Little SciFi Stories on the Go

Professor Kaelveth felt his joint sees as frost crept across his exosuit. We won't survive the night, Kaelveth whispered. Why aren't you resting, Kaelveth asked weekly. Mara didn't look up, because if I stopped, she said quietly. If humans could do this, with nothing, in hours, against a planet itself, then in war, with preparation, with intent, there would be no environment they couldn't conquer....

Actual food, massive cuts of meat rotated over improvised iron spits, while cadets sat around roaring fires, wearing predator hides across their shoulders. Another showed two human cadets arguing passionately over seasoning choices while explosions echoed somewhere deeper in the jungle. Three alien cadets from another unit stumbled into the human camp starving and exhausted. One cadet leapt direct...

He didn't move, didn't flinch, didn't even look surprised. The guards staggered back as the vision intensified, and there, amid the chaos, the human stood again younger, bleeding, broken, but standing, weapons fired, not guns, not missiles, something, improvised. The human glanced at the floor, at the faint reflection of himself in the polished metal, at the scars crossing his arms, his neck, his...

The room went still the moment he stepped into the council chamber, not because of his rank, not because of his armor, but because he carried the weight of the human species in a single pen stroke. Yet every general across the Andari cluster, every warlord in the Zerathi expanse, every strategist in the Vrin Dominion feared his signature. Every general, every strategist, every warlord present unde...

He touched the Emperor's sacred water, and the throne chose him instead. Royal guards stumbled backward in terror, priests dropped to their knees instantly, and at the center of it all, a confused human mechanic stood frozen beside the ancient basin. The sacred water began to rise, not splash, not ripple, rise, like it was alive. Then the human set upon the imperial throne. The surviving citizens...

The grenade flew back in a smooth, lazy arc, vanished into the smoke, and detonated behind the thrower with a concussive boom that folded steel and screams together. The human, major Alar events, terror and expeditionary forces, kept walking forward through drifting ash. Barehanded, gasps rippled through the stands as Alara twisted, thumbed the safety with practiced ease, and hurled it straight ba...

The arena of the Cal Rex combat syndicate rose like a jagged crown from the desert moon's surface. Tonight's spectacle, human versus Cal Rex champion, outcome probability, human fatality at 97. On the arena floor stood a human woman, no visible fear, no wasted movement, just stillness. Opposite her loomed vorkon, the syndicate's reigning champion, towering, armoured in layered gravitic plating, a...

His suit was dying, his ribs were shattered, his left arm barely moved. He ripped open his emergency override, pain exploded through his spine, nerve screamed, muscles tore, but the armor obeyed. He lifted the slab, his muscles ripped, blood poured into his helmet. Cade turned, raised his rifle, one hand, one arm. And at its center, one name burned brighter than most, a soldier who refused to quit...

First contact sparring, the instructor announced, observed carefully, at the center stood two figures, one, a towering alien warrior, plated in natural armor, confidence radiating from every movement, the other, a human girl, still, quiet, unimpressive. The human stood over him, not threatening, not triumphant, just calm. A ripple of realization spread because it wasn't luck, not reflex, not chanc...

Two small alien children thin, scaled, with eyes like molten gold stood at the edge of the ruins, staring at the human with empty bowls in their hands. And every day after they came back, Tom lived alone among the shattered husks of what used to be outpost Theta, a mining colony turned graveyard after the Orion Wars. He just opened his old field cooker, smiled and made lunch, warm stew, flat bread...

He lectured on death-world beasts, then the human cadet revealed she was one of them, the scream echoed through the combat dome, then cut off. A Carvax hologram rotated in the air, talons like Starship hull cutters, muscle wrapped in living armor, reflexes faster than targeting AI. Mara looked up, her eyes were calm, because we don't like sharing credit, she replied. Too late, Mara leapt, Boots sl...

He tore through the ash and smoke, his oxygen alarm blaring, his hands already reaching for the smallest of the hatchlings. They snuggled against his chest when the cold winds howled, and when other refugees asked what the hell he was doing feeding alien predators, he just smiled. Then one of the hatchlings waddled forward, chirping softly, and pressed against Thomas's leg. Mercy's just what human...

He touched the Emperor's sacred water, and the throne chose him instead. Royal guards stumbled backward in terror, priests dropped to their knees instantly, and at the center of it all, a confused human mechanic stood frozen beside the ancient basin. The sacred water began to rise, not splash, not ripple, rise, like it was alive. Then the human set upon the imperial throne. The surviving citizens...

Galaxy's toughest military test, humans treat it like a game. Inside the colossal academy chamber, thousands of cadets watched the battlefield hologram Flickr with burning cities, collapsing orbital stations, and swarms of mechanized predators flooding ruined streets. The humans saw the titans and one whispered the most horrifying sentence Velkar. One human intentionally allowed himself to be capt...

Galaxy's toughest military test, humans treat it like a game. Inside the colossal academy chamber, thousands of cadets watched the battlefield hologram Flickr with burning cities, collapsing orbital stations, and swarms of mechanized predators flooding ruined streets. The humans saw the titans and one whispered the most horrifying sentence Velkar. One human intentionally allowed himself to be capt...

Galaxy Council shocked when human says earth has water on it. Wars had been fought for a droplet, and here, this, human, stood before the council and said the words that shattered everything. This human, this newcomer, claimed his world had oceans, not lakes, not rivers, oceans, billions of tons of liquid wealth. In the years that followed, everything changed, where once water was hordered now at...

Galaxy Council shocked when human says earth has water on it. Wars had been fought for a droplet, and here, this, human, stood before the council and said the words that shattered everything. This human, this newcomer, claimed his world had oceans, not lakes, not rivers, oceans, billions of tons of liquid wealth. In the years that followed, everything changed, where once water was hordered now at...

Their silhouettes broke through the ion fog one by one, each framed by lightning from the storm behind them, and as the flashes lit their hulls. Every broad side from the Empire fell uselessly against their shields. After Earth's fall, humanity had scattered into the dark beyond the mapped stars, beyond the Empire's reach. The human armada shimmered, phasing, vanishing from every scan, every frequ...

It tore, a wound in the sky, wide enough to swallow continents, burned open as the Galactic Empire arrived in full force. Broadcast surrender, Emperor Vile Corps commanded from his throne ship, watching Earth like a predator studying prey. And then, Earth responded, not with ships, not with weapons, but with a signal. Deep, ancient, it echoed through space, not as sound, but as something. By accid...

Not because the Galactic council respected him, but because every species present could feel it, something raw, electric, dangerous, in the way his voice sliced through the air. In their way, not even us, and for the first time in millennia, the Galactic Council realized its authority meant nothing, all the treaties, all the pacts, all the fragile webs of politics and trade. None of it mattered an...

The stars didn't dim when Earth's fleet mobilized. Confirmed that reading, High Speaker Telvarn demanded, his voice cracking across the council chamber, the Thai hall. Sensor officer didn't answer immediately because he couldn't, because what he was seeing didn't make sense. The human didn't blink. And the human fleet did not leave. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podc...

Zal-Reth leaned back, folding his claws. Zal-Reth stared at the message. They're not preparing one strategist whispered. Zal-Reth's claws tightened. Zal-Reth stared at the original message. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/little-scifi-stories-on-the-go--7033804/support .

They wore no crowns, they demanded no tribute, they did not expand like locusts, nor in slave, nor threatened. The council dismissed them as late comers, a people destined to orbit around the true powers of the galaxy, until the war, until one arrogant empire the Threx Dominion decided to seize a human colony just to test them. The first reports arrived in Whispers, a Dominion fleet, vanished, not...

They wore no crowns, they demanded no tribute, they did not expand like locusts, nor in slave, nor threatened. The council dismissed them as late comers, a people destined to orbit around the true powers of the galaxy, until the war, until one arrogant empire the Threx Dominion decided to seize a human colony just to test them. The first reports arrived in Whispers, a Dominion fleet, vanished, not...

But behind that peace, something waited, something no one in the galaxy was ready for. The Galactic Council had convened in orbit above Vera Prime, a neutral world chosen for first contact with the newest species to crawl its way into the stars. But their eyes, their eyes didn't bow at all. Every surface bristled with weaponry, rail cannons, missile bays, beam arrays, unlike anything in the counci...