The pulse gun configured itself for my species as I picked it up and connected its power cable to my harness. Literally just found this sub today and spent and read all of the first two and was so sad that I couldn't find out what happens next, and then boom it's there on my front page. They had disobeyed him, and been punished. Mods, if this script seems too spammy, I can up the checking interval, lower the time limit, or remove this altogether. You have an extraordinary talent for writing and crafting brilliant engaging characters! Those things exist in all species, but the alien concepts these things expressed, and the way in which they expressed them, broke through that barrier for me. It was along the lines of humanity gets exterminated but sends a bunch of dudes in power armor on intercept courses with alien planets. It was farther out than we had ever travelled before, but not by much. Narrating Reddit HFY - CLASSIC Series - Chronicles of Clint Stone Book 2 Chapter 14 - YouTube Original Story : https://www.reddit.com/r/hfy/wiki/series/the_chronicles_of_clint_stoneIf You. Join me in the love of old Hollywood movies from the Silents to the 60's. 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! NameKevin Jenkins. 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. "EDM is probably one of the styles of music that I hate the most. When Ploel and Teelm are entering the Bonthan security room, you have Ploel's race as 'kethkhan', but the previous mention was 'kethkan'. They didnt evolve to merely overcome adversitythey evolved to thrive on it. I collapsed, shaking from the pain. Your Superman sounds like Tvnndrkktktk, who defended his tribe from a pack of predators for a year without sleeping., Or Gudruvgnagnut, who grew so large that his tribe could shelter beneath him from the year-storm, said Vedreg. I had to go to civilian law enforcement before most of my property was returned. David picks through the wreckage of his spectacular dogfight, kills yet more Wraiths and Demons, and has a not so restful sleep. I really hope not. Please, please, pleeeeeease don't make Rashan into the monsters they appear to be so far. New to HFY? It was small. The Daal, Beer, and the wonderful world of marketing, Faces would make everything so much harder, Lecture on Human History by professor Hatamhob, Entry in the Galactic Encyclopaedia: Sweat. With reposting of classics, statement of what HFY is, and plenty of new OC. Good setup chapter. All rights reserved. Our musical tastes were differenthe introduced me to his favourite genres, which I found shallow and noisy, he disliked the ones that most inspired me. Been seeing new Spellguns, and now this. Keep it up! Used as a general reference to copypastas that feature humanity being portrayed in a favorable light, normally in-comparison to other (alien) races. Update was totally worth the wait. 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. The dude did us a huge solid. Jenkins later explained to me that Charlotte had praised what she saw as a war between her own religion against another, rival one. I look forward to reading your future works and thank you for sharing your story with us! David holds a few spars, has a fight mid-warp and starts clearing out one of the drone ships. Jenkins sprinted for cover, and I followed. Frankly, you deserve all the gold and virgins for continuing this story 2 years down the line! The character writing and the world-building are fantastic, the plot and battle descriptions maybe even more so. Out loud to myself "Oh shit, PREY III. The issue? You will find documentary verification of that fact on this data storage.. 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. David goes hunting, gets hunted himself, gets into trouble, builds some armor and goes scavenging. Not disappointed, progress is progress. Sorry for the extremely drawn out and extremely nit picky critique. Him. All around us, fleeing and panicking immigrants were being smashed to the ground by Hunter firepower. 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. Kevin Jenkins did. 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. It was fucking awesome too! science, hfy: 2013-01-24: 7 : September . Harpers Ferry (Amtrak station code; Harpers Ferry, WV) HFY. Its crazy! He complained to me, in private. 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. Article 227, paragraph 16 of the Galactic Treaty of Laws, He said, stretching out and rolling its head. Often futuristic science fiction, some of these copypastas can get quite long. David has another strange dream and meets back up with his crew. Six of them he said. I turned and shot at the Hunter that had aimed at us. I've read a few stories based on this universe, most have been pretty damn good. Vedreg ignored the correction and forged ahead. My own hunch tells me that it was about encountering another predator species. 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. It would require an amendment to the Galactic Treaty of Laws, he said Which the council is historically stubborn to tamper with. The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor; a sad but necessary tactic. It's an amazing universe with engaging characters, an incredible backstory, and fantastic writing. You dont know? It shrieked and flailed, swatting the human with its hindlimbs. It staggered, collided with its comrade and fell. 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. Within hours, our conversation was the big talking point on a major interstellar newsfeed complete with an alarmist headline. For example, it would be All units, this is Specialist Teelm. It's a tossup between Lords of War, Veil of Madness and Gremlins for my favorite HFY setting. 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. Kevin Jenkins had clearly been one of their victims. A civilian fleet set out to make contact with Earth in the hopes of peacefully talking them down from this religion. You've delivered and then some, imo, and I'm frickin stoked!! Them? Jenkins asked, loping along easily next to me in what was clearly much lower gravity than he was evolved for. It was a short fight. *Cranes Neck Forward, Mouth Open, and Sinks Back Into A Classic Storyline.. How We All Read, Honestly.*. Jenkins popped his head above the countertop and ducked again as a volley of shots targeted him. Our first inhabited planet was less than thirty light-years away, far closer than we would have thought. The station displaced into the Earth system five eight-diurnals after the mission was announced, using the bulk of a large ringed gas world known as Saturn to mask the neutrino burst of its arrival. A few inspired quite intense emotions in me. Please contact KaiserMagnus or j1xwnbsr if you have any queries. The commander tried to keep a disaster from occurring and ordered his ships not to open fire. I see this as a perfect sandbox universe for any writer to help flush out. Yea, but that part isn't really canon anyway. Also stationed on the Flashing Hooves is, Moktep, an ambitious Bonthan Vice-Admiral. These ones were wearing full military combat harnessmy own light security harness was no match. But what the hell kind of nickname do you give to the space Warthog? Our only hope was the magazine of nervejam grenades which, I realised with a falling sensation of failure, I had left in the locker. Hfy Books Showing 1-50 of 299 Transcripts (Kindle Edition) by Michelle kathleen Hodgson (shelved 4 times as hfy) avg rating 4.50 48 ratings published Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Armageddon? All of a sudden, I have these bro EDM DJs playing my music, and I just can't even care less. As an FYI, full page ads inescapable ad on your site means I can't read it. What? Please do not navigate away from this page once you hit Go! He fired upon the Supremacy, which in a placating gesture had lowered its shields. Three short howls of noisethe attack alarm. A new HFY thread, almost no copy paste, a few new stories, and an interesting Veil of Madness continuation. For anyone who missed it hidden at the bottom of the story page-. The Supremacy blew away a single craft to secure its escape victor, Every attempt to convince people that we wanted fair negations, [Text] No beast more savage than man, when possessed with power answerable to his rage, [Text] The galaxy holds many wonders, and I am proud to have met one of them, For every Hyoo-mahn life cut short, a world dies. New to HFY? There were three more behind it and I ducked into cover next to the human as their return fire threatened to overwhelm my defenses. This series is amazing. Vedreg and I exchanged a glance that bypassed the social implants.There are going to be a lot of nervous species out there when your kind develop quantum communication, Vedreg opined. This, along with all the other HFY classics is what got me into this sub. Once, and just once, we found a sentient race still alive. : I love your work, especially "BlueShift"! I need more.I gotta have more.. I havent slept in two standard Diurnals.. Dude, not a single word of this let us down, this was amazing. Click here to subscribe to /u/prohibitorum and receive a message every time they post. The concept was very, very alien. I swallowed my pain and staggered to my feet. Seems it already exists here, but with a less than optimal title: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/5xfaj1/mankind/, https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/6h1tdq/text_the_veil_of_madness_torn/, https://www.reddit.com/user/kirvin-/posts/, (Still upvoting this one though. ago u/mishdaddy. Thank you for writing this. A human ambassador reaches out to the all powerful Alliance! You may be pleasantly surprised by the resolution to that content. Same. My species homeworld really is a category twelve temperate. He seemed embarrassed by the fact. Legit gasped when I got the notification, I have been excited for this for a long time. 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 saw this, and immidiatly thought I was sorted by top all-time again. Welcome back! It's better than my writing projects by far. I want to keep reading it (hell I would pay for a book, and I mean like the 'whole LotR trilogy together' size book). The largest was perhaps the length of a football field, if that. Long-term observation showed that after hatching the individual would slowly but surely go insane, to the point where none reached old age. David and Gron go hunting for a lost crewmember, but encounter trouble almost immediately. If I didnt have any experience, I wouldnt have even noticed. There hadnt been time. Honestly, Your original stories are some of the most influential on hfy, like Your stories got me into hfy! But I can guess. It was rather amusing to see the scientific community collectively slap their heads when they see the simple ideas and concepts they had missed. But the most important part is that they must never, ever learn how much superior they are to us in so many ways. Amazing, amazing, amazinnnnnng story! Many officers have suggested to me that you are a security threat, on the grounds that if you decided to go on a violent rampage, there would be little that could stop you.. YASS. One second, let me go pinch myself. 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. This is the most fun I've had reading fiction in a very, very long time. Two royalty free songs from Kevin Macleod have been used, albeit slightly edited to loop them.Man Down by Kevin MacLeod. The Demonsa loan-word that had filled a conceptual gap we had never been aware ofthat tormented humanity were what inspired it. P.s. Just finished up reading. I must ask you to take this interview seriously. I'd just reread Prey I last week. Other specimens of their art were interesting, thought-provoking. Because if you dont, you wont be ready for us. He said. I'm so happy you have a Patreon now too. I noticed that a patch of skin on his left arm had been artificially pigmented. They had invented a sentience that was capable of doing any logically consistent thing, capable of knowing anything. 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. I had no time to mourn. The following story is one of the true genre-defining classics. Despite my longer legs, he covered the ground faster and threw himself behind a customs booth as another kinetic pulse missed him. Our first contact did not go so well, however. I saw Jenkins sway with the motion and remain upright, despite the fact that he was balanced precariously on only two legs. This was one of my favorite stories that led me to find /r/HFY I didn't know it spawned a bunch of extra stories in the same world here. 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. 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. Please can I have more Welp time to read the first two entries again then read this. Aw I loved that one too. What good is sanity when faced with crushing loneliness anyways? Why would they do that? I asked, to make conversation as I prepared the official forms. 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