Challenge #02450-F260: Proof Positive
Don't mind me, I’m just listening to “back in black” with Tesla coils -- Anon Guest
For those who need proof that Humans, a class four point five Deathworld species, are the indomitable space orcs everyone says they are, look no further than the Zeusaphone.
Humanity harnessed the electron. Harnessed electromagnetic radiation. They used both to make music. They used it to create artificial lightning. Then they noticed that the lightning could make music-like sounds. The faraday cage, always boon to those who 'played' with Tesla Coils[1], soon evolved into the Faraday Suit, and dance joined the performances of musical lightning.
Then Humanity had to further what they called "The Fun" by making merchandised Tesla Coil kits. Now just anyone with enough knowhow to read and follow instructions could have tamed lightning in the relative safety of their own home. Which meant that just anyone could play their music via bolts of plasma.
It's amazing they got to space, really. It's almost miraculous that they created colonies on other worlds and astounding that the proceeded to use such colonial expansion as a means of dumping the unwanted portions of the populace.
Humanity has made many interesting worlds. Humanity has made many interesting things. If Humans have one flaw, it is that of their administrative bodies, and the lack of foresight in any established system that they have created. Dumping people down wormholes now only works in the short term, as their descendants come back to sue the planets governing bodies for retroactive damages. Yet, the governing bodies insisted on maintaining it as a 'peacekeeping policy' no matter how deeply in debt it got them as a direct result.
That's Humans for you. Their own worst enemy in every way you could imagine.
[1] Frankly, that phrasing alone should tell you everything you were never prepared to know about the dominant Human psyche.
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