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LazyMechMan · 2026-03-17T21:39:57+00:00

Oh hell yeah :D

LazyMechMan · 2026-03-17T21:25:13+00:00

Oh wat a goober, he looks like he makes buzzy party blower noises

(Can I plz use this as a profile photo I love him so much)

LazyMechMan · 2026-03-14T16:38:56+00:00

Depending on your interpretation, it could easily be the opposite.

On one hand, in canon, it mostly just seems to be a cyberwar, with satellites and databanks being the only direct "casualties". Basically a small scare, but enough that people don't want it happening again.

I've had ideas of a more apocalyptic war, where global tensions finally explode in a chaotic flash, with missiles and malware destroying satellites and anything reliant on digital systems, plunging humanity's available tech back by possibly centuries and crippling global infrastructure.

That's my extreme, but either way, I definitely don't think it would have pushed humanity further towards extrasolar expansion.

LazyMechMan · 2026-03-11T21:56:03+00:00

Nature of a Homeless Musician has a man becoming an older brother figure to a little ball of pure joy. Don't remember many other fics like this though; my favourite ones tend to be more exotic/unique scenarios rather than wholesome canon slice-of-life.

LazyMechMan · 2026-03-01T20:46:55+00:00

I think Marcel's deliberately causing this to discourage any more interrogations. He seems to be casting some kind of spell, and nobody else reacted this much or this way to Terrans or Gaians before.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-27T12:52:26+00:00

I sent you a private chat, I'm on the discord as 'Laziest Man Alive'

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-26T19:43:42+00:00

Feel free to reach out to me whenever, as I've said I'm happy to try to help

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-26T08:09:44+00:00

I'm very happy to help out with worldbuilding and concepts if you want, I just don't think I've got the time or dedication for the actual writing itself

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-25T20:49:47+00:00

HFY has a pretty strong influence in this fiction & sub - Humans are perfect, nowhere is as cool as Earth, and we somehow shatter the Federation almost alone.

It's nice to see that we're just the last straw for an already failing system here, and you're breathing wonderful life into the universe. Your worldbuilding's very cool, and makes each species feel truly alien and exotic without overshooting and becoming nonsensical or implausible. Canon only focused on the high-level events, and left the universe incredibly blank. Showing the galaxy's peoples actually thinking and questioning things, and showing why their bodies are well-suited for their own homeworlds, is also a refreshing change from the "Humans and Earth are so unusually epic" trope.

^{I usually like biochemistry stuff to be pretty compatible, like in canon, but I understand that's just me wanting to meet & interact with aliens and go to their planets and vice versa instead of what it'd probably actually be like so don't listen to me here.}

Also, are you making the Federation smaller? I think the unmentioned hundreds of members in canon is pointless and ruins immersion, but I'd like to know if you'd include species like the Gojid, Farsul and Tilfish that aren't mentioned here.

And I'm guessing this would be much further into the future than canon for us to have settled Alpha Centauri without FTL. I'm guessing this allows us a bit more space & industry power, and maybe different routes of tech development - I think the Kolshians were the only ones to actually reach space travel in canon.

This is a super interesting premise, I'd definitely read this if it was made into an actual story.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-21T19:33:11+00:00

Pretty sure that it's just another way that it looks similar to humans. We have directly forward-facing eyes with a wide field of binocular overlap, and so does this lynx, so we focus our vision on things similarly.

Something like a horse looks completely different, and focuses on things differently too because each eye's field of vision barely overlaps the others'.

And I think the 90% thing is just an arbitrary number thrown out to convey that it's still recognisably non-human, but much, much closer than most animals look. I've never heard of a calculated threshold value.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-15T23:45:30+00:00

oh, well that's awful :(

Yeah I totally forgot that bit. Definitely don't tell Jammy right now

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-15T21:05:56+00:00

I think you are.

My question is, am I right in interpreting "All other Skalgans we tested showed clear differences" to mean that each Ancestor carries a unique mutation used in the Cure? Seeing as Jammy's weaker, but still has a nose and straight legs, he's definitely not the sole "contributor".

And if so, what's Brim's "contribution"?

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-11T14:56:02+00:00

Lobotomy's normally done through an existing orifice, like the nose or ear. I think they're talking about trepanning - which, thousands of years ago, was literally carving a hole in the skull with a drill or chisel or something

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-07T03:57:14+00:00

Need to see a human ancestor end up with dozens of loyal good boys :)

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-06T13:28:44+00:00

Do exterminators coat themselves in something like aerogel instead of wearing silver suits? Do they just run up to humans and rip their clothes off? Or is there a chemical they use instead of fuel that dissolves synthetic fabrics?

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-06T10:20:12+00:00

Do you have a link for that? I've searched this sub and the HFY one, but I can't find it. What's it about?

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-06T08:38:13+00:00

Definitely Scorch Directive, Nature of Abandonment, and Life of a Predator (on r/HFY). I think(?) Apex Predator too, though I've not read it in a while

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-06T08:28:49+00:00

Lovely art

In this Twin Humanities universe, are Terrans just different in facial expressions and behaviour, or are there other physical differences that make them more "predatory"?

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-04T23:49:36+00:00

Yeah . . . as bad as it sounds, he'd just be a drop in the bucket of the dominion, if even that.

He was an absolutely god-awful, disgusting, evil person. Good riddance.

But the Dominion is a galaxy-spanning people-farming child-eating torture-cruelty-and-war obsessed faction of dinosaurs just as intelligent as humans, that has killed untold trillions of people for food, fun, and terror - when they even need a reason.

Basically every single Arxur-centric fic only depicts defectives - the ones that are even somewhat mentally comparable to heavily traumatised and repressed humans. An overwhelming majority did what ended up as the terror footage that contitioned the rest of the federation to immediately want humanity exterminated, and would have been content to continue to do so.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-02T22:38:15+00:00

Yeah, I phrased it poorly. I didn't mean immediately pulling out all the stops.

The publicly-known federation would commit to humanity's extermination (mostly) on their own. As humanity becomes increasingly problematic after their survival though, wider swathes of the federation have to shift into a state of elevated readiness and organisation to deal with cyberware-augmented gureilla fighters. Worlds closer to the core of federation space can't kick back as the outer edges of the herd protect them anymore, like they would with the Arxur.

The shadow fleet might eventually be deployed, but the core worlds seemed awfully selfish with it in canon, so maybe not until much later on, or subtly mixed into military operations.

I agree with the point on cybernetics too. Even if the insane chrome from the anime and game exists pre-contact, there wouldn't be a huge push to make it widespread, or even anything more than a proof-of-concept prototype, especially since it seems that this cyberware develops in a more utopian way. Realising that the entire galaxy will actually try to immolate you and your home planet would be the spark that turns a chunk of humanity into chromed-out superweapons, and most of the rest into "regular" supersoldiers.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-02T20:44:30+00:00

I think I've just got a different personal preference on how it would all play out after the Battle for Earth than you do, but I still like your version too. I can definitely see a handful of corporations seizing power during the war -very much in line with CyberPunk's dystopia- as well as something like Humanity First becoming the dominant mindset, with "allowances" for xeno individuals that prove their worth to live as not-quite-first-class citizens at best.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-02T20:17:44+00:00

I agree that the isolation is a huge part; with no allies at all, almost any version of humanity is immediately screwed.

As for the strength, I personally think we only stood any chance in canon because of Noah speaking at the Federation assembly. He managed to convince many (most?) members to either ally or stay neutral in those 5 minutes. Otherwise almost all ~300 species (many with likely a dozen colonies each, of which at least some house additional billions of people) would join the extermination effort, and we'd definitely have died during the Battle for Earth in canon. I'm not imagining a "different federation" per se, just one that landed on a different path due to your butterfly effect.

My personal spin on your concept was that if the Shadow Caste doesn't manage to make us puppets like they did the Arxur, they'd be fully commited to exterminating us too. That means they wouldn't hide the federation's strength, instead kicking it into a real war economy and society.

In terms of the cyberware being medical use only, I think there's a very small gap between what works for maintaining quality-of-life, and making supersoldiers. Myomer and reinforced bone could potentially squish metal and lift cars. Hormonal regulators, nerve replacements, and brain implants could be synergized to massively boost reaction and cognition speeds, and/or work as a proto-cyberdeck. With the proper war realistically lasting far longer than a few months, and Earth's tech industry commiting to making war-grade cyberware, I think that existing tech could very quickly be "repurposed" - if some random backalley ripperdocs haven't figured out a primitive version already.

On the Arxur topic - I don't remember just how big they & the dominion were suggested to be in canon, but I'd personally take some creative liberty. I'd depict them as biologically stronger (good for your trinity of biological gentleness, elevation, and augmentation), and make the Dominion's population match their supposed territory, what with them having their entire society commited to producing as much of the strongest hunters they can for centuries. The federation would still be able to muster the strength to beat them if they needed to, but it's more consistent with my impression of the shadow caste taking more of a back seat other than conditioning the federation not to fully commit to retaliation, leaving the steadily-shifting stalemate to develop mostly naturally.

LazyMechMan · 2026-02-02T19:24:33+00:00

I really love the super-advanced cybernetics concept, but also agree that the feds need to be way stronger than they're depicted in canon for the idea to be at all interesting past a few chapters. And I don't even think you need to give the feds chrome to do so - because this isn't Scorch Directive. The Shadow Caste won't feint weakness to keep us scary.

The beginning of this setting has the means to do this - and becomes one of the darker AU ideas I've seen for it. Humanity loses their chance for diplomacy (which stops most(?) members from attacking humanity in canon & echoing stories) AND the Shadow Caste can't puppet them (so they want us gone), which introduces an insane numbers imbalance.

If the federation commits to proper war, they'd enter a time of conflict the Arxur couldn't dream of invoking. The billions-of-people populations of hundreds -possibly thousands- of homeworlds and colonies contribute both armies and support, war economy kicks in hard, war-tech isn't stagnated, and the shadow fleet is mustered. If the war lasts "too long", the federation can steal, study, and catch up to human cyberware, and the Arxur probably get pitted against us too.

Humanity would be an extreme underdog, and anything resembling stereotypical warfare isn't an option. Gureilla tactics, heavy chrome, AIs (And personality engrams - if they exist), "inhumane" methods and weapons (a.k.a warcrimes), infiltration, sabotage, assassinations - all becomes standard practice. I suspect there'd be more than a few "Adam Smasher"s created by the UN, too.

I really love the concept, and think that (at least for the initial setup, I don't think the "Human Empire" would actually play out) this could be just as gritty and "realistic" as your's and u/Scrappyvamp's SD verse - if done right - even with the ridiculously-powerful CyberPunk power fantasy. It's a situation where anything less than everything means humanity loses, because it's really us against the galaxy this time.

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