Short SciFi Stories on the go

Humanity would be banished to the chasm, a region of space where the laws of physics twisted in impossible ways, where ships vanished without a trace, and where madness seemed to leak from reality itself. They had been branded as the face of humanity, though they were merely the crew of Earth's first deep space exploration mission. Three months later, the transport ships released 40,000 humans at the edge of the chasm, not just the condemned crew, but volunteers, families, and those who refused to let humanity face extinction alone. Six months later, human ships glided through the chasm like dancers, predicting rifts and surfing temporal waves. Two years after their exile, the first human ship reappeared near council space, then another, then a fleet.

Humanity would be banished to the chasm, a region of space where the laws of physics twisted in impossible ways, where ships vanished without a trace, and where madness seemed to leak from reality itself. They had been branded as the face of humanity, though they were merely the crew of Earth's first deep space exploration mission. Three months later, the transport ships released 40,000 humans at the edge of the chasm, not just the condemned crew, but volunteers, families, and those who refused to let humanity face extinction alone. Six months later, human ships glided through the chasm like dancers, predicting rifts and surfing temporal waves. Two years after their exile, the first human ship reappeared near council space, then another, then a fleet.

Humanity, he declared, has been found guilty of aggressive expansion, cultural interference, and disturbing the balance of galactic civilization, effective immediately, all human colonies beyond the soul system are to be evacuated. Rebecca looked around at the representatives of the other races, the VRN who had taken for millennia just to colonize three star systems, the courtish, who after 6,000 years still hadn't managed faster than light travel, and dozens of old, slow species who had become too comfortable, too afraid of change. What the council failed to realize was that humanity's greatest strength had never been its technology or military power. But unlike the council, humanity opened its doors, refugees from oppressive worlds, scientists seeking freedom, and merchants tired of corruption, all found a new home in human space. Humanity had been exiled for being too ambitious, so they built an empire that turned ambition itself into their greatest strength.

Commander Zixer S3I's widened in shock as he watched the human specimen walk straight toward the edge of the crystalline deathpool. We can't let an entire human delegation die in front of us, but before the teleportation sequence could activate, something unbelievable happened, the humans dove straight into the water. We labelled it a death-world category, seven, toxic oceans, dangerous life forms, unstable weather, but if humans evolved in saltwater like this, then they didn't just survive, interrupted physician Claire, her scientific curiosity, now outweighing her fear, they thrived in it. For the next three days, the station continued observing the humans, they surfed, snorkeled, built sandcastles, and gathered shells, children laughed in the toxic spray, elderly humans waded peacefully through the surf. Do not attempt to protect humans from hazards they find enjoyable, their definition of recreation may involve substances lethal to others, as the human ship prepared to depart, Captain Vasquez sent a final transmission.

Vex's voice carried through the universal translator. Admiral Zork of the Crusher fleet slammed his huge fist onto the table, making several smaller delegates jump, his gray skin darkened and anger. Vex pulled up a holographic map showing earth's position in the galaxy. By the seven moons of cracksis, gasped captain flux, there's a dead zone around earth. Nick's had searched every corner of the galactic historical database and what she found unsettled everyone.

Vex's voice carried through the universal translator. Admiral Zork of the Crusher fleet slammed his huge fist onto the table, making several smaller delegates jump, his gray skin darkened and anger. Vex pulled up a holographic map showing earth's position in the galaxy. By the seven moons of cracksis, gasped captain flux, there's a dead zone around earth. Nick's had searched every corner of the galactic historical database and what she found unsettled everyone.

Vex's voice carried through the universal translator. Admiral Zork of the Crusher fleet slammed his huge fist onto the table, making several smaller delegates jump, his gray skin darkened and anger. Vex pulled up a holographic map showing earth's position in the galaxy. By the seven moons of cracksis, gasped captain flux, there's a dead zone around earth. Nick's had searched every corner of the galactic historical database and what she found unsettled everyone.

Vex's voice carried through the universal translator. Admiral Zork of the Crusher fleet slammed his huge fist onto the table, making several smaller delegates jump, his gray skin darkened and anger. Vex pulled up a holographic map showing earth's position in the galaxy. By the seven moons of cracksis, gasped captain flux, there's a dead zone around earth. Nick's had searched every corner of the galactic historical database and what she found unsettled everyone.

Vex's voice carried through the universal translator. Admiral Zork of the Crusher fleet slammed his huge fist onto the table, making several smaller delegates jump, his gray skin darkened and anger. Vex pulled up a holographic map showing earth's position in the galaxy. By the seven moons of cracksis, gasped captain flux, there's a dead zone around earth. Nick's had searched every corner of the galactic historical database and what she found unsettled everyone.

Zorak's mandibles shifted into something close to a smile, which makes it perfect for us. While the rest of the bridge crew exchanged silent looks of exasperation, deploy our aquatic recon units, Zorak's ordered. Three Earth days later, Zorak's wasn't laughing. They don't know it's us, Zorak snapped. From Earth, Zorak's repeated his throat sacked swelling nervously.