The Galaxy's Boogeymen (1/1) | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

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[turbosnowy]

Can't remember where I read it now, but it was an internet short story I read a few years ago where the concept was, civilisations can go down different technology paths - turns out most Galactic Civs discover space, anti grav and FTL travel fairly early on, perhaps around the time of electricity, whereas for Humans we somehow managed to miss all that and got stuck on our one planet just racking up super advances in other areas - we then get invaded by a warlike civ of small space dog things that were dominating the other space faring races with tech basically equivalent to the 1800s - they then come out from their rickety spaceships with muskets, deploy in lines, shoot the human envoy coming to greet them as first contact and then get utterly smoked by all the human tanks and troops that had been deployed. Humans then reverse engineer this 'tech tree' they had been missing, and the space dog commander who had been injured/captured finally realises the mistake they had made - they had now unleashed/unlocked humanity from our prison and we were now able to go out amongst the rest of the galaxy and 'do our thing'. Great read, kudos to the author whoever you are.

[michelelyons]

This story seemed end in mid sentence, without a real ending. After all that build up of humanity being the hob goblin of the galaxy, there was no payoff to the story.

[GM-vtis]

And thus was the Imperium of Man born, and purged all the xenos from the galaxy. The end.

[denalozecon]

If an average Human scares them, a John Wick film would cause panic attacks.

[demigod_inc]

I like the idea of humans being reapers of the universe. We scared of the things in the void but they fear us the same

[kimon]

Interesting choice of the term Thrax ... I'm a Thrax, born raised in Thrace, a Greek province. Thraxes AKA Thracians were indeed formidable warriors in our ancient past, indeed vicious by the account of other Greeks, but now we are a peaceful lot, rather simple in fact, mild tempered and polite. Only when Turks try to do something funny at the borders we get exited grub our guns and run to the border for a turkey shootout ... we are descendants of Ares after all... But if you ever come in Thrace you'll have the time of your life, mark my word.

[garysuarez]

"They are the universal visage of death, and they have ever been hated for it."

Oh stop with the flattery. A fellow can only hear so much before he doubts your sincerity of expression.

[urbypilot]

I thought this was the 4chan story about why humanity never encountered any other sapient species, only worlds of dead civilizations within the local group. Turns out, no other sapient civilization from our local group ever discovered FTL before going extinct to the point sapients from outside the Local Group see it as uninhabitable. So being the only thing to come out of there, humanity was seen as boogeymen, and they leaned in on it with scary power armor.

[Bellator_of_the_Shadow]

Funny that the humans are the "bad guys" when they were killing each other over nothing more than a squabble 😂

[darktraveler]

Thrax: I'm in charge!
*Human leans in towards them*
Human: Do you feel in charge?

[michael]

WHAT!!! no part two? It was just getting good.

[mosafett]

This is the second story I have listened to on this channel. Love the Narrator's voice, the dude is freaking awesome. Definitely worth subscribing to.

[dernerv]

i could listen for hours of this, this believe it or not made me relax

[madman]

I always love hearing these SciFi stories

[justintexeira]

No beast is as savage as man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage.

[leeroy]

All right but who are the good guys?

The humans of course. :)

[mikkelnpetersen]

Imagine that, if ALL other sentient species were evolved from herbivores, while humans were the only species being carnivore/omnivore, they would look at us as the "predators" and we would USE IT.

[swiftmatic]

Good story. I have only one issue: the biological warfare angle. What are the odds that an alien life-form is based on a chemistry so similar to our own that an earthly pathogen, no matter how engineered, could affect it.

[assaulthetz]

The Aliens would be even scared that Humans are sometimes afraid of Humans too.

[IigIadWlf]

Humanity once again proving that it's a walking nightmare.