The Dark Future of 'Humanity Lost'

UPDATE: Humanity Lost Volume One is now available in print form! Link: www.amazon.co.uk/Humanity-Lost-Callum-Stephen-Digg…

Humans: "AI, how do we defeat the aliens?" AI: "Turn humans into organic bug ships!" Humans: "..."

I really love how the alien species are actually alien and not like. Humanoid with antennae or something mundane like that. It’s so interesting to think about how other non humanoid intelligent species would live and socialize.

I googled “Humanity Lost” hoping to find the book this was based on. Ended up buying the wrong book with the same title. I realized it a few minutes in, but I kept reading and it was a pleasant surprise! It’s a short story that only took me a little over an hour to read, high recommend! It’s about 6 astronauts who are on a mission to save humanity, when something goes horribly wrong they turn to drastic measures to complete the mission. Author is Meghan Douglass

An interesting story with that last human waking up. It’s one thing when a story has a human wake up to find humanity destroyed (whether by aliens or ourselves) or even enslaved. But to wake wake up and realize humanity chose to become the very monsters we feared coming across the most. Definitely a mind shock for that character.

“With this empire, now called the Imperium” Every 40k fan in a 50 mile radius: 👀

The idea of being the last human in the universe and teaming up to stop a hyperintelligent alliance is quite fascinating

Gotta love how realistic the initial war is, all starting with a small encounter that could have been easily resolved with diplomacy had anyone actually tried

Honestly, it's always interesting to see humans being regarded as a dangerous alien lifeform just as we are, no super AI or generic engineering required. Humanity Fuck Yeah is a genre where that's a pretty core tenant, and traits we take for granted or being weak are looked upon by aliens as being something...well, utterly alien and terrifying. For example, a photosynthetic species would find our predatory nature horrifying; imagine explaining to an alien how we can function with a spike though our brain; or imagine an alien with no adrenaline-like hormone witnessing a human break out of bonds that should seem impossible.

It's always interesting to hear stories about creatures that despite not being real, they are so detailed in how they work and live as if they existed

It’s really cool to see Humans as the alien invaders as opposed to the Extraterrestrials themselves. It’s kind of like War of the Worlds but with an inverted perspective.

While somewhat unfortunate for humanity themselves, this story is a nice change of pace. I always enjoy sci-fi with odd twists or unexpected features to it. I've often wondered why humans couldn't be the most powerful species; glad I wasn't the only one. And the alien designs are quite nice. I could stand to learn from them for my own books and all.

6:28 "Foolish human. While you were wasting time conquering the galaxy, I was mastering the blade."

I've thought of plenty of my own weird alien species before but I've never seen anything like what I've drawn or thought up on the scale of this. It might come as some great inspiration to draw from.

This reminds me of the short story "The Monster" by A.E. van Vogt. It is an alternative take on the "humans are Cthulhu" idea. Instead of joining together with a genetic AI, each individual human is able to radically warp reality to their will, but Earth got sterilized by a gamma-ray burst. Decades or centuries after humanity dies out, an intrepid crew of technological aliens finds Earth, deserted. After a brief exploratory mission, they revive several humans at different levels of transhumanism. The last one, by far the most powerful, steals the technology of bringing the dead back to life; this simultaneously screws over the aliens and ensures the revival of humanity after our extinction. It is a fantastic read that really imagines just how problematic humans with reality-warping abilities could be.

Hearing this story made me feel really uneasy, seeing my race become cold monster who know no pity really made me hope this is far from what we'll become someday. Some other people have made the connection of the Imperium from this story to the Imperium of Man from the Warhammer 40k universe, but I think this could relate more to the Necron's story from the same universe. They were pitiful creatures who made contact with the Old Ones, a super advanced galactic race that had incredibly long lifespans, while the Necrontyr were frail and sick. So they grew envious of them and declared them war but they were heavily outmatched and almost eradicated, until they met the cosmic deities the C'tan and made an alliance. From that point onward Necrontyrs were no more, replaced by the Necrons, cold immortal automaton without emotions that obliterated the Old Ones and the other races who opposed them. Maybe the sadness I felt watching this video was the same the Silent King felt after seeing his people made into mindless killing machines, the same grief that eventually lead him to rebel against the C'tan and shattered them all. After this video I think I can relate more to him. I suggest you go read more about the wh40k universe, it has a lot of good stuff in it

Sincerely, thank you for making this video. You stood nothing to gain from spotlighting an indie comic book with no algorithmic benefit to its name, making this a truly noble effort. And it was such a good call. Humanity Lost is literally some of the best sci-fi to come out in a long while. It's awesome to return to this video a few months later and see that it now has over (holy shit) 1.5 MILLION VIEWS! Ironically, Humanity Lost has given me so much hope in humanity.

Humanity Lost would make for one hell of a movie or game, even now with the story incomplete it sounds absolutely amazing. Even the title alone would draw attention.

I feel like Curious Archive's videos are getting a lot better and a lot more effort is putting into them.

One thing that always kills me in science fiction is you'll have these unions of fantastical intelligent aliens that are so radically different from any of our cultures on earth and then they always have a boring-ass name like "The Congolmerate". I always wonder if in fiction those are just the kind of names we as humans choose to give them because they're incomprehensible or that's literally what their name translates to in their language.