Without a challenge, I think they very swiftly get depressed. It was along the lines of humanity gets exterminated but sends a bunch of dudes in power armor on intercept courses with alien planets. Some previously un-archived screencaps, a bit of OC, discussion. A quadriform biped, forelimbs ending in five manipulating digits. The Formatting Guide has some helpful pointers on using Markdown. We did not find another living race during that time, or find out how we were immune. Hearts for Youth (Alexandria Bay, NY) HFY. He and I were good acquaintances, but his species are sticklers for observing some formalities upon greeting one another. Im a bureaucratic anomaly. Constructed with our most advanced technology, to the point where systems were updated during construction, and having a length of nearly seven miles, it was the mightiest ship we had ever created. A second alarm began to soundthe long wail of a station damage alarm. Our only hope was the magazine of nervejam grenades which, I realised with a falling sensation of failure, I had left in the locker. 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. I AM SO EXCITED HOLY SHIT. A setting where the PCs are fantasy B.J. It was when I started to explore without his guiding hand that I started to find the positives. My name is indeed a reference; Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the list of forbidden books kept by the Vatican. Our first inhabited planet was less than thirty light-years away, far closer than we would have thought. Not just because of a confirmed Rashan POV chapter but because it sounds like we still have plenty of chapters to go :D. You have a wonderful ability to write and I am glad you are doing so. Wenthan, the ship's communications officer. When the Kondar realized that both our entrance and escape vectors lead directly into the veil, a panic started. Same. A more SANE takeover than Napoleon's return, and with significant help, but still! He did it because there are more challenges down there among his own kind than he would ever find up here, among us. 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. Do you know when the next part may be coming? I saw Prey II when it was first posted, and loved it and Prey then. By how easily they broke. https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ The Descent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descentLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This one will take the place of my usual weekly upload of Those Days With The Monsters because I've been unable to record audio this week due to illness :( I had the audio files for this already made so I edited them down, no pick ups were possible and I had to get creative at points! The fox is in the henhouse. That's one of my favorites, It was an old green text I saw a long time ago. Having originally opened as the United Artists Theatre in 1927, the lovingly restored 1,600-seater retains much of the charm and charisma instilled by its iconic founders, namely Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. Literally can't read it on my phone. Maybe theres even a POW camp where all the races are together? Henhouse, henhouse, henhouse.. The commander tried to keep a disaster from occurring and ordered his ships not to open fire. In any other race this bizarre affliction can and did drive them to extinction. 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. We studied the creatures on many worlds, although none bore intelligent life. I say you have a talent for worrying in vain. The full discussion they had is still posted somewhere, I think the Arkmuse VoM page has a link to it. We might be referring to different things. Great stuff, looking forward to more. The UTA Dreadnought "Supremacy" was in essence a city in space. It's back! 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. You may be pleasantly surprised by the resolution to that content. 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. Her wingman is, Steve "Jester" Hendricks, a more experienced pilot in the ARTN. The team is rounded out by. When Teelm says, This is Specialist Teelm. Passed out around 4. The whole system is far too rigid to accommodate me and mine., I caught myself nodding my agreement and shut the gesture down. From the scarring and damage, along with the derelict ship floating nearby of a different make, they had been fighting not too long ago. Just finished up reading. Harpers Ferry (Amtrak station code; Harpers Ferry, WV) HFY. Nuryaw pulled a goddamn Napoleon. This was me, when I found the sub the first time. If you enjoy the LitRPG genre, you may also enjoy my in-progress web serial Spellgun. You have those nervejam grenade things. he pointed out. How strong are you, Purveyor Jenkins?, Jenkins shrugged. As soon as what might have at the time been the largest spaceship in the galaxy appeared on top of them, the race known as the Kondar were sent to the edge of panic. David holds a few spars, has a fight mid-warp and starts clearing out one of the drone ships. I actually gasped out loud. Holy shit! The Wiki. Heh, it was a fun challenge. The twin patches of fur above his eyes creased inwards and downwardsmy translator informed me that this emotion had no equivalent in my species. We'll get a Rashan POV eventually, but it's planned for WAY down the road in my outline. I reread those two (in between a thousand petty annoying things that slowed me down), and then promptly read this - and it was well worth the wait! I'm so happy you have a Patreon now too. It was completely involuntary. Another group borrowed the idea of poetry reading and took it in turns to stand up and read their compositions aloudan exercise doomed to ridiculousness by the fact no two of them spoke the same language, but they took to it with enthusiasm. Begins as a joke discussion about redheads being part fire-elemental. Jenkins just kept hitting it, again and again, snarling and shouting, ordering it to die and declaring improbable things about its parentage before finally he stopped and stepped away from the broken thing he had made, gulping down great shuddering breaths of what, to him, must have been very thin and dry air. The dude did us a huge solid. Because if you dont, you wont be ready for us. He said. I enjoyed watching their movies, and Jenkins and I spent nearly a full diurnal watching first a series of enjoyable fantasies called Star Wars, then a trilogy called The Lord of the Rings which I then discovered had originally been a book and read. Thank you for writing this. Something Ive never seen since I first started wandering around all these stations Jenkins said. Welcome back! Parts of your writing style reminded me of his. Almost no trolling at all, with a nice view on humanity as a whole. Humans, it seemed, had for most of their sentient era preferred to invent explanations for the world around them rather than admit a lack of knowledge. If Jenkins was to be believed, then the line between fantasy and reality was, for many humans, invisible. I havent slept in two standard Diurnals.. They are mentally overwhelmingtheir ideas are powerful, their inventiveness puts us to shame, their philosophy explores avenues of thought that simply never occurred to us. Good setup chapter. I was interrupted by an alarm. ThePoshFart 5 5h40m. However you decide to go forward I look forward to reading it!!! I just stumbled upon your Prey series and devoured all three parts. This bot is open source. Once, and just once, we found a sentient race still alive. ), Do the empties next. I had trouble understanding how somebody could hear the music written by Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Rutter and consider them dull, but other members of the crew reported that they preferred Jenkins taste in music. I looked at Jenkins, surprised. So it sound like we need the A-10, but in space. His skin went bumpy and raised his sparse body fur. Having them turn out to be just a misunderstood and lonely people in the cosmos, who had war declared on them and decided to play up the predator perk for intimidation, and then ending the conflict with a peace treaty instead of Total Defeat of Big Bad Guys would make for a much more fitting conclusion to the story. Also he punches a ghost to death. Jenkins issued a coarse sound through his nasal orificederisionbut said nothing. You are not, Officer Aktnn, Vedreg replied. It was only after Reddit user "Guidosbestfriend" set his own story "Humans Don't 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. Their skin was a grotesque matte ceramic-white, and their seven eyes, each blinking independently, provided them with exceptional depth perception. It was, as far as I could track back, originally posted as two parts, the second of which I will post tomorrow. Them? Jenkins asked, loping along easily next to me in what was clearly much lower gravity than he was evolved for. I knew I was stronger and tougher than most sentient life, but I had no idea the difference was that big. The Hunters were turning to fire at him as I popped up from cover. I was part of the security force that flew Jenkins to Capitol Station to be interviewed by a special committee. Whatever else it was, Earth was a rich source of artistic exports. HFY. I just caught up in the Legend of Randidly Ghosthound (excellent) a few weeks back. It was assumed that this would be just another dead world, that we might find some usable raw materials pre-harvested in the form of abandoned constructions in orbit. Awesome to see this one again, has always been one of my all-time favorite HFYs! My job was trivially easy, so I spent much of my time browsing the content of their worldwide data network. taps two fingers repeatedly in the crook of his arm. Whenever Jenkins was with me, I noticed that he had a habit of focusing on the worst aspects. David captures a pirate, raids a gang HQ, meets an old Grey and goes hunting. David has another strange dream and meets back up with his crew. And so we travelled the stars, colonising the lost homeworlds we found, along with others. We don't know why, but they apparently had been doing this for some time. Out loud to myself "Oh shit, PREY III. Time went on, and we soon discovered that this was not an isolated occurrence. There is only one concern I have about this. Jenkins later explained to me that Charlotte had praised what she saw as a war between her own religion against another, rival one. When mankind ventured out into space, we never suspected what was to come. So excited to see this. None of them are except this one, the other stories in this universe were all written by other people, none of whom had permission from the person who wrote this. The other, a male called Jung, pointed out a peninsula on the prograde end of the largest land mass when asked where his home was. They need to have something to aspire to, something they think is bigger than they are. No friggin way. A HFY thread with the rarest of things, original stories rather than just reposting and memes. HFY is a genre for stories in which humanity as a whole and our abilities, knowledge, culture, pmore [close] HFY is a genre for stories in which humanity as a whole and our abilities, knowledge, culture, physiology, psychology etc is shown to be of superior quality. That was amazing. Lets hope you dont have to wait for another part as long as I did. The classic tale of first contact. UhI dont know. Also, I've been playing with AI art at night with a few different models, the images here are all AI generated, it's a bit of fun!#reddit #hfy #narration #scifi The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor; a sad but necessary tactic. I don't make anything from, nor do I have any control over the ads that Royal Road runs. But if that's what it takes then I guess that's whats it takes. It staggered, collided with its comrade and fell. I dont know how that translates.. It would require an amendment to the Galactic Treaty of Laws, he said Which the council is historically stubborn to tamper with. Only explanation. It was absolutely fantastic and exceeded my expectations in every way! More information. Please can I have more Welp time to read the first two entries again then read this. David goes hunting, gets hunted himself, gets into trouble, builds some armor and goes scavenging. Why would that be? I asked politely as I ushered him into the private interview corral and activated the privacy field. The sounds of immigration control evaporated as a sudden fuzzy silence engulfed us. I saw this, and immidiatly thought I was sorted by top all-time again. He is posted on the flagship's bridge, along with. The wiki includes author and reader resources, guides, story listings, and author/series pages. As part of my job, I was required to pass information of potential military significance back to the Council. I saw that one of his teeth was missing. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. Prey's back, Round Three!! Thank you so much for giving us more man. By the time they get there, the dudes are all dead but the power armor systems take over and the wreck shit anyway. They are strong enough to wield firearms that are powerful enough to overwhelm even the most powerful personal shielding, while our own weaponry will hardly slow them down. 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. 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. Site code and contents 2007-2023 thisisnotatrueending.com. It feels like 500 or so years after the expanse, if the writers didn't use the same 7 phrases the whole book. They didnt evolve to merely overcome adversitythey evolved to thrive on it. He seemed embarrassed by the fact. The incident prompted the council to do two things: first they passed an amendment to the Treaty that allowed for a species to be declared sentient if it had developed calculus, rather than interplanetary FTL, though the Contact Prohibition would remain in effect until the species went interplanetary. The only bit of info we were more than happy to share with them was the reason we can live in the veil. Much of its body was covered in obviously synthetic fabric, with only the forepaws and head visible. I'll look at it again tomorrow when I'm on a computer and not on a phone. I wish I could upvote this more than once. Glad you liked it! You've delivered and then some, imo, and I'm frickin stoked!! Edit: found admin@royalroadl.com and affiliate@royalroadl.com lets all send them messages about how they are ruining the internet by participating in this ad program. He rolled up the sleeves of fabric that covered his forelimbs until they were bunched around the mid-joint. You're a phenomenal writer, and I can't begin to tell you how much I'm looking forward to whatever you choose to write next! HFY, Humanity Fuck Yeah, good thread, OC, writefaggotry, Drake MacDougal, 2012-10-26: 22 : January 2013: 22759329: Clarke's Third Law /tg/ talks about science and gawks at each other's cool shit. Classics; Must Read; Previously Featured; Old School Text Posts; Library of Published Works We were silent for some time. David forges some funky metal, trains with his crew, finally gets laid and ATF's someone's dog. David hijacks a ship, makes contact with Gron and decides to change sides. You see, Earth is a death world. Then a moment that would change our history came. They are something far more than that. These ones were wearing full military combat harnessmy own light security harness was no match. They need something to fight. The Demonsa loan-word that had filled a conceptual gap we had never been aware ofthat tormented humanity were what inspired it. Henhouse. I have also had leaders who would repeat the code three times, even though thats not the norm. Hope you enjoy my narration of it. Despite my longer legs, he covered the ground faster and threw himself behind a customs booth as another kinetic pulse missed him. A second later there was a flare of light and shrieking, but it was not enough. The area of inquiry spans more than two thousand years, from the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age (ca. It is considered impossible for sentient beings to evolve on category twelve planets, I said. The Formatting Guide has some helpful pointers on using Markdown. Dozens of ships were in orbit around a rocky empty world, along with a space dock to repair and refuel them. I was linked to hfy by writingprompts though. Tales of the titanic black ship that came from beyond the veil, sent out signals in a horrid dark language, obliterated dozens of the Kondar's finest warships in seconds for no reason, and then vanished like a ghost soon spread everywhere. Back then, Prey 2 was only a week old. I literally yelped out loud. Vedreg kept going, apparently oblivious to the exchange. Rather than fight a losing battle, we played to the role given to us. It was rather amusing to see the scientific community collectively slap their heads when they see the simple ideas and concepts they had missed. Absolutely amazing, really love how youve developed the story from the original. Today I found your first Prey story and felt it was one of the best stories I've ever read. I assumed you were military, I told him. My desk registered this as the creatures Interspecies Communication Implant, though it seemed like a shockingly crude example. I slapped the shield emitter to the power dock on my harness. 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. But what the hell kind of nickname do you give to the space Warthog? 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. Here you go: https://imgur.com/gallery/2Q59t. I meant by the standards of your own species. Vedreg clarified. I'm now going to be anxiously waiting for the next part! But always they were all dead, down to the last child. Other specimens of their art were interesting, thought-provoking. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1vqUJ4T4wQ. One of the longer videos I've ever made :)#HumansAreSpaceOrks #Reddit #Narration This act somehow convinced this God thing to forgive them and be nice to humanity so long as they devoted considerable time and effort to telling it how great it was. ? he demanded. Kirk! he exclaimed. Used as a general reference to copypastas that feature humanity being portrayed in a favorable light, normally in-comparison to other (alien) races. Click here to subscribe to /u/prohibitorum and receive a message every time they post. It implies that your entire species is insane., And youre strong, fast, impervious to pulse fire. They were a very violent race, and many would kill one another for the smallest detail. The following story is one of the true genre-defining classics. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. One ignored me and kept firing at Jenkins, but he was so fast, so small, and the rounds smacked into the deck plating around him. "but the Arokone admiral had refused" extra o. I must have died and gone to heaven. 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