Mankind's Return | HFY | A short Sci-Fi Story 

"I didn't sign up for this"... Literally exactly what you would have signed up for.

300 years lost seems hardly enough to wipe out all history. We're used to pass culture and event verbally since eons. Should've take a greater length period like 1000 or 2000 thousands years.

Inaccuracies, YES. But I still like this and I'm hoping for more...

Mach number is not a speed measure that is usable in a technical sense, especially when going in space. Scientists would use m/s, and military pilots would use knots.

It's the Jupiter 2? Danger, Will Robinson, danger!

PLEXIGLASS windscreen on a orbital craft that has a heat shield......I don't think so.

300 hundred years seems hardly sufficient. 3,000 years perhaps.

interesting story and i would like to hear more

A nice, concise, meaningful, story. What those on Earth thought was a ship warping out, was actually a ship coming back in time to try and let the existing people on Earth know what awaits them. Or does it await them? Can they change what occurred to Earth and the colonies? Might a first strike or better defenses change the outcome? Maybe if all the politicians were to be rounded up and put in quarantine Earth would better prepare for their future.

I would love to see more

The story has holes in it you could drive a spaceship through.

Great story as ever, empowered by the new voice of RU-vid. 😁👍

Story so far good, but as an engineer i gotta protest those numbers . I tried to restrain myself but few quick critique points (Also im sorry but i couldnt ignore the numbers): A, if they consumed 30% of fuel just to get to the goal they wouldnt have enough fuel to return, due to lack of gravity pull the braking energy would have to be equal to the initial energy so its 60% fuel gone and you have to accelerate and break again, leaving you with 20% deficit of fuel + aditional fuel to descend at acceptable velocity. B, if they used thrusters to spin the ship, it wouldnt fly straight anymore, instead it would curve like boomerang, due to centrifugal force changing its trajectory C, 100 m/s is not cawl speed it 360 km/h or aproximately 224 MPH D, Plexiglass is not used for space travel as it could both melt or shatter from cold, usually heat treated and hardened glass is preferred with aditives including heavy metals like lead, to prevent glass turning black as the effect of space radiation that interacts with Si in the glass.

Short, but powerful, and moving.🛸🚀

To whoever is doing the narrating, great job with the voices. My new favorite audiobook channel

Interesting.

If Science fiction was written by Ayn Rand.

300 years is not long enough. 3000 would have done the job, but even then there would have been myths about the whole disaster.

the entire story premise is flawed. There is such a thing as collective knowledge. Even if all computers, all data and all written information got lost, you still have people who remember and who would teach their children. And even if there weren't any "teachers" left, the remaining people would remember the calamity and would teach about it to their children, so it would be remembered. So 300 years isn't even close to the time needed to completely forget everything. It would probably take thousands of years or more for that to happen. Basically it would need to become the stuff of legends, so that no-one actually believes it to be reality. Something akin to Atlantis.

Jupiter two ....danger will robinson

oh come on... all that tech and only 1080p streaming from space?

And then the government will now be at war again for that hard drive.

I hate that shit. Every fucking scifi story out there when something weird happens. "I didn't sign up for this shit!" It's exactly what they signed up for.

OP is a KSP nerd : )

Surprisingly dark, and despite the Corsairs, the politicians that wanted accountability were right after all. An attack by an alien species resulting in a tantrum and causing a galaxy to go void of live...

story took inspirations from eve online

Not to be that guy but OP used retro-burn to describe booth acceleration and deceleration... nit pick but the difference is very important

I'm sorry but I cant say I liked this short story...

Eve Online?

the story is confused, and just plain silly An 11 g burn to orbit ??? 8 g burns in orbit??? what??? who ever wrote this is doing techno babble , and doing it badly

Ripping off Lost in space is not cool.No!

Meh. Needs tidying up a tad.

for the story......

Numerous mistakes in this story, however. It tries to answer or give a what if to a question that has been floating around for some time. Much of the past, or history does not add up as written and taught. Evidence of nuclear detonations 1000+ years ago. Certain tech lost and only recently rediscovered. Time lines not adding up. Interesting concept.

300 years to go through every planet in the galaxy...yea right

The science in this is SO wrong it's hilarious