| rdfs:comment | - It's either the near future, the far future, or even the present, where there's a hopeless bleak war being fought between human and some non-human enemy. Be it sentient robots, mythical creatures, subterranean Mutants, or alien invaders, or even other humans. In any case the humans are fighting a hopeless battle, where even a major victory is just a hollow one. The human population has been reduced to small numbers because of this endless war. In some cases the war could even be a stalemate for the two opposing factions resulting in severe casualties on both sides. And more often than not, the war might have been intended as a minor engagement before things went SNAFUBAR, got complicated, and then went completely to hell, and now everybody is SOL. Its basically the war equivalent of Kick t
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| abstract | - It's either the near future, the far future, or even the present, where there's a hopeless bleak war being fought between human and some non-human enemy. Be it sentient robots, mythical creatures, subterranean Mutants, or alien invaders, or even other humans. In any case the humans are fighting a hopeless battle, where even a major victory is just a hollow one. The human population has been reduced to small numbers because of this endless war. In some cases the war could even be a stalemate for the two opposing factions resulting in severe casualties on both sides. And more often than not, the war might have been intended as a minor engagement before things went SNAFUBAR, got complicated, and then went completely to hell, and now everybody is SOL. Its basically the war equivalent of Kick the Dog, Shoot the Dog and Shoot the Shaggy Dog...and of course War Is Hell. In this bleak situation there's bound to be Despair Event Horizon, I Did What I Had to Do, Black and Gray Morality, or Grey and Gray Morality. All for the sake of victory, But Was It Really Worth It?? A Forever War may eventually grind itself down to one of these. On a smaller scale, Last Stand. See also Bad Future, and Shocking Defeat Legacy. Examples of Hopeless War include:
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