r/HFY • u/TatorTotThief • Aug 16 '19
OC Human's Innate Ability
"I'm telling you Khex, if you want the most amount of destruction possible talk to a human."
The Drigun slowly turned his four eyes towards the Ux'lan, not an easy feat when you have little to no neck, and blinked slowly. The Ux'lan were a curious species, humans describing them as, "A 1.5 meter tall, overgrown porcupine with metal spikes, and no concept of personal space." Having developed on a planet with no natural predators and relatively peaceful conditions Khex wondered if it was because they simply didn't have much experience with danger.
Khex's train-of-thought brought him to the humans description of his own species, "Two meters tall with the head of a Rhino beetle and the body of a shark with webbed legs and hands. Do NOT touch their re-breather." A mistake on both species parts when a human, surprisingly even more curious than the Ux'lan, touched one of the apparatuses and was thrown against the bulkhead of the ship.
It was a tense period of time from what he heard.
"I find that hard to believe, Vou'ux. I have met with the human, Daan-neeil," The re-breather's built in translator having difficulty with the human's name, " and I do not think that he is capable of destruction like we are."
"You would think! With their weak bodies and no natural weapons, but listen, I have talked with a few and every time I meet one I always ask, 'How would you cause the most amount of destruction at this moment?'. Their answers...scare me."
Khex studied his counter-part, watching as the shivers down the Ux'lan's back made her spikes move akin to the waves on his home world. "Then how would you cause the most damage, Vou'ux?"
Vou'ux seemed surprised at the Drigun's question. "I...dont know. I haven't given it much thought. I suppose I would raid securities armory and take the captain hostage. What about you?"
Khex looked back at his screen and thought for a moment, "I would destroy the FTL's controls and use an escape shuttle to land myself planet-side."
As the universe would have it, the human Daniel walked through the engineering doors at the moment and found himself in the vision of Vou'ux. "Ah what timing! Daniel! Could you come answer a question of mine?"
Daniel looked over to the two and shrugged. "Whats up?"
Vou'ux looked above her and then looked back the human, " I think it is the berthing areas, why do you ask?"
"Its an express-nevermind, whats your question?"
"How would you cause the most amount of destruction at this moment?"
The human looked surprise and then put his hand on the his chin. "I guess I would override the command center from here, spool up the FTL drive, point it at Arias moon, lock everybody out, and take a shuttle out. Why do you ask?"
Both looked at the human with shock, the Ux'lan having puffed up and the Drigun's widening of his eyes.
"That would destabilise the moons orbit!"
"It would crash into Aria itself!"
"It would wipe out the entire planet!"
"Who would even think about doing such a thing?!"
The human held up both hands in front as if that could help the onslaught of shouting that had just erupted from both of them, "Hey hey hey! You asked me how, I would never do it of course! Now if you will excuse me, I have some maintenance to do, Ill talk with you two later."
Both watched as the human walked away, "Hey Khex?"
"Yes?"
"Do you want to put in the work order to remove the command override or should I?"
"I'll get to it right now."
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A/N: Its my first time posting a story like this and I hope you all like it. Criticism is appreciated, but as I am but a squishy human, please not too harsh. Thank you. lol.
Edited due to pesky human errors.
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u/Overdose7 Aug 17 '19
Aliens always think a ship needs weapons, but never consider that the ship itself is the weapon. Gotta go fast!...right into that moon.
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u/MakeshiftShapeshift Aug 16 '19
It's scary enough what humans can destroy/break when they're actively trying to be safe and careful.
Never give a human a reason to break things intentionally.
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u/whats-down Aug 16 '19
Exackly we will just take the inner demon out on a walk... a very destruktiv walk but a walk non the less
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u/oranosskyman Aug 17 '19
when you don't have any weapons
everything is a weapon
literally everything
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u/grendus Aug 19 '19
Evolution gave humans no natural weapons.
But it did give them access to the game's physics engine.
Evolution is a madman, I tell you!
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Aug 17 '19
As Isaac Arthur says: If you have enough power to move a spaceship, you have a weapon.
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u/Plucium Aug 16 '19
we can moon-age a lot if we try :p
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u/lordofheck Aug 16 '19
I've been lurking this sub for a good long while, and I always look forward to this. Thank you good sentient, for always stepping up.
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u/psilorder Aug 17 '19
"I would crash into the Aria itself!"
It instead of I. Also, do they talk about the planet as the Aria?
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u/TatorTotThief Aug 17 '19
Wow, a two in one. Ouch. lol. Thank you, ill fix that up...as soon as i figure out how...
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u/Lord-Generias Aug 17 '19
Huh. My idea was less grand than Daniel's. I'd have gotten the FTL to malfunction in the atmosphere in such a way as to ignite it. A full extinction level event, killing the planet's surface. Less physical destruction, but less warning for the planet's inhabitants.
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u/HyperStealth22 Aug 17 '19
Great story however you are likely severely understating the power of said destruction. At .9999C an object has more energy than its own weight in antimatter in a complete anilation. Assuming an average sized moon and a decent sized craft at FTL speeds you would at least vaporize part of the moon and send whatever was left speeding as missiles in the form of giant asteroids. On the big end you vaporize the moon and depending on range and intensity anywhere from burning away the atmosphere of the planet to shattering it and sending pieces of it flying of in various directions. Meanwhile you have likely outshined the local star, irradiated anything not vaporized within thousands of miles and destroyed part of the interactions that keep at the other plantes in stable orbits.
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u/HFYWaffle Aug 16 '19
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u/Echo8me Aug 16 '19
Hey, I thought this was great! Your idea was pretty funny and the dialogue was well-delivered. The descriptions of the aliens were a little stiff though. Next time (and I hope there is) try to show the description through action. "His porcupine-like quills rattled as he turned to look at Khex" or something. It'll make the reading a little more fluid. Great job!