We Thought Wrong (Chapters 1 &2) | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

[@scifistories1977]

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[@DB-ku7vu]

“They put KINVES on GUNS?!” That got me

[@shadowsapphire100183]

They think that's scary, wait till they see what we do with trench shovels.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

If you can't put a bayonet on a gun, it has a design flaw.

[@AntiKira20]

Guardsman, fix bayonets! Equip bayonets! Be ready for blood!

[@bigblue2216]

@@AntiKira20 That's when you know shit is gonna get real!

[@shaggybaggums]

Either that or we put guns on our knives. Bringing a gun to a knife fight makes life much easier.

[@SageofStars]

I'm reminded of a proverb by a great human philosopher at times like these. 'If it bleeds, we can kill it.' God, demon, or simple child killer. They die all the same at our blades.

[@HawkGTboy]

Alien: “It’s okay! The human female said she didn’t want it.” Human: “Oh, okay. Here let me help you. We have this nifty vacuum device that will suck it up and chop it to bits.”

[@TheStartrek99]

"The human love of overkill." Better overkill than underkill... Also, imagine their surprise when the humans insist on making the harming of the juveniles of any species a war crime....

[@spacedragon1175]

hmm i wonder why...

[@TheStartrek99]

@@spacedragon1175 why my opinion on overkill, or why humans would extend their protection to juveniles of other species?

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

"As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Human. Remember: victory is life."

[@animeguardianxx]

When humans become the Jem Hadar

[@drunkendevil6960]

I like it. I'm putting it on a frame.

[@RequiemPoete]

His name was Robert Paulson.

[@Spartan135]

Suffer not the Xenos to live,for their mere existance is heresy!

[@nobodyknows9083]

So say the Emperor…so say we all!!!!

[@ironknightcinema]

The Emperor protects

[@ChaoticTeen16]

Beware the Alien, the Mutant, the Heretic!

[@MrWest-ph5yg]

The Emperor Protects

[@thalaseamyst3934]

Like Blacks and Whites.

[@patlab555]

_"They are not even afraid of Gods, their literal God coming down, pissing some of them off, and they nail him alive to wood to die"_ ROTFL 🤣🤣

[@henrymcbark7337]

As a christian this was honestly funny.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

I also appreciated the die hard reference.

[@richardarriaga6271]

They forgot the part where that same God sent 10 Plagues first and one of them still wanted to kill The Chosen People.

[@gaborlaszlo6529]

@@richardarriaga6271 But this is not surprising, one of the 10 plagues was intended to kill the firstborns. And you know... "don't try to kill their children" 😅

[@trplankowner3323]

They should have put more effort into studying the theology of that particular story. That God being higher than anything in the Universe having created the Universe and even time itself. Then willingly suffered and died the most ignominious of deaths in order to be an example for Its children that no one has greater love than to die for another. Then you threaten the children, the very hope for a future of such people. Watch the video "Those who run". We are persistence predators. We keep up the chase until the prey is exhausted and can no longer evade us. You show yourselves to be a threat to our children; go ask wolves, lions, tigers and bears. Go back in time to ask the short face cave bear, the largest mammalian land predator ever (on Earth) why you do not threaten human children. Humans react as a community very much the way they would act as an individual. In a fight against an existential threat if one falls, the others persist. “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.” Captain Ronald Speirs, Band of Brothers

[@Headloser]

"When they not only can just make more but enjoy doing so." Very Logical thinking from a pirate.

[@Allantitan]

But something they won’t be thinking for long

[@GamingTalk-cl7xj]

As a father of 2 babies this hits hard. Feel like if I were about to go into battle and heard a baby get shot, I would also fall into a blood rage. Great story

[@Genesis23OPB]

im no father, just a passionate uncle and the first story allready made my blood boil

[@Allantitan]

@@Genesis23OPBalien: *shoots baby* Entire human race: *goes into animalistic rage angry enough to even scare gods*

[@spacedragon1175]

" and when humans decide that something is dangerous to their young, they will stop at nothing to destroy it" sums up our species pretty well don't you think?

[@horsethehorse3969]

I don’t know. My neighbours kid is honestly annoying.

[@reasonabledoubt459]

Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed my story. :) Nice job narrating it.

[@scifistories1977]

Hey, it's a great story! Can you contact me on reddit as I have a question for you? I'm u/scifistories1977

[@kraagnjilwulf1413]

Is there a part two?

[@scifistories1977]

​@@kraagnjilwulf1413I've added the playlist for the story into the description.

[@RiMarBrown]

This was incredible. It captured what it is to be human at a core level & what we will put into a thing we have given ourselves to.

[@reasonabledoubt459]

Thank you.@@RiMarBrown

[@leyrua]

Reminds me of a fantasy monster that, if you kill one of them, the rest will attack relentlessly until you die, no matter how many of them are mowed down in the process. An unusual evolutionary strategy to be sure, but it worked. Everyone absolutely avoided attacking one of those things at all costs, because the only way to end the resulting onslaught was to either exterminate the entire population of the critters, or abandon your outpost.

[@richardarriaga6271]

So we're the chickens in Zelda

[@leyrua]

@@richardarriaga6271 Oh geez I just realized that those were probably the INSPIRATION for that fantasy monster. 😂

[@shadiafifi54]

There's also the Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft, though in that case the cats take their revenge a lot more quietly.

[@stevenredpath9332]

African bees will swarm over an attacker, covering the creature totally so it dies by overheating. Boils alive.

[@pheonixblue01]

So they’re hornets and wasps? Oh, I think yellow jackets do it too. Wasps will wait for you if you go under water.

[@Swolesauce96]

Humanity: Friends? Xeno: No 😡 Humanity: Happy chain weapon noises

[@Wolfen443]

Kids are so precious to people that crimes against children often draw more punishment than to adults indeed.

[@HawkGTboy]

Unless they haven’t been born yet. Then half of the humans delight in mechanically sucking them from the females gestation sacs and chopping them to bits. A most curious species.

[@jamesogden7756]

As is appropriate. Fear nothing more than a pissed off parent.

[@Spyro757]

@@jamesogden7756or criminal world yes you would be surprised

[@Puddingskin01]

I love how humanity is not upset that they are the only ones fighting, the admiral is just like "Keep the guns and my men fed and try to keep up, my boys are trying to have fun!"

[@zerx9926]

"THIS ISN'T WAR, THIS IS REVENGE! ARE THEY INSANE!? ARE THEY INSANE!!?" - The Admiral asked the question calmly...

[@I.C.U-c7l]

OMG...... YIPPEE KI YHA MOTHER F**KER....... HAD ME ON THE FLOOR LMFAO SO HARD...... It took 10 min's for my eyes to stop watering so I could play the rest of the story....

[@Zaluskowsky]

That got me too omfg .. Does anyone have a Translation for Yippeee Ki Ya Motherfucker...

[@danieltemoche6189]

Gee I've been looking for this comment so hard 😂

[@baltham0]

Pankin Command: Why are the humans fighting with such sheer wantonness. It wasnt their offspring. Pankin Xenobiologist: Apparently their military doctrine revolves around a riddle that goes, "what makes the grass grow?"

[@drunkendevil6960]

Hello there my fellow netizen! If you don't mind my asking.... what is the answer to the riddle? Honestly, it's the first time I've heard (read) this one.

[@baltham0]

@@drunkendevil6960 watch Full Metal Jacket and then you'll understand

[@eldominguez]

Boold! Blood!Blood!​@@drunkendevil6960

[@proudamerican183]

​​@@drunkendevil6960 Don't remember the exact wording but the answer in short is blood. Blood is what makes the grass grow.

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim asks, "What do we do for a living, ladies!" and the platoon replies, "KILL! KILL! KILL!" He then asks, "What makes the grass grow?" and they reply "BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!"

[@dc-sk8fw]

A safe galaxy is a human galaxy.

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

The act of conception itself is pleasurable, yes, but the actual conception itself is immaterial. The process of a female's gestation period and eventual delivery however renders her so physically ill it is legally considered a temporary disability. The actual birthing process is agonizing to the point where many women must be sedated simply to endure it without accidentally mutilating themselves or others due to the pain. They are also a species that fully raises their young until said young is considered an independent adult, and even then by law they must care for the offspring for several years beyond what would be considered physical maturity to account for a legally dictated age of mental maturity. The human gestation period is nearly a full year. It is considered a statistical oddity for a human female to have more than one offspring from one gestation. From a sheer biological standpoint, humans invest an incredible amount of time and energy into their young, and that's before the social and psychological aspects of raising it come into effect. There is no such thing as 'just an offspring' to humans for this reason. They are instinctively hard-wired to consider their young to be the most important thing in the universe. For a long time, a popular cultural phrase has been 'our children are our future'. And after all, if one's only offspring does not survive into adulthood, one has not succsssfully fulfilled the biological imperative to pass along one's genetic code.

[@stevenredpath9332]

With fewer offspring this is certainly true but remember it’s not that long ago when 2/3 of our children failed to survive to adulthood. We are highly successful at breeding because we have had to.

[@Genesis23OPB]

human incubation time is insanely long and it takes years until a human child can even run fast enough to be of any use. cows and humans are both pregnant for 9 months but a calf stands after 1h, walks after a few more and can run reasonably fast enough after a week. human babies are useless for years 😅

[@MersenneTwister]

@@Genesis23OPB The humans do have a lengthy gestation, and it is true that it does little to preload memetic state, but the humans are quite astonishing regardless. Most survive fewer than a hundred of their systems cycles, and the cycles are not long. The cultural mandates around gestation appear to be largely concerned with avoiding deviant humans from preying on the fresh naive humans during an uninterrupted concentrated memetic transfer period. Human knowledge is neither protein nor genetically encoded, but rather coalesces as a completely nontransferable holographic store of weighted cellular interconnection. They must rely upon lingual metaphoric encoding transfer for all human knowledge, not merely social niceties as most reasonable species do. The young are initially mental blanks. However, with determination and support, a human infant can take fewer than thirty cycles to absorb sufficient memetic material from the gestalt cultural noosphere to advance from blank to expertise in subquantum theory, often already specializing in applying the theory to weapons manufacture. Thirty local cycles. No more than 12.5 of our own. Barely sufficient time to exit the first cast. Do you have any idea how long it takes to reach the seventh cast in both application of universal principals and the effective martial armament doctrines of memetics? And we receive much from the memories transferred to us in gestation. Thirty mere cycles.

[@RequiemPoete]

Probably because strictly speaking our ancestors were prey. Humans were originally fruit eating omnivores that scavanged meat. So we breed like prey animals. And biologically, we still are prey animals. We only can be apex predators by making weapons, but a base model "feral" human is pretty easy prey ​@@stevenredpath9332

[@mischake]

"One of their stories has their literal god coming down, pissing some of them off and they nail him to wood to die" This had me laughing so damn hard 😂

[@michaelperussina2835]

The Level we will go to against an enemy that harms or knowingly kills kids is absolute.

[@robertpowell1464]

Alien: takes the shot. His HUD: You done goofed. You have alerted the humans.

[@Shinobubu]

Humans still playing their favorite anthem as they dive through a planets atmosphere. KICK START MY HEART

[@sindeon]

Asking for translation of the DIe Hard quote had me. Well done sir.

[@mariusweber4990]

This is my favourite sci-fi short story. Just awesome.

[@joshuamillins5389]

My one thought was of the speech of Belgrade. Modified by myself for the occasion. Heroes! The supreme command has erased our regiment from its records. Our regiment has been sacrificed for the honour of Terra and Humanity. Therefore, you no longer need to worry about your lives: they no longer exist. So, forward to glory! For Terra and humanity! Long live the Terra, Long live Humanity!”

[@UwU-xk5cx]

I like the idea of an alien species not putting any value on their young but putting enough value on kitties to know the term "kitty killing monsters", like, don't care about children, but kittens? That's were I draw the line

[@axion9194]

would love a part 2

[@GenStallion]

Follow the links... Never mind, that was part 1 and part 2 combined.

[@drunkendevil6960]

​@GenStallion, really? It feels incomplete! Darn.. I thought there'd be more to this.

[@reasonabledoubt459]

There's like 15 parts or something. I forget how many now.

[@reasonabledoubt459]

@@drunkendevil6960 There is. I wrote like 15 parts to it or so.

[@AlphagonOmegarius]

The fact that the final dualogue ends with "we think so" and then i took a look at the video's title.

[@Grouuumpf]

"contradicting doctrine which said that ground troops should only come down once the area is secured..." Allow me to introduce you to the concept of paratroopers.

[@TimothyCizadlo]

It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the English began to hate. -Kipling's "The Beginnings"

[@malahammer]

Just as well no one in the countries that the English stole and pillaged did not hate the English🙄

[@Andy-gw9wp]

I love the stories of human going nuts when they target our young

[@lordmaverick2468]

This reminded me of Babylon 5: in the Beginning movie, where Londo recalled the war between the Humans and the Minbari. "They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space" "When they ran out of ships they would use guns, when they ran out of guns they would use knives... and bare hands" chek out Mollari on Humans if your interested.

[@smokinggnu6584]

They done goofed.

[@Arkyn-99]

I wonder how long it will take for that war crime to not just include human young. Because we kind of pack bond with anything. And If I see someone threatening a kid…

[@mugenokami2201]

Might try it’s meat to see if it tastes half decent?

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story! Classic FAFO!

[@VestedUTuber]

Hell hath no fury like a righteously angry mother.

[@Caladbolg_EN]

Amazing story. Very well told, too. Thank you so much!

[@-werksmith2078]

"Q" from Star trek should have said "Don't piss-off the humans!"

[@electricangel4488]

A andorian aqutaince once said. "Dont push the pink skins ontoo the thin ice"

[@IceFiction404]

Well written story, Thank you for upload .

[@Shreyashbarve-kt8co]

8:20 only speaking facts

[@jeremiahoconnor5750]

Absolutely amazing story!

[@xirausgaming]

Awesome! There can be more, gimme more.. pls

[@ArneBab]

I listened to several of your recordings now, and many of them show the problem we have to fix if we want to avoid murdering our own again and again. Hate that is kept alive and nurtured for generations.

[@aljeandropacheco3608]

Rule number 1 with humans. DONT TARGET THE KIDS. Forget politics. Forget bribary. Threats.....its the hammer on the coffin for ya.

[@dave928]

14 *quadrants* ?

[@tudogeo7061]

Lmao we're the klingons now 😂

[@henrywilson2136]

Stay away from our kids. Period.

[@MrWest-ph5yg]

Full stop.

[@forgetfuldullahan5468]

Touch the kids, experience the reason we made the Geneva conventions in the first place. Angry Canadians. Cuz it's not a way crime the first time until after the war.

[@HawkGTboy]

Haha, unless they haven’t been born yet and the mother doesn’t want them. Then they’re just medical waste. Or if the aliens are here to make our kids confused about what gender they are and give them sex change surgeries without our knowledge. Then we’ll call that healthcare. But other that that, yeah. Stay away from our kids. Period!

[@mugenokami2201]

Stay away from American ships and don’t even look at the younglings funny

[@richardreid6377]

Alien: Are they insane? Human: Crazy like a fox.

[@joeykonyha2414]

This is why “The Killing Star” has the most likely response an alien civilization will have to humanity’s existence.

[@alastor8091]

Purge the Xenos.

[@baohoang4966]

Alien: "So how did you fixed the jamming in transmission?" Human: "I blow the jamming source!" YEP, sound absolutely Human-like !!

[@K4rm4ness]

A nice nod to Bruce Willis!!😂😂

[@theamiralgarner]

*alien soldier* they brought a church...?...it also have guns...and...wait is it walking ? Titan in a floridan accent: a good alien is a dead one*proceed to obliterate the fortress in front of him*

[@Quantum_Prophet]

Got em!

[@insylem]

I LoLed hard at the Die Hard reference

[@solidsteel3634]

There is no such thing as overkill. There's only "fire clear" and "I have to reload"...

[@LegendaryLycanthrope]

Art sauces? I'd like to nab that image with all the ships flying over the planet around the 10:00 mark for wallpaper.

[@RobertMattison-w4p]

Great Syfy short story.

[@robertbrown9237]

Welcome to Earth😊 👍

[@RANDOM-KNIGHT145]

7:50 Damn right 🤬

[@ahashdahnagila6884]

Sounds like Donovan Dread, to me!

[@mikekleppe1441]

Great story 🫡🫡🤘🤘

[@locker1325]

Well done. I'm totally into it.

[@terrencebryant7518]

great story is there going to part 2?

[@reasonabledoubt459]

There's like 15 parts or so.

[@ArchAngelWC]

"it is not my job to die for Earth....it is my job to make the other poor dumb bastard die for their Planet..." a Terran

[@bardigan1]

Good stuff

[@cielvalentine016]

Leonardo 3 might just do the trick but .. dam

[@joimumu]

Why are our alien allies so worried? Unless of course they were planning to harm children

[@pauldwalker]

yeah, there are a lot of funny lines in this one.

[@Holammer]

Story could have ended with the anthropologists finally realizing the value of a human child, because the time investment is completely different from all other known intelligent species which all spawn like frogs or fish. Give it a little bit of a 50's scifi "it's a cookbook" twist.

[@manadol69]

FOR THE EMPEROR!

[@uncharted7954]

Wait till they see banzai charge.

[@lars1701again]

Is there a part 2?

[@petergaskin1811]

Genie out of the bottle time then.

[@UncivilizedGentlemen]

THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

[@danak8863]

Bayonetting the xeno is acceptable conduct on the battlefield. Remember, gents. Rifle length gas 20" and mid length gas 16" ARs with fixed front sight bases readily accept bayonets.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

drums.. drums in the void.. their thunder grows louder , their rythm deeper.. brace sweet little aliens , steel and blood and sweat and bullets are coming for you all ..blow up the mechs and a berserk will just leap over it with an axe

[@nitiad4564]

“From what twisted depths of the abyss can hate like that come from? What is he thinking about? Doesn’t he know what he’s doing?” Obviously you’ve never met a Marine, hatred and lack of thought is what makes them strong. 🗿🗿🗿

[@theamiralgarner]

something i heard in another story: "we, mankind, know what we are capable of, and not one deserve this...yet" those alien F***ed around and found out

[@GenStallion]

FIX BAYONETS!

[@CapyMartinBara]

WE DOING THIS CLOSE AND PERSONAL

[@I.C.U-c7l]

YOU ARE F**KING KIDDING ME....... When is the next part coming out....?

[@reasonabledoubt459]

A year ago. I wrote like 15 parts to this one.

[@Mexican00b]

hey, space *Corsairs*

[@notcherbane3218]

I got to see the very concept of an alien beast shooting an infant pisses me off too, 😮

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Will it work no it won't, it will never work

[@richardstone5552]

Cool

[@darkshadow9291]

I love the whole thing with they killed one of there gods

[@TheLoneMan-fk2iu]

keep in mind 180 cycles is like 110 years so you do the math

[@ajp7860]

"yippee-kai-yay mfer!!"

[@willemsamuel4068]

This sounds more like a hoard. The most successful militarys on the planet all value human life above all else. No man left behind, etc. Reckless abandon usually just leads to high casualties rates and surrender. They mentioned “self termination” attacks which I’m assuming means kamikaze missions. But a suicide mission isn’t a kamikaze. A kamikaze is an attack where it’s success is contingent on both sides total destruction. A suicidal mission is incredibly dangerous, with almost no chance of survival, but those who carry it out don’t succeeed by dying, on the contrary, they should try as hard as they can to avoid it. This humanity feels more like crazed kamikaze wilfully killing themselves than people who understand the grave consequences, don’t want to die, but face long odds regardless.

[@malasangre6700]

So they were British.... 😂😂😂😂

[@mark_sturzbecher]

you think they voted unanimously?

[@cedo3333]

Don't get me wrong i do love those stories but there is something bothering me a lot. I listened to some of them and there's often something common: the humanity is always too much, the best or the worst but still humanity first. That does bother me a lot. It's okay for 1-2 stories but not that much.

[@elmateo77]

This is a ripoff of another story except in the other one they were soldiers not pirates.

[@scifistories1977]

The link to the story is in the description.

[@Subjagator]

I wonder if it was changed on purpose, considering the ongoing conflicts and the rising civilian casualty rates. A fun HFY story but far from reality.

[@terrencebryant7518]

bro it’s a space o-era they all have the same theme. Have you ever read John rings? And every alien invasion movie ever.

[@thoscarney6671]

Yeah!…….But they were all bad……..

[@jpc1147]

That ending sucked, I was hoping it would show us to be a reasonable species and the galaxy had nothing to fear. Still liked it because it was a good story just was hoping for a different ending.

[@CapyMartinBara]

To be fair, when have we been reasonable

[@sarmeister1699]

TBF, it ends before humans get the chance to debate the terms on the peace deal with the confederation.

[@kyriss12]

It feels incomplete. Like there should be another part where the humans are informed of the surrender and either continue to go off full throttle or show how we can turn in the sword for the plow and rebuild what we just destroyed.

[@drunkendevil6960]

I think your idea is really good. That'd be a good ending. ​@@kyriss12

[@adamgrimsley6455]

I think the story is complete. The humans became the horror stories the reptilian anthropologist was concerned aboot. A complete story. Beginning middle and end. But I'd like to see more too

[@kvseverallevels6928]

"Space Zionists" - by Dave Chappelle.

[@CapyMartinBara]

When God left humanity, we hunted him down and killed him in his sleep