MyrddraalFade
My first #HFY Story. An HFY Deathworld Tale.
Maturity Rating: Teen, Mild violence, dangerous environments, implied planetary disasters
When an unregistered Terran lifepod slams into K-472, a notorious Level 5 Deathworld, the Galactic Council panics. Their sensors confirm the worst: there's only one survivor on board, a twelve-year-old human girl.
Bound by treaty and conscience, the Council scrambles its elite Hazard Response Squad to mount a rescue on a world where armoured veterans barely last a day. Acid storms, razor-glass forests, and pack hunters all race to reach the crash site first.
What the Council doesn't know is that Aisha Morales grew up on Earth... a Level 13 Deathworld. For her, lethal weather, predatory wildlife, and the planet itself trying to kill you isn't a nightmare - it's Thursday.
As stormfronts close in and predators circle, the galaxy's finest rush to save what they assume is a fragile child. Instead, they find a calm, sarcastic Terran pre-teen who has already built a defensible camp, outsmarted the local fauna, and is mostly annoyed about running low on snacks.
In the aftermath, the Council is forced to confront a terrifying truth: humanity doesn't just survive Deathworlds. They call them home.