Humans, The Only Species Able to Fix This Ship | Best HFY Stories

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The Ark, the last bastion of the dying Sultaar race, drifts through space on a trajectory towards
oblivion. Its ancient systems are on the verge of collapse, a situation many engineers have
deemed hopeless. All that changes when The Ark passes perilously close to an unassuming
human maintenance depot. Rex, an engineer known for his unconventional solutions and
almost supernatural ability to fix anything, takes on the challenge with his crew. Humans, with
their ingenuity and stubborn persistence, might be the Sultaar's only hope.
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[@raytaylor2342]

It is so refreshing to listen to a story that is being read by a Human. I am so sick of AI mispronouncing words and their skips and monotone deliveries. Thank you for this Chanel. It is also refreshing to get a story that is not the same story regurgitated like so many of the ones out there on KZbin.

[@ncox001]

except that this story is still AI-written

[@harperco4975]

​@@ncox001may be ai generated but still its better then a ai voice

[@michaelpettersson4919]

You can get really good AI voices but the computer time needed to accomplish that comes at a premium.

[@9999plato]

There are always tells when AI creates these stories. The one I always hear is the use of a particular word not used very often by people these days. "Palpable." that's the word... I wait to hear that in every story like a bell ringing and it can be used several times in any story accenting my point. No author would do that nor would they use it in every story without fail. With so many words surely an author might use it because its part of his vocabulary. Yeah true but not in the frequency or repetitive way these stories use it. Now that you know I bet you will also hear it sticking out like a sore thumb, as if thumbs can be heard, then again AIs don't use expressions like that either. Pay attention, you will see that I'm correct and you will never miss it again. I still enjoy these stories even though they can become repetitive Humans, foolish aliens, war, Humans prevail, bad guy escapes to his secret base and a backed by stronger ally joining him, Humans prevail in the final boss battle ending with totally exterminating the bad guys race (most of the time but not always). If told well it can seem fresh.

[@ayudameporfavor1146]

Check out asn agro squirrel

[@GuntherRommel]

"You're fighting entropy with a butterknife." Excellent line.

[@solace001]

"...about as useful as a chocolate teapot." That's the line that got me.

[@gilbertsandoval1888]

Although I am retired now, my computer repair shop was back when you had a basic mother board and you would by cards to populate it. Back then the primary CPU was the 8088 for the IBM compatible and the 6502 for the very new Apple. Back then Radio Shack was where I could buy components off the shelf. These were such things as a color graphics card, a math co-processer, and a modem (Modulator/Demodulator) so you could "dial in" to AOL.Many stores would throw away many computers rather than repair because Apple would not sell you parts, you had to ship it to them for repairs. I would dumpster dive to get them for parts. I could do board level remove and replace, and I could diagnose the problem by laying hands flat on the Mother Board. Failure common to most system design was not accounting for heat so I could easily find bad components that way. Apple sent me a cease and decist letter, but a city DA whos computer network I maintained sent a notice to them for me understanding there is a right to repair. You bought it, you own it.

[@mikedbarkerhotmail]

Ah, the 8088. Use to keep damn thing running with a rubber mallet I kept in the bottom drawer.

[@johnchristmas7522]

Apple. typical 'closed shop'. and built in sweat shops. "Greed is Good".

[@tonyv8925]

Your comment brought back memories of my younger days, building 8086 based systems, 32kram, 5.25 floppys, 20meg HD's, etc. My first computer a VIC20, then upgraded to a C64, TRS 80 model 1 thru 4, up to the last Compaq 486-40. Then, technology passed me by and now, I just buy the most recent. Thanks for the memories.

[@jsl151850b]

I loved my Apple ][....//e.... It drew my icon!

[@ananamu2248]

Yeah ...I'm sick of linear thinking ignoring Soul and rightbrain adaptability, .....more than one way to skin a cat ( not that i would want to )

[@rauladame2105]

A real human reader!? AWESOME! Thank you!

[@taitano12]

Every Engineer I've ever known would be grease stained Techs coming aboard. They may not have all the training, so it's likely to be a kludge, but it WILL be fixed. Even if it's beyond their knowledge and, sometimes comprehension. Especially if they're also general nerds. Then they're likely to figure out even if the really advanced stuff.

[@shadowraven137]

If in doubt, we will figure it out. Even if we need to reverse engineer a solution

[@solace001]

"See? Here's ya problem right 'ere! Ya got gunk in your carburetor. I'll fix ya right up."

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

Wait until the Sultarr get the REPAIR BILLS.

[@patrickbicking4933]

Rex: AAAAAAAAAAAAAlrighty, cap'n. Now that ya' got yerself on yer feet, ya need to pay us back for those repairs a while back. Bill comes out to 7 billion USD. Pay up or we take all them wires back.

[@johnmoore8016]

This story remnds me of the times, I threw the book out the door to get something running and back on line. Job well done with the story. (Mississippi Gulf Coast, USA).

[@ananamu2248]

Well done 😊 quite often people tell themselves es what was done was nothing special because they don't understand it . This .ears clever creatives , rarely get worthy thanx .favourite quote. " a one man band is quite hard to do "

[@geofthompson3844]

Wow 😂. This was actually a decent story that made narrative sense, didn't repeat the same tired tropes, was enjoyable to listen to and felt like it could potentially happen one day. Nice work 👏 😊

[@watsondna]

The alien engineer sounds like a certain Russian ensign I am familiar with. Enjoyed the story.

[@cseale61]

In the image, the alien is wearing a Star Fleet Emblem

[@gilbertsandoval1888]

​@@cseale61You're right! Good catch..😉

[@belelokai3328]

I rather liked this one. Super hyperfocused abstract plots tend to be the best ones

[@hcook1023]

Reminds me of another story quote "the only thing more surprising than a human engineer smacking a delicate machine for 'percussive maintenance' .....that it actually worked"

[@BentReality.369]

Rex sounds like kurt Russell.

[@homoerectus6953]

Soldier was his best film...............

[@NathanBChampine]

Now that mention it. He could be an older version of the character he played in the movie Overboard.

[@krystie730]

I love how you use accents to create verbal contrast between the civilizations.

[@freedombird7426]

You, Net Narrator and Aggro are the saviors of HFY stories. Do you know any other channels doing Live Readings?

[@Theveganshift77]

This channel is adictive . I am trying NOT to waste my entire day binge watching its videos

[@larrythompson8630]

Why mess with the bridge? That’s where the suits who think they are in charge waste time. The power plant, engines, life support, etc is where you need to work to live. There needs to be basic controls there in case bridge crew are unable.

[@nesapanjalingam704]

Thank you 💐🌺💐for all your effort & the time you put in when uploading this. It is really truly appreciated 🙏 I enjoyed this story immensely

[@jsl151850b]

14:08 *Rex: "Waaalll there's your problem! Shouldn't these {points}{points} be superconductors?"*

[@kenl4360]

Rex’s voice on this one made it that much more enjoyable

[@timstephenson3382]

Delightful! Thanks!

[@davidturner4824]

Great story.

[@normanhines5189]

DUCT TAPE! Man's greatest invention!

[@normanhines5189]

And WD-40

[@vaulthunterfromterra4053]

Fix is not quite the right word. Restore maybe. As far as “fix” goes, Gnomes can do it too, but they’ll mod it beyond recognition in the process.

[@doylewillis9587]

Now this is a good story.Can't wait till I get to the end

[@wilomica]

Another winner! Keep up the good work!

[@donkenmuir9504]

Worth the listen. Well done

[@omahanb1]

Thanks! I enjoy the stories and the way you present them .

[@StarboundHFY]

Wow! Thank you so much for the support :D

[@papafrank7094]

A wonderful story that actually has a new character set. The engineer/hackers. This new point of view is so refreshing, as well as the lack of those infernal AI voices that mispronounce common words which drives us MAD. Again, a story well done.

[@jerrysneedsr1066]

To me the alien sounds like a vampire.

[@Medi0cr3-]

by far the best narration for this type of content

[@dragon7060]

Great story, love the channel

[@teamidris]

Lash it up, take it for another lap :o)

[@pirobot668beta]

Read a short-story in Analog magazine in the mid 1970's. Two engineers have been kidnapped by Aliens. They are given an Intelligence Test: duplicate a common device. They are given tools and materials to work with, and unlimited time [pocket universe] The first thing the humans realize is that the machine is true perpetual motion, a genuine free-energy device. They panic at first...you can't violate thermodynamics! Working tirelessly for months (years?), they finally do it! Not only did they duplicate the gadget, it runs much better than the alien model! The Aliens burst into the lab, cheering and whistling their approval! "We didn't think it was possible! You made a working device!" The humans, taken aback asked; "What's the big deal? We studied your machine, figured out how it worked. We had to guess quite a few things, and some of the materials were strange, but we got it to work." "Silly humans! The machine we gave you was a fake! It had sub-molecular batteries built into every part!" "What batteries?" The engineers passed their Test; Humanity and Earth earned their place in the Galaxy.

[@brightmatter]

I assume Rex is certified 100% Tango Tek approved

[@mothmagic1]

This is obe of the best i've heard in ages

[@rainerotto5447]

Nice story, nice voice, nice presentation. Would be worth a full movie.

[@sdragut]

that was a great story worth a followup

[@salnollola3020]

A Good Reading of a Good story!

[@user-gv6mr5mu8f]

I'm a fan- good story that's well written and great narration 😊

[@normanhines5189]

Endure, adapt, overcome.

[@goodcitizen64]

Good story!

[@barbaraprice7811]

I absolutely loved it, a lot of USA humor!!! Fun listening 😅

[@matthewkeating-od6rl]

Great vid/story. Imajine first contact being somone who broke down on the wrong side of our universe.

[@TheFriarduc]

Nice reading.

[@mikesavatar3194]

Sounds like an application of Cybernetics.

[@bobbyharris1725]

❤nice one

[@Helliconia54]

THANK YOU. Well written stories told by a HUMAN. Fed up with AI screwing up our language.

[@paulhartman5683]

A human narrator! Subbed!

[@mikesilvair9483]

Thanks!

[@StarboundHFY]

thank you!!

[@tacticalpickle7]

Haha, he sounds like my old mechanic

[@Allantitan]

Humans masters of it just works and “it’s not a big it’s a feature” 😂

[@hy78an]

emergency repairs well done tend stay in place.

[@AdamosDad]

Why does Kal'tor sound like a drunk Scotsman.

[@davidhenderson3400]

I only hope there was a lot of them taking notes and drawing up new wiring schematics. I am all to familiar with the concept of instead trying to fix something just ripping out and starting over. This happens quit often when replacements parts are no longer available (NLA). When you see a part labeled NLA on the IPL you have to get creative.

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

So much better than those AI generated stories

[@mikemcgee5657]

Man, if this isn't a metaphor for our current political climate... Good story, well read, and spot on for this old field engineer / sci-fi aficionado. My Mutant Vehicle team would be proud of this repair job. Also as has already been said, it's nice to have a real voice, NOT AI with it's lack of personality, pronunciation, grammar, etc. Thank you.

[@Draktand01]

Interesting take! Now that I think about it, in the JS, issues that would require constitutional reform in other countries are often fixed by a patchwork of laws working sround the rigid nature of the US constitution. The debate about reforming the first past the post system usually get delegated to the state level, since they have a lot more constitutional leeway on that level. Patchwork very much works for rigid political systems as well. Now, to clarify, I don’t think the US political system is anywhere near the point of collapse, but it is severely out of date, given the current world we live in.

[@jonathanv.hoffmann3089]

🎉🎉🎉

[@Y2KNW]

13:26 - Let me guess: a spatula. :D

[@cardinalwilson8034]

web designers vs programmers

[@timobrien2813]

Good. UKUK

[@timmytheimpaler1750]

Then Kal'tor got the bill 😉

[@Scorpius2008]

why are the accents so funny

[@goldosprey]

Anyone have What I've done playing in their head at the end of the story?

[@heybobmiller]

First, make it work, then make it pretty.

[@Bill-1370]

So let me get this right, the aliens are Russian. and the humans are Texans. LOL

[@bernadettelee155]

Why does Rex sound like an uneducated Texan 🤔! For his knowledge, give him some dignity. Otherwise, good story 😅.

[@prpplague]

because it literally reflects the "can do" attitude of southern cultures. just look at the character of Trip on star trek enterprise... it is a stereotype for a reason...

[@sdragut]

you talk a bout captain Kal'tor having 4 eyes. Why don't you use realistic background images that reflect the description of your characters. surely the person who is currently doing it can easily accommodate the images to make your story more realistic & interesting

[@tamatirogerson6421]

When that ship next crapped itself which would be as long as it took for the sellotape to fall off the cables nobody would be able to do anything for it and therefore the life it sustains. These "repairers" have allowed emergency breakdown repair to be the main way they do everything. Its good for getting u home. Not for leaving it. And its outright lazy. Whoever wrote this never even "fixed" a shoelace let alone anything with so much as a panel screw on it

[@lmb5826]

An alien with a Scottish accent...lol

[@WW3_Historian]

Hard R Rigging at it's finest! (It's a social commentary, please don't cancel me)

[@danielleriley2796]

What a load of shit. WTF would Kira and Sultar know? It’s their ship and they haven’t maintained it and it’s a shit ship. Critical systems with no backups, engineering team that can’t maintain their own shit but then yell at people who can. They built a F1 race car, fragile and good when it goes, but they needed a ford F100 Ute. The ark is millennia old metal just work hardens, copper wires harden just by power running through them, metal just hardens sitting there, all that just happens in a decade and that’s why computers just die and fridges break etc. Why haven’t they Sultar found a new planet yet they have had thousands of years for fucks sake.

[@re-mark2971]

Nice reading, but the story seems AI-generated. A lot of those phrases you find in AI-generated HFY tales, the same stereotypical interactions between characters, the same style, no surprises... Of course, it is possible that some human narrator used one of the large language models to generate the text for a story he/she had in mind, but maybe didn't feel able to write alone, for example because he/she is not a proficient enough in English. I am 98% sure, that the text was not written by a human.

[@tamatirogerson6421]

Sorry. Wayy too much overstatement not enough story 🤷‍♂️

[@jaybiggs7526]

I lasted for about 8 min. Had to stop. Way to many cliches.

[@Fuxy22]

Wait... they can't build new parts... this ship is doomed... sure they can save it now but it's only a matter of time if they don't build replacement parts asap... It's better than nothing but it's no long term solution... that rust bucket will die without a permanent resident miracle worker on board and it may die anyway after a while.

[@Dr.GeoDave]

And on it drags; yet another of these kinds of stories that are incredibly repetitive and poorly “written”. At least the subject matter is a little different.

[@oddquad2010]

This story warms the " "Cockles of the Hearts" of the backyard mechanics and unorthodox workers around the world.!!🤓😎🖖👽😬🙄🤗. Not every path is a straight line and adaptability is the essence of humanity.!!! This story encapsulated, in a very well written story, the hope that the spark of human ingenuity will someday make its way to the stars . . . . we can only imagine how cobbled together the future may be if that is our path and destiny. I truly hope that we can survive and embrace this outcome. . . .we may not! last that long due to the ecological disaster we have wrought. Climate change quite possibly stamp out the myriad of futures that this world has hoped to live. It's just so very very sad !!!😣😖😵😢😭🖖🖖