Aliens Believed They Were The First Space Empire, Until They Found Human Ruins | Best HFY Stories

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  • @TheQuyman
    @TheQuyman 2 месяца назад +78

    we are the forerunner

    • @GrigoriZhukov
      @GrigoriZhukov 2 месяца назад +3

      That is my biggest worry... that would be embarrassing. All our err's laid bare. Eh, hopefully those following learn from our mistakes.

    • @Neeb-tt9hn
      @Neeb-tt9hn 2 месяца назад +10

      “You are forerunner” -343 guilty spark

    • @mariomachadofilho
      @mariomachadofilho 2 месяца назад +3

      The mantle of responsability is ours

    • @cjhott7237
      @cjhott7237 2 месяца назад +6

      Well in the original Halo story line humans were actually the forerunners

    • @Neeb-tt9hn
      @Neeb-tt9hn 2 месяца назад +3

      @@cjhott7237 yeah in bungies story

  • @SilentKar
    @SilentKar 2 месяца назад +145

    "Humankind has been giving majestic things un-majestic names since forever" yes, yes we have🤣

    • @gcanaday1
      @gcanaday1 2 месяца назад +11

      "Boaty McBoatface."

    • @morson6949
      @morson6949 2 месяца назад +8

      The only way to name stuff tbh

    • @caliprius83
      @caliprius83 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@gcanaday1 this

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen 2 месяца назад +113

    Pyramid?
    Green symbols?
    Necrons?

    • @megawl2086
      @megawl2086 2 месяца назад +14

      get necron'd lmao

    • @yomogami4561
      @yomogami4561 2 месяца назад +4

      lol i was about to write the same

    • @austinteal3645
      @austinteal3645 2 месяца назад +8

      This is how it all starts doesn't it 💀

    • @Mr4420937
      @Mr4420937 2 месяца назад +8

      although the Precursor mantle sounds like Halo lore. How the Forerunners stole the mantle that was supposed to be given to humanity. Maybe this is a what if to that actually happenning and the forerunners weren't greedy.

    • @vincentrow8540
      @vincentrow8540 2 месяца назад +5

      "Spare me your condescension human. You speak to a Phaeron of the Infinite Empire. I was conquering the stars while your kind was wallowing in your own filth like witless beasts. Do not dare address me with such lack of respect again. Truce or no, I will see you buried in a lightless tomb with only the scarabs to hear your screams."
      -Phaeron Thaszar the Invincible of the Sarnekh Dynasty , addressing Lord General Hausmann during the Hadrima Summit

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen 2 месяца назад +60

    Yeah, that's one of the things i've been thinking about when it comes to space exploration, immagine if we travled to planets outside our own solar system and found long decaying ruins of alien civilizations.

    • @kieronknott8741
      @kieronknott8741 2 месяца назад

      And how do we get through the firmament ?

    • @ike1820
      @ike1820 2 месяца назад +11

      And the question next is what caused their extinction, if it wasn't themselves or other aliens, what eldritch monster did

    • @michaellinnet6095
      @michaellinnet6095 2 месяца назад

      Did you NOT listen? They didn't go extinct, they ascended to a higher plane of existence. And once they became omnipotent and no longer wanted or needed anything, they grew bored and just faded away. The pyramid explained that.

    • @MrBarnettcm
      @MrBarnettcm 2 месяца назад

      Lol what if I came to ur house and became your new step dad? That’d be fun huh

    • @SeedlingNL
      @SeedlingNL 2 месяца назад

      You mean like what was revealed in the Endwalker expansion of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV?
      Probe: "What is the meaning of life?"
      Advanced Civ: "We don't know of any meaning anymore." *promptly end their existence*
      Probe then consumes their despair and flees to the end of the universe...

  • @michaellinnet6095
    @michaellinnet6095 2 месяца назад +53

    A nice humorous look at evolution. A good look at what could happen if humanity ever reaches the next step in evolution, and then realizes that it's not worth it because once you get there, you realize that there's nothing left to look forward to.

    • @Brukner841
      @Brukner841 2 месяца назад

      we have no idea what this realm is though, what's after death, we know nothing, we can't make predictions at this point, they'd be logical extrapolations of incomplete data.

  • @kevinshort3943
    @kevinshort3943 2 месяца назад +20

    Pyramids, Green glow, giving up their living bodies - it's the Necrons.

  • @RichardStrong86
    @RichardStrong86 2 месяца назад +8

    There are other stories like this in the HFY genre. I remember one which had aliens following evidence of ancient humanity until they found an outpost containing the digitised minds of humanity, with instructions on how to revive them. I thought it was quite a nice story.

    • @OmegaXD2
      @OmegaXD2 Месяц назад

      That sounds awesome, do you remember the title or at least where you read it?

  • @divinezoomer7305
    @divinezoomer7305 2 месяца назад +9

    Always made me sad how the Halo franchise was a hfy universe and then got retconed.
    Humans as the forerunners was always a cool plot. Glad other ppl like that type of story!

    • @7heTexanRebel
      @7heTexanRebel 2 месяца назад +2

      Eh, iirc they retconned it to the humans being forerunner peers and losing a two front war against the forerunners and flood. So the ancient humans were still on that level.

  • @cjandauntieyaya1446
    @cjandauntieyaya1446 2 месяца назад +12

    OK, the convo between Captain and the Pyramid is vaguely reminiscent to Picard and Q. Very entertaining.

    • @weslooos
      @weslooos 2 месяца назад +1

      You will find that a lot of of startrek episodes are repurposed, sometimes whit the same names just slightly differently written. and the alien and or its background changed a bit. Some of them are not subtle about it at all. Seeing how many Startrek stuff is out there its not strange an AI would use it, since i dont think they write there things them selfs, Thank god they do use voice actors instead of AI voices.

  • @JMM33RanMA
    @JMM33RanMA 2 месяца назад +21

    Another story worthy of, pardon a septuagenarian for saying so, Star Trek!

  • @HrLBolle
    @HrLBolle 2 месяца назад +7

    I don't know why but this story has the feel of being a further tale belonging to this :
    Aliens Thought Humans Were Primitive... Until They Discovered Our Lost Ship

    • @pouncet1683
      @pouncet1683 2 месяца назад +1

      The sentinel gives the vibe that ascencion is pointless so humanity may be gods but it was an dead end of Evolution. Sitting in the corner for ethernity blissed out... pointless exiatance.

  • @Terran.Marine.2
    @Terran.Marine.2 2 месяца назад +1

    The captain losing his temper with the computer was funny.

  • @CaptainYbara
    @CaptainYbara 2 месяца назад +2

    I'm sorry, but I really couldn't come to terms that the ancient structure would sound like that. Thanks for the video though!

  • @Ealum40
    @Ealum40 2 месяца назад +2

    Sorry I’m late, always love these stories

  • @RobinBarton-fh1ts
    @RobinBarton-fh1ts Месяц назад

    Damn humorous story..lol ...Had me laughing out loud several times...AND, it has a definite ending, for once !!!

  • @a-blivvy-yus
    @a-blivvy-yus 2 месяца назад +1

    "Your gods are real. They are my people. And they are very, very bored."
    ...oh, no...

  • @sunttu333
    @sunttu333 2 месяца назад +3

    This has some necron vibes for sure

  • @gurugurukuma
    @gurugurukuma 2 месяца назад +3

    you must construct additional pylons

  • @ademile_0973
    @ademile_0973 2 месяца назад +2

    Humanity lets gooo

  • @Dashel-uv3rx
    @Dashel-uv3rx 2 месяца назад +5

    I think godhood is a bit presumptuous but, if humanity was to make it that far I belive ascending to a being of pure energy or higher dimension to be the logical next step.

    • @falseprophet1024
      @falseprophet1024 2 месяца назад +2

      Humans are going to what? Turn themselves into thinking lightning bolts? Ive never understood the turning into "pure energy" thing..

    • @ousamadearudesuwa
      @ousamadearudesuwa 2 месяца назад

      well that would be boring for humanity as a whole. So us being precursors turned Exodites would be more fun.

    • @wax_combative5569
      @wax_combative5569 2 месяца назад

      @@falseprophet1024personally. In the sense that they become pure energy, they don’t mean it literally perhaps. But you could reach a level of technological and scientific superiority that they seem like they are made of pure energy to others. To travel where they please through the manipulations of energy at such a high level, they’re using pure energy. Like they could still have a physical form, but they’re able to manipulate energies to transport themselves through things others find impossible. (Probably botched trying to explain it)

  • @iamdigory
    @iamdigory 2 месяца назад +1

    I have no idea how yall manage such coherent ai art, I'd love tutorial

    • @Brukner841
      @Brukner841 2 месяца назад

      with a subscription you can bang out as many frames as you like

  • @Wizard0828
    @Wizard0828 2 месяца назад

    This dude is my favorite of the narrators for this channel. Anyone know if he does audiobooks?????

  • @J_o_B_is_back
    @J_o_B_is_back Месяц назад

    30:42 and perfect. Now fetch him Tien.

  • @GuntherRommel
    @GuntherRommel 2 месяца назад

    You make everything sound pretty damned epic, dude.

  • @silverbird425
    @silverbird425 2 месяца назад

    You know, the videos get better and better. I did notice some repetition. Was AI used for the text or the narration?

    • @StarboundHFY
      @StarboundHFY  2 месяца назад +1

      no ai used, will pass your feedback onto the team though

  • @spencersholden
    @spencersholden 2 месяца назад +2

    Man that pyramid was funny.

  • @hippythedude72
    @hippythedude72 2 месяца назад

    ❤❤❤. Y'all have the best stories

  • @mleboeuf8764
    @mleboeuf8764 2 месяца назад +2

    That pyramid is just like a "First" comment...

  • @KurNorock
    @KurNorock 2 месяца назад +9

    It's weird how aliens from alien worlds still have mammals and reptiles and plants...

    • @jonasflorencio1346
      @jonasflorencio1346 2 месяца назад +9

      According to the video lore, humanity was what gave life to the universe because there was nothing besides us, so it's pretty obvious that we had some inspiration from our world.

    • @JTruong3rd
      @JTruong3rd 2 месяца назад +1

      Not all that weird, convergent evolution is a thing.

    • @KurNorock
      @KurNorock 2 месяца назад

      @JTruong3rd convergent evolution would not create mammals on an alien world. It might create a being that secretes nourishment for it's young, but that wouldn't be a mammal.
      The reason is that all mammals are related genetically to each other and share a common ancestor. They have to, by definition. A being that evolved on an alien planet could not be genetically related to any other mammal, so it can not be a mammal.

    • @KurNorock
      @KurNorock 2 месяца назад

      @jonasflorencio1346 sure. I can forgive it in this video, but there are plenty of others, and many other sources of sci-fi that can't make that claim, yet still have alien mammals, alien reptiles, etc.

    • @weslooos
      @weslooos 2 месяца назад +1

      Aslo not weird since humans wrote the story

  • @lexheath8276
    @lexheath8276 Месяц назад

    Gen ship or skip hopper, first contact is going to take two rolls of toilet tissue.

  • @timobrien2813
    @timobrien2813 2 месяца назад +1

    A good story well read, thank you. UKUK

  • @jakerooke174
    @jakerooke174 2 месяца назад

    I like they thought they were the first meanwhile humans are of the thought of there’s definitely someone older out there

  • @TheJadeFist
    @TheJadeFist 2 месяца назад +1

    Shame they didn't ask about other Civilizations there were referred to in the present tense.

  • @ConspicuousAxolotl
    @ConspicuousAxolotl 2 месяца назад +1

    Huh no dislikes good odd but good.

  • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
    @Amoth_oth_ras_shash 2 месяца назад +1

    ''are you alive'' ''i was once'' sorry no , any civilization , entities , sapients , hive minds , anything able to either 'engram' its cognition into other none degrading locale or how they exist etc would NEVER have such a shallow view of 'alive'

    • @nosmokejazwinski6297
      @nosmokejazwinski6297 2 месяца назад

      and how do you know that? 🤔

    • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
      @Amoth_oth_ras_shash 2 месяца назад

      @@nosmokejazwinski6297 simple , to consider themselfs to still 'exist' there be no difference in that consideration and considering yourself 'alive' , so if you turned yourself into a pyramid shaped monolith with vast telekenetic capabilities , or stayed a constantly regenerating macro configuration of bio matter be the same your still existing your still 'alive'
      and thats not even touching on the silly part of ''oh i can transcend local physics etc but i cant make a bio drone directly wired to my cognition to enjoy the stuff you do agen no no''
      i applaud the concept of the story as it is novel , being in essence the aftermath of a universe that is the opposite to the 'dark forest' setting , but the execution :/ needs lots of work , but its work that i suspect would be rewarding considering how skilled and smooth the author made the characters direct dialog's

    • @nosmokejazwinski6297
      @nosmokejazwinski6297 2 месяца назад

      @@Amoth_oth_ras_shash I appreciate your detailed explanation but I don’t think you quite understood what I was asking, or I wasn’t direct enough. My question is, how do you know they would consider the fact that they are “existing” in some form the same as being alive? We’ve never witnessed anyone get to that point so there is no way of telling how they would perceive their “existence”.

    • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
      @Amoth_oth_ras_shash 2 месяца назад

      @@nosmokejazwinski6297 suppose it might be so , yet could be equally much that uknown bias has you overlook the plain sight part of the answer ;)
      but here hmm , leets try these 'hues' and threads of concepts to explore further
      one could also say due to how logic structure wise there is no separation between existing and what anything so far conceptualized as sentient/sapient would label as 'alive' a crude analogue would be how leets say you got all the unfair 'old age' pains , your body crumpling as chemistry withers your joints , your bones , your organs , your mind risks to become little more then a few disconnected memory pattern neurons that fires on repeat so your personality even your self awareness became a faint echo of what it once was
      would you consider yourself to be 'not alive' if that was fixed by say some cyborg style artificial neuron optics installed for your brain , some bio engineering and replacement protestics for your limbs and organs ? no you hardly start call yourself 'dead' just because the tastebuds that told you how delicious the culinary arts where ,was made of silica, the sensors in your limbs giving you joy from feeling the wood as you worked it where grown in labvats , anyless then you start consider your memories and affections of others any lees 'dead' just because the weave of light they and your personality where made of bounced around through partly artificial materials
      its only in stories like these where a perspective wants to consider a existential question ,yet indirectly fails to present any existential question as what it presents still should be very much alike to each other
      so another way to consider why i'd say the author need to work on the concept is
      that a better ''i was alive'' state to compare for the same pyramid scenario without it being a cognition matrix of clearly self aware sentient/sapient nature that has its existence come with several things that contradicts the 'i once was alive'
      the pyramid hade initiated dialog without any care about its own current form of existence , only adressing the explorers not as individuals but as fragments of their civilization making it hard for them to decide if the thing just was a lingering sentinel so different from themselfs its lack of self reflection was pure culture related
      or as it only be speaking of its species and civilization either in third part or as if still in past aka as if connected to it in its vibrant state through the flow of time where a 'mimic' of the general cognition capabilities of the species that built the pyramid
      sort like what may happen if you 'uploaded' a person yet the process removed all their 'ego' all their self awareness so you hade all the experience all the capability for interaction etc , yet no self considerations or self reflection
      either way , thats two more ways to phrase it more or lees ish ;) once agen i dont want to crap on the writer but constructive critic is how someone might learn enough to become the next tolkien

  • @mikeharvey190
    @mikeharvey190 2 месяца назад +2

    Humanity fuck yeah lol

  • @ForesakenVengance
    @ForesakenVengance 2 месяца назад

    IM feeling halo lore in this one

  • @weslooos
    @weslooos 2 месяца назад

    masive black piramid whit weird symbolds.. hmm, seems Nagesh went to space, I am loving the mainframes sas though.

  • @czinn327
    @czinn327 2 месяца назад

    Sour grapes

  • @towelbasket
    @towelbasket 2 месяца назад +11

    If you dislike the video for some odd reason, use this comment as a dislike button however you see fit.

  • @dustindavidson8033
    @dustindavidson8033 2 месяца назад

    This guy makes me not want to listen to your guys' stories. His reading is so boring and monotone might as well let a.i do it.

  • @luxembourg7653
    @luxembourg7653 2 месяца назад

    For me 100% wrong ai voice,sounds like a state of the union speech not a story teller.
    Could not listen after 2 min.

    • @klpihl
      @klpihl 2 месяца назад

      They claim that there is no ai used so maybe its just the one making the videos numeber of voices

    • @TheDramaGoblins
      @TheDramaGoblins 2 месяца назад

      We don't use AI for anything but the pictures...
      That's a person. His name is Chikondi, very nice guy. All the voicing, editing, and writing is done entirely through human hands.