No One Dared To Help Them, Except The Humans | Best HFY Stories

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Humans, renowned for their adaptability and ingenuity, are contacted by a tiny, endearing alien race named the Lillim. The Lillim, technologically stunted and pitifully vulnerable, are on the brink of extinction due to the relentless aggression of the insectoid Kretch. Humanity, touched by the Lillim's gentle nature and desperate pleas, takes on the role of protector, deploying their tactical brilliance and unmatched technology to save this unlikely species.
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Original story written by Starbound Stories.
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[@StarboundHFY]

Would you have gone off course to answer the cry for help?

[@edhenderson1655]

Absolutely! With all haste but with the ship at battle stations and sensors looking for traps as well as hostiles.

[@CharlesAnderson-qv2wi]

no

[@thedarcbird]

I am old enough to remember the Serbs invading Kosovo and thanks to President Clinton and NATO, this was stopped.

[@DrgnLdyLizzie2001]

Yup. Cautiously, of course, but there would have been next to no hesitation from me.

[@dwightehowell8179]

Sure but with great caution. When are you people going to learn that a captain abandoning his ship to play marine would be court marshalled for the best of reasons? Every time I see that stupidity I want to scream!!!

[@zsbaker]

The best reading of Sifi that I have ever had in the last 3 months. Listen to this man. His inflections are incredible. His change of voice is astonishing. Is so worth the listen

[@EffUpAgain]

Doing better indeed in the past few months, first few vids didn't even have his real voice or soundscape. Guess he's learning from our comments and some other good narrators, like Agro Squirrel and NetNarrator who have been doing HFY/SciFi for longer. This story wasn't bad either today, lot more consistent than some stuff he read in the past. I'll keep watching. 👍

[@TheBarracuda]

Thank you for being a real human and not text to speech.

[@edhenderson1655]

I very much appreciate the delicate nature in which the Lillim people are portrayed in the artwork. The fragile delicate way that their physical bodies are portrayed aligns with and supports the verbal description in the storyline. Nicely done. And I enjoyed the story.

[@edhenderson1655]

A CLIFF-HANGER?? Oh, there's GOT to be a part 2!!

[@DrgnLdyLizzie2001]

Digging the changed voices in the stories lately. Really helps with immersion, especially when I'm listening more than watching.

[@blazingarrows6117]

Well done. Thank you for another well narrated story.

[@danzydan2479]

Good content. You listen to your subs and is this reading you sounded more relax and a confidence. Earned my sub. ;)

[@StarboundHFY]

Thanks and welcome!

[@thedarcbird]

That was absolutely incredible! The best story I've heard for a long time and not a sign of AI!!!! Keep up the good work!

[@electricminecrafter]

i love that you added music it makes it so much better!

[@ladylilly2010]

Holy cow that was amazing more of that Please keep up with the Sound effects and the voice changes it just brings it all to life!

[@oldnotweak]

so i just wanted to know why the insect people wanted to wipe out the little peaceful fairy bugs

[@Toxic-yv6kv]

I don't like that seeing your profile pic i Immediately started reading with trumps voice 😂

[@badpop987]

At least it wasn’t Christopher Walken. 😮😂

[@frankg3243]

I liked the story a lot! Is there going to be a part 2?

[@I3igI3adW0lf]

One does not simply attempt to wipe out an entire civilization in the presence of the walking nightmare that is humanity.

[@somniferousSirenSocial]

Favorite narrator of this channel.

[@youaregodspursuit]

Reminds one of Burroughs, Haggard, Wells et al... harkens back to that style of "Purple Prose..." very fitting for the odd and spectacular of the edges of space! When you listen to this think of the narratives in John Carter on Barsoom!

[@daveduran-up6kn]

Great read, thanks for the story 😊

[@smiley3012]

I do like the way you read. Thanks for the story.

[@tltnation878]

Finally a human narrator.

[@xhv898]

I must say best narration i have EVER listen toperiod.

[@mitchellwhite9728]

6:12: "Commander, their formations, it's chaos!" 6:47: "Their rigid formations, their predictable attack patterns....." Author: "What? You can totally be, like, chaotically rigid. And you can be randomly predictable too, because words can be strung together in any wayI want!"

[@dyannelewis1907]

I enjoyed this story thank you

[@UserWalterbe]

A commanding officer responds to distress message from unknown origin in unknown space. Doesn't report to command. And opens hostility against an unknown species to protect an unknown species.

[@KillerBreeze420]

There's a story I would like to see this channel do called something like. When the council killed a human child.

[@zaqzilla1]

It's so crazy it just might work.

[@singledad1313]

If the Orion had days to prepare for the invasion, why didn't they just call for help? And ship's captain isn't going to leave his command to go play GI Joe on a planet's surface.

[@nocx4592]

I figured this was a setting where humans don't have ftl communications and/or the Orion was too far away from any other human forces to have a good chance of getting back in time.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

@@nocx4592 They had to have FTL communications. How else did they receive the distress signal from a different star system and get there during the attack and not years after it had happened?

[@nocx4592]

@@davidtherwhanger6795 Sorry, that's my bad. I meant long-range ftl communications.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

@@nocx4592 This ship was doing recon. And ships always have long range communications. A recon ship should have some of the best so as it can send messages back to headquarters on what it did find by the fastest method, but also to listen in on others to gain intelligence.

[@nocx4592]

@@davidtherwhanger6795 the best human communications in the world of this story could simply still have a much shorter range than what was needed. The original plan could've been a month-long recon mission where they'd be out of range for 3 weeks.

[@seandoherty2234]

I love this stuff!!!!!

[@sandralouth3103]

Really good story

[@StarboundHFY]

Glad you liked it!

[@lincolnhodge2371]

this was great, i wish it was oppisite though the LIlum hare super advanced in tec and they need humans to fight the brutes and they became friends with humans and advacned our tec , but picturing like 50 of them little fairy aliens with headsets on watch computer screens is funny and cute

[@Joshua-fo9zw]

A story of insectile dysfunction

[@kathybarekman5454]

Excellent

[@robertescalante1154]

A very good story. ^_^

[@raincoast9010]

Go! Go faster!

[@jbodden6977]

LETHAL ENERGIES WOULD HAVE LIKELY BEEN MORE CONVINCING THAN LETHAL STRATEGIES... JUST SAYIN'

[@maingun07]

Good narration as usual. The story, while very space opera -esk, could use a little polish. I liked the aliens very much and the narrator really did a good job bringing them to life, but I found the individual characters to be a little flat and the dialog a touch cliche. Plus there was a few plot holes that could be plugged like wouldn't doing all that ecological damage also make the planet undesirable to the inhabitants? Why didn't the shuttles get shot down before they reached the carrier? How did the friendly aliens get on the carrier? Why didn't the hostiles just bomb the planet? Why was a starship captain leading the ground defense instead of commanding his ship? Doesn't he have specialists for that? Marines? Security chief? Master-at-Arms? A boson with big knuckles and a bigger wrench? In spite of the story needing a little shining up, I still found this entertaining and I look forward to your next effort.

[@Vaquero4382]

Okay, why were the Kretch attacking and how did the Lillim get onto the Kretch ship?

[@JohnTheRaeder-xf5sh]

WHAT THE HECK?!?! THE REALISM IS GETTING BETTER!?!

[@Robotic_AI_Systems]

Thanks!

[@StarboundHFY]

thank you so much!

[@sentinel_prime]

are the scripts your own?

[@StarboundHFY]

yep!

[@tonyv8925]

But, did they win?

[@AFancyApe]

Pikmin 7, alien dlc

[@homoerectus6953]

well read my friend. I really enjoyed it.

[@lincolnhodge2371]

Is there any that are connected I think 2 might be I heard Draxx be dropped and i think thats from every feared them but humans tamed them and i feel like the 200 year old dude is from the one about old mate being found in a crysleep but I didn't listen to the 200 year old man one too ummm not my cup of tea because I drink coffee

[@christopherbrown9188]

You read it well, but the story itself had some major holes in it.

[@nocx4592]

Only major plot hole I saw was how did the Lillim get to the carrier?

[@christopherbrown9188]

@@nocx4592 The first WFT was when they were 1 ship fighting several enemy ships in orbit and got the enemy "disorganized." It never said if they destroyed all of the ships or the enemy ships retreated. It's unlikely that they retreated since the Orion disabled several in the first few minutes. Then they landed the whole battle ship on the planet which is stupid because that makes it an easy target, especially if there were still enemy ships in orbit or any that could jump in at any moment. They have shuttles because they used them to board the carrier ship later. Then, sure why not, lets wreck the ecosystems of the entire planet to "save" it. It seems like they just set off extinction level events just for funzies. Then they set up protective shield batteries around the planet to "protect" the Lillim but then had them scatter through the forests. I do kind of get this if they were using the shields to lure the enemy into trapped areas & the Lillim would be be able to hide much better in the forests... but it's not like the enemy couldn't tell where the villages were anyway. Then the boarding of the carrier... if a shuttle could breach it that easily, just insert a nuke or antimatter warhead instead. Less climatic but bigger boom. If the point was to gain more firepower by taking the ship, they have a nanite AI virus hijacking bomb they could have just jammed it in the first major system they came across instead of the bridge. Computer core would probably be a better choice. I agree that I was confused for a second on how the Lillim got on the ship, but they did still have their small ships in orbit, they could have just followed the humans in. Thankfully they didn't use the elder to raid the ship and left him on planet to coordinate the ground assault, unlike the Orion's bridge crew that does the direct assault leaving the B team or whomever to captain the ship. Lastly... they didn't call for any reinforcements! I do really like Starbound's narration better than most of the others. It's no fault of his.

[@dukeofapes]

You are really good at narrating, you should scrap the AI voice overs and stick to actual voice overs because you have talent

[@mcrib8330]

Thank you, getting tired of the ai bs

[@jamesogden7756]

Please find the better stories that don't have major plot holes. Analytical thinking is not dead. Please prove me right. I like your narrations. This story was ... disappointing.

[@duanebouchard8736]

disjointed, and no fun

[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

Once again, the audio doesn't quite match the text on the screen. Words skipped, others added or changed.