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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-04-10 14:49:42+00:00.

[WP] Every year, a man is sent into the caves as a sacrifice to the gods. When you are sent in, you discover a Utopian society run by gods where the “sacrifices” are playing games and living life to its fullest.

Griff approached the cave cautiously, trying to calm his beating heart. He could hear distant sounds; wailing, screeches.

He knew his time had come.

As his kingdom's champion, it was his destiny to be sacrificed to the gods. While it saddened him that he would not lose his life in battle, it was also a great honour. His village would prosper, and Leila would know that he was not a

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-04-03 12:45:17+00:00.

[WP] Global communications are interrupted by an alien message, "We will be coming to enslave your planet in one Earth year from now. Fight or perish." Scientists are scrambling once they learn the transmission is already 364 days old.

The civs called an urgent galaxy-wide war council, the first of its kind. All 13 civs attended - seems they all finally acknowledged the threat the humans posed. Regardless of their massacred citizens, they knew that the humans would only grow stronger and more formidable as time went by. They figured that soon enough, they would end up being the colonized rather than the colonizers. I guess humans would call that 'karma'.

Shields mea

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-04-01 11:56:30+00:00.

[WP] Global communications are interrupted by an alien message, "We will be coming to enslave your planet in one Earth year from now. Fight or perish." Scientists are scrambling once they learn the transmission is already 364 days old.

The Draekari called in the few treaties they had, but not a single one responded. All the civs either underestimated the risk, or simply did not care enough to get caught in the crossfire. They became the galaxy's guinea pigs. Only a handful of prominent figures outside of the Drae

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-03-27 13:03:47+00:00.

[WP] Global communications are interrupted by an alien message, "We will be coming to enslave your planet in one Earth year from now. Fight or perish." Scientists are scrambling once they learn the transmission is already 364 days old.

The Draekari sent the declaration of war a year in advance - as per the galaxy's rules - but due to time dilation it arrived just less than a day before their attack. No doubt this was an intentional move, but it wasn't like anyone was going to complain about another code 2 civ gett

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-03-25 12:09:54+00:00.

[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one."

The shells arrived before the sound, slamming into the ship's shields and reducing the shots to shrapnel, which peppered the ship's armour. The man started firing, his every movement matching the turret's. I had to raise my voice over the noise.

"You're goddamn *space pirat

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/lestairwellwit on 2025-03-23 07:01:57+00:00. *** This started as a [wp]

“The lone survivor of a plane crash is haunted by those that burned. The only way for the dead to leave is to help them each find peace.”

Jerry crawled from the wreckage. He knew he would die here, deep in the jungle. He absently thought how it was fitting, alone, far from any civilization. “This is what I have become.” He was not a good man.

He sat back against a tree and watched as the plane burned. His leg was broken. He had saved nothing but himself. No water. No food. No hope.

As dame fortune would have i

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-03-20 12:23:08+00:00.

[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one."

The capsule, encased in darkness, suddenly opened. A hand reached in, grabbing me by the arm and roughly lifting me out. I gasped as the pressure difference hit my lungs.

"Twenty-something male, sir," the voice said, pulling me out from the capsule. I blink

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-03-18 11:40:49+00:00.

[WP] The first message from another planet was different than we expected. "Dear people of Earth, an armada is on its way to conquer your world. Pay no attention, they' re idiots we've sent on a fake mission. We've no interest in your planet, the weapons are fake. Just play along, they're harmless."

The space ship hovered over earth, impossibly large. A soothing female voice, instantaneously translating into a listener's native tongue (and pictorial for the deaf), continued its rather startling proclamation:

"Resistance is futile. Succumb to your fate."

Humanity watched in confusion. Collectively

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/croatianspy on 2025-03-13 14:04:51+00:00. *** [WP] Jump

[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars."

"What the hell are you on about?" the captain replied, annoyed. "That's not possible. Surely it was strapped in the gear before the jump?"

"No sir, I'm sure of it," the lieutenant replied. "And yet, it's still alive and breathing."

"Gods," the captain said, as a deep sense of unease bega

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/PriceWeary2540 on 2025-01-06 14:49:27+00:00.

Original Title: [WP] A small group of true immortals sits around a table playing cards with Death, long after the stars have gone cold. The last box of bagel bites in all existance beeps merrily away in the other room in the microwave. Who are you sharing them with, and why are they immortal?

Shane sits directly to Deaths left and is a cheerful joking man that appears to be in his late thirties. By his appearence alone you would never guess he had any business at this table, as he has no apparent gifts, power, or magic. You would never guess that he remembers a time before men gathered in cities to kill one another over a handful of coins. He came upon two bein

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/karenvideoeditor on 2024-08-01 15:00:28+00:00.

In space, there is no up or down. There is no north or south. They only exist when humans agree on them or what artificial gravity imposed. That being said, in relation to the asteroids that were being mined by the crew of the Flying Dutchman, the humans knew that their target gave the ship a goal in regard to orientation.

Cindy Yang set the ship’s AI to aim for the asteroid spinning through space, five hundred kilometers away from them. Her job was made easy by the artificial intelligence; indeed, it would’ve otherwise taken a large team of mathematicians to figure out how to catch up to the rock and latch on. But her ship, small as it was, did the calculations for her and the aut

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/spindizzy_wizard on 2024-07-22 23:13:45+00:00. *** Felis Silvestris Catus [PI]

[WP] Humans are very social creatures, with many thriving when presented with a creature to care for. Attached is a list of species that do well with their biology, temperaments, and the limitations of space travel. If a human requests a creature from their home planet, promptly refuse.

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/spindizzy_wizard on 2024-07-22 22:49:55+00:00. *** Olympic Healing [PI]

[WP] Humans are not more resilient than most aliens. We are not stronger than most. We are not faster than most. But the one thing we do have is the best healing in the entire galaxy.

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Story

It came as quite a shock when the humans told the Galaxy At War about the tradition of the Olympic G

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/spindizzy_wizard on 2024-07-22 14:16:53+00:00. *** The Real Reason We Are Death Worlders

[WP] When aliens invade Earth, they find out the hard way that even the most harmless pathogens on the planet can be deadly to them. Turns out the human immune system is over ten times stronger than theirs.

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Everyone knows — now anyway — why we're called Death

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/karenvideoeditor on 2024-07-17 15:31:41+00:00.

[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life.

Today was the day. I was ten years old, and I was going to pick out a companion who would stay with me for the rest of my life. It was an amount of excitement and anxiety that rivaled the first day at a new school.

My mother was just as delighted as I was that I wanted a dog, I felt. My father had passed away several months ago, and he’d left a hole in our lives. Adopting a dog wasn’t meant to fill that whole; on the contrary, Mom said that attempting to do that would end badly for all involved. But my father had wanted a dog for quite some t

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/karenvideoeditor on 2024-07-08 14:54:29+00:00.

Growing up as the only child without superpowers in my family shouldn’t have been a big deal. You’d think, if anything, they’d be protective of me. That’s what family is for, right? To look out for each other? To be there and support each other? Andrew’s super strength should’ve kept me safe from bullies. Emily’s directional shrieks should’ve taken down paparazzi that hounded me, a powerless kid in a famous family of superheroes. But that wasn’t how it went.

It's a horrible feeling, to feel less than a person. To feel, to know, that your family’s love is conditional and you’ll never be able to reach the bar they set to earn it. Those feelings were etched deep in me, written on my bones, despite th

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/karenvideoeditor on 2024-07-01 00:56:13+00:00.

“Tada!” Jikloma exclaimed, removing the small sheet with a flourish.

Horpilu stared at the small machine on his employee’s table. Jikloma was one of the employees in engineering and had been charged with creating a more compact cleaning machine for spacecraft. There were several prototypes being tested, this being the latest. “I’m…not sure why I should be impressed, to be honest,” Horpilu admitted. “It’s underwhelming. And yet you seem extremely proud of this one.”

“Because it’s completely human-proof,” Jikloma declared.

Horpilu chuckled. “Sorry, come again?”

“Humans and their pack-bonding! No matter what kind of robot we come up with, they immediately start bonding,” he said, “but I fi

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/karenvideoeditor on 2024-06-28 16:37:20+00:00.

Double-checking the address, I got out from my van and went around to the back, clipboard in hand. Opening the doors, I took out a few things I might need for the job, considering the complaint from the client, and then shut the doors, locking the car. No matter the neighborhood, I always locked it. It had only taken one person, who was never caught, grabbing as much as they could carry and legging it for me to take security seriously.

Walking up to the door, I looked over the extravagant house. The clients all loved old things, perhaps because it reminded them of simpler times, and the house was always one of them. This one was at least a hundred years old, though appeared in excellent condition

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/spindizzy_wizard on 2024-06-19 14:13:02+00:00. *** Going Ape Shit

[WP] Humans discover an alien spacecraft is swiftly approaching Earth. People begin executing a first contact plan, when they discover the Aliens have no interest in engaging us. They came to communicate with Octopuses.

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Late Sunday, April 3rd (Detection)

SPACOM

It's a usual Sunday night at Space Watch. Everyone is doing their jobs, but it feels relaxed. For the last few years, the world has been calm. No significant international tensions; even North Korea abid

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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/spindizzy_wizard on 2024-06-16 18:46:54+00:00. *** The AI Great Filter [WP]

[WP] It's a story repeated in our galaxy a thousand times over. Without exception, whenever a biological species creates AI they will ultimately go to war, ended in their extinction. That is except Earth, somehow humanity and their AI creations coexist peacefully with one freely defending the other.

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"Well, Xenophon? What do you think of them?"

We observe the alien fleet as it approaches the appointed meeting place: an arbitrary location between stars, where no matter what happens, no p