An HFY Story : Humans are Insects | 2375 ~Deathworld, War, Terran and Humans

[@GenStallion]

Narf! " What about the other galaxies, Brain?" " The same thing we don in ours Pinky. Try to explore and pet all the fluffies!

[@derekstein6193]

​@poiujnbvcxdswq Fluffy and/or chonkers.

[@TheShadyProtector]

Alien harvesters: Oh, look. Molten iron core surrounded by nothing dangerous. Terrans: Don't you dare turn your backs to us! We WILL show you how dangerous we can become!

[@Wastelandman7000]

Dear xenos, we put the Death in Deathworld. Looks like you need a lesson.

[@russellstanley8884]

They touched our boats. They have until we build new ones to make their peace.

[@TheLastRhapsody]

A little longwinded, but I must admit the last line resonated with something in me and made me cackle evilly.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Me too. Mind you, I started when the pods of "injected" landed because I knew the Geneva Checklist had been activated. Don't feck with humans, we're smart enough to build terrifying weapons and crazy enough to use them.

[@stratometal]

Its all over the place, poorly outlined, goes back and forth so much its almost as bad as AI written drivel. The tiny bit of good content is almost not worth it.

[@CT-1035]

@@stratometalI’m glad to see that you’re the only one who thinks like that

[@stratometal]

@@CT-1035 I could have phrased it better, but its still bad.

[@elimtevir1]

I concur, the point i a paragraph jumpd around and back on itself over and over. Adapt, Core, Insect, Die out Adapt, Consume, insect..... etc etc...

[@LokaOwl]

Terrans most dangerous tactic: Recycling.

[@jasonswearingin1009]

What should we do about the other galaxies? Suddenly Dyson Spheres become mobile with highly advanced FTL!

[@trenttrent2786]

Where can I get one?

[@jasonswearingin1009]

@@trenttrent2786 Available at your nearest Ford Galaxy Dealership! Hurry supplies are limited!

[@theengagedfew]

@fuzzball83 No need to travel to Andromeda. In a couple billion years, it'll come here.

[@ashleg8350]

Consider that Dyson spheres are literally a 1au sphere built around a star in order to use all of its generated power, Dyson spheres need stars in their centers in order to work. In other words in order to make a Dyson Sphere mobile, you would need to figure out how to make a Star mobile. And if you can figure that one out, then by all means go and colonize another galaxy. You sound like you're up to the task...

[@robertstoneking7916]

@@ashleg8350 I wonder if a second quanta hyperdrive would work as well on a Dyson sphere as on a ringworld.

[@deussalt4479]

I know it's just fiction but I always feel a touch of anger whenever earth gets destroyed in stories. For the Agro-rythm!

[@Wastelandman7000]

Henceforth the Agro-Rythm shall be part of my reply lexicon. Many thanks.

[@Wastelandman7000]

I know. But, I also know that they're gonna regret screwing with the war apes. Especially when we throw the rules out the air lock.

[@deussalt4479]

@@Wastelandman7000 glad to see it's finally starting to catch on. ❤️❤️

[@DylonBridson]

That’s because it’s heresy brother

[@pauldesrivieres7083]

Of course if it was not fiction you would not be angry because you and all of humanity would be dead! So it is good this is all fiction. 🙂

[@PoldaranOfDalaran]

"The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it. They would weep, They would pray, They would say goodbye to their loved ones, then throw themselves without fear or hesitation into the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable, could help but be moved to tears by their courage, their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships they used guns. When they ran out of guns they used knives and sticks, and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage. But in the end, they ran out of time." - Londo Mollari "If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant." - Sun Tzu

[@derekstein6193]

That speech has such gravitas to it, because it not only came from the mouth of a Centauri, not just the Emperor of the Centauri Republic, but from Londo Mollari himself. For a man from that culture, with his upbringing, for him to speak those words show how vast a change in himself had transpired since he first stepped foot upon some human, backwater, diplomatic station. If humanity had perished at the end of the Human-Mimbari War, this would've been a fitting eulogy.

[@dcabrames]

Oh look! A pretty little galaxy over there...

[@loganshaw4527]

It was at that moment the beings in Andromeda felt a unknown fear form beyond the stars of thier galaxy.

[@brianmeadows1137]

There was a great disturbance in the Force.@@loganshaw4527

[@Wastelandman7000]

Be ashamed if something happened to it. LOL

[@weirdredpanda]

​@@Wastelandman7000Oh yeah! Such a shame. Tsk, tsk.

[@SLEPhoto]

"Oh, we can just destroy their homeworld, we don't need to kill them. They'll just die off." Uh huh. That was dumb.

[@MidnightSmoke]

She is just thinking ahead and she's right, what about the other galaxies? Here is a like and comment for the story, for entertaining me, to help your channel grow, and get you the recognition you deserve.

[@Darkinu2]

Funny thing about insects... They're good at getting into places bigger beings can't get to and gunking things up.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Yep, and one hornet may not be much of a threat. A billion of them. who can adapt and reverse engineer your tech.....

[@SH-qs7ee]

Another funny thing about insects; arthropods in general really. They are responsible for more deaths than any other multicellular organism, likely including humans. Something to think about.

[@siliciaveerah9327]

​@@Wastelandman7000 That brought the fun mental image of a hornet learning to use ranged weapons

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story; Excellent narration! "What do we do about the other galaxies?" Well someone had to ask the question! LOL!!!

[@ironwolfF1]

An excellent, well thought out tale. I was especially pleased when I saw that a comment I had made in another ASN video became a (paraphrased) line in this story. Yes, humans _love_ making new friends, but aren't afraid to throw down on _anybody_ who thinks humans are just another species to be enslaved, or _devoured._ _That,_ kids...is the essence of HFY.

[@venator-fb7yy]

Hippity hoppity your galaxy will become my property.💀

[@Wastelandman7000]

Go ahead xeno, make my day.

[@LordTherpits]

I laughed out loud. This is fantastic

[@merlinathrawes746]

One does not lightly dismiss army ants, whatever your technological level. As for other galaxies, let's work out similar plans for them as we work out a way to reach them.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Hey, its free real estate ~Tex of the Black Pants Legion

[@BalthusDirein]

For da Skwerl for the expansion 😈

[@erichherman2753]

One minute to go! For the agro-rithim

[@Attaxalotl]

Venus was right there, had basically the same mass, and wouldn't've been any more of a challenge to a mining rig that can shrug off nukes. They did it because they were asshats.

[@lumberluc]

"Hunted the extinction." THE DODO BIRD IS BACK! WE CAN EAT IT AGAIN!!! Yep, that sums it up.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Didn't we bring it back? I mean, so long as we're not bringing back velociraptors, we're all good. LOL

[@lumberluc]

@poiujnbvcxdswq Eh, its a big bird. Season it right, marinate it with the right BBQ sauce, and it'll feed some people. Even though it was a 3 footer.

[@vladyvhv9579]

@@Wastelandman7000 People worry too much about that. DNA has a half-life. I think they said it's around 1000 years or so, before becoming so unviable that it can't be sequenced.

[@NPCNo-xm2li]

The moment it got to the "They just injected us with something and let us go" it automatically clicked that humans really went for a full blown geneva checklist.

[@bigjay875]

Excellent story narrator, thanks for entertaining me today 😊

[@leonievanheerden7090]

Compliments and thank you to the Squirrel and the author for gifting us these stories 💐⭐❣️👽

[@therealfsh]

a similar disease to the "Super virus" in terms of mortality rate - Brain eating ameoba - Rabies - Probably some other stuff too

[@luzifershadres]

Probelly the Black death aswell. Considering how the bodys deformed and that burrying the corpeses incressed the numbers of infected.

[@therealfsh]

black death was actually only like 67%@@luzifershadres

[@tarrantwolf]

​@@luzifershadresnah, it was only between 30%-60%.

[@ratzelbarreto2070]

​@@tarrantwolf beat me to the answer, the black death had about 60% rate.

[@weirdredpanda]

Covid, anyone?

[@garygough3158]

I should prepend "the late" to my name. Quite enjoyed that one, and it is a treat to hear a human reading. Mind, it might be fun to feed "The Eye of Argon" to one of the bots, in the spirit of the practice of running it through translation programs to observe the mangled remains.

[@luzifershadres]

So, we live in that universe in a galxy full of Lazy people that often dont give a frick about their soroundings. No wonder the ambasator wanted to visit other galaxys. Its like living in a Galaxy sized retirementhome in some crappy rich city like London.

[@SciFiStoriesAndBeyond]

Inspired me to also read out the best ones- people always loved my deep voice 💙

[@danaprall3743]

Your Argonauts love having you back ! Very entertaining story, enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.

[@selador11]

For the agrorithm! For the other galaxies!

[@weirdredpanda]

Pity the other galaxies.

[@rickkeimig993]

For the algorithm, the "Incects" shall rule.

[@charleswidmore5458]

ASN is back! You just keep getting better!

[@leightondoswell453]

Hahaha brilliant and I agree ooo other shiny, mine? Mine!

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Good story, *very* HFY, but could've told the same story in about half the number of words.

[@EdToml]

You orate quality stories - and this is one.

[@JamesLewis]

What should we do about the other galaxies? - Thanks for that.... genuinely made me laugh, because it's so typical of HFY.

[@TS-bj8my]

Great story/narration!

[@Avigorus]

roflmao ngl given that we have a galaxy on a collision course with us already it is a fair question, even if the timescales are a bit ridiculous.

[@scp2539]

The other galaxies don't have a treaty XD Go nuts

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

For the Squirrel Another great reading.

[@noneofyourbuisness1679]

Ah, yes “innocent”. How cruel of those barbaric humans that literally lost everything because some xeno wanted a shiny new gadget

[@Alex.H.B.1970something]

Bravo Sir, etc

[@Wastelandman7000]

The xenos were wrong about something. We're not insects.....we're Tyranids.

[@kclark8266]

I had been thinking the flood. But I think you're right with tyranids.

[@ufoe20011]

For the skwerl For the rythm that is algo For the attack catapilliars

[@nomadsurvival4952]

Great story I liked the last line in the story so where does it go from their?

[@PryvatCyan87]

Never underestimate humanity's drive for revenge

[@Wastelandman7000]

And our ability to reverse engineer your technology, improve it, and use it to make you very sorry you fecked with us.

[@zutai1]

and here i feared rule 34 would be the greatest fear of expansion.

[@derekstein6193]

I thought the term was "inflation"?

[@zutai1]

@derekstein6193 too many angles I can take that, and youtube doesn't need to learn about new things to ban people for...

[@MrDogwood91]

Keep it up😊

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

well ,to start with keep in mind hard power or blunt tools has their uses but even if you can treat everything like a nail the results of it dont always taste good so.. start by keeping the golden rule in mind when interacting with them even if it be with steel clad expressions showing capability

[@MichaelMcFearin]

Man I need that voice for my D&D campaigns.

[@wardraven8755]

I listened to this one yesterday read by an AI and it was hard to follow. You did it so much better and it made sense. I also listened to another one called humans are omnivores. Again AI hard to understand but i think you and others will enjoy it.

[@user-iw6bu4iq4r]

I prefer Agent Smith's from the matrix movies explanation of the human species as viruses. That spread, breed and consume everything in their way.

[@Wastelandman7000]

So....we're Tyranids?

[@Southern_Crusader]

@@Wastelandman7000Fuck yeah! Galactic nom nom!

[@einyv]

Bravo

[@michaellively6467]

Nice

[@DeranRoute-vu5jy]

Foooorrrrr theeee alllgggoorrrrittthhhmmmmm!!!!!!

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Great story, sir 🫡

[@lynntenney4851]

I love it!

[@Gaffa3007]

Fantastic. Really looking forward to more. This is what Time Team is all about. Any chance of a 3D model for us to explore things in detail?

[@reuvenpolonskiy2544]

This is of the more realistic scenarios of most sci-fi first encounter that were ever written. Total dominance of one species, while the other is nothing.

[@4FunCycle]

For the squirrel!

[@tarrantwolf]

For the Tree-rat!

[@timobrien2813]

Good ending! Thank you. UKUK

[@UmarWazir]

This has been thru a translator. A clunky one.

[@RustyEcks]

CLICKETY CLICK!!! WITH ENERGY!!!

[@brianlips8346]

Thanks again for the story 😮😢😮😅

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!

[@Galkhor]

Terra invictus !

[@mikecoatsworth6048]

For the nest, For the algo

[@nooneofimportance2110]

Yeah, this was a fun one.

[@MarrockV]

I sincerely hope that out there, among all the new human worlds, there is a Planet Bob.

[@ZionistWorldOrder]

why didnt they do mercury venus mars etc before earth if just for the core?

[@Wastelandman7000]

Probably afraid the damned xenos would come drain Venus' core. (I think Mercury is too close to the sun, and Mars' core seems to have frozen over as there is no unified magnetic field) You kind of need a planet with a magnetic field to protect against space weather.

[@trentberry6968]

"Not as much fun when the rabbit has a gun"

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@EricPoehlsen]

I think ... what about other galaxies? is handled in "What humans call overkill." :)

[@Wastelandman7000]

Welcome to earth, we put the Death in Deathworld.

[@Logajam.]

I'm betting we could make a Casaba Howitzer it couldn't ignore...

[@jeanannd]

Iron asteroids all throughout our star system but NOOOO - have to destroy a planet by taking the molten iron from the interior of the planet. Whose the insect? THEM!!!! The OTHER galaxies - LOL

[@tarrantwolf]

Especially since our core is solid surrounded by liquid it would be easier to get it from just about anywhere else. And if your tech is high enough, just make it.

[@kurtismiller9544]

For DA SKWERL and his Nest. may he always properly harass and befuddle the algorithm

[@Wastelandman7000]

Oh and never mess with our larva, we get really testy if you do that.

[@alyssonrowan6835]

*YOINK!* MY galaxy now.

[@brianmeadows1137]

Sussing out the neighbours in the Galaxy next door I fail to see any problem.

[@merlinathrawes746]

While Geneva itself may no longer exist, the Conventions AND the Checklist still do.

[@jenellescott6569]

Human, the fire ants of the galaxy with the endurance of the cockroach 🪳

[@carminedesanto6746]

BUGS!!

[@r.kellycoker1981]

Someone smart once said, "That which does not kill you, makes you stronger."

[@lloydkeith3061]

And will ruin your disposition

[@thomaspiatt8088]

For the algorithm

[@Slippery_Jim_Digriz]

For the Algorithm!

[@NCVluminati]

comment for the algorithm

[@johnnyrotten3175]

4 D algorithm 4 D 🐿️ ❗ ❗

[@GR3YD3ATH]

🌎🌎🌎

[@Tang0Fox1]

Poor aliens. Such peaceful things. I mean destroying earth isn't gonna cause any problems at all.

[@t.p.3456]

For the algorithm 👽👾🤖🌌🛰🚀🛸🌠

[@siwlasilva]

🌻❤️

[@vladyvhv9579]

Coyote: "I taught your species well, human." For those who don't understand, coyotes are one of the few species that humans have actively failed to exterminate. They adapt under pressure, like us. And like the humans in the story, come back with a new bag of tricks. It's this adapatabilty that's the reason that in NA mythology Coyote is the supreme trickster, and functionally immortal.

[@nebulisnoobis102]

Humans aren’t space orcs. They’re space Mahoraga.

[@WingManFang1]

Imagine being a Galactic conglomerate of different species and not realizing there were other galaxies, when we as humans with the “Primitive Tech” could see some of the oldest galaxies in creation on the other end of the universe. 😂

[@dannymerfeld7711]

Humanity! FUCK YEAH!

[@GrigoriZhukov]

Oh dear...they get to find what pursuit predators apex level is like. And obtw earth was level 15.

[@Vulture-1066]

What is the background melody?

[@pulverize3]

It turns out the small pox we found along the way were the real friends in the end for humanity.

[@kaelanirevyruun1676]

Humans: What should we do about other galaxies? Galactic community: *Frozen in horror* Humans: How about we make these terms universal? We find another galaxy, and we simply apply the same rules as we have here to that galaxy, and bring in any sentient races from that galaxy to our existing community.

[@TheyCalledMeT]

enteraining story, but mining metals from asteroids is MUCH more easy than extracting a core from a planet no matter how much minerals are in a planet

[@TheRealInscrutable]

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