Why would that be? I asked politely as I ushered him into the private interview corral and activated the privacy field. Why not have the implant removed and return to your homeworld?, Because Id never be able to keep the secret, and so the Office for the Preservation of Indigenous Species wont let me, he said. They didnt evolve to merely overcome adversitythey evolved to thrive on it. Many came up with theories, but none fit better than any others. The first chapter of what would eventually become The Deathworlders, was posted on 4chan some years ago now, as a self-contained story. Sothis God created humans, got angry at them, condemned them to be tortured forever and ever after death, and then had itself sacrificed to itself to save mankind from the very torture it was inflicting upon them? he asked. Mods, if this script seems too spammy, I can up the checking interval, lower the time limit, or remove this altogether. Any link not otherwise associated with an OC post must have a summary or similar descriptor of at least 350 characters, providing relevant OC information. Now I began to see the shape of it. The Corti abducted you, didnt they?. He didnt spare the fallen alien a second glance as he charged at the lone survivor. They were known for abducting specimens of a pre-Contact species, experimenting on them to acquire biological data, then using that information to be able to sell cybernetic technology to the newcomers that was appropriate to their biology the second they were welcomed into the galactic fold. Jenkins and Charlotte got into a vicious argument about a protracted conflict in a dry, hot part of the world that had apparently only just started when they were abducted. Her wingman is, Steve "Jester" Hendricks, a more experienced pilot in the ARTN. He did that complicated joint-lift with his forelimbs againa shrug. Hows your arm? he asked, changing the subject. The second Hunter snap-fired and Jenkins dropped the gun as the shot winged him. Wow, I'm super surprised that the author of Spellgun or royalroad is also the author of an HFY I started reading 2 years ago on reddit. Henhouse, henhouse, henhouse.. The League's Fleet has policed known space for millennia, backed by mighty dreadnoughts that crushed any force that opposed them. My species refer to ourselves as Human. Our homeworld is a category twelve temperate at co, I interrupted him. He's relatively green, having only served one tour with the ARTN 8th Fleet, along with, Quet "Bug" Yous, one of the few Dreeden space superiority fighter pilots. If you do navigate away, the update script should catch anything you miss, but the thread may display incorrectly or with 4chan.org hotlinking images until it is repaired. I did not at first bother to look up from the desktop in front of me where the standard security systems were scanning the being in front of me for weapons, pathogens, parasites and other such contraband. Haven't been able to contact the author yet, so If anybody has a way please let me know. Lots of monsters are also designed. You are not, Officer Aktnn, Vedreg replied. With reposting of classics, statement of what HFY is, and plenty of new OC. Interestingly, these two first stories spawned a series of stories written on this very subreddit, to which I'll link at the end of the last part. Haven't come across it yet, but when I find it I'll certainly post it. The Corti were smalleven smaller than this beinggrey-skinned but with large eyes and oversized brains as a result of a centuries-long eugenics program within their species which had vastly expanded their intellect. Ho-leee shit!! He didnt seem to noticeinstead he pounced and a second shot barely missed him before his forepaw lashed out, balled up into a hard knot of gravity-densened bone and flesh which he drove into the Hunters eye cluster. Awesome to see this one again, has always been one of my all-time favorite HFYs! I will need to interview you in private. I told it. Patricia Davies is the Admiral of the Associated Republics of Terra's 13th Expeditionary Fleet, assisted by, Jim Wexler, Admiral Davie's Flag Lieutenant. Unlucky for the Kondar, the concept of warning shots was alien to them, and they did not stop to ask why the single shot had missed. I had noticed already that his water intake was surprisingly high considering his size, and made a note to ask him about it. Within hours, our conversation was the big talking point on a major interstellar newsfeed complete with an alarmist headline. In time we studied the technology of the more advanced dead races, gleaming a scientific secret or two we had missed. It was a short fight. Apt, I said. Exactly what it says on the tin, some awesome HFY writefaggotry about humanity as teachers and parents. I noticed that a patch of skin on his left arm had been artificially pigmented. I only read through I and II like 2 weeks back as well. This will probably gonna get buried in the comments and I dont know how much you are using modern military stuff for inspiration for the combat scenes but there is one part I would recommend a change. I'm so glad I found this post before it was archived. Im going to have a hard time convincing anybody that your people should be declared sentient so long as this state of affairs continues.. Keep it up! Three diurnals later, the council convened a special meeting. It shrieked and flailed, swatting the human with its hindlimbs. Progress is all we need if the progress is this fantastic. Welcome back! This, along with all the other HFY classics is what got me into this sub. I try to stay in shape, but between the low gravity and not getting enough food Ive probably lost some muscleabout or slightly below average for a male of my size? he suggested. Sorry for the extremely drawn out and extremely nit picky critique. My desk registered this as the creatures Interspecies Communication Implant, though it seemed like a shockingly crude example. In fact the entire race seemed insane. A civilian fleet set out to make contact with Earth in the hopes of peacefully talking them down from this religion. A Good HFY Thread: With reposting of classics, statement of what HFY is, and plenty of new OC. I nodded. No friggin way. Fuck me there's my life in a sentence. Rather than answer the mystery of where they had come from, they had historically preferred to tell stories and then convince themselves that the stories were true. Unarmed, you single-handedly defeated three of the most feared aliens in known space, and you tell us you are neither a trained warrior nor a physically exceptional specimen of your kind. All of a sudden, I have these bro EDM DJs playing my music, and I just can't even care less. Your visa will be denied if you continue to mock the immigration system., Its facial feature twisted up into an expression of amusement. Thank you. Literally can't read it on my phone. At first I thought it had received some pleasant comments and then sank without a trace. I'm now going to be anxiously waiting for the next part! They saw me coming but I put three rounds into one and its shield failed against the third. Today I found your first Prey story and felt it was one of the best stories I've ever read. 1700 B.C.E.) Your story telling is very good. Pretty kickass concept - a civilization shooting a last "fuck you" at their enemy but by the time it gets there, that enemy base has been replaced by a refugee camp or something. The idea of the suicide bomber was alarming, and caused something of a stir when it was presented to the committee for interstellar security, who called an emergency session to think up means by which such an insane tactic could be countered. What is that? Vedreg asked. He picked up a second bag, and strolledstrolled! Our first inhabited planet was less than thirty light-years away, far closer than we would have thought. Standalone posts which serve only to advertise wares, commercial or non-commercial, will be removed. These ones were wearing full military combat harnessmy own light security harness was no match. Something Ive never seen since I first started wandering around all these stations Jenkins said. It do be crazy sometimes. In hindsight, I really should have expected that Jenkins would have attracted a journalists attention. You've delivered and then some, imo, and I'm frickin stoked!! So you think you may be able to have humans reclassified?, A wave of purple pigmentation rippled down Vedregs flankpessimism. Ditto. I visited it only once - aside from being a third heavier than usual, I swiftly felt the heat and humidity making me unwell and returned to the core of the station, which was tuned to the interstellar norm I was used to. And what it means for their war. The security footage records you being shot seven times by heavy pulse gun fire and you have fully healed in less than three-times-eight diurnals, I said. Must be Christmas morning and no one told me. The original post can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/631sm0/lablonnamedadon/ Thanks to the author /u/NoGoodIDNames for permission to read this. Another great entry, so happy to see it! I gave this some consideration, and scrapped the form. Amending the Treaty tends to lose votes.. While carrying more than I suspected I could physically lift!after me. *Cranes Neck Forward, Mouth Open, and Sinks Back Into A Classic Storyline.. How We All Read, Honestly.*. Amazing, amazing, amazinnnnnng story! My species homeworld really is a category twelve temperate. Was 9 days late to the party. "EDM is probably one of the styles of music that I hate the most. Jenkins didnt seem especially frightened by the news, but then I realised he had almost certainly never heard of the only carnivorous species in the galaxy that preferred the meat of fellow sentients. It was rather amusing to see the scientific community collectively slap their heads when they see the simple ideas and concepts they had missed. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. I requested, and was granted, a transfer and promotion to head of security on the research station. (I never thought threads would last over two days but 1614919 proved me very wrong.) You will find documentary verification of that fact on this data storage.. Suicide also seemed to be something they would resort to with little or no good reason. The area of inquiry spans more than two thousand years, from the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age (ca. David and Cylia deal with a worm while Clank flexes on some aliens. Transmitting message now. Modern militaries use brevity codes that are based off a completed action in a battle strategy that are one word, usually on the same subject (sports teams for example), and go in alphabetical order. I dont know how that translates.. Responsible part of my brain: we should get to sleap, it's 2 am, All of the rest of me: OH HEL NO IT AIN'T, ITS PREY O'CLOCK AND WE'RE READING THIS RIGHT NOW. David hijacks a ship, makes contact with Gron and decides to change sides. David and Gron go hunting for a lost crewmember, but encounter trouble almost immediately. Unethical, but the species as a whole could not be prosecuted for the actions of a few and so the sale of the implants went ahead anyway. Was wondering when you'd bring that up. The entire planet was like that, a perfectly stable world with no issues that we could determine, and yet it seems the suicide rates were the greatest cause of death among the people. I turned and shot at the Hunter that had aimed at us. I literally did a mini-jump as soon as I saw the words "HFY" and "Prey" in the same alert box. A few inspired quite intense emotions in me. It was suicide. What was it about? I was genuinely thinking about this earlier today. Ugh. There was no visible change, but the sense tendrils along my back felt a tingling as the shield came online. Clank partakes in a tournament and the crew meets the red and blue sisters. Despite its lack of height, it had strapped a pack to its torso that looked larger and heavier than I could have comfortably carried. We studied the creatures on many worlds, although none bore intelligent life. I think the idea would break them. Most of the crew found it impossible to believe that she was not insane, but Jenkins assured me that her beliefs were considered perfectly normal. Now, on the edge of League space, a new foe threatens the centuries-long status quo, and it's up to two outsider species - the Dreeden and their allies, the Terrans- to try and save the League before this new threat consumes it. Eating sentient population doesn't even make a lot of sense logistically. It didnt come. It was along the lines of humanity gets exterminated but sends a bunch of dudes in power armor on intercept courses with alien planets. This is a fantastic return. but your patreon needs some touching to accommodate better different types of donors, different ranks for them with some rewards for those putting more money, the goal for how much a month is too high start way lower, with gradual promised/rewards as more often chapters, free to split them and make them more shorter but more often and etc.. just look at some others patreon to have different inspirations as to what fits you more.., but the patreon really needs a little changed in goals/steps :). Tough bastards. he said, and spat bright red blood onto the Hunter corpse next to him. Communications on both sides failed, we ourselves had long ago stopped carrying any equipment or training our crew for first-encounters, and apparently the Kondar had not had any first contacts of their own in hundreds of years. Can we please start with the official stuff? Youre wearing the symbol of thisthis masochism on your arm and you dont know why your people believe it?, I know why I believed it, Jenkins said. But I can guess. Some, more skittish species, were beating a hasty retreat to the shuttles airlock, while others waited for instructions. Also he punches a ghost to death. I had no reason to believe I was being lied to, so I accepted it. David forges some funky metal, trains with his crew, finally gets laid and ATF's someone's dog. Only hope? Jenkins asked. Most other species suspected that their sense of empathy had atrophied as a side-effect of the campaign to make themselves smarter. "Never underestimate the power of making an Ensign cry." A more SANE takeover than Napoleon's return, and with significant help, but still! I'm so happy you have a Patreon now too. In any other species the movement would have looked obscenely organic. If Jenkins was to be believed, then the line between fantasy and reality was, for many humans, invisible. Whenever Jenkins was with me, I noticed that he had a habit of focusing on the worst aspects. Thanks for sending me the message about it or I likely would have missed it as I was on vacation when you released it. The largest was perhaps the length of a football field, if that. The whole system is far too rigid to accommodate me and mine., I caught myself nodding my agreement and shut the gesture down. And so we travelled the stars, colonising the lost homeworlds we found, along with others. Archived threads are checked every two hours for updates until the thread 404s. I want to keep reading it (hell I would pay for a book, and I mean like the 'whole LotR trilogy together' size book). Vedreg had turned a grim shade of worried dark green by the time Jenkins finished telling the story. Wow, I'm super surprised that the author of Spellgun or royalroad is also the author of an HFY I started reading 2 years ago on reddit. He was quite correct and that status made properly navigating him through the immigration paperwork impossible. Impossible! I exclaimed as I leapt out of my chair, and registering the motion the corral shut down our privacy field. My job was trivially easy, so I spent much of my time browsing the content of their worldwide data network. On a planet with 3/4th the gravity of earth, a planet primarily dominated by jungles bore a race of insect-like scavengers. Or, you can pick one of these we've prepared for you: This image is , which is very large. He and I were good acquaintances, but his species are sticklers for observing some formalities upon greeting one another. Two royalty free songs from Kevin Macleod have been used, albeit slightly edited to loop them.Man Down by Kevin MacLeod. The Formatting Guide has some helpful pointers on using Markdown. Thank you for writing this. I looked at Jenkins, surprised. As we soon discovered, nearly 3% of the galaxy was part of what was known as the "Veil of Madness". I assumed you were military, I told him. Jenkins interrupted, his implant radiating waning patience and mounting embarrassment. I'm getting a 502 error, which might mean there are so many of us flocking to that page that it's overloading the server! I'm just sort of curious whether the reference is intentional or even a reference at all. This is a historical day. His skin went bumpy and raised his sparse body fur. Just finished reading it all! Despite my longer legs, he covered the ground faster and threw himself behind a customs booth as another kinetic pulse missed him. ; it'll archive a copy of the page for future lulz. Still love the story and absolutely cannot wait until the next. Yea, but that part isn't really canon anyway. David has another strange dream and meets back up with his crew. Excuse me while I go read. YASS. But the most important part is that they must never, ever learn how much superior they are to us in so many ways. In the end, they wound up stealing the best ideas from humanity itself. Not disappointed, progress is progress. And humans believe that this is the real way in which the history of your species unfolded?. As far as I know the original author never wrote anything else in the universe and never even identified him/herself which is why the author is always listed as anonymous. Dozens of ships were in orbit around a rocky empty world, along with a space dock to repair and refuel them. To refresh an existing archived thread, simply attempt to add it again, and it will be immediately refreshed. taps two fingers repeatedly in the crook of his arm. Clips from it were discussed on political discussion broadcasts, most of them chosen to show the worst possible take on what Jenkins had been saying. They need to have something to aspire to, something they think is bigger than they are. Just just have a read of how that post escalates, as it goes on. New to HFY? Star Wars x Humanity Fuck Yeah= Technological Debate, What starts as a scenario where our first contact with aliens is an old broadcast of Return of the Jedi, /tg/ discusses what Humanity could have made between the time the aliens receive the signal and what the aliens reaction would be. Ben was a normal, slightly above average man, and had been about to go on the first real vacation of his adult life. It was only after Reddit user Guidosbestfriend set his own story Humans Dont Make Good Pets in the same universe and I confessed to having created the setting that I learned that The Kevin Jenkins Experience was considered a HFY classic. Jenkins nodded, and our implants eventually decided that he meant that a prediction had come true. Humanity Fuck Yeah! He laughed, a sound that served the exact same purpose as it did in mine, though this one was tinged with bitterness. I had to gently ask the scientists to stop gambling on the outcome of human contests of physical skill and endurance, or to at least exercise some moderation. The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor; a sad but necessary tactic. ;), This was fantastic like always. We'll get a Rashan POV eventually, but it's planned for WAY down the road in my outline. He never told me why he asked to have his social implant removed, and why he went back to Earth. Some previously un-archived screencaps, a bit of OC, discussion. The Demonsa loan-word that had filled a conceptual gap we had never been aware ofthat tormented humanity were what inspired it. worth a read. And he used his power to save the world and protect the weakWell, except he wasnt really a human, he was an alien who looked exactly like a human whose parents sent him to Earth because their own planet was about to be destroyed he paused. I need more.I gotta have more.. For nearly seven hundred years, mankind grew and expanded. Everyone knows (or is supposed to anyway) what just happened and what is supposed to happen next, as time on comms is supposed to be as short as possible. Ethnic, religious, and cultural differences became less important when you were away from Earth, and in the end those who could not agree simply lived on different worlds. On six legs, they were extremely stable, and their forelimbs were cybernetically fused into their heavy pulse guns, making disarming them impossible. I just found this sub literally today (off a wonderful relevant post in /r/tumblr), and Prey/II got me hooked instantly. 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