They Auctioned 7 Billion Slaves—Humans Bought Every Single One | HFY Stories

When humanity first encountered galactic civilization, they discovered something horrifying: slavery wasn't just tolerated—it was the foundation of the entire economy. Trillions of sentient beings, bought and sold like commodities, their bondage backing the currencies that powered empires.

Most species would have looked away. Adapted. Survived.

Humanity chose war.

But not the kind fought with guns. When the old empires organized a spectacle—a mega-auction of seven billion souls designed to humiliate these upstart moral crusaders—humanity faced an impossible choice: bankrupt themselves trying to outbid ancient powers, or watch as principles became empty words.

What Admiral Halberg, Envoy Sunam, and economist Tavi Okoye did next would either shatter the galaxy's oldest institution... or destroy humanity's future entirely.

Some said it was madness. Others called it the most ruthless act of economic warfare ever waged. The freed called it something else.

They called it *hope*.

This is the story of how humanity weaponized the market itself, bet everything on strangers they'd never met, and proved that sometimes the most powerful weapon isn't a gun—it's the willingness to pay any price for what you believe.

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0:00 Auction of billions
4:22 Threxil slavery proposal
6:18 Slavery as finance
10:59 Emergency summit convened
12:23 Sunam's moral argument
17:20 Weaponizing the market
19:17 Atlas Protocol authorized
24:52 First convoy freed
26:43 Atlas undermines slavery
28:41 Pirates attack convoy
29:37 Survivor's painful question
30:47 Leaders choose continuation
32:28 Mega-auction announced
33:53 Impossible decision debated
35:06 Buy them all?
37:59 Humanity votes yes
40:43 Atlas mobilizes funds
42:23 Gathering at Spire
45:20 Bidding war begins
47:22 Final desperate bids
53:39 Mass liberation executed
55:22 Station chaos erupts
57:03 Market collapse spreads
1:00:00 Freedom legally validated
1:01:02 Reciprocity pledges formed
1:02:19 Freeworld Summit begins
1:03:19 Partners, not servants
1:04:53 Milo finds meaning
1:05:51 Uncertain future assessed
1:07:13 New future begins

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