The Galaxy's Boogeymen (1/1) | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story
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author: u/[deleted]
original story link: / the_galaxys_boogeymen
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This story seemed end in mid sentence, without a real ending. After all that build up of humanity being the hob goblin of the galaxy, there was no payoff to the story.
Part 1.Hhave you never heard of a "cliffhanger?"
Can't remember where I read it now, but it was an internet short story I read a few years ago where the concept was, civilisations can go down different technology paths - turns out most Galactic Civs discover space, anti grav and FTL travel fairly early on, perhaps around the time of electricity, whereas for Humans we somehow managed to miss all that and got stuck on our one planet just racking up super advances in other areas - we then get invaded by a warlike civ of small space dog things that were dominating the other space faring races with tech basically equivalent to the 1800s - they then come out from their rickety spaceships with muskets, deploy in lines, shoot the human envoy coming to greet them as first contact and then get utterly smoked by all the human tanks and troops that had been deployed. Humans then reverse engineer this 'tech tree' they had been missing, and the space dog commander who had been injured/captured finally realises the mistake they had made - they had now unleashed/unlocked humanity from our prison and we were now able to go out amongst the rest of the galaxy and 'do our thing'. Great read, kudos to the author whoever you are.
First order of business defeat and subjugate the warlike canines and tame them. Now with mankind’s best friend we can manifest our righteous rule over the galaxy.
sounds like "The Road not Taken" by Harry Turtledove
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_story)
@@sobani84 Nice yes :D
I read one short in an anthology in which an advanced military defeats the combined armed forces of earth in 25 minutes but during the ensuring occupation various humie entrepreneurs introduced the troops to the joys of buying on credit and gl;eefully accepted assault landers; tanks, and any other loose hitech off world gear as collateral - and swiftly foreclosed on such when payment went into arrears. In a year the earth had a spacefaring military ; in a generation had spread out across the empire and trashed the economy of untold planets what with items like land transports that rolled out with new models but few improvements every year... and in fifty years were running the show.
@@roberthultz9023 That sounds pretty cool, you wouldn't happen to remember the title of the story?
If an average Human scares them, a John Wick film would cause panic attacks.
Ya think?! LoL
So, would we lean into it, or attempt to rehabilitate our image?
@@debra-qq1np Fuck it lean in to it. Always good to remind people of the monster you can become if pushed. Too many view kindness as weakness, so yeah until they learn that lesson lean in to it fully.
@@debra-qq1np If Humans like any other intelligent species; we would try to be less scary to them. If all the other intelligent species are jerks that do not treat Humans honorably, then Humans might want to make themselves even scarier by Dramatic Hostility that is loud or acting more crazy. More crazy is people who are not crazy pretending to be crazy to be scary...but a risk averse species might consider all Humans to be crazy as in being too risk seeking. For this narration specifically the Aliens do not seem bad, just fear what they do not understand; Humans. So for this narration Humans would likely make themselves less scary and try to be friends.
@@rianmacdonald9454one of the reasons the Mongols and the Roman’s did so well, they leaned into the boogeyman myth. Basically “don’t step out of line or piss us off, because you won’t like what happens next.”
@@tarn1135 The US has the current most powerful Military worldwide, and that leads to criticism within the country and from other countries too. Still if you compare the current US Military to the Mongol Empire or the Roman Empire? With that perspective the current US Military is very polite and civilized relatively. It was a normal thing for the Mongols or Romans to completely exterminate everyone in a region...and the US has never done that. Normal as in not unexpected, but I have no idea how often either was angry enough to do genocide. RE Boogeyman Myth? If they sought to make themselves seem even more dangerous I have never heard of it. Could be they did; I am no historian. What the Mongols and Romans REALLY did with lots of evidence was pretty ruthless.
And thus was the Imperium of Man born, and purged all the xenos from the galaxy. The end.
AVE imperitor, Gloria en Excelsior Terra!
I like the idea of humans being reapers of the universe. We scared of the things in the void but they fear us the same
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss gazes back
Gaze the abyss sharply, and the abyss fears you
Interesting choice of the term Thrax ... I'm a Thrax, born raised in Thrace, a Greek province. Thraxes AKA Thracians were indeed formidable warriors in our ancient past, indeed vicious by the account of other Greeks, but now we are a peaceful lot, rather simple in fact, mild tempered and polite. Only when Turks try to do something funny at the borders we get exited grub our guns and run to the border for a turkey shootout ... we are descendants of Ares after all... But if you ever come in Thrace you'll have the time of your life, mark my word.
I was there in 1991. I can confirm the people were pretty damned chill.
I was waiting on a bus for the driver, I was the only person on the bus which was supposed to be the last one of the day going from one town to the next. The driver walked out and looked in the door of the bus at me.
" . . . it is late !" he said in English. I had spoken to him earlier, his English was quite good, he was about the same age as my father, and he had said that once he lived in America.
I asked him what he meant. "This bus is late ! and maybe it will go tomorrow !'.
I looked unhappy, and he said "It is good, we go tomorrow. Tonight is no good".
I was a bit unhappy, and had no choice but to agree. I hopped out, put my pack on the ground and took out "Let's Go" to look to see if there was some back packers or pension in that place. He rolled a cigarette and said " Will you eat?".
He took me to a private house, maybe his relatives?. They were not even a bit surprised, quite calm, and fed me. They gave me a kitten to play with in a very beautiful garden, full of spring blossoms on some REALLY big fruit trees ( maybe apricots or peaches.) and sweet-pea-flowers on dozens of trellises the women of the house had done a VAST amount of work in their garden, it was a work of great art and industry.
They gave me a bed, and bitter black coffee, bread, fruit and butter all home made, for breakfast. Then he drove up all smiles in the bus quite early, and the Nanna of the house patted my cheek and told me I was a "good boy, and go with christ".
:)
I was a dumb 19 year old, I have often thought I should have kept their address, and sent them a letter when I returned home, and a Christmas gift to the Nanna for her kind heart.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 Yeap, that is something that will happen in Thrace.
there are no Thracians anymore... Rome made sure of that... after defeating them in battle those who survived were sold as slaves in the 4 corners of the empire so they would never be ''Thracians'' again... a genocide!... just like Carthaginians... gone forever... docile Slavic groups were invited to use the Thracian land!... taking someone's land doesn't make you THAT person!... and another thing... the Thracians... were never Greeks!... just a neighboring nation... sometimes allied, sometimes not... DO NOT CONFUSE TODAY'S NAMING OF THE LANDS WITH THE ANCIENT TIMES... the Thracian ancient land you can find it in maps of that time... what's called ''Thrace'' today [east and west] is not what it used to be... just like Macedonia
Native Thracians =/= the Greek colonists along the Thracian coast. Entirely different people, different cultures. Both ancient Thracians and ancient Greeks would be extremely offended if they heard you referring to the Thracians as Greeks. They did not respect each other, at all.
Greeks already have an impressive history to be proud of, it's poor form to be trying to steal the history of other peoples.
@@SovietReunionYTRussian troll with alternate history.
WHAT!!! no part two? It was just getting good.
I think there is. Hooded Mystic had a video that had almost the exact same description of humans being a representation of death, but in that story humans were miracle working doctors saving lives
I want Part 2 too. This seems as a cruel human strategy to destabilize-me.
I thought this was the 4chan story about why humanity never encountered any other sapient species, only worlds of dead civilizations within the local group. Turns out, no other sapient civilization from our local group ever discovered FTL before going extinct to the point sapients from outside the Local Group see it as uninhabitable. So being the only thing to come out of there, humanity was seen as boogeymen, and they leaned in on it with scary power armor.
Noice
Yeah that was an awesome story, with the massive ship appearing out of 'the Veil of Madness' (also the name of the story). One of my personal favorites.
@@riesvanwijngaarden3417 Wow! I've been trawling the internet for the story, I couldn't recall the title. Thanks, dude!
Funny that the humans are the "bad guys" when they were killing each other over nothing more than a squabble 😂
Yes but not the way the humans did. We ended it in two months. They where at it for YEARS. They didn't really want a war. They wanted a pissing contest in the form of little battles here and there. Humans killed every damn thing they could find and most likely whined that there was nothing else to kill.
Guess we're WW1 Space germans
suffer not the xenos to live.....the galaxy is our.....
"They are the universal visage of death, and they have ever been hated for it."
Oh stop with the flattery. A fellow can only hear so much before he doubts your sincerity of expression.
The Emperor of 40 k and his Imperium would be proud of this video :D
Humanity once again proving that it's a walking nightmare.
Thrax: I'm in charge!
*Human leans in towards them*
Human: Do you feel in charge?
I always love hearing these SciFi stories
PURGE THE XENO FOR THE EMPEROR
Imagine that, if ALL other sentient species were evolved from herbivores, while humans were the only species being carnivore/omnivore, they would look at us as the "predators" and we would USE IT.
The "Jenkins Universe" of HFY stories has a similar premise - that most of the sentient species are herbivores.
Go watch/read "The worst species in the galaxy", the full thing is over an hour long but super worth it, best one of the HFY stories I've seen so far.
@@SovietReunionYT Listened to that in the car yesterday and liked it. Definite "Alien" vibe with a fun twist. I think there was even a "nuke them from orbit to be sure" line in there, somewhere. Loved the homage.
This is a good story, too bad there isn't more.
This is the second story I have listened to on this channel. Love the Narrator's voice, the dude is freaking awesome. Definitely worth subscribing to.
Pretty sure it's an AI voice; there are some obvious tells in other stories (pronouncing #1 as "hash 1", etc.). I don't say that as a bad thing - this narration is much better than some of the other channels with real people. It is hard to be a good narrator.
No beast is as savage as man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage.
All right but who are the good guys?
The humans of course. :)
finish space war in 2 weeks, when they can be in conflict for 4-7 years.
The Aliens would be even scared that Humans are sometimes afraid of Humans too.
Motorbike gangs.
Story ended like there was more to it.
Good story. I have only one issue: the biological warfare angle. What are the odds that an alien life-form is based on a chemistry so similar to our own that an earthly pathogen, no matter how engineered, could affect it.
Maybe higher then we think if panspermia type stuff happens 😂
Genetic engineering, China made covid and it spread across the world. What if the mortality rate was 5% 10% instead of 1%?
Pretty good. Considering some microbe on earth, can eat most any chemical compound. Learn about extremophile microbes in volcanoes and around oceanic floor vents. Those are probably more alien to us than actual aliens would be.
Actually possible, but it wouldn't be species specific pathogens that they'd be vulnerable to. It'd be the general "I'll eat anything organic" organisms that they would be most likely to be infected by.
Of course, genetic engineering throws all that out the window if you're given enough knowledge to tailor the pathogen to the aliens' biochemistry.
@@shitbeausaysofficial : It stands to reason they tested bioengineered pathogens on captured alien prisoners until they found one deadly to them.
Humanity rocks, screw the woke haters
To be feared is an asset.
i could listen for hours of this , this believe it or not made me relax
For the most part, hiring barbarian mercenaries never turned out well for the Imperial Power that employed them. Janissaries eventually come to wonder why they should die for others to profit.
Have you read the book The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli - if not I suggest it, a damn good book.
@@rianmacdonald9454 I have read _The Prince_ . I consider it the most insightful book on politics ever written.
Not just Jannisaries. Theres the mamelukes, the huns, the Rus, Goths, Gauls.....hundreds if not thousands of peoples started as mercenaries, then decided to settle where they had been paid.
@@thehayguyI agree. I was just using the Jannisaries as the archetype and proxy for the class.
@@thehayguy It happened also at the end of the Roman Empire, Aetius 'army that fought against Attila was principally composed by others barbarian allies, and Attila had fought for Rome as mercenary.
I like these ones. We don't need to fear the monsters, for we are the the bump in the night.
"Class, let's start with introductions to get to know one another before we begin the semester."
"Hi everybody, my name is Bob Boggart! I enjoy bringing death to my enemies and scarring the minds of all who behold my grotesque visage: let's have fun this year, okay?"
The word boogeyman is an expression of the appalachian term wood burger, which is slang for sasquatch
The word boogeyman predates the colonization of North America, coming from Bogey Man, a type of malicious fae predating the christianization of the British Isles... so no. The Appalachian hillfolk brought that with them from the Old Country.
The ending was a dud, that’s no way to end a story that was moving along quite well.
Not the way it was read. If there was a bit more emotion and leadup that ended with a "....." it could have worked.
I get that it's the chiq thing right now but hearing story after story of " Earth is dead and withered away" is just boring now. Every story is so anti-human.
For me it’s the silly implication that some how extraterrestrials would be any better. There are tons of organisms competing for finite resources in any ecosystem creating an evolutionary pressure to be the better predator of the better survivor. This general theme is unlikely to be unique or special to earth, so it stands to reason humanish behavior in this context would be the norm. Animals compete for food, territory, rank in packs/herds, mating privileges, because other animals got to close and were taken as a threat or just plain annoyed the aggressor. All human like behavior, or should I say human behavior is animal behavior. If you compared humans and human society to every alien/alien society we’d probably be remarkably average.
Good news! There’s a new way that guarantees more positivity in an my individuals life, if you are sick of something then ignore and avoid it and seek out things you enjoy instead.
Then you will not be doing what psychologists call “speaking to negativity” because if you speak to negativity it will eventually speak back to you and then you will be in a conversation with negativity.
In matters of taste, always seek what you like. I only love a small percentage of the world’s music and I’ve grown tired of some music I used to listen too.
I don’t tell others that it’s stupid or passé now because I’m tired of it.
I let them enjoy it and move on. Try it.
nah, I love sci-fi so I like to watch/listen to these. Unfortunately, this is the same story I've heard in like 6 other videos here. If you don't like my comment you could've followed your own advice, however, you didn't and you commented on it. Why? Because you want to see less comments like this. Just as I'd prefer to see some new storylines. You're allowed to critique my opinion just as I'm allowed to critique the story. Peace@@MrMightyZ
Look after hfy story's (human fu*k yeah) those are "human friendly"
Good on you but just remember are you looking to to have a burger from a milkshake, its a phrase are you trying to have something that is something else truly and completely something else making it become something you want instead@@n8_sh00ts8
Damn!!!!!!!! This is good
Papa Nurgle would be proud
I need a part 2 🙂
The real reason everything has horror stories of human like things is because this isn't the first time they encountered humanity.
It would be hilarious if aliens were just totally freaked out that we domesticated predators and actually want to be around them
Actively going out of our way to help and raise them
We just go to an alien planet, get to know them and their culture, see a big dog thing, adopt it and make alien dogs, for the aliens to be freaked out by, and totally surprised that it worked too
Humans just being feared by all sentient civilizations, but also adopts everyone’s most feared predators from each planet as pets
Some mouse species completely freaked out that we keep cats with us, and that the cats want us around too
Great angle love to hear it work out
This reminds me of the uplifting of the krogan
Reminds me of the novel Footfall. The alien invaders resemble elephants in look and behavior and find humans repulsive.
Left us on a dead note
Very entertaining.
Listening to this while browsing an Olivia Munn photo gallery is surreal.
When I got time I'll have to post stories from my own sci-fi setting.
This could be the reason for the Fermi paradox 😎
HELL YES WE ARE!!!!!
Nice
I always knew Hugh Jackman would make a great Chancellor for humans, you gotta admit the human kinda looks like Hugh
Wait til their daughter brings one home in love lmao
An interesting tale.
If this was real I would be proud to be the scourge of the galaxy
Someone should tell these authors what Sapian means, vs Sentient, which is what I think they mean.
Sentience is the ability to have feelings; and Sapience extends beyond that into reasoning, intelligence and advanced conceptualization. Within this framework, dogs are sentient but not necessarily sapient. They have obvious emotions and can reason/problem solve to an extent. But they are not discussing the meaning of life or making plans for tomorrow. They live in the moment. (Which is why we love them.)
@FamilyManMoving you have it backwards. Sapience is the ability to know that fire is dangerous. Sentience is the ability to know that fire is dangerous and use fire as a tool. Only a Sentient species could build starship.
is there a part 2 of this?
Great, we're the Krogans
You get what you paid for .
These stories makes me want to play Stellaris.
Man, weird that in a universe where *physics is the same everywhere* and *chemistry is the same everywhere* , somehow evolution ended up going wildly differently in seemingly similar environments. In all likelihood the evolution of tool-using intelligence is going to follow a similar pattern anywhere in the universe because it all shares the same rules. The only way to get something wildly different is *a wildly different environment* . Considering our solar system has SEVEN such environments and not one produced complex life, let alone intelligent life, that provides a handy bound for exactly how "different" an environment would need to be before complex life re-appears: more different from Earth than every other planet in the solar system. That would mean any "very different" life would find our environment lethal and vice versa.
Our war like insanity save us in the end huh?
What is this story the Alan Dean Foster story from the book series called the Damned? If not, it’s very very close. My name is will Du Lac
That felt abrupt.
We have equivalent of NUKE: Pictures of "Mariusz Pudzianowski".
Do in this basically humans are the Krogan?
does absolute decimation mean losing exactly 10% of your resource in question?
Sadly, through common misuse, this term now means pretty much the complement of its original definition. 1/10 -> 9/10
NO idea - but to me the term serves at least 98% of whatever applied to.
@@rianmacdonald9454 Yes, no idea. decimated means losing 10% of force.
@@seanwilliams4087 It still means 10%, even if some dumb asses like to disregard semantics, but you are correct that people seem to pretend it means the other.
It's not like there would be terms like 'obliterate', 'annihilate' and others that would be better suited. But when we live in the age of acronyms, it seems like we should be thankful that people can still use complete words and sentences instead of string of letters, even if they would use the wrong ones.
...hum? It ended like that?
…And, it just ends.
Huh?
these are all the same or very similar. "fear the humans" Thraxians and their empire, it's always about fearing the humans.
Short stories like this have to pack a lot into a short time frame. If you want a more engaging story, try "the black ship." It's being written in real time and will offer you more than the short stories (15 chapters are currently available with more on the way).
Here is the link: czcams.com/video/C-WUXFdANvs/video.htmlsi=dvmfsj9SpPueFLcZ
If you take a listen, I'd be interested to know what you think.
Grandfather nurgal would be pround
Where can i find the continuation?
The link to the original story is in the description but here it is again: www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/sio47x/the_galaxys_boogeymen/
It's a one off story and the original author (who has deleted their account) unfortunately, didn't write any more parts.
I could possible have a go myself at creating another part (I've done this on quite a few stories) If enough of you say "yes" I'll give it a go.
Continue it please!
@@scifistories1977do it
@@scifistories1977 Yes!
@@scifistories1977 Yes
I'll be honest this one is a little heavy-handed on the humanity is the real monster things that I kind of cringed
Where's the rest of the story?
What are you? Xeno's scum!!!!
Space Canadians....not human so they dont get the geneva suggestions....they get to write new suggestions with there alien blood o((>ω< ))o
It be crazy if human actualy exist
The story doesn't seem to be consistent from video to video. I think these are all written by AI. That why there's no consistency.
Should’ve left politics out of it
You sound like a Eve online player
This one kinda ened w/no conclusion.... were they let into the academy
Are these stories serialized? I listened to 4 so far and they all conclude like they hit a brick wall. I suspect the AI reader needs an upgrade. Better yet, hire a human.
As an animal lover, I feel the same about humans too. The Thraxians didn't do themselves any favors.
Incomplete story. Where's the rest?
This is the worst kind of left wing, self hating naval gazing.
Too preachy and woke to be entertaining.
Endless stories of Human exceptionalism and aggressive nature that strikes fear in all alien races ..?? Really, seriously?