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tonarrate/Do_You_Hold_Our_Debt_Fulfilled | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | About twelve years ago, a man died in high orbit over Tau Ceti V.
His name was Drake McDougal, and aside from a few snapshots and vague anecdotes from his drinking buddies, that’s probably all we’ll ever know about him. Another colony-born man with little records and little documentation, working whatever asteroid fie... |
tonarrate/The_Laughingstock_Of_The_Universe | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | Humanity was the laughing stock of the Universe.
They were short, ugly, unimpressive creatures. Gestation periods too long to be a swarming menace of sheer numbers. No razor claws, armoured shells, or horrible poisons, even their intellects (the things they themselves prized over all else) were merely average in the g... |
tonarrate/Adrenaline_Amazing_Stuff | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | “It was probably about 13 Galactic Years ago that I first fought alongside the Humans. My unit of Vargruung Walkers were acting as heavy support for a unit of about 14 human infantry, doing hunter-kill missions against the Kell-wreth in some dark swamp world.
Reminded me of home if I’m honest.
Sure we’d all heard the... |
tonarrate/Its_Because_Of_Their_Tongues | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | "It's because of their tongues, you know..."
"I guess I should explain, huh? They're not really all that different; pretty much any advanced sophont is going to have a highly-evolved organ for language. But they've got that shared-orifice bauplan... let me tell you about how they reproduce sometime! Anyway, their spee... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_Pest_Control | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | Colonel Chambers stood at the helm of the spaceship, arms behind his back and facing the vast array of screens. The power armor that encased him completely annulled any form of fidgeting or stray movements. It contrasted heavily with the Progor diplomat Drohmen standing beside him who altered between looking at the scr... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_4 | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | The chambers of learning were abuzz that day. Only those greatest in position amongst the science caste were there, not even a single of the overseer class, nor a warrior to keep the usually easily frightened science class controlled. Manes bristled as those there sought to contain their excitement, but failed. In any ... |
tonarrate/The_Part_With_Balls | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | Now don't get me wrong... the illathrod have some of the finest covert-operations units in the known galaxy. But the humans? The humans have something else entirely. It was only [ten minutes] into that first skirmish, that first contact battle between the humans and the illathrod, that the illathrod lost contact with t... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_2 | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | I admit I was bored. The negotiations were the usual: Humans can do this and that so long as they don’t blow up this or that place. They may not kill so and so in return they are allowed all the x amount of y they want. Blah blah blah. The air conditioning in my suit malfunctioned and the damn thing was getting stuffy ... |
tonarrate/Theyre_Made_Out_Of_Meat | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | "They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messag... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_3 | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | 2 worlds. Yes that's right, I not only negotiated the release of the Gox occupation, but I also got 2 whole uninhabited worlds out of the deal. How? Well it wasn't easy. Seeing as how I had to present myself before the entire Cohesion. That was a task in itself as dozens of representatives from each of the Unionite rac... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_1 | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | When mankind ventured out into space, we never suspected what was to come. Our first inhabited planet was less than thirty light-years away, far closer than we would have thought. The issue?
Everyone was dead.
The entire planet was like that, a perfectly stable world with no issues that we could determine, and yet it... |
tonarrate/The_Egg | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s... |
tonarrate/Servitude | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | I didn’t understand why they did it at first, I probably still don’t. I used to live on a farm on Xangzie. Me and my mate, Gen, were bought to work there, it was a Sliv couple. I thought they treated us right, they gave us food and shelter. They even gave us one of their old vidboxes for our room occasionally. We were ... |
tonarrate/Our_First_And_Last_Mistake | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | I remember the war with humanity. It was our first and last mistake, the last war of the Gwin, the war that destroyed us.
I was barely a hatchling at the time the war started, barely old enough to understand what the politicians were saying never, mind understand the intricacies of galactic politics or jingoistic feve... |
tonarrate/The_Artisans | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | The moment the signal was returned to us, calling out from the depths of space, I swore my heart stopped.
We were a simple mining ship. We had a simple life style. Find space rocks, mine them, sell the ore. Not a glamorous lifestyle, but it paid the bills.
It was one day years ago that changed our world forever.
It ... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_2_5 | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | From the audio logs of Hurann Grethunk:
Our group was handpicked from the best of the best of each race in our alliance. The smartest Kragag, the fastest Urloc, the most nearly invisible Slyarn. We had a cutting edge ship and the best funding we could get while still remaining a secret project. We had enough engine po... |
tonarrate/The_Veil_Of_Madness_Torn | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | The atmosphere in the lecture hall was normal. Some students buzzed and whispered. Some texted or chatted on cell-u-voxes. A few even had notebooks out, and they were the minority. The Professor stepped up to the lectern, and the room grew quieter.
“All right, guys, I have an announcement to make first and foremost,” ... |
tonarrate/Straining_To_Find_That_Pale_Blue_Dot | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | We encountered the first of them in a warm, wet world orbiting a small yellow star, in a previously unexplored sector of space.. They didn't seem to have the population for the tech base they possessed, yet there they were, launching orbital craft almost daily and even sending crewed missions to some of the neighbourin... |
tonarrate/Level_With_Me | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | “Level with me.”
The orb clicked in response. “I maintain my present orientation, Commander.”
“No-” the Commander started, then stopped. His expression softened with something approaching sympathy. He spoke again, saying, “I mean tell me the situation as it is. Don't sugarcoat-” He caught himself this time, “Don't le... |
tonarrate/They_Had_Variety | hf://datasets/jerryjalapeno/scripts@a2e66311e3feb8191550e45fd1859e8f7c0852d5/tonarrate.tar.gz | I can’t sleep at night.
It began after the Earthlings appeared on the Galactic stage. I was one of the many individuals who began to research them, some as a job others out of curiosity.
While the human beings were certainly unique in physiology, ability, and culture, so was every other species. Nothing about them at... |
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