Sheathed in a stealth field that bent all electromagnetic radiation around itself, and using centripetal spin rather than generated gravity, it was designed to go completely undetected. I get the impression that station 442 is not the only place where you. Click here to subscribe to /u/prohibitorum and receive a message every time they post. Oh heck ya!!! It do be crazy sometimes. Harpers Ferry (Amtrak station code; Harpers Ferry, WV) HFY. I nodded, fighting back the urge to excrete in my terror. Charlotte was from the same landmass and political entity as he was, but was older than him and had apparently joined the mission so as to preach the truth of the very religion we were there to study. The second thing it prompted was the declaration of a surveillance and research mission to Earth. Update was totally worth the wait. Take it or leave it, as it is an extremely minor thing that has absolutely no affect on the story whatsoever. I didn't even need to google "grasping hoof. That was amazing. And what it means for their war. Your visa will be denied if you continue to mock the immigration system., Its facial feature twisted up into an expression of amusement. For anyone who missed it hidden at the bottom of the story page-. The most successful troll in /tg/ history skews the OP's topic into a debate on whether Humans are the worst fantasy race. Then I realised I was treating this man who had saved my life as if he was a threat that I needed to figure out how to kill and suppressed a flash of shame. I'm now going to be anxiously waiting for the next part! Good ol' veil of madness. You see, Earth is a death world. Rather than answer the mystery of where they had come from, they had historically preferred to tell stories and then convince themselves that the stories were true. His social implant reported no emotional context for that, so I assumed it was an automatic response to some environmental factor. Meaning. He did that complicated joint-lift with his forelimbs againa shrug. Hows your arm? he asked, changing the subject. Normally, I only read one offs on here, but this one makes it so I cant wait for another. Prey is what introduced me to HFY and I have reread 1 and 2 this morning because God damn it is feels like my first girlfriend just texted me. Nuryaw pulled a goddamn Napoleon. A few rogue factions cropped up, piracy and smuggling saw a rebirth in this new space age, and mankind went on as it always had. Hunters dont wear inter-species communication implants, but I didnt need one to recognise the fear and panic it briefly had time to show before it was beaten to death with another Hunters severed leg. Kevin Jenkins had clearly been one of their victims. If they took us alive, we would be food. They are physically powerful. They were known for abducting specimens of a pre-Contact species, experimenting on them to acquire biological data, then using that information to be able to sell cybernetic technology to the newcomers that was appropriate to their biology the second they were welcomed into the galactic fold. I activated the corrals recording function. Years of study later showed that the reptile-like race had taken nearly ten times as long as we did to reach the industrial age, and had not gotten very far beyond that. Im a bureaucratic anomaly. Great stuff, looking forward to more. There is only one concern I have about this. I really hope you know how happy this makes me. Small, but powerful and dense-seeming. Thank you for writing this. His head sank down until the pointed bottom of his jaw was resting against his torso. Good setup chapter. Unarmed, you single-handedly defeated three of the most feared aliens in known space, and you tell us you are neither a trained warrior nor a physically exceptional specimen of your kind. You have to understandI come from one of the more civilized parts of my planet., Vedreg and I sat in silence for several minutes, absorbing this news. I couldnt tell if he had failed to notice the humans discomfort, or if he simply didnt care. The character writing and the world-building are fantastic, the plot and battle descriptions maybe even more so. Asshole. The fox is in the henhouse. Of course we should. Some, I couldnt standmonotonous, pulsing music that seemed to delight in going nowhere, broadcasts which appeared to take a morbid fascination in the opinions of beings that, among my own species, would have been locked up for their own safety and medicated. They are mentally overwhelmingtheir ideas are powerful, their inventiveness puts us to shame, their philosophy explores avenues of thought that simply never occurred to us. Aw I loved that one too. This will probably gonna get buried in the comments and I dont know how much you are using modern military stuff for inspiration for the combat scenes but there is one part I would recommend a change. Horses were. What we found was an outpost of a space-faring race, its people still alive and well. I'll look at it again tomorrow when I'm on a computer and not on a phone. But if that's what it takes then I guess that's whats it takes. Our musical tastes were differenthe introduced me to his favourite genres, which I found shallow and noisy, he disliked the ones that most inspired me. I dont know. Jenkins responded, calmly. /tg/ talks about science and gawks at each other's cool shit. This is the most fun I've had reading fiction in a very, very long time. This bot is open source. but your patreon needs some touching to accommodate better different types of donors, different ranks for them with some rewards for those putting more money, the goal for how much a month is too high start way lower, with gradual promised/rewards as more often chapters, free to split them and make them more shorter but more often and etc.. just look at some others patreon to have different inspirations as to what fits you more.., but the patreon really needs a little changed in goals/steps :). Prey's back, Round Three!! The following story is one of the true genre-defining classics. Other specimens of their art were interesting, thought-provoking. You can see why the administration on station 442 kicked me out. he said. 67,622 talking about this. I apologise, I said, chagrined at my own lack of professionalism. No story just yet, but ill be refreshing every couple of seconds, Ah my b took your comment as saying you didnt see the link before removal. This is the only thing Ive seen over the course of this series, and only pulled the suspension of disbelief for me as it would for a firefighter watching/reading a fiction about firefighting and seeing something off. The medical report from the team that provided care to Jenkins after the battle said that his blood stream contained a powerful combat drug, though I was certain he hadnt ingested, inhaled or injected any during the fight. Read the FAQ, read the Subreddit Rules, and check out our Wiki. Been seeing new Spellguns, and now this. It took me half my life to realise that the people who taught me this thing didnt have to be lying, they could just be wrong., He swallowed the last of his glass of water. Everyone knows (or is supposed to anyway) what just happened and what is supposed to happen next, as time on comms is supposed to be as short as possible. I've read a few stories based on this universe, most have been pretty damn good. Was hard to post knowing that people had such high expectations for it. And he used his power to save the world and protect the weakWell, except he wasnt really a human, he was an alien who looked exactly like a human whose parents sent him to Earth because their own planet was about to be destroyed he paused. The Wiki. It was rather amusing to see the scientific community collectively slap their heads when they see the simple ideas and concepts they had missed. This series is amazing. A new HFY thread, almost no copy paste, a few new stories, and an interesting Veil of Madness continuation. His endoskeleton issued a loud clicking sound and he issued a sigh that my implant interpreted as pleasure. When this popped up on my PMs I almost squeed, and it was sooo worth the wait! (I never thought threads would last over two days but 1614919 proved me very wrong.) Wenthan, the ship's communications officer. He fired upon the Supremacy, which in a placating gesture had lowered its shields. David and Cylia deal with a worm while Clank flexes on some aliens. ;), This was fantastic like always. Thank you. Some had died off so early only a few stone monuments marked that they had ever been there, some had established empires spanning nearly a dozen systems. The image can safely be downscaled to reduce file size, without any noticeable changes on most screens. He was quite correct and that status made properly navigating him through the immigration paperwork impossible. A more SANE takeover than Napoleon's return, and with significant help, but still! Long-term observation showed that after hatching the individual would slowly but surely go insane, to the point where none reached old age. He's relatively green, having only served one tour with the ARTN 8th Fleet, along with, Quet "Bug" Yous, one of the few Dreeden space superiority fighter pilots. I will need to interview you in private. I told it. He was completely unable to pronounce my name, so had taken to approximating the first syllable, with my permission. I wish I could upvote this more than once. It was when I started to explore without his guiding hand that I started to find the positives. Star Wars x Humanity Fuck Yeah= Technological Debate, What starts as a scenario where our first contact with aliens is an old broadcast of Return of the Jedi, /tg/ discusses what Humanity could have made between the time the aliens receive the signal and what the aliens reaction would be. Please can I have more Welp time to read the first two entries again then read this. Pretty sure Ill be leaving this station before long, too.. ; it'll archive a copy of the page for future lulz. HOLY SHIT!!! Without a challenge, I think they very swiftly get depressed. Excuse me while I go read. One of the first . On the news, his eye had still been swollen and ugly, much of his flesh had darkened and bruised from minor haemorrhaging, and he had been wincing with pain every time he drew breath. Heh, it was a fun challenge. And now you tell me that your species is gripped by the fervent belief that a tale of breathtaking violence and cruelty is all true, and that many of you are willing to die in service to the principal villain of this story? Awesome to see this one again, has always been one of my all-time favorite HFYs! Haven't come across it yet, but when I find it I'll certainly post it. When mankind ventured out into space, we never suspected what was to come. Human words started to slip into the languages of the stations crew, filling gaps in our philosophical vocabulary. David meets back up with Clank, takes down some mercs, makes a deal with a gun runner and meets with the owner of a whorehouse. Lets hope you dont have to wait for another part as long as I did. But I can guess. nonsense. It also didn't help that our subspace communications were just advanced enough that the garbled words the poor Kondar picked up on their outdated systems sounded horribly sinister and alien even by the wide standards of the galaxy as it now was. The all-clear alarm sounded just before I reached him, and he moved in response to it. My arm dangled useless by my side and every slight movement was agony, but I had to know if he was alive. I agree that they are frustrating and that they make the site a pain to use for mobile users. Our only hope was the magazine of nervejam grenades which, I realised with a falling sensation of failure, I had left in the locker. Whatever else it was, Earth was a rich source of artistic exports. And humans believe that this is the real way in which the history of your species unfolded?. You have those nervejam grenade things. he pointed out. 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