Proof that the remaining 10% is worth getting carpet-bombed with antimatter for.
The Nature of Predators has spawned a quite numerous amount of fan stories, some compliant with the main canon, and others... less so. If you want quick access to the list, there is a literary universe
maintained on the r/HFY subreddit. However, for the sake of completionism, we are including a list here.
Stories that comply with the canon include:
The Medical Conference by u/ShadowDancerBrony
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Venlil and quarantined off-world medical professionals learn preliminary medical data on humans in preparation for the first contingent of Humans arriving on the Venlil home-world.
Pack Bonding by u/Rebelhero
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: It's the story of outcasts of their respective species getting to know each other and finding in each other what they lacked from their own species.
Now Boarding by u/AlanharTheRiver
- Status: Ongoing
- Crossover with: The Medical Conference, Pack Bonding, Operation Blindside
- Synopsis: Now Boarding follows a few members of the human-venlil exchange - as well as the people that they befriend during it - as they try to learn new ways to fight.
Dark Impulses by u/That_Paris_man
- Status: Dormant
- Synopsis: Dark Impulses is about a young adult Venlil male who has lived his whole life hiding the fact that he has a craving for meat. Soon the humans will come on to the galactic stage completely changing the way he views his taboo desires.
Have a Predator Friend, they said by u/Street-Accountant796
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: About a pair of myotonia congenita sufferers, one Human (it is true, humans also have this "falling-over-stiff-as-a-board-goat" -illness) and one Venlil. They connect in the friendship scheme and start to write emails to each other.
The Emergency Broadcast by u/neon_ns
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: "The following message is transmitted at the request of the United Nations of Earth Expeditionary Fleet for all inhabitants of the Gojid homeworld..."
Trauma Centre by u/DeathCondition
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: Set shortly after the human invasion of the Cradle, where the worst of the casualties are transported to Venlil Prime. Follows the story of a troubled Venlil doctor and a seriously injured human soldier who saved a Gojid child, as witnessed by Sovlin in Chapter 26.
Unfathomable Cruelty by u/Denswend
- Status: Hiatus
- Synopsis: Set during and immediately after Gojid Invasion, Arxur have contact with humanity through armed conflict and manage to capture one human alive. News of this new predator species, as well as their strange behavior sparks wild speculation on the nature of humanity.
Hunting with Predators by u/Bananacake
- Status: Complete. Sequel Ghosts in the Avalanche ongoing.
- Synopsis: Three humans and two venlil are left stranded in the North American wilderness after Earth is attacked by Federation forces. With rations running out, things get desperate fast. The venlil must put aside their aversions, and accompany the humans on a dangerous hunt through the icy wastelands.
The History of Non-Sapient Predators by u/creeperflint
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: A collection of documents regarding the history surrounding the decision of a Zhetsian farming colony, Colony World 3, to stop exterminating certain predators.
NOP: Offspring by u/browneorum
- Recommended by: towerator
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: Nineteen years before the invasion of the Cradle, Braq and Turin, a couple of Gojid ecologists, are sent a strange egg. An Arxur egg.
The Nature of a Giant by u/Acceptable_Egg5560
- Recommeded by: towerator
- Status: Complete. Sequel "Of Giants and Journalists" ongoing.
- Synopsis: This fanfiction follows the life of Tarlim the Venlil, a giant among his kind. Life isn't easy for him in the Federation, as its society is quick to shun anyone who deviates from the norm, but Tarlim soon befriends Jacob the human through the Exchange program. We follow the two outcasts as they endure through the intolerance of society and the racism of Exterminators.
Persistence Journalism by u/Acceptable_Egg5560 and u/The Manwitha No Plan
- Status: Complete. Sequel "Of Giants and Journalists" ongoing.
- Synopsis: Venlil Sharnet and Vekna work as journalists to track down the missing heads of the Dawn Creek predator disease facility that was shut down for abuses.
Tight Money by u/Thirsa_42
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: A poor Venlil single mother deals with her situation and the fallout of humans arriving on Venlil Prime.
Stories that do not comply with the canon or are set in an alternate universe include:
Life of a Predator by u/ThatGuyBob0101
- Status: Ongoing
- Synopsis: An alternate universe where humanity has been exterminated by the Federation. A lone survivor named Emma manages to barely scrape by, and tries her best to navigate the only place in the Federation she can survive; the criminal underbelly of the massive moon colony Yegaishtown.
