## [HSF]Manifest Destiny, a Rational Horror Story

* Author: u/Sagebrysh  *Rank 7 Pragmatist**
* URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ROXAO2hIUVKnbu1ucOSevwKFAZAPmeN6McssiSIEB40/edit?usp=sharing
* Score: 14

* Created: 2015-07-30T03:03:40

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/Sagebrysh** [+2]  *Rank 7 Pragmatist* (a minute later)
> 
> I didn't win the contest, c'est la vie. I still had fun writing this story, and now that the contest is over I thought I'd give it its own post.

> **u/Draconomial** [+2]  *Sunshine Regiment* (5 hours later)
> 
> Predatory black holes?

>> **u/Sagebrysh** [+1]  *Rank 7 Pragmatist* (22 hours later)
>> 
>> An unfortunate solution to the Fermi Paradox.

> **u/FeepingCreature** [+2]  *GCV Literally The Entire Culture* (2 days later)
> 
> No, this is a good thing! It's _localized_ - we can get away from it. Plus, new and exciting physics! If space-time itself can support predators, it can support colonists. We need to play for time - small colony ships, seed populations, spreading FTL hundreds at a time in all directions.
> 
> We know we can outrun it. The rest is exponentials.

>> **u/nerdguy1138** [+2]  *GNU Terry Pratchett* (4 days later)
>> 
>> I got the feeling it was rapidly enclosing the entire solar system.

>>> **u/FeepingCreature** [+3]  *GCV Literally The Entire Culture* (4 days later)
>>> 
>>> Yeah, but FTL ships exist - this is in principle survivable.
>>> 
>>> It's like A Colder War - Cthulhu made manageable by cold pragmatism.

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