The Journal of an Alien Diplomat | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

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The following story was originally posted by "Someone Else" over at 4chan's /tg/ board on 16-09-2011.

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All Comments (21)

@HawkGTboy 5 months ago

I love that the aliens couldn’t handle human shitposting.
@xenosmoke8915 4 months ago

Given how crazy things were it was probably for the best the vaguely implied extragalactic threats rather than just telling them about the Tyranids flat out.
@gravytrain8041 5 months ago

I gotta say the part where the aliens react to porn is one of my favorite parts. 😂
@Boredofmostofit 5 months ago

"Medical treatment for reproduktive isolation" 😂 hilarious...
@michaellein2389 3 months ago

This is an excellent story. Possibly the most accurate and comprehensible one I have heard so far. Provided that humanity does not manage to shoot first at everything it does not know or understand.
@maestrulgamer9695 3 months ago

2:16-Are your people immortal? 3:10-Yea,humans are more confortable in routines. 18:18-Oh crap.They found Twitter. 22:20-Oh no.Internet toxicity will ruin everything!
@WardGray-yo2mx 4 months ago

To help @Erin-Thor : Yellow is used a slang for cowardice.Yellow is the most flavourful seems a sardonic way to say 'dont be brash & call it brave.keep a cool head'
@fakshen1973 5 months ago

22:00 The humans have given up on FTL drive technology... seeing as it will get them no where." That made me laugh. :)
@Erin-Thor 5 months ago

“Yellow is the most flavorful?” I’m lost, does anyone know what this means? I can only guess that it means “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Help?
@EpicNerd 3 months ago

27:13 "who has done this" skips to ad "FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY MAKES IT POSSIBLE!!!"
@SeaScoutDan 4 months ago

Aliens discovered the Comments section.
@toddh377 5 months ago

Good story. I'm not as optimistic about either humanity or alien collectives...but who knows.
@bartoszmoczydowski3173 4 months ago

there was a war over a cow.
@Paul-A01 4 months ago

Its really weird how a captain and seasoned diplomat don't understand that the hoi polloi are loud, unthinking and best left ignored. Their jobs involve ignoring errant comments for the greater purpose of the mission.
@arcdecibel9986 4 months ago

This was kinda confusing because the alien diplomat both assumes that everyone in a species is the same, but doesn't assume that others would think the same way. He has to learn that over the course of the story, which begs the question "How tolerant could these aliens actually be?" Apparently, they're just set up that way as a monolith, which is poor writing.
@yomogami4561 5 months ago

interesting story. it will be interesting if it continues world building ps just know ftl exists and watching ships enter the system and leave will give us all the clues we need
@traceybrown2399 3 months ago

There was another option besides destroying the human home world or letting them join the confederacy. Niether, just reject them saying that they obviously weren't ready as a species yet to act on the galactic stage
@petepal55 4 months ago

Dragging a huge asteroid into Earth orbit... a very convenient option for eliminating humanity if it's deemed necessary, lol!
@jestertheslacker 5 months ago

“…constant state of civil war. Over the dumbest things too. From religion to territory.” - - automatically subscribed.
@SilverCyric 4 months ago

0:38 Nope! We just love making alien invasion flicks 😂