Aliens Thaw Earth After Ice Age, Stunned to Find Humanity Survived | Best HFY Stories

[@rossdavies8250]

This channel is head and shoulders above most of the AI abominations infesting this genre. Real narrators and relevant graphics combine to make all of your stories an outstanding experience.

[@StarboundHFY]

thank you!!

[@sphere117gaming]

What I like to say is AI is a tool and it’s all about how you use it. If you use it improperly things don’t turn out great. Just like it’s all about how you raise kids, do it improperly and things don’t work out. Ps later is for any future Ai overlords watching… I don’t think AI is just a tool, just doing a analogy I promise….. I assure you.

[@atgrim]

@@sphere117gaming 🤣😅😆😁

[@teamidris]

Had to listen to that ending again :o) sooo good.

[@mountainman5173]

More realistic for certain.

[@alejotassile6441]

Please, we need a continuation where relo wakes up and show her what humanity did

[@randomcuriosity9421]

That and or from the perspective of their people.

[@flitsertheo]

Humans being vindictive, they would open the stasis pod from time to time. A descendant of that human female would give Relo an update on the actual situation, so many Cheenos left (an ever dwindling number) so many humans alive (an ever increasing number).

[@randomcuriosity9421]

@@flitsertheo that sounds like humanity all right. I wouldn’t be surprised if after everything is said and done they would sterilize both of them and leave them to die of old age.

[@outrider425]

@@flitsertheo a whole Bloodline of humans dedicated to bullying two aliens? I love it

[@Merilirem]

@@flitsertheo I think it would only be once. When the promise was fulfilled and they were the last of their kind left. They wouldn't even kill the last two. They would simply drop them off on a death world and give them a chance to prove they can survive.

[@osets2117]

That ending was absolutely chilling, never give a predator a reason to seek revenge.

[@JMM33RanMA]

Or even some herbivores, especially elephants. They remember kindness and carry a mean grudge!

[@osets2117]

@@JMM33RanMA oh yeah

[@michaelpettersson4919]

​@@JMM33RanMAI remember finding a list of prolific serial killers. One of them was an elephant.

[@outrider425]

the ending is so much more satisfying than all those „humans are the goody goods that forgive the bad aliens and everyone hugs and lives happy ever after“ story’s

[@valdamirlebanon4508]

This. humans are incredibly vindictive and a species that would hurt us this much would turn us into the stereotypical fanatic xenophobe from Stellaris. jury's out on whether we do the same thing to every other species we met, but we definitely do it to the species that did it to us.

[@savevsdeath]

And more believable.

[@Rebelrocker69]

It wasn't the ending that I expected. I thought that the humans would release the Chenoos in groups of fifty in places separated by hundreds of kilometers and use them as a new food source. You know, since they killed off all other sources on Earth. Or maybe pen them up and use them as slaves and food sources. Like cattle. But either way a food source. Brutal and horrific, but when it comes to survival anything is fair game (pun intended).

[@outrider425]

@@Rebelrocker69 the humans had their terraforming system at their disposal food shouldn’t be a problem

[@Redmeer411]

​@@outrider425This. I think it may have turned out the other way IF the Humans in the story didn't have access to he terraforming tech and the crops. Since they do, it's not worth the risk keeping a population of sapient lifeforms that are obviously hostile and genocidal for any real length of time when there are other safer options for labor and food.

[@texaswildcat2000]

That is one of the darkest storie I have ever heard on Starbound, and it was extremely well written and read.

[@strategygalactic]

Think that's dark, you should see the difference between my hoo ha and the rest of my body.

[@JMM33RanMA]

You didn't find the Lovecraftian one very dark?

[@michaelpettersson4919]

​@@JMM33RanMAI probably missed that one but knowing a bit of lovecraftian horrors I suspect the monsters just did what came natural to them. In this case we have genuinely friendly humans turned into monsters with a good cause. After WW2 some Jewish people formed a terrorist organisation with the goal of killing six million germans. They obviusly didn't succeed but the ambition was there.

[@ImaginationGamer25]

Some people think that throwing someone under the bus is cruel. That torturing someone half to death is cruel. Heck, even some think that killing someone is cruel. But, nothing is crueler than leaving someone alive with a crushing guilt. There's no guilt more crushing than the fact that they doomed their entire species because they wanted to avoid something they ended up causing anyway.

[@thoughtcriminal3387]

Some people do not feel guilt or any real basic emotions. These people suffer from narcissism. Fun fact about them it effects 4 in 10 . Meaning there would be billions wanting real justice.

[@einyv]

One of the best stories i have heard on this channel. I hope the author continues. I don't think it was AI, it's missing words like crucible, palatable, indomitable etc

[@SIB1963]

Also, not one instance of "They weren't just surviving, they were thriving!"

[@StarboundHFY]

no Ai here!

[@morningowl2336]

@@StarboundHFY Thank you, we appreciate that. I'm sick of listening to AI.

[@joelceda3500]

No AI is why this is one of my favourite HFY channels. I listen to AI ones, but skip many of the videos after too much repetition of the same tired phrases or "dot dot dot" and "asterisk asterisk asterisk" or random pauses and so forth. A human channel reading HFY stories is the true "Humanity F Yeah!"

[@JMM33RanMA]

@@StarboundHFY Word processors could be referred to as primitive AIs [plot suggestion] and they can also be wonky by tagging correct words as wrong and suggesting other wrong ones as correct. Google, some time ago, purged saved dictionary edits, and I had to start over. Google translator is just as bad. I have tried to use google translate for German because I, or my computer, can't do umlauts. The result is that it tells me my sentence is not correct and suggests one that my German recipient tells me is wrong and then suggests my original [plot suggestion]. Congratulations for the Best story, and best SciFi site. Keep up the excellent work.

[@SIB1963]

Probably the best HFY story I've heard, a solid 8 out of ten in a genre that averages 2 or 3 out of 10. Well-written and well-narrated. Well done! If there is a Part 2, I hope the author(s) doesn't cheap out on the morality of the "revenge" genocide. It is not revenge. It is self-preservation. The Chenoo literally destroyed the biome of the planet and every living thing thereon-at least, that was their express intent-without so much as a word of effort to avoid that outcome. Humanity does not need to despise the cowardice of the Chenoo or hate their culture to realize that this species' presence is literally incompatible with humanity's continued existence. If the author(s) wants to somehow weave a thread of redemption where humanity, for some reason, finds a way to avoid extincting the Chenoo, then I hope it's done within the honest context of the plot so far established. No cheaping out. Find a real, believable, relatable reason why humanity avoids doing to the Chenoo what they tried to do (and, given the opportunity, would certainly try again to do) to humanity, or else let humanity protect itself in the only reasonable way it can. I dislike revenge stories, which in our world and "entertainment" media constantly surround us and twist our minds. But in this case, as I've written, it is not revenge. It is survival.

[@armadillotoe]

This was several notches above the typical stories I see here.

[@Saradomusic6402]

there are two ways this story could continue.. 1: Rello wakes up from another nightmare to see a freshly colonized world, and Grunz leaves her behind to live her life there. 2: Rello and Grunz are woken to see a galaxy, torn asunder by a now Human Empire, with a population in the billions once more. and them being the last two of their species alive

[@СемёнНиколаев-р6н]

Quadrillions

[@thelonelongma5603]

Additional to the second one, they are on display in a cage in the centre of what used to be their own homeworld. A 30ft statue of that human woman looking at them in glee and triumph.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

​@@thelonelongma5603Want to top that? Rello and Gruntz ends up with their consciousness uploaded into a computer. Not even death are a way out. In this state they cannot die but they definetly suffer in a simulation where they get to experience the extermination of their people over and over again. Until the end of time.

[@jillwhite1671]

there is also another possible scenario where rollo is woken a few hundred years in the future to find that the sleeper colonists were not actually killed and have integrated with humanity in a multispecies civilization and that because of her regret and guilt feelings she has been woken to join them

[@Kindnesso2]

Bro, who let the author for this story COOK!

[@HrLBolle]

and this is only a snack before a 25 course meal is to be served with hospitality found at the grandest of the grand courts of old Europe

[@fredsmith5782]

Honestly after initially hearing that these two aliens killed our planet. At that point I would have gone on a war path to take out their whole race. I’m not surprised that humanity would go and take revenge on the Cheenoo. I’m more surprised that the other posters were surprised by the ending.

[@hippythedude72]

This did not go the way I thought it would! Great story. I hope to hear this narrator again too

[@alpha4935]

As the wisest turtle once said: "One often meets their destiny on the path they take to avoid it."

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Lol. I have had numerous small accidents caused by my failed attempts to avoid them.

[@slimking28]

Now that… was… *OUTSTANDING*

[@therubicon]

Apparently, clearly that was far better than any short story I've enjoyed in a couple months. 😎

[@Amokhunter]

Finally a believable first contact story, great job.

[@user-vo3st8kx7s]

if they were able to hack into the chenoo computer, i wonder why they let the earth freeze in the first place. At last, human got pollution free planet from that.

[@outrider425]

@@user-vo3st8kx7s they couldn’t just walk into the ship at first

[@Amokhunter]

@@user-vo3st8kx7s Dude... TIME. This wasn't a Rings of Power Bullsheite, there were DECADES between the burn and face to face contact, not to mention that is took hundreds of years from the blotting until they heated the planet up to sterilize it. Besides, they finally decided to LAND the ship after they came out of stasis and then decided to take another ... nap for a decade or two until the ecosystem got to some sort of equilibrium.

[@Amokhunter]

@@user-vo3st8kx7s I think you didn't pay close attention to the timeline. The ship arrived in the Sol system and started building the sun screen, mildly bothered by ineffective attacks. Earth freezes over, this took a couple of years, probably decades. Observers are woken up in Intervalls to check on lifesigns down to microbial level. Time between checkup is most likely decades if not centuries. After a good long while in the freezer and during an active observer period they decide to microwave the planet to sterilize it fully, they then go for a couple of decade nap until the planet is cool enough, then spread their biosphere seed and go for yet another decade long nap. In the next window the planet bears life again, albeit Chenoo flora & fauna and it spread far enough so the ship can be landed, which they do. After check ups they decide the planet needs a bit more time to be on the safe side and take yet another decade or two nap while on the ground. This is when humanity walks into the ship, finds the ship and all databanks unencrypted and otherwise unsecured, so they have a field day in analyzing & learning. They learn so much that they alter the ships software to disregard the moo-moo's voice patterns and most likely also install other security features, amongst other things like killing the entire colonial population then they prepare a welcoming party for the next scheduled wake up call....

[@Contraltissimo]

I'm not very deep into this genre, but I've seen enough to understand there are some really good, isolated tales driven by character, with engaging, thought-provoking themes and moments of understanding.... surrounded by a whole poopflood of tripe about humans being able to throw baseballs or something. This story is one of the former, and your excellent reading and versatile voice gave it some really beautiful life. Thanks for giving my morning a refreshing start. Truly. :)

[@jolyonrussell7021]

Great ending, love the twist in it, love the menace, love the endless opportunities for follow up stories including when Rello is reawakened. I can see a great foundation for more in depth stories. - Thank you!

[@logankraft8711]

They were talking about how they build museums to the species they killed... When humanity wakes them up as the last of theirs... I hope we've built a museum to the monsters they were on their homeworld. Let the duo know this is how their species will be remembered for eternity. As cruel unredeemable callous beings that the Galaxy is better off without. Especially if when they are reawoken humanity has found other species and created a multi species federation. Showing their assumptions were completely wrong and they did all that killing for absolutely nothing.

[@Pitraptor]

Except they weren't committing mass genocide for any good reason. That's why the human points out convenience. The whole thing was to expand to other worlds, the predator elimination schtick was just the excuse to morally justify their actions. It was literally all about convenience.

[@Merilirem]

@@Pitraptor It was because they deemed the inhabitants as dangerous and rather than sort them out they simply killed any species they deemed potentially dangerous. They likely had many reasons. Basically if you weren't space cows you were too risky to let live. Taking your stuff is just a matter of fact at that point.

[@voidseeker4394]

​@@Meriliremtheir leaderboard are literal psychopaths.

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

Part 2 for the humans please!!!

[@UnGatoBienCurioso]

By far one of the best stories I’ve heard in this channel and many others

[@dantruong2582]

How the Imperium of Man was really born.

[@sunshinecarnivores1919]

These aliens tried to kill us out of fear? These aliens have A LOT to learn about us.

[@JMM33RanMA]

We have people like that. I wonder why they weren't called Cheetos.

[@thedeserthawk2093]

They think they know fear? We will TEACH them fear.

[@wasserbottle5672]

GUARDBRO!! IM STILL SEARCHING FOR ELVES TO HARVAST FOR MY PREWORKOUT!!!

[@hawk7825]

Omg this one was soooo good, we humans deserve a part 2,3,4……..

[@randomawecity1927]

FOR THE ALGORITHM!!! Also, nice narration. Gave me chills.

[@krmusick]

That was frakking sick. Very excited for part two. It was nice to see the narrator again too. It'd been awhile.

[@zodarian6705]

Right out of the gate I got to say grunz is a bit of an asshole😂 The story was awesome! And so nice to have a human narrator instead of that annoying AI definitely got a sub out of me and I think we need a part two of this

[@michaelpettersson4919]

You really need psychos in his line of work.

[@michaellinnet6095]

This one gave me the chills. On the one hand, I could fully understand the hatred humans would have for the Chenoo. On the other hand I feel sorry for Rello. This was her first time, and she didn't like what they had done. She had a conscience, and she was scared shitless of Grunz. It seems that the Chenoo have psychopaths just like we do. And I wouldn't have killed the colonists. They were in stasis. I doubt that they would have any idea what would be done to a world to make it ready for them. But they could be used as labor to rebuild.

[@JamesLewis]

Oh, we NEED this story to be continued.... And, I think in the end, after using the technology in the ship, etc. to restore earth, Rello needs to see some human compassion, and come to understand that the humans had no desire to hurt them in the first instance, and perhaps she could become an advocate for stopping this evil practice after living on earth. I also wonder what other uses the humans could put that sun blocking shield to, perhaps terraforming Venus, or Mars?

[@regulator3581]

I appreciate the fantastic narrators and the quality stories!

[@ademile_0973]

One of the best stories, this needs continuation.

[@08techgrad]

Revenge is a dish best served cold. - Klingon Proverb.😈

[@Questor-ky2fv]

WOW! Well done! The revenge is 100% realistic, and when you think about it, necessary. Left alive, the Chenoo species would be a perpetual threat to humanity, as they choose to exterminate other sapient races rather than get to know and become friends with them.

[@JMM33RanMA]

A sociopath or psychopath called Cheeno, Cheeto or Cheese Wizard would be totally unbelievable, right?

[@anthonymonge7815]

OMG!! This is by far THE BEST story yet!! Please continue the saga. More!

[@009dracko]

Even if we don't get a continuation of this story. Still love the open-ended ending of the story because the imagination of the people is very powerful.

[@CarlGorn]

That was, perhaps, the best story yet. Bravo! **cues thunderous applause**

[@MrAzrael1234]

thats one of the darker stories i listened to, and by far one of the best ones, this got to be continued! typical "fuck around and find out", but presented in a real nicely creepy way, cudos!

[@goodcitizen64]

This is a fantastic story! Additionally, the changing graphics are very good! 👍

[@bullthatsits]

That was fn brutal. Loved it.

[@rezwolf.7774]

Decent story, and i enjoy this narrators voice nice and smooth

[@wasserbottle5672]

He has a whole other channel called "Guard Bros field desk" where he writes his own stories and has some other dedicated voice actors. Great guy, questionable range outfits however.

[@EvilSideStalker666]

If only they knew what self fulfilling prophecy was.

[@SoRiNaChE89]

Come one everyone, only about 700 more likes. This deserves a part 2.

[@EeBee51]

You won with this story... and I like the new narrator too 👍👍

[@whosagreekgod4135]

Delicious. Simply superb. The second part of this story should be short and sweet. Basically a short montage of how the planet was restored, the build up of the human fleet, the fall of all the alien worlds. Then finally taking them out of stasis to watch their home planet be destroyed. Though I don't know how that would look like... Maybe a planet cracker or turning their home start into a sta-layzer or just a good old fashioned glassing of the planet or orbital bombardment. I don't know but i like this writer. Can't wait to the next chapter. 😊

[@evilparadigm]

They just use the sun blocker and tera forming tech from the ship they took on the alien home world.

[@KimberlyCaldwell-xb2if]

Ohh this could turn into a whole series I like it. Stories of the humans at war, Rollo seeking revenge or even humans living on earth learning to live with the new life placed by the evil aliens. Ohh my head is buzzing with ideas 😊

[@eddiecanis]

That was a great story. Thank you.

[@mandolinic]

This channel just gets better!

[@williamharris1485]

I want more series of this one for sure!

[@harleaqin]

That was actually a very nicely written story. And nicely narrated. Kudos to the author and this channel. Wish there was more to this story and more good content around. It is sadly pretty scarce.

[@overlordmagnatron]

🔥 5 out of 5 Mags agree that this needs an encore!

[@JMM33RanMA]

Now that was a great story, one competently and very well delivered!

[@phyrus16]

This one was honnestly good. Very well grounded, and just the right amount dark. But I personally still like the storyline of the classroom better. I find them more entertaining. Still, good job on this one.

[@jayet.brooks3139]

Best one I've heard in a while. Looking forward to a part 2!

[@aaronkozbial]

Would love the next part 😊

[@HrLBolle]

38:53 That threat is neither idle nor hollow, for the fire within is fuelled by righteous anger.

[@DWN9]

What you can't hear/see is one of the soldiers bringing out a music player at around 38:06, they click play, and "Hello Zepp" starts playing from it. Nobody on the ship will get the significance of that song, but they'll do it all the same as it was the final request of one of their ancestors.

[@therubicon]

Also usually short stories are just that, and they end, but I really would like to know where it goes from here. What's the galaxy like as they rebuild earth and reverse engineer the exterminators technology. A good revenge story is well worth it.

[@emjizone]

39:54 Nothing to do with predation. Predators don't bother exterminating anything. They just eat what they can. It's completely different.

[@brucenice3169]

Fantastic story!

[@geofthompson3844]

This is a fantastic story. 😊

[@lexheath8276]

I need a crying story where the Drake Paradox reigns. We have no First Contact, because WE are first!

[@morningowl2336]

That was a great story. I really hope there will be a part 2 where they rebuild and go after the other species.

[@KeithChastney]

Excellent story, excellent narrator. Nice.

[@crysdili]

A very good story of survival. The narrator is superb.

[@ike1820]

I hate the fact this video only got to 1.5k likes pls 500 more people like this video even though its already a month since its release

[@mattferry7667]

Oh this video needs to get the 2000 likes .... absolutely awesome story

[@shaunrye7740]

Great story. Next chapter soon please

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

Wow, this one was a particularly dark one.

[@Nebuhalanezar]

Ohhh I liked this one!

[@Munin497]

This is dooope!

[@gammer31]

HOLY CRAP THAT WAS GOOD. loved it need a part 2 this is the comment i will like and sub as well there better better be a part 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@adwood201]

Whoah! Dark.....I like it!

[@Speedfly1]

UUuuhhfff...did wornder, when all Humens died. Good one. Good job on the imageses to the story too. So much better the all the "Straight from AI" storys. 👍

[@TerryRayl-q9m]

WOW. Great story

[@patrickdurham8393]

This was awesome!

[@RADIOHFY]

Awesome job @destroyatronMk8!

[@armandoa2484]

Wow, great story!

[@jonathan21022]

Be funny if the reason they had problems with AI in the past was do to the shit the Ai had seen them doing and tried to save the others they killed.

[@guardbrosfielddesk]

[Me staring at all the "great narrator!" comments knowing I was lambasted the last time I did this]

[@randomawecity1927]

Seriously, dude. Good job.

[@guardbrosfielddesk]

@@randomawecity1927 lol, thanks.

[@yoda3341]

​@@guardbrosfielddeskany chance of a part 2 for this story

[@soldierscotty1959]

Love Starbound HFY!!! Just wish they would lose the forced closed captioning.

[@brian-my7ym]

We definitely need an update and a finish to this story

[@rogerricalde2567]

That was a GOOD story

[@j.k.6200]

This one desrves to become a series of at least few episodes.

[@yeexian6897]

Dayumm this was a dark story

[@Deluge4000]

Commenting for part 2 please!!!

[@mpompa1369]

Make a sequel for this please!

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Good story.

[@CryptidsRoost]

Great story

[@Ricaplaza1521]

dang... that was a bit of a dark turn than the usual stories i listen hear. but it was AWESOME!!

[@Gundamortal]

Hellsing in space. Alucard: 🤣 You dum goff 😂 so you froze the Earth, turn the surface into lava, and that's it Integra: 🧐 What about steps 3 to 10?🤨 Alien: Sh💩t!! 😱

[@abhinandannandan3863]

This was good

[@JamesLewis]

Just checking in... it would be a tragedy if there was never a part 2 for this story!

[@ChrisZimmerman-gy6lo]

Delightful story

[@markiemark8589]

VERY GOOD MORE PLEASE😊

[@crysdili]

Could this narrator read more often? He's so good.

[@guardbrosfielddesk]

I'll be doing some others.

[@squirlking2]

I wanna see this as a movie. Multiple parts. And the last movie is humanity recovered killing the last of relos people as she has to watch.

[@daniels999]

So cool, so how the humans outlived the extinction event is just by building the vaults from fallout 😂😂

[@loj2252]

oooooo, new narratorguy