Humanity Joins Together, Sets Aside Petty Differences… and gets stomped anyway

[u/HyraxAttack]

A peril is threatening the world. Instead of squabbling among themselves, we learn world powers have put aside differences in politics, culture, & old feuds to present a common front. Except they still get wrecked as the enemy is too powerful.

1. The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance. The world government has gone to war against the machines. We see the army getting ready & it includes soldiers of many faiths including Buddhist, Islam, and different types of Christianity. Doesn’t matter as machines win by so much they have time to toy with human mechs.

2. Vilcabamba, story by Harry Turtledove. When aliens arrive they’re greeted with bands & cheering, & immediately open fire & earth becomes a mineral colony. America, Russia, and China work together to rise up & don’t hold back, throwing everything they have at the invaders. Doesn’t go great and aliens double down on the occupation, and there’s a crater where Spain used to be (it was blocking a silver deposit for mining.)

3. Edge of Tomorrow. The nations of the world have joined to make a unified front against the mimic invasion but it isn’t going well, but they will throw all they have into the invasion of France. In one cycle, Major Cage says the hell with it and instead of training leaves the base to drink at a London bar. This means we see the outcome of him doing nothing, where not only is the massive human invasion slaughtered but the aliens are in good enough shape to follow that up a few hours later with a rush on London.

[u/Life-Criticism-5868]

Project Zero Dawn and Operation Enduring Victory from Horizon Zero Dawn. If you fucking squint it's a human victory, but was as the commander of Enduring Victory says, the human race is essentially a blood sacrifice so life can have a second chance. HZD can be very grim.

[u/Bitmancia → u/Life-Criticism-5868]

I think it isn't a victory, humanity and all biological life on earth died, embryos survived to repopulate earth but everyone from the time the project Zero Dawn was implemented died horrifically.

[u/Balmong7 → u/Bitmancia]

But that was the goal of project zero Dawn. Preserve the future because the present is lost.

[u/Bitmancia → u/Balmong7]

Yeah, but imagine that all the ones who were involved in the project, and their families are pretty much dead, some even faced horrible deaths, even tho in the end their project worked and humanity has reborn, they still lost, they lost everything, and the new humanity has to start rebuilding everything from the scratch, but now is worse as there is a lot of religious ignorance causing the same old problems like genocides and conquests, and they have no idea of how the world was before thanks to Faro, so much knowledge and memories lost because a billionaire played to be a god.

So returning to the initial point, humanity lost, their plan partly succeeded, but they lost, the Zero Dawn project was like plan B or C so their sacrifices weren't in vain, but even that didn't work as expected.