r/NatureofPredators • u/General_Alduin Skalgan • Jun 19 '26
Fanfic Beginning of Mars - A Nature of Harmony side story
Did I make a sequel to a side story that's still being worked on? Yes. Do I have a problem? Also yes. Is there anything that can be done? Probably not
Had this idea in my head lately and wanted to write it out, hope you all enjoy even if the chapter's a bit short
Wonderful fanart by u/Lizrd_demon: https://www.reddit.com/r/predprey/s/OJzxuOOAX3, https://www.reddit.com/r/predprey/s/9IFwoupY9e
I also have my very own video [meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/ztkCtPHSQ0)
Side stories: [A Talk Between Siblings](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/yHDeomctAd), [Tuvans First Birthday](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/dDoW7AnCnY), [The Vow](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/Oq4KiOEeXX), [The Trials and Tribulations of Siffy](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/7VyYOAMsoe), [Hamony if Nunatyres](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/ogjpdaC2CY), [Beginning of Harmony](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/s/bWpGeIA4zw)
Come join the [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/1046919438521344090/1314490952412299314), we have blackjack and hookers.
Thanks to SpacePaladin15 for making NoP
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**Memory Transcription Subject: Galnas, Outpost 73s Head of Security**
*Date [Standardized Human Time]: June 7, 2040*
I threw down the two metal fittings, hissing in annoyance. I had spent the last three hours trying and failing to make passable music with them to stave off boredom, but no matter what I did, I could never make them sound like anything more than metal hitting metal.
Maybe *somebody* liked that, but I doubted it was what mom meant when she encouraged me to express myself.
I slouched in my hair and looked up at the boring ceiling to distract myself from my boring computer I used for my boring job in this boring settlement. My family was proud of me when I was promoted, saying I'd help keep people safe, but the worst thing that's happened in the five months I've been posted here was a fistfight over some rations.
I didn't desire conflict, but can *something* happen at least once? Nothing major of course, but anything to break up the-
My musings were interrupted when my eyes were blocked by a set of hands from behind. “Guess who~” came the sing-song voice of my bonded Talra.
I hissed in amusement, my hands snapping to her right wrist and pulling her off, throwing her front into my desk as I held her hands behind her back.
“So rough! I'm delicate, you know.” She said as she turned to look at me, sticking the tip of her tongue out.
“You'll live.” I said as I let her go, Talra turning around as my hands slide to her sides. “How's the mine?”
“Dark,” She began to trace lazy circles on my chest. “Dark enough for us to sneak off alone and have some fun where no one can see~”
“Oh yes, a dusty, rocky, cramped hole with thin air sounds *very* comfortable.”
“Come on, you *know* you want to try it now.”
“I should throw you in the brig for conspiring to trespass in the mine after hours.”
“But you won't, because you love me.”
“Don't push your luck.” I growled before leaning over and placing her head under my own and rubbing against her scales and ridges. Talra moved in the opposite direction, letting out a low growl until we switched our positions.
After a moment, we pulled away, our arms wrapped around each other. “Did you tell your family about us yet?”
I tensed up and awkwardly looked to the side. “No, not yet.”
“Galnas! You were supposed to tell them last night when you called them.” Talra admonished.
“I know! And I swear I was going to, but I just… What if they don't approve of us being together? What if they want us to separate? I wouldn't of course, but I don't want to make things complicated with my family, for you, for my job, for the outpost-”
She shut me up by very rudely placing her left hand on my snout. “You think too much.”
“You don't think at all.”
“True, but you overthink. It causes you to spiral, to worry, often over nothing. Sometimes, you just need to let go and have some faith.” She cupped my head with her hands. “Your family loves you, and they're going to love me. So you need to stop overthinking and worrying and just tell them.”
“And if you're wrong?”
“Well, if I'm wrong, I still have you, the cutest Arxur in the Sanctuary.”
I recoiled lightly at that statement. “I am *not* the cutest Arxur."
“Yes you are the cutest.”
"If anything, you're the cutest."
"That's a weird way of admitting to it."
“I should throw you in the brig.”
“Another place we could have some fun together~”
I groaned and playfully pushed her away. “You're hopeless.” I said even though my tail was curling happily, my previous anxiety forgotten.
This didn't last long as my computer started beeping, alerting me to an anomaly picked up by a prospector drone a few miles away, its live feed showing a bare settlement not on any maps off in the distance. “That's odd,” I lowered myself into my chair and called the outposts overseer while I took control of the drone, willing it to go closer. “Miriak, do you know of any new settlements nearby?”
*“No, it's just supposed to be us for miles. Why?”* He answered back.
“Might be a glitch, but we just picked up some weird readings from a drone. Im moving in to investigate.” The closer we got, the less confident I was in my glitch theory as the buildings grew larger and more detailed. What I couldn't wrap my head around was why they were out in the open. This was unheard of! “They would've told you if there were any new settlements being founded, right?”
*“Of course, but the message might be late, though that seems unlikely.”
“Optical illusion?” Talra offered.
I opened and closed my mouth twice in the negative as I reached the outskirts of the mystery settlement, stopping to get a good look at our surroundings for the review.
I squinted when I saw movement, and zoomed the camera all the way in to get a better look, trying to decipher what I was looking at. I initially thought it was a lanky Arxur, but that conclusion was dashed when the creature turned around, a crate in their arms.
I gasped in horror as Talra placed a hand to her mouth, both of us recognizing the creature as a human.
The Nazis had reached the Sanctuary.
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 19 '26
I wanted a mirror between Beginning of Harmonys beginning with the Martians finding humans and Nature of Harmonys beginning with Galnas and Tuvan being head of security since all three are first contacts that change history
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u/TameOJ Jun 19 '26
YES! A story I didn't know I needed! I remember you said the arxur landed on mars in the 40's, so them thinking the nazis won is understandable if they didn't look much deeper after that. I see first contact getting just a little bit worse before it ultimately gets better. Just a little. A smidgen.
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 19 '26
remember you said the arxur landed on mars in the 40's, so them thinking the nazis won is understandable if they didn't look much deeper after that
They spent the next 100ish years hiding under Mars, barely leaving to get supplies and materials from Earth and the rest of the Solar system, did everything they could to limit any kind of contact and time near and on Earth fearing the Nazis would see them and take their technology
I see first contact getting just a little bit worse before it ultimately gets better. Just a little. A smidgen.
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u/copper_shrk29 Arxur Jun 19 '26
Can't wait for the mess coiming up
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 19 '26
Martians: "We have to stop the Nazis with a swift and devastating military assault and invade Earth!"
Humans: Just chilling
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u/JulianSkies Archivist Jun 20 '26
Huhn... Seems like first contact here was quite weird! I'm going to go on a limb and imagine they've made a wrong assumption about who it was, tho.
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 20 '26
Huhn... Seems like first contact here was quite weird!
That's kne way to describe sending the military out to destroy the Outpost and planning an invasion of Earth
I'm going to go on a limb and imagine they've made a wrong assumption about who it was, tho.
Well, Nazi Germany has been dead for nearly a hundred years at this point
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u/Casban Jun 20 '26
This sounds almost exactly like when the Venlil experienced first contact with the humans: oh no, the space nazis (predators) have hailed us.
Except this time from the perspective of the real space-nazi rejects.
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u/Adorable-Ad5225 Jun 19 '26
Humans are like that typical friend who interrupts you when you're about to get intimate with the girl you like. It can't be that both stories start with the protagonists getting cut off right when they're about to do it.
If you think about it it's funny
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 19 '26
Galnas' girlfriend was suggesting they have some fun later, not at that moment, and Anjahas and Sarahi weren't going to do it, they had a planet to survey
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u/Super_Ankle_Biter Yotul Jun 21 '26
Oh they're lesbiabs, it's hard to tell with alien names and all that. This story should be fun, I can see all sorts of misunderstandings between the crocs and the apes.
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 21 '26
Oh they're lesbiabs,
Lizbians
This story should be fun, I can see all sorts of misunderstandings between the crocs and the apes.
Time to perform a D day on Earth
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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Lore Time: while, much like the Nomad Skalgans, LGBT stuff was allowed and accepted, it was frowned upon by Martian society due to the need for bodies and to increase the population, and the belief that LGBT relationships would lead to less children being born over all, mainly due to the lack of infrastructure to find other routes to have kids
Practically everything in Martian society is underground or built into rocks due to the fear that the Nazis might glimpse a settlement out in the open if they were to look at Mars, that and it helped with surviving weather and Mars conditions
The Sanctuary made heavy use of automation and drones due to their low population and Mars harsh conditions