We don't Kill Humans | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story

what the target is a Huma no no I heard what you said I just what there's no way in the Galaxy anyone could be that monumentally stupid I was led to believe that the Blackhand assassins could kill anything you keep that name out of your thric damn mouth around here welp we had to abandon that name after the bad deal with the delin Empire years ago I don't care about any Empire I want you to kill a human the Assassin's mandibles clicked angrily in agitation we don't take contracts to kill humans then I'll just contract

someone else you can try none of the other guilds in the Galaxy will take that job and even if you found an independent with a death wish they won't get the job done not without them either dying or ratting you out you can't really believe that humans are unkillable I never said they were unkillable quite the contrary I personally know that they are definitely mortal but we don't take on contracts to kill them why and all the hell's not because the only way to kill a human and live long enough to enjoy the money for

the job is to drop a neutron bomb on them from orbit just to be safe then you grab the fastest ship you can and book it before the rest of the humans find out what you did after that I suggest finding a way to another galaxy and staying there for the rest of your miserable life you're having me on tell me does the planet you come from have compulsory education what does that have to do with with anything indulge me yes 10 years of basically teaching our young how to be as obedient as a rasian

drone sounds about right for any government run public education you learn any history lessons there some they must not teach Galactic history then sit Buy around and I'll tell you why no assassin worth their blade will take on a contract to kill a human the drinks were ordered and the old assassin took a long drag on his before he turned to his new drinking companion you remember I mentioned the delin Empire yes what of it do you know what happened to them their empire broke after they poured too many resources into trying to tame a

death world that death world is the human cradle world and the planet didn't break the delpin the humans did how the Assassin took another long drag of his beer the delpin Empire used to rule this half of the Galaxy hundreds of species and civilizations held in thall or crushed into dust serve or die that was the delpan way the council that presided over what wasn't delpan territory back then could do little to stop the ever churning war machine that drove delpan expansion they would posture and debate and even beg but nothing they did could slow

the inexorable March of the delpan system by System the Galaxy was falling under the rule of the emperor then they happened upon a system that was called Soul by its inhabitants the name wasn't being used for any other system so the delen let them keep it the humans resided on the third planet in the system poor sods they had just started really exploring their home system when the delpan came knocking the humans were divided into various socioeconomic groups that they called countries this made it easier for the delpan as the fractured nations of humans were

slow to respond and the legions swept across the land without their next Target being any WI about their Doom approaching thanks to communication Jammers despite all these disadvantages the humans resisted mightily one Galactic standard month that's how long it took for the delpin to claim dominion over the planet most pre-ftl worlds fell within a week but those humans fought like demons especially when the remaining countries finally figured out that they were being invaded they even managed to bring the delpan ground troops to a halt once before reinforcements were dropped and the last Bastion of resistance

fell from there it was the usual boring administrative tedium splitting the New Slaves into work groups and assigning them jobs that would ultimately benefit their new overlords many of the surviving humans were farmers and ranchers so the delpan let them do what they were good at an army marches on its stomach I believe is the old human saying and the delpan war machine was hungry indeed a few hundred thousand were taken off world to work in the mines elsewhere those humans are unnaturally strong and durable due to the high gravity of their world so they

excelled at the dangerous task of mining the worlds and species conquered by the delpon usually followed a handful of events as though they were reading from the same script first there was a year or two where the overlords and administrators would have to be very liberal with the whip until the slaves learned the New Order of things then there'd be a few years of relative peace followed by a period of rebellions and uprisings 5 to 10 years after the initial Conquest once those were beaten down there usually wasn't enough fight left to try again so

the survivors just gave up hope these humans didn't follow the script they grudgingly fell in line a few months after the invasion was done and when the expected uprisings never happened I imagine the delpan were feeling pretty proud of themselves for beating the fight out of the primates if I only had one compliment to give the humans it would be this they are natural Hunters they know how to wait patiently for the perfect time to strike for 20 earth years the humans worked and lived and bred like cling rats not that the Delp and cared

how many more humans were being born more meat for the grinder they would say they would even give incentives like extra rations and special privileges if a human female produced more than four Offspring if only the delpin knew the humans weren't breeding more workers they were growing an army the human administrators and rulers that surrendered to the delpin were at least half fake puppets sent to give the illusion of surrender while the real governments hid underground literally in some cases and continued to direct their forces hidden training camps nighttime schools secretly printed pamphlets about how

to one day throw off the chains of Oppression those humans were clever in hiding it all from their overlords then when the delpan warfront was dozens of systems away on their conquest of the Galaxy it was time the humans leaders long hidden in their secret holes had been planning while scraps of stolen delpan Tech were being meticulously reverse engineered by their scientists they had been Gathering resources for their Rebellion since they surrendered while the delpan had been gloating the humans were preparing and now finally ready they made their move it was small at first all

rebellions are a rogue minor refusing to work here a Rancher telling his over Lord that his entire herd was wiped out by some non-existent disease there a factory explosion over here larger disturbances to production soon followed the human country of France with its long history of rebelling against tyrants would riot in the streets while crying out Viva Revolution don't ask me what in the hells that means I never bothered learning human languages a crate of plasma rifles went missing then a grav tank wouldn't start when they popped the hood they found it to be completely

gutted of all power and anti-grav components the delpan leaders thought these problems were beneath them but still needed addressing so they called the Blackhand assassins and other guilds like ours to deal with the rabble rousers our services cost the Empire a tidy sum I can tell you that planet of the humans dirt I think they call it is at least three times the galactic average gravity every agent we sent had to be fitted with a grav assist suit and spent a week after making planetfall getting used to it at first our agents thought that the

human Rebels were ghosts they could see the after effects of sabotage but never any evidence to prove who had done it they would be patrolling streets when suddenly the streets would empty before the agent could wonder where the humans had all gone an explosion would rock the street sometimes taking the agent with it one of our agents got so angered by the death of a friend that he went to a random completely unrelated town and started executing humans when they couldn't answer his questions about who was responsible unsurprisingly a mob turned on him after the

third execution and tore him to pieces I can't even blame the delpin for not paying the death fee for that one our contract was to stop riots not cause them the contract was quickly going bad sure we were killing humans like we were being paid to with the kind of surgical Precision we were known for but what good is money if you can't even make it off wor world to spend it before long we couldn't walk on the surface of their Planet without heavy escort by delpin troops the humans would strike without warning and Fade

Into the background on the human continent of Africa an agent was lured onto the Savannah as he was chasing one of the human Rebels only to find himself set upon by a pack of feline Predators those humans had even wrangled the Lesser beasts of their world into fighting the number of Agents we lost to the humans Canine Companion species cannot easily be counted and the less I say about the death trap the humans call Australia the happier I shall be first one Regional Administration center fell silent then another by the time the delpan Nobles finally

took notice of this new problem the entire planet had fallen silent and not just dirt but anywhere that a human had been taken to work was showing similar signs of resistance one can only assume that they had been fostering rebellious Notions with the other slave species of the delpan the gods only know how they managed to communicate with each other across the void of space before you say anything yes the delpan did have Patrol vessels Meandering throughout the region to suppress just this kind of thing but those had fallen silent too the humans had gotten

spies aboard and either destroyed or captured the vessels these two were sent to their scientists to be examined and now without delpin supervision the humans uncovered the secret Factory and forces they had been cultivating for years huge manufactories churning out components for space docks and eventually starships that the newly uncovered launch facilities hurled into orbit to the tune of several thousands of tons per day by the time the light response vessels made it to human space they were no match for the humble Fleet the humans had managed to build with stolen delpan technology it is

no falsehood to say that the delpan were victims of their own hubris every time they lost a resp response vessel or Patrol Fleet they would just send another they were too focused on expanding their borders to recognize the rot eating away at their empire from within when the delpan finally got tired enough of the cost of sending light response fleets into the area to pull a conquest Fleet from the front the human world and the next three conquered systems in any direction had fallen silent when the conquest Fleet arrived 10 systems out from Saul they

faced a fleet of not just humans but all of the slave species in the region after that victory for the humans the delpan emperor must have been getting nervous all of his fleets were halfway across the Galaxy and the humans were sat between him and his armies an emergency call went out for all fleets to immediately recall directly to the imperial capital and any guilds like the black hand were called in to assist by that time we had lost almost 2/3 of our Guild so we refused the call It ultimately saved us the humans after

Decades of clandestine operations were well-versed in fiting out spies and sabur within their own ranks seven other assassin guilds were completely wiped out we knew it was a Fool's errand no matter how much the empire was willing to pay while the delpan fleet gathered in their home system plans were made to meticulously spread out and scour the Empire of the rebels this ended up being the final nail in the coffin you see while the delpan Empire consolidated and planned the humans spread quickly through the now enemy-free void and went to every subservient species in the

Empire threw down the delpan administrators controlling them and gathered them to the cause everywhere the humans went they fanned the Flames of rebellion and the Galaxy burned the ineffective Council in the part of the Galaxy that had yet to be conquered by the Empire had eagerly joined with the humans in their fight throughout the Empire the oppressed and enslaved were throwing off their Shackles by the trillions and raising their fists in defiance Forge worlds still churned out ships and Agri world still raised crops and livestock but for the new Galactic Alliance not for the delin

cut off from the supply lines that kept the delpin Empire running internal strife started to take hold within the Imperial forces fleets of Conquest went out from the imperial capital and never made it more than a dozen systems before they were p upon by the Human Alliance much like on their home world the humans would strike like lightning and disappear into the black try as they did The delpan Fleets were never quite able to pin down the humans in a fair fight this went on for months as the delpan legions were slowly bled dry ambushes

false distress signals EMP mines hidden in clouds of wreckage nothing was beneath the humans so long as the enemy could be destroyed when the Allied fleets finally breached delpan Prime they found a starving and fractured Fleet tearing itself to Pieces when the human Admiral hailed the fractured flotilla and the delpan captains saw the sheer scale of the Armada before them they surrendered straight away with the Rebellion now finished after three years of fighting the humans unleashed the most vicious weapon in their Arsenal lawyers they dragged the delpan emperor himself from his throne and all of

the delpan Nobles and administrators and lashh holders that had ever oppressed a Sapient being were rounded up and then the humans drugged them through what is now our modern court system it was far and way more civilized than delpan Court where the accused would be brought before the Emperor or a representative charges would be read and the accused would be shot without even the ability to defend themselves by the time the trials were finished the emperor had died of old age and his successor was made to write the wrongs done to the Galaxy the EMP

Empire was broken and all that is left of the delpan is a few systems in the far reaches of the galactic Southern arm many feared that the humans would turn around and conquer the Galaxy for themselves however within a year of the delpan surrender the humans had dismantled over half of their Fleet and Scattered the rest around the Galaxy for pirate hunting and general peacekeeping our Guild was extremely lucky that the humans understood that we had broken our contract they let us live with the promise that the black hand would be permanently dismantled those humans

Whitted us down to a mere third of our number before the Rebellion even left their home planet a third we were the top assassin Guild in the galaxy and now we are a loose unnamed group of independent agents so you see young one we don't kill humans you kill a human and their family will hunt you down if you kill their family the species will hunt you down and you had better pray they kill you because if their lawyers get their hands on you you'll be lucky if if your own people are forced to kill

you as an apology I had no idea that is painfully obvious I'm not usually one to pry into a customer's business but what did this human do to offend you anyway they insulted my brood mate the Assassin laughed ha is that all then insult them back you if it really bothered you then punch them in the face but you said we don't kill humans but those crazy Apes love to fight with words as well as their fists and you'll have a better chance of survival that way chances are you wouldn't be able to physically hurt

them but if you took the time to explain to them that you were offended they may even apologize they would do that they are monsters on the field of battle and demons when they have been wronged but they are not uncivilized if they were they couldn't have rebuilt the council to what it is today they hold the head chair position and will likely do so for generations to come they are a firm race but fair in their adjudication the Assassin drained the last drops in his glass and looked bafully at the empty vessel now then

my cup is empty unless you wish to fill it again I think we're done here what the target is a hue