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This Story is Classified as HFY or Humanity Feck, Yea , but what does the Mean?
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HFY is a story/series that takes a “human element” in either humanity or an “other” (race/species or object) that exists in a “setting” (future or other world/universe) with varying levels of culture, technology, society and history that help show in some shape or form the potential good or bad for humanity’s race/culture. In These stories Humans are often referred to as Human, Humanity, Deathworlder, Hellwolder in reference to the human planet of origin , Earth. This planet is seen by most of the universe as a place where only death and chaos can survive.
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Taken from the FAQ of the r/HFY subreddit.
Humans Are Space Orcs (HASO) or Humans Are (Fantasy Race) Are used as a guide when writing.
In these Stories we normally View humans like the other races view orcs in a Fantasy Novel. We (Humans) share the same characteristics and personalities as orcs. Humans are normally treated as the outsiders and barbarians. Humans tend to be underestimated as well in these stories. Unlike Humanity Feck Yea , these don't always put a positive spin on humans\humanity sometimes looking at the darker side of human and humanity from the perspective of aliens.
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[@JohnDoe-yk3ji]

My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred.

[@Random_Tech-Priest]

Ah a man of culture

[@JohnDoe-yk3ji]

@My Right Toe I work nights and have no friends, I consume many a culture.

[@maxbuchanan7270]

In the name of the Emperor, Burn the Heretic. Kill the Mutant. Purge the Unclean.

[@SiegeTF]

My bullocks itch.

[@cfo138]

In the Emperor's name, let none survive.

[@jukkiivi4282]

Rule 1: Don't attack humans Rule 2: If you break Rule 1, at leat make a declaration of war before attacking Rule 3: Don't harm civilians Rule 4: If you broke Rules 1-3, surrender unconditionally and sacrifice yourself to spare your people Rule 5: If you broke Rules 1-4, prepare for Humans wading through seas of blood to get to you. Kiss goodbye both your people and your a*se. Thanks for finding and narrating this awesome HFY story! For the Algorithm! For the Author! For the Narrator!

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

Rule 3A - do not harm or kill their pets, especially cats and dogs. This automatically triggers the Wick codicil.

[@grogvaughan5649]

Don't forget the HMB protocols... When all else fails, those won't.

[@markfergerson2145]

@@carlfromtheoc1788 That’s rule 3B. 3A is do not harm children; theirs or anyone else’s. If you break 3A there are no rules except no quarter.

[@xavierzaxavier5873]

nah you can attack human but do not be too cruel... human know war and love war but if you try to be most cruel then you awake the demon inside human. Blood for blood

[@adamskeans2515]

@@xavierzaxavier5873 Sangre por sangre.

[@dahliarose6024]

"There's one mistake you've made in your attempts at war," said the lone human representative. "Enlighten us, little human. What may that be?" Asked the High Councilor of the Galactic Races. "It's quite simple. You're people playing at being beasts while at war," the representative smiled. There was no kindness in the gesture. "...But humans are beasts, playing at being people in peacetimes."

[@nadjasunflower1387]

love this. well said 8) ( i mean, you could use this snippet as a core and design your own story as well that maybe Agro ends up reading to us.)

[@InvaderMedia420]

sadly you are right

[@user-kp7yt6mf8t]

Wow this is such a good description of humans.

[@wizardswisdom5464]

"I saw the hammers fall, and I was afraid." That sent chills down my spine. I want a full 400 page novel out of this ASAP.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Rheagar and his people are wise. No matter how much civilization we claim to have attained, in our hearts we are still savages. We aspire to restrain the beast. And we will if allowed. But, slay our innocents and our wrath will know no bounds.

[@Wastelandman7000]

This is the most primal urge of all pack hunters: touch the blood of my blood and I will see the color of your blood.

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

"...and it was at that moment he realized that the Cholan Corporation had f**ked up."

[@draconicisha]

"I am wrath, I am steel, I am the mercy of angels"

[@tidusffx1147]

John Wick: People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer, but yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.

[@gregorypryor7401]

The humans upgraded from the One Ring to the One Blade!

[@Karmasu_L]

Down in the deep 🎶 where the dragon used to sleep 🎶 glorious gold glimmers in our home of old 🎶 where the day has lost its light 🎶 when the hammer falls 🎶

[@topcat2015]

That was a good one, I have goosebumps all over. The xenos have fecked around and they are about to find out! I wish their was a part 2

[@GyorBox]

This honestly sounds like the first step of the war. Not an actual ceremony, but rather psychological warfare. Something to scare the other empires into non-action of helping the Cholan. Lol

[@seldonwright4345]

Didn't Sun Su say something about the best battle is the one that didn't happen?

[@robertstoneking7916]

It's as much to try to scare the Cholan into turning over the Grand Magnate of the Cholan Corporation before they are extinct.

[@GyorBox]

@@seldonwright4345 -- Yeah. Or the one where Victory is already decided before it starts?

[@Darqshadow]

Well as one of the other commenters said: My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred

[@ServantOfOdin]

It is. Especially given the whole context. Rhaegar saw the warmachines being produced, saw the energy-spices when ships became active by the second. Those are all steps preceding actual war. And unless we talk about an alternative reality where mankind never abandoned superstition and arcane (or even eldritch) rites, this whole display of such a ritual is practically pointless. Except as a show of force, a stage-play for an intimidation.

[@markuhler2664]

I loved the narration. I find the possibility that the ceremony was all psychological warfare tantalizing. A few years later, after an unconditional surrender, Rheager sees some people from the forge acting in a summer festival it all clicks and he laughs.

[@ihtfp01]

Make no mistake, you haven't seen the true horror of the hammers fall yet... But it's coming.

[@Just_Tired]

In about 39 millennia

[@Maddog3060]

Apparently in the future humanity becomes Hyborean Age LARPers.

[@merlinathrawes746]

Given what you said, I have to wonder if the human's name was actually Conan!

[@robertalexander5892]

​@@merlinathrawes746 That's his middle name.

[@downrangefuture6493]

That, or Bori’s descendants made it to space.

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story and great narration! I look forward to further stories in the "When the Human Hammers Fall" universe!

[@carminedesanto6746]

I think I’ll Listen to Queen ..waiting for the hammer to fall! Fantastic Read ! Thank you. ☕️👍👽🍕

[@dukealabaster5767]

Im assuming the ceremony was a reference to something and i feel like i am missing it

[@MeanMartian]

Yeah that was my thought too, some of our older warrior cultures have some similar ceremonies if i´m not misremembering too much 🤔 Vikings, aztecs, spartans, samurai and the like. Blood-debt and honour run high in those old warrior cultures...

[@aguyontheinternet9095]

More a general reference to a blood oath of vengeance/duty. While not as bent on homicide an example is the Gurkha and their respect towards their kukri. Which is to say, once the blade is drawn the blade has to taste blood before being sheathed again. Even if it used to cut down brush a Gurkha is expected to draw at least a little of their own blood to satisfy that oath.

[@DrBobcf]

@@aguyontheinternet9095 I am deeply sorry, but that is not true. The notch in the blade just before the grip is not to draw your own blood from, but to keep blood from running onto the handle and make it slippery.

[@Strutinan]

It is a reference to an old Norse Right of Vengeance, the forging of a blade meant to kill the leader of a war band that tried to wipe out an entire clan...and failed.

[@jackreisewitz6632]

​@Strutinan Awesome. A literary reference, please. For further study.

[@equinsuocha8905]

I picture Adeptus Custodes forging weapons in the volcano

[@edwardfuller1084]

Your best story and narration that I have heard. I have listened to many but this one is the most soul capturing work of art. Thank you

[@demonwalker01]

Needs a part 2

[@renaissancepress247]

Awesome story. For Vengeance! Always appreciative of our amazing narrator! No other voice will do!

[@Harry-lq5hu]

This requires a part 2 !!!

[@jofknoll]

motorheads song the hammer seems to fit well with this story

[@drew722]

"Become the monster, then control it."-Jorden B Peterson

[@dmaxcustom]

I'd rather let nukes speak of my fury against some enemies of humanity. But that wouldnt be such a fun story.

[@derekstein6193]

Nukes are so... distant; wrath at arm's length. A blade must be delivered up close. A very personal fury. And humanity has a long history of taking things personally.

[@theicyphoenix_7745]

@@derekstein6193 im pretty sure this thing they showed was first time it happened too,theysay it happened in first contact war,but in reality i think this was all just a show to scare anyone aiding enemies of humanity in any military way because that way there would be less casualties

[@sysbofh]

Sacred blade first. Nukes later. As an aftermath, planet buster.

[@MidnightSmoke]

Thank you for another great story. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.

[@seanbarker4610]

As I understand it, this is based on Polynesian legends

[@redraven8963]

No, it's old Scandinavian

[@zacharylindahl]

@@redraven8963 It's definitely not Scandinavian. Author said it's based on 40k inquisition and a bit of Arthurian stuff thrown in

[@joshroundtree8751]

Let the hammers of war fall

[@cysulzer3703]

Many thanks to the author and the narrator

[@bigjay875]

Excellent!

[@belorianuskane1952]

"Into the fires of battle, unto the Anvil of War!"

[@stevenweaver3386]

Does the ceremony come from ancient Norse rites involving Viðar, the Æsir god of silence and vengence? The forging of a blade, and the silence, suggest so.

[@Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

[@TechnoMageB5]

For the algorithm, comment added: I miss the "echoey" "TALES FROM OUTER SPACE" part of the intro that used to be in the videos a few months ago.

[@daisynette00]

Really enjoyed this one. Great story telling too.😊

[@theblackswan2373]

Your content is delightfully pleasant to binge watch.

[@SansearX]

Nice one, would love a follow up.

[@SupCom78]

epic thx for uploading. i hope for a part 2.

[@caileanfindlytearle6936]

Loving your stories, but I do have to ask... Are you gonna upload to Spotify again sometime soon? I'm building playlist of your various series to listen to while at work, and the newer uploads aren't on Spotify

[@kevincaruthers5412]

Great story!

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@davidbrown969]

YOUR STORYS ARE ALWAYS GOOD.

[@carminedesanto6746]

YAY! I finally caught you live!!👍☕️🍕👽

[@TheTREYIII]

love these

[@masa461]

And this is how the second battle of psychological warfare was won.

[@texasbassranger]

I've watched a lot of these. This is by far the best of all those.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@literalsarcasm1830]

When the peaceful man goes to war, the devil himself trembles.

[@albertbennett3211]

Great story....would make a great precursor to the human beginnings of the warhammer universe

[@JDNCLOWD]

For I have become death. Destroyer of worlds.

[@stanlee5576]

Very nice

[@EchoNorbi]

Blacksmiths! You have 30 minutes left!

[@adwood201]

Dayum! What a story.

[@TB-fb1sq]

Oooooo gave me chills.

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

We shall own the stars that shine down upon your tombs Xenos

[@petertownson3545]

Thanks!

[@AgroSquerril]

Thank you for the dono , it is very much appreciated :)

[@litoteh]

@Agro I actually like the clothing that you are wearing. where do you get them? They would look so awesome if I wore them to the office. seriously

[@AlexanderBushi]

Thanks regards

[@kurtismiller9544]

Masters of the Forge....

[@NevTheRagged]

ave imperator gloria in excelsis terra into the fire unto the anvil

[@culixstar]

need a part 2

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Revenge is truly the Heavy End of the Hammer

[@Wrathlon]

Humans hell bent on vengeance will either get it or die trying and a human fueled by blind rage does not just die easily. The only way you stand a chance is to be prepared to commit nightmarish atrocities of your own in return.

[@theonetodefyall238]

keeper going

[@benjaminstiles]

OH MY GOSH ITS HIS FACE!

[@LongshotSam]

Wow,,❤❤❤

[@anime-girl9743]

You know i alway thought you had a beard when you just did voice overs.

[@ErrolFOFoor]

Somebody's gettin' a whoopin'.

[@Shinobubu]

I am the storm that is aprouching! provoking!

[@daniellafferety4025]

Where is the background located. It looks like k e a church or quiet lecture hall.

[@viktorkolaric4156]

Wow, future humans really did fall far.

[@nicholashernandez4611]

The hammers fall. Humans rose to make the stars bleed.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Did they? They're not the aggressors here. Millions of innocents, men, women, children were slaughtered. This must be answered for. They are doing what is natural. And they are doing it soberly, reluctantly and recognize the gravity of the act. The sword should not be lightly drawn to war. Our history is full of war over the most foolish of motives. This is as close to a just war as you will likely get.

[@samboyd1828]

they ain't fell, they didn't want the war

[@nadjasunflower1387]

spoken like someone who would be ok, with a group of people coming, wiping his family out. Then walking off with no repercussions what-so-ever. Glad i'm not in your family.

[@viktorkolaric4156]

@@nadjasunflower1387 I can fight for my family without sinking into this sort of pagan ritualism. It's not the fact they are going to war that i don't like, it's that they apparently replaced reason and logic with superstition. This human race seems to me bound in traditions and rituals, which is a poor way to fight a war. Most HFY stories have humanity as creative and innovative, this guys seem like the exact opposite. Anger alone does not win wars.

[@emilschw8924]

Blade, be true this day.

[@SilverMKI]

I'm somewhat surprised they managed to use only 30kg hammers to create a sharp blade that then slotted into pre-made fittings.

[@jeeper426]

durring the story, in the first half i heard Hammerfall - let the hammer fall, the 2nd half i heard Hammerfall - The Unforgiving Blade i love how in these stories humans are either Space Orcs or Space Dwarves, but Always Ready to Defend their own, and their friends from those who seek power at the cost of innocents we are the thing that goes bump in the night, it has a name, and that name. is Humanity Glorious read of an epic story Agro Squirrel

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

Love these story’s. And the narrator is superb. I lost track of a story I really enjoyed and would Like to hear it again !! I can’t remember the name. But there Was A Giant Insect that the girl called BITEY ! Lol and weird Amphibian like creatures one she called BUBBLES. LOL. great little story. Could’ve been expanded on but was a good listen. Please does anyone know the link / name etc. ?? PS agro keep up the good work. Love it.

[@rileyrusso8518]

The story is " a brood of two"

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

So.. blood for the blood god?

[@artofgamingwarfare3658]

what about the battle that followed. I wanna see that story.

[@von-shonfaison9931]

❤❤❤❤

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!

[@jimmyjohnjuan]

Around 5mins in a envoy arrived, bro and the crew on that ship would have started a vacation till the the war started or ended. Information blackout.

[@OGSontar]

It is a grand dream that one day, we will crack FTL and move out into the galaxy on a timescale of less than thousands of years per system reached. Another grand dream that we will meet others, as well. But this and other stories about our collective past are indeed true. I know not what we'll learn in the coming decades and centuries. I know not what our growth in civility will be, but I hope we learn to play nicer with others than we have with our own 'others' in the past. However, I don't see us forgetting how to wage war, ever. It is our history, our legacy, and a huge part of who we are. So, even though they'll never see this, to any others we may meet in the Great Dark: Don't piss us off. Don't attack without warning. And for the love of whatever higher being you may worship, don't kill our civilians. You'll live a lot longer if you remember this.

[@jackohlantern7554]

Is there a part that comes after this?

[@merlinathrawes746]

It makes one wonder how long it will take before the Cholan people surrender their leader to the humans.

[@brentkalmbacher9092]

Genva Suggestions it is.....

[@dantreadwell7421]

Ya know, I think if they had left the civvies alone and let them leave the planet, we would have been pissed, and demanded some sort of reparations, but we would have let it be otherwise.

[@nadjasunflower1387]

yup...cause you know...civilian world is going to have an aweful lot of kids running around. By the way it was set up, it wasn't just some recently colonized one either. so multiple cities and villages where all humans were wiped out. Men, women, children. yup, about to be some genecide happening.

[@snake57]

WarHammer 40k?

[@elfeater1760]

For the Algorithm11!

[@unknownplauer306]

war hammer ?

[@MrJay_White]

humans are verbose space dwarves?

[@robertcrawford2949]

You make us seem like Klingons. 😅😅😅😅

[@merlinathrawes746]

The humans have an odd sense of right and wrong and have no qualms about dragging their foes to whatever form of hell they believe in should they be wronged, the cost be damned. Our choice is simple, either stay out of the fight or join their enemies in hell.

[@MarkAguon]

Why does every human sound like an old English squire?

[@justinmurphy8069]

Purge the mutant, the xenos, the heretic

[@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456]

Also

[@merlinwizard1000]

6th, 6 June 2023

[@talyn3932]

Too much theatrics to be taken seriously. A rare miss for the Squirrel.

[@lord1todd]

So future humans are extremely emotionally unstable.

[@furycarnategaming]

Emotionally unstable? No, for a crime of that magnitude the murder of innocent people and their way of life the price is that of blood and the assurance that the one that gave the order and those that fulfilled it will never harm another innocent because they will never have another chance to do anything again.

[@MeanMartian]

So no difference from now then? 🤣

[@kingkiller1451]

So not tolerating "no action" as the response to an outside faction killing *BILLIONS OF HUMANS* is emotionally unstable? Damn, if getting mad over that is bad I guess ever getting mad over anything makes you emotionally unstable. Who would have guessed not tolerating a planetary genocide just because you have more than one was "emotionally unstable".