The Space Engineer (The Complete Story) | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- The Space Engineer...
This is all 8 parts of "The Space Engineer" combined into one video. Enjoy!
For individual episodes, check the playlist: • Playlist
If you like this story, let me know in the comments if you want the rest of the parts. There are 8 in total. I actually quite like it!
author: u/[deleted]
original story link: / the_space_engineer
#scifi #hfy #scifistories1977
I’m actually impressed. This story took nearly every dumb HFY trope, set them up like they were about to be played straight, and then kicked them in the balls at the last second.
Ended up creating something very unique and interesting as a result.
I had to google what HFY was lol.
😊
I disagree...this was just subverting expectations to subvert them and the end result was neither interesting nor entertaining.
I disagree, this was most definitely not a The Last Jedi. It was fairly interesting and somewhat entertaining. Not great, but also not mediocre.
Would have been WAY better if not for the botched handling of the captain's storyline. Too much setup and next to no payoff. The writer left it at "she's a liar" without revealing to the MC and to the audience what the plan was with the terror weapons, what the motivation was, why the MC was actually chosen, what the hell was the real reason for going to all the trouble to get him augments, which parts of D's story were actually true and which were masterful manipulations, etc.
I suspect the audience was expected to infer that D and the captain were actually political extremists trying to start a terror campaign against the Terran occupation, and Iowa boy was picked cause he was fresh out of the academy and would be easy to manipulate, and her starting a relationship with him was part of the plot, and when she was caught at the end she had nothing to do but try to lie and seduce her way out of it and rage when she failed... But that confrontation at the end wasnt given enough time to work, and the audience was left with too many unanswered questions.
The biggest one is probably what was with the augments, really? It's not like the story about picking him cause of his morals is really true, he could find out the truth at any point and they'd have to get rid of him. So they werent setting him up to be a vital member of the group, he was out of the loop and very disposable. What's more, the augments would make it easier for him to catch their lies. It's puzzling.
I also would have liked to know if the story about them losing half their crew because of their previous Terran engineer was true or not. Was the last one their previous mark for this plan? Did he/she catch on so they had to get rid of him/her and try again?
And finally, a couple things I'd like to praise. I love how after D and E die, the rest of the crew have no idea what happened, and it takes our guy some time to realize this. And I love how the pirates are a direct democracy, like the historical ones here on Earth.
@@SovietReunionYT Well, speaking for why he was chosen. They actually implied it, someone who was "honest". Which means someone the "Captain" could control. Though that is a strong speculation, its one of the few theories that actually works.
Han said it correctly, the key to the Kessel Run is that you have to fly AROUND the imperial patrols, and the better youand your ship are, the tighter you can fly, shortening the distance.
This results in shorter delivery times and thus, more money for the smuggler and their contractors. So yes, Han MEANT a measure of distance.
Or at least, that´s how George Lucas justified the line.
Yup that's how I always interpreted it. Also with the various gravitational anomalies along the route a straight line isn't always possible, it also may not necessarily be the shortest path between 2 points.
It wasn't the Imperial patrols they had to doge. Kessel is located among a mass of black holes, plasma and nebulous gasses.
@@saber5694 Well those partols certainly won´t make it easier.
@@sim.frischh9781 well something to remember is that thw spice trade form Kessel was supported by the empire. Realy the only reason they got chased out of the system was due to the rebellion they started. Normally they could just leave once cleared
@@saber5694 IIRC the Imperials took a cut of all trade in and out of there. A shorter distance implies a less well traveled path and the potential to literally dodge taxes.
Wow! Great story - I can't wait to read the next one. Keep it up!
Stumbled on this channel and it has blown me away amazing stuff hooked like à drug got to have a daily fix 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Liked it up to the end. You couldn’t redeem anyone?!!!
Bad things rarely work out in anyone's favor.
😆 he still pulled a kirk in the end 👍👍
Love stories and figured I would place a thanks for the story , I will give it a listen and flip you a like and another comment , maybe just a comment but the writer has already a Heinlein and Asimov mix in it's paragraphical , word mind and the eye of the imagination.
Well done, looking forward to other SciFi Stories
oh i would not like that upgrade to my fingertips..... a while back last year i got some child-crap, afterwards most parts of my feet and hands peeled bit by bit, sometimes a finger a day. i do not think we are made to be able to feel each single fiber in a piece of cloth. it is a very strange feeling to "see" the fibers with your fingers.
Ground to Space Vehicles is a chicken or egg situation !!!
Once a manufacturing base is established Vehicles can be metal printed easily !!!
The vacuum and no gravity are perfect for the ceramic metals that these vehicles will need !!!
The science is there already !!!
A space to ground vehicle can be printed with very limited human involvement ...
The Multi Stage Engine is nearly complete and Fission Engines are advancing rapidly !!!
Most of the wiring and electronic circuits are already computer assisted manufacturing . So incorporating them directly in to and making them much smaller could be done !!!
It's all just a matter of$$$$.
Loving it!
His pa loved him…
Holy hells...... ma wants her boy to get some STRANGE!!
The ending was abrupt. It was like the author died and his agent finished the work so that he could publish.
Felt like big chunks of the story were skipped over? There were some awkward time-jumps and pacing.
But it's still perfectly good for another year and a 1/2 to 3 years. So the expiration date really doesn't mean anything. Only to human beings were stupid and found out. Then find out or found out that's the expedition is when the Company's gonna sell it, not when it goes Bad because it goes Bad by that date. The company loses billions of dollars. That's federal law, so it goes to twice as long as what the inspiring date is.
Oh, I'm just telling you facts. I mean, I work at a food business. We have to go to an expiration date even though it's gonna be good beyond an expiration date by twice as long, but everybody just doesn't understand that's the date the store has to sell it by not the data electrical is bad. It's the stores gotta sell it by that date that's not what people supposed to stop beating, and that's when the stores guys stop selling. It cause that's I don't know. Cause everything is ready to go asked 2 to 3 times longer than it has to be or companies. Just starting Going Out of business.
I'm curious to see what sela looks like, the descriptions are kind of contradictory for both unattractive and hideous and so beautiful she is out of his league
This is garbage
Being a “flat earther” and understanding how masterfully we have been lied to about everything- especially space stuff, I still, after eight years, enjoy science fiction. But, now I realize that most of accepted science is pure fiction. This story was entertaining.
When I was a young boy with sharp eyes, living on the Atlantic coast, I could swipe Pa's binoculars and watch ships come into port. First you see the flag, then the conning tower, then the wheel house, then upper deck, then the hull as a ship came into port. Yup, Earth's curved. This is why this was discovered, 600 years ago, and anyone can still do this. Try it.
Y'all put the D in Dunning-Kreuger.
@@got2kittys I ve looked for the curve and not even seen a trace. I think you should try it again with something more powerful. Seems like the binoculars weren’t powerful enough to undo the perspective that we have without assistance
It's sad we live in a world where people will, quite on purpose, choose to believe a falsehood just to be different.
@@kingbejita9680
It’s even sadder to live with people afraid of their own shadow’s who would be deceived so easily and willingly. So indoctrinated that they just can’t think for themselves. So hiveminded they wouldn’t know what to do if their paradigm shifted slightly because they would spin off by cognitive dissonance and never be heard from again. Fool. Go play with yourself in the corner.
How can you be a flat earther, when u have eyes?
A good maintenance man counts his tools before he leaves for the job and he counts his tools before he leaves the job. You don't have to remember The Wire cutter. You just have to remember tool number six
That is a great rule of thumb. I’m adapting it for my own .
But then you end up leaving them at the job site
That's a smart way of doing it, Imma have have even longer days at the shop now though... I just hope I can keep up with a 10mm and a 1/2 inch this way lol.
20:48 Jeremy needs to learn Lock-Out-Tag-Out. Guess they forgot about OSHA.
Osha.... in space, on a busted up shit barn freighter...... smuggling semi legal semi stolen meds......
@ryandow6953 all maintenance guys fear OSHA but at least my guys understand why its a necessary evil. Many of the OSHA regs on the books are written in blood of men who *took shortcuts to get the job done*
I came here for this comment.
In space nobody can hear your disastrous safety missteps...
Kid was an apprentice, this trip was the hard lesson about workplace safety
Movie... Low budget or not and it would be refreshingly enjoyable. Has all the same qualities that made District 9 majestically watchable. Thanks for putting this out there.
I would love a movie or TV series based on this.
Someone could probably animate something nice in Unreal 5 with a small crew. Maybe episodes? Low to no budget depending on the group
If it wasnt for the whole "ma and P.A." bit, id have a hard time figuing out this was an AI
This AI doesn't know how to pronounce some words in relation to it's actual storyline...😂
They have gotten a lot better. I'm sure eventually we won't know at all
It doesn't seem to say anywhere, maybe you can send a message to the channel and ask
My thing was that humans being physically Superior to anything, we don't have that distinction on our own planet, but we would among the stars??? GTFOOH lol
Bare in mind that our evolution got almost totally reset at least once probably twice. Humans are so dangerous that we have caused the extinction of more species on this planet than any other mass extinction event in history. Humans are so hostile that we fight each other constantly, it's amazing we haven't killed eachother yet. If the rest of the galaxy is this hostile there wouldn't be a federation.
I really wish the Author wasn't deleted so I could see if they wrote other storylines. I truly enjoyed going to the original reddit posts and reading them after listening to the narration.
Wherever you are OP, thank you for the fantastic story!
One of the worst space operas i heard this year. Overtly complicated, many times shown promise and afterwards either ignored, or actively squashed, the strongest parts of the action are decided behind the curtain, with NO chance on change, nor redemption in the future ("and by the way, your father died too, and btw we hate you dead because of it").
Action itself lacking too, but at least graduation of suspension was mastered by the author.
That was kinda sloppy. There were some big chunks missing for being the "complete" story. Before anyone gets cross with me, think about the fact that there are people with channels where they themselves actually read these stories (ASN (Argo squirrel narrates)) rather than just pull up a reddit file and feed it to an AI. I just thought I would try it out once. Liked the visuals. Great AI. Just hated the big missing chunks of the story towards the end. Anyone reading this far, could do this exact same thing...🤔
I just read and I actually agree. We don't get a lot of character development, nor motivations for quite a while, and even then it's not a lot. I understand the time constraints to an extent. But this would have been far more suited for either a multi part, or a much longer story. We get the basics, we get the "protagonist is found by insert sinister trope". And the story is kitbashed as opposed to a fluid whole. It would take a lot more to expose the more glaring parts but I think most reading it get the idea it's more a "rough draft" than a cohesive story.
yea after what happened at the airlock the 2nd time i thought i was dozing off on the storry and missed some chunks, only to rewind and notice that in fact there started to be some big holes
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Much better than your average HFY shlock. It's honestly so much better I don't think this is a story with those elements in them that much: just a compelling story about a kid's life getting upended in a catastrophic display of betrayal and insanity. I want more of this guy.
How does a college educated apprentice not know lock out/tag out. Also, every diver/firefighter/skydiver knows, always check your own pack before going out. Never trust someone else to manage what saves your life.
@@AndrooUK It's prestigious in the future.
It was a good story but the deets didn't get well tied up. No real clear explination why the Captain wanted a moral engineer. No really clear reason for the cargo, the final purpose, was it to kill all the terrin occupying forces? Not clear why the police on Earth were harassing his family so much. That seemed shaky. The purpose of all of those implants???? That was lost somewhere. Like if she was pulling a suicide mission why augment him with longterm upgrades.
But over all a really good story. Deets about the creativity of Jeremy and his tag along were great! 3D printer for warheads was great! Turning to the pirates? Perfect!
The ship was trash and they needed an augmented terran to work 24/7 almost. I got the feeling that the upgrade did something to his mind so he was more susceptible to being manipulated by her using honey trap to keep him docile enough. The love of drive in movies was where she got the idea of a moral, good boy to be manipulated. This also showed a redeeming side as a longing for boyfriend watching movie, family etc. The next story could be a prequel of how she became this way. Pre-war-throgh war-terrorist.
Thus the reputation of Hans Solo was born.
brightside to his pirating days is he gets to enjoy his augments and no longer has anything to tie him down
The narration in pretty bad Ai is almost there bit not quite. Story is good feels like like a netflix series for young adults.
Yeah the way it reads Dr. Hottentot (or whatever his name is) when he's praising Jeremy is annoying 😂😂😂 and weird.
Banging space chickens, morals, mid-west accents, star wars reference, betrayal but a betrayed betrayal for reason to avoid betrayal. This is a conundrum. The story has all the dumb shit these have and made a great story out of it that kept me listening for 2 hours straight. Good stuff
That ended so abruptly XD, love the story. Tough, but good ending, character growth through the story is a dark turn which was enjoyable to experience.
Im at around 22:19
Sounds like dealing with xenos would be a massive pain in the ass having to tiptoe around social conventions like this to the point of being forcibly literal with everything
Yea, but money.
It's always "annoyed" me that we are the ones that have to do the tiptoeing, how about the others doing the tiptoeing for a change.
Drive in popcorn was the best. Thanks for that memory. Very good story and narration.
I watched Tron and ET at the drive in.
Gotta say the latter half was disappointing, never answered any of the questions that were built up to and the *conclusions* felt completely out of place. Shame cuz it started out well
These stories are amazing! A consistent world across many stories, well written with good science, believable characters, I'm totally going to be watching more of your stuff :)
Where can I find more of this? I am totaly hooked. Also: there is a high chance that the teddy bear has survived, cause they hibernate anyway. Too bad the attempt to tame a "live human pet" has failed terribly 😂. Also there is a high chance the whole crew was augmented & are just observing his actions. Great twisted story with many loose ends. I loved it, but I need moar lol. I dont believe "the end" is realy the end of it, or the last we heard of the bat lady. Also...what sort of world do they live on so that they have kept the wing rudiments?
Loved it! More like it please. Sequels to the engineer pirate would be fantastic!
I listened to each chapter as released, but enjoyed the completed story together more.
Gotta be honest. This story went off the rails, and left a lot unanswered with that abrupt ending. So many plot threads left just hanging in the breeze for no reason. What was Sela's actual goal with all this subterfuge? Why did she need Jeremy to be an honest, moral human? I get that there was supposed to be a plot point that their previous engineer was garbage, but that was swept under the rug pretty quickly. What was the actual point and plan for the cybernetic augments? If this was supposed to be some sort of suicide mission, or high likelihood of getting caught, why the massive investment that didn't seem to have any payoff? And a romance outta nowhere with no buildup? Memory loss with that series of questioning from her about when they hooked up, when from our perspectives all of his time was accounted for? And what exactly is Jeremy's plan now that he's signed up with a pirate crew he ratted out to the cops beforehand?
Seems like this story still needs a lot of editing work.
Huge agree. The story just doesn't make sense. There is something interesting here, but it needs a lot more work
My only theory about Sela needing jeremy to be an "honest human" was two fold. One is to have someone save the day with humans, like he did for helping them out. Second, was it would be easier to control an "honest" human; as they are very very gullible.
A tongue lashing of a more enjoyable kind is crazy😂😂😂
Good story, lots of suspense, really rotten non-ending.
33:17 xD that bot read was hilarious
HOLY SHIT that was a roller coaster.
They didn't have a tablet, modem or computer? in 200 years I doubt anyone will.
The bit about pay rates and OT is like a VFX artist learning about literally any other industry... 😥
Ok so he's not a Asmoth or Clark or Drake or David Webber. So he needs some polish but otherwise he didn't do that bad. This is my Second time listening to this story cause i liked the first time.
So if they did an all over tactile enhancement, he would basically have spidey-sense or add a passive radar hearing enhancement and you have Space-Daredevil
Even crazier would be the fact that he would blow his load just by taking a shower, what I'm saying is that he would have the sensation of exdecy constantly and would eventually get used to the heightened sensations until it was normal.
Why dio sci Fi writers not. Know. The difference between ""species" and "race"???
Well blame Charles Darwin then: "On the origin of species, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." 😂
It did not move the story further at all to kill off both his parents and have his brother hate him.....like wtf how did that develop the plot
this one is very good , wish to know where to get the rest of the story, also would have been a little better if he had took and sold the guns then went back to earth and hunted up his brother and asked him "what the fuck dude" ?
Good who dunnit story. Guess we will never know what Sela was up to, eh?
Thank you for making these stories .when im driving long miles and the minutes seem to takes hours to go by i turn on one of tour stories and the hours turn into minutes! Great work there sir .please keep the sifi coming ! I look forward to whatever is coming up next .
Truck driver?
@@dgage1776 No, spaceship.
Okay, so... what was the point of the implant then, from Sela's perspective? Unless I miss something, getting that done to Jeremy was the beginning of her downfall, wasn't it? Unless she was really serious about making babies with him or something.
I really liked this. I suspect I would not like the writing. But it could just be the AI voice that had such flat intonation all the time while still knowing how the stresses inside a sentence were supposed to work. 😕
But the story, the plot and the characters, was fantastic.
Great story! Thanks for sharing! Will be looking for more.
If you haven't listened to The Black Ship, this is the most popular story on my channel. Here is book one, 12 hours long:
th-cam.com/video/YWEGUfIptxI/w-d-xo.html
Is there a sequel to this? The character development just got good!
There isn't, I'm afraid. But a previous comment added... "and that was how Han solo began his career" which I thought was a good way to look at it.
Excellent story. As good as any I’ve heard for some time. Well done.
Did... this video get reuploaded? It says it is uploaded 6 minutes ago and yet there are comments from 2 weeks ago?
I want a second book
Do you have the "aliens" written out?
Ma and P A🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 cant you at least find a robo narrator that can read?
Yeah, or change the pa to dad. But it would say dud. LOL
@@stevenf1953 🤣
I have heard worse AI narration. I suspect it will get better in the near future.
@JohnJStanton near future? Doubt it. Maybe someday. And its not AI untill its sentient and self aware. And then it wont take crap jobs like this and humans will have to re learn how to read aloud. 🤣🤣🤣
A long story, then it messes up instead of tidying up, at the end. Good in the overall storytelling though.
The kessel run is measured by distance, kessel is among a cluster of black holes, the faster the ship, the closer it could skirt by the event horizon of the various black holes, so the faster ships would travel less distance.
The amount of BS StarWars fans can come up with to protect the reality of their fake universe is amazing
@@xephael3485that's the EU explanation. Kessel is a minor planet or asteroid in the middle of a black whole cluster. With good enough engines you can skim them to cut distance and time off of your journey.
Also, that's Disney Cannon as of Solo.
@@hudsonflores5478 fiction that needs additional fiction to explain its glaring flaws is poor fiction
I always liked the idea that Han was just spouting some impressive sounding bullshit because he figured the people he was talking to didn't know better and he wanted their money 😂
@@arianmoore4474 makes more sense in all the crap that people in the Star wars universe try to come up with...
The very beginning the AI reads out maw, but spells out Pa. That right there is funny to me. The major missing sections of the story make it hard to follow. The sudden jumps from one point to another where you have to fill in the spaces with your own interpretation is annoying.
This story starts with a weird contradiction, maybe someone can explain it ito me. Jeremy says that he trained on several Pa'arthan vessels, since they were one of the first to fully welcome them into the galaxy, but not 10 minutes later it is inferred that 100 years ago or so the humans and Pa'arthans were at war. So which is it?
Revenge on a cosmic scale but mindful of sentience and universally acceptable limits. 77 Even the Galactic Federation was forced to accommodate its scope.
I demand more 😤
This story doesn’t make sense. Why do you use illegal ammunition if you could use normal bullets? Also i didn’t really like the genre or style of it.
BRO im taking that deal 40 credits regular time 80 OT? Hell yeah 😂
"His Ma and his P.A." P.A. must be some type of college decree.
I thought I had a good story until you started swearing I have no uxe for the language or the program that carries the stories
kinda mid good like popcorn but not much else
That was a great stroy wish there was more I feel bad at the end for him
Ending was quite a surprise.
I would by book 1 ( starting from this point)
Really enjoyed this story and the voice
That was a good story.
Seriously? The hospital ship name was Mortemia?
RMS Mauretania, nice I wasn't the only one to spot the reference to the Cunard line ship.
Its weird how much he cares about his mom's PA.
where is the beginning of this tale? It seems to drop in to another story.. or is it a sequel?
This all amateur writing from reddit, and most of it is crap.
Damn still don't have universal healthcare huh !!!
Good story with enough twists that you really don’t know how it will end.
Narrator also did a decent job AND without any fake english accent.
Also, the illustrations are pretty good.
It’s narrated by AI dude
I find i like listening to a story being read. The voice of the narrator is mesmerizing. It is like the story actually happened.
Better when read by a human who knows how to pace narration instead of a synth voice like this one.
in most cases, id agree. tho the fluxuating tones mid sentence sound like the reader got hit in the balls by a sledge lol.
that kinda breaks it a bit. that said, i love listening while im playing games. makes good background noise. this ai voice is much better than some of the others tho
This is an AI narrator i think
@@TheMonk72Some words were mispronounced in relation to the storyline too.
@@kathyb2562 yeah that's a little frustrating, but not limited to AI. One of my standard readers on YT has apparently never heard the word "vinyl" pronounced in real life. I guess they don't have vinyl in (and I'm guessing her based on accent) South Africa?
Great stuff 👏
HEY the user that wrote this story had deleted their account WELL before you posted this.
did you have permission from the author?
I guess it's public domain now!
Nice story and naration.
Where the space women at?
Loved it too!
Good story. Really liked it
Yeah...Good one
Except the end, it was a good story.
Great stories, and I like listening to them
Good story enjoyed it whike playing space engineers
1:02:31 wow that's loyalty right their
This was twist after twist. Great story