22 BOOKS • COMPLETE • 1,016 CHAPTERS

BEHOLD:
HUMANITY!

The complete epic of the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems

From the First Contact web serial by Ralts Bloodthorne. Military science fiction at its most unhinged and heartfelt.

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22
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3.5M+
Words
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1,016
Chapters
originally posted on r/HFY
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THE COMPLETE SERIES

All 22 Books in Order

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Here’s a taste from the very first chapter — the moment that started everything.

BOOK 1 — MAY WE COME IN?
P’Thok Eats an Ice Cream Cone
"Ice Cream, gentlebeing? I have chocolate, raspberry, strawberry, mint chocolate chip, or vanilla left." the man told P'Thok, speaking in rapid Galactic Standard heavily accented with the brutish Terran tones.
THE STORY

An epic told from the other side of humanity.

The Lanaktallan Unified Civilized Council has ruled the galaxy for over a hundred million years. Then they met the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems — and the Mad Lemurs of Terra.

Multiple alien POVs
Precursor war machines the size of continents
Time-warping Atrekna from a dying universe
Heavy Metal. SUDS. Gestalts. Immortals.

Begun as the web serial First Contact on Reddit’s r/HFY, Behold: Humanity! grew into one of the most ambitious military science fiction epics ever written — over a thousand chapters and nearly 3.5 million words, all finished before the first book was published.

The series follows the Second Precursor War from every angle: terrified Lanaktallan generals, brave Telkan Marines, ancient Mantid diplomats, rogue AIs, the Detainee herself, and the impossible humans who refuse to stop fighting even when they’re dead.

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