It collapsed, what passed for its face shattered by the impact, and I ducked as its fellows returned fire. Looking at your account name versus what you've been posting, I've gotta ask: is this account purpose made? They are not only willing to die in the name of a fiction, they will do so gladly and eagerly. Some had died off so early only a few stone monuments marked that they had ever been there, some had established empires spanning nearly a dozen systems. 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. They didnt evolve to merely overcome adversitythey evolved to thrive on it. 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. They are something far more than that. My species homeworld really is a category twelve temperate. 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. It was small. They are physically powerful. You will find documentary verification of that fact on this data storage.. I understand youre doing this for free and ads make you a buck, but seriously fuck the inescapable full screen ads on your site. We would later piece together what happened, and it went something like this. to the breakdown of the Roman empire in Late . Rather than fight a losing battle, we played to the role given to us. This is a historical day. The pulse gun configured itself for my species as I picked it up and connected its power cable to my harness. Few humans appeared in view of aliens outside of deliberately frightening power armour, and human ambassadors used voice synthesizers to sound like that first garbled communication had. Dude, not a single word of this let us down, this was amazing. Hunters dont wear inter-species communication implants, but I didnt need one to recognise the fear and panic it briefly had time to show before it was beaten to death with another Hunters severed leg. Profanity A comedy. I didnt know any better.. 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. Six of them he said. I had been retired from the customs and immigration desk on the docking ring while my injuries were repaired, and instead had spent much of the last three groups of eight standard diurnals dealing with the paperwork and investigative work that had followed the Hunter attack. 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. I need more.I gotta have more.. Vedreg slowly went bluer and bluer until suddenly he erupted. The recording would just have to do. Ugly motherfuckers.. The Corti abducted you, didnt they?. 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. Sheathed in a stealth field that bent all electromagnetic radiation around itself, and using centripetal spin rather than generated gravity, it was designed to go completely undetected. Thank you so much for giving us more man. "And suddenly, when all of the fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls were ready to pitch in to buy HFY's tombstone, OP delivered. They need to have something to aspire to, something they think is bigger than they are. It was met at the edge of their solar system by a vigilante fleet that had apparently been preparing to divert a comet in-system to hit Earth. I only read through I and II like 2 weeks back as well. He didnt appear to careinstead he caught one of the flailing limbs, braced one of his own feet against the Hunters flank, and heaved with a roar. I really hope you know how happy this makes me. I collapsed, shaking from the pain. Please do not navigate away from this page once you hit Go! Classics; Must Read; Previously Featured; Old School Text Posts; Library of Published Works From my homeworld. For muscle, her team relies on the Kethkan, Ploel, who is known for his prowess in close quarters combat and fearlessness, a trait not shared by, Teelm, the team's hacker. I saw this, and immidiatly thought I was sorted by top all-time again. When Teelm says, This is Specialist Teelm. David meets back up with Clank, takes down some mercs, makes a deal with a gun runner and meets with the owner of a whorehouse. It was, as far as I could track back, originally posted as two parts, the second of which I will post tomorrow. 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. 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. Jenkins popped his head above the countertop and ducked again as a volley of shots targeted him. This is going to make waiting for the fourth even harder. There was no visible change, but the sense tendrils along my back felt a tingling as the shield came online. The concept of the taser was among the very first. Passed out around 4. To refresh an existing archived thread, simply attempt to add it again, and it will be immediately refreshed. They are tortured geniuses. NameKevin Jenkins. 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. The following story is one of the true genre-defining classics. 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. I was genuinely thinking about this earlier today. It was, as far as I could track back, originally posted as two parts, the second of which I will post tomorrow. In any other species the movement would have looked obscenely organic. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ORIGINAL 1964 CATHAY PACIFIC Route Map - Convair 880 Jet - CLASSIC - SWIRE at the best online prices at eBay! My arm, meanwhile, had needed amputating, and I was still adjusting to the plastic and carbon fibre prosthetic that had replaced it. More great storytelling, thanks again for writing it! Vedreg had turned a grim shade of worried dark green by the time Jenkins finished telling the story. The Hunter had a clear shot and took it. Great stuff, looking forward to more. They had disobeyed him, and been punished. By how easily they broke. You are not, Officer Aktnn, Vedreg replied. Whatever this thing was, it was from a high-gravity planet. Under Nesh's purview is a Dreeden State Department tactical team, led by, Lieutenant Reald, the no-nonsense team leader, who prefers to carry an over-sized Terran revolver into combat. I actually gasped out loud. Frankly, you deserve all the gold and virgins for continuing this story 2 years down the line! Holy shit, it's here! 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. The whole system is far too rigid to accommodate me and mine., I caught myself nodding my agreement and shut the gesture down. David and the crew begin work on cleaning up after the battle and discover a little more of the truth behind AI technology. 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 Wiki. David and SHODAN raid their own ships and do a little hacking. science, hfy: 2013-01-24: 7 : September . Prey is what introduced me to HFY and I have reread 1 and 2 this morning because God damn it is feels like my first girlfriend just texted me. Were in trouble I whined. Should modern humanity should try to rescue Prometheus from his eagle torture? Found Prey I around 1am. In any other race this bizarre affliction can and did drive them to extinction. Still absolutely loving the banter between Baden and Nesh, and in general just how all the characters feel like real people! 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. Holy shit! The newest thread Im most curious about is the encrypted transmission the Rashan sent out that Jim is trying to decode. The medical report from the team that provided care to Jenkins after the battle said that his blood stream contained a powerful combat drug, though I was certain he hadnt ingested, inhaled or injected any during the fight. ;), This was fantastic like always. The navy arrived to break up the resulting fight, but only after horrible casualties to both sides. My own hunch tells me that it was about encountering another predator species. A thread about what humans would have as advantages over other sapient species turns into an intelligent, critical discussion about xenobiology, evolution, and the nature of space-faring species. We might be referring to different things. 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. 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