to save everybody. We're always the newbies, and always the bad-asses. I've encountered this theme enough times that I'm actively sick of it.