Best HFY Sci-Fi Stories: The Fourth Apex

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A gestalt consciousness...
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@Talon1124 4 ай бұрын

This really helps to contextualize how alien an... alien mind would likely work. Well done to the wordsmith and the narrator.

@Michael_Brock 3 ай бұрын

Deleted again, restored. Right owtube censorbot scuttling around. It deleted my comment. Fine I'll repost until it gives up. Authors first published story. Ten months ago. There are 4 later parts on reddit. Hopefully netnarrator reads those. He/she is writing an other story, 18 parts with end to book one @ 18 the wayword GOD. Going to grab new story name. Copying to multi clip. And hard back on device. Double back up, device and cloud. Perma bookmarked this story.

@Crazael 4 ай бұрын

My proposal for the name of the Fourth Apex: Community.

@Edmar_Thorn 4 ай бұрын

I was thinking of simply "help" but that works too

@loganshaw4527 4 ай бұрын

Camaraderie? Unity but still separated.

@MasterElements 4 ай бұрын

Civilization; I am reminded about a story of an anthropologist who asked her students what the first sign of civilization was. A lot of them said things like writing, art or more complex social structures. Her answer was a mended bone because an injury like that in a state of nature and you're dead. Can't escape from predators, can't get to food or water but a mended bone means someone took the time and effort to care for you. Something you don't see in a state of nature and This-Many while advanced, was still acting in a state of nature; expanding, conquering, devouring. Now they are discovering civilization as This-Few.

@TheStartrek99 4 ай бұрын

The Power of Friendship

@CopperKast 4 ай бұрын

Based off the last few lines I was thinking humility

@Snipergoat1 4 ай бұрын

It's rare that a story can center so well on an alien mindset. This one makes the actions of the gestalt sensible withing it's way of thinking. It killed and destroyed. Not out of any malice or ambition. It was simply following it nature. It's imperative was to either adsorb or neutralize rival gestalts, it took what it needed in order to accomplish this. This was how it usually killed the small beings. It barely recognized the "small beings" as life. They could not be fed upon with enough efficiency yo make it worth doing nor could they harm it enough to be anything more than a minor annoyance. It simply ignored them most of the time. The killing was a result of it taking something that the small beings required. It had an intelligence greater than most of it's kind and even though he did not understand the nature of the heavily fortified and defended Earth. He knew it was not a gestalt but possibly for the first time ever it's greatest of it's kind intellect recognized that there was significant power in a non gestalt form. It didn't even think in terms of combat. The closest thing it had way the absorption or neutralization of other gestalts. It would not even consider what to do with say, a torpedo bomber with a 4 man crew. Such things were not responded to and were rarely even noticed. After he had been ground down into the merest shadow of his old self and kept in containment. It did not think in terms of anger or fear. These emotional states did not exist for it. It still had most of it's intellect and was faced with a situation outside of his understanding. The closest thing that he knew of was neutralizing another gestalt but that would inevitably result in the total destruction of any part of the losing gestalt that could not be taken on by the victor. That would certainly included any portion that manipulated knowledge. Yet there he was, nearly entirely stripped of everything but his knowledge of self and most of it's knowledge of outside of it's self. A knowledge that was wholly inadequate to understand the situation that he was in or how and even more confusing, why it was put there. Mercy was not a concept that existed by his way of thinking. Not that it was rejected, it was just not a concept that had ever before been relevant.

@severdislike4222 4 ай бұрын

Ohhhh this reminds me of another fascinating piece from HFY - a first contact with a fabricator species. Wish I could remember its name but it was another case of trying to comprehend alien mindsets, their bio-technology, and how they traverse the stars.

@Oyrou 4 ай бұрын

Humanity is not a hivemind?

@severdislike4222 4 ай бұрын

@@Oyrou YEEEEEESSS! Thank you!

@Questor-ky2fv 4 ай бұрын

This story seems to need a part 2. The conversation between 2 vastly different life forms was interesting and well done. Thanks for this interesting and entertaining story. I like to listen to audio programs while doing chores. I used to get very antsy when doing chores, so I had trouble sticking to them until they were done. Internet entertainment stops me from being antsy, so I am able to get my chores done. If I need to go away from whatever device I'm using to access the internet for a few minutes, I just pause the program until I can get back to it. Thanks to everyone who provides informative, entertaining, and interesting content on the internet. 😊

@fabianwood9457 4 ай бұрын

Definitely

@dacomputernerd4096 4 ай бұрын

Another comment says there are four more parts

@Roosauec 4 ай бұрын

The fourth Apex is cooperation.

@melkiorwiseman5234 2 ай бұрын

Or it could be called Alliance.

@Roosauec 2 ай бұрын

@@melkiorwiseman5234 cooperation would be more appropriate, since it encompasses and implies more than just alliance.

@chialeux514 4 ай бұрын

I simply LOVED this story ! The reader's total confusion of being inside a completely alien mind, eventually morphing into understanding. So many FTL stories feature two-dimensional, dumb, aggressive, lobster-clawed, enslaving alien empires, but this was a breath of fresh air ! The writer had real talent and imagination, kudos to them and to yourself for reading this so clearly ! ( an AI would have made a typo-ridden, annoyingly even-voiced mash of this ! )

@GalacticSpike 4 ай бұрын

here's hope that you'll narrate the remaining 4 chapters of the fourth apex

@Michael_Brock 3 ай бұрын

@biggsdarklighter0473 4 ай бұрын

That was an interesting story.

@Moth94 4 ай бұрын

Want to managed to get around some of the terminology the story is interesting as you said

@user-hl1tx7wl9b 4 ай бұрын

props to the writer this was one of the best ive heard

@tomgibson5769 4 ай бұрын

Best story on KZbin I’ve ever listened to.

@lumberluc 4 ай бұрын

A C'Tan... huh

@Edmar_Thorn 4 ай бұрын

I had a similar thought, and yeah, sounds right.

@IaIaCthulhuFtagn 4 ай бұрын

Someone had a few too many edibles and sat down to write.

@jaywalkallstar 10 күн бұрын

Saw the title and immediately thought of the Istanbul Grand Prix circuit. Turn 8 was a monster.

@ichcool91 4 ай бұрын

Damn i love these alien convos

@krevor4095 4 ай бұрын

Another possible name for Fourth Apex: Union or Alliance? ***EDIT*** Changing my guess to Fourth Apex being Wisdom.

@IndigoWhiskey 4 ай бұрын

gotta love people out here being adorably human about it as if you hadn't just seen a wider viewpoint to include contextually. from an engineering perspective the fourth apex is synergy. as cooperation, community,squad tactics, strategy and importantly planning is entirely about getting cogs of a hypothetical machine to work together to achieve results beyond the scope and scale of themselves. hence why the generalized problem with people is they can be used for nefarious systems without their knowledge or consent and most folks fail to actuate their self awareness sufficiently to act upon the freewill required to defy trend. still at least we're getting to the point where we'll have a wording to express objective morality, soon.