/u/Alopex_Lagopus85's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a NASA employee working the night shift in 2019 when suddenly you hear an unexpected transmission. “Houston, We’ve a problem.” “ISS, please specify the nature of your problem.” “ISS? Houston, this is Apollo 13 and our onboard instruments are going haywire.”
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[WP] One day an unknown object was detected entering the solar system, after several scans the objects was determined to be artificial in nature. A manned spacecraft is launch to intersect it. Once on board the object is reveal to be an alien version of the Voyager, golden disk included.
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[WP] One night a meteor exploded in the atmosphere illuminating the whole night sky. The next morning humanity discovered that all their nuclear material use for reactors and nuclear weapons have been rendered useless. Even newly produced nuclear fuel isn’t more useful than a rock.
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[WP] The year is 1982, radar stations from the USSR and the USA detecte an unknown object over the Bering Strait. When jet fighters from both nations intercepted it, they see a very familiar square four pointed insignia on the side of the UFO.
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[WP] Two soldiers from different sides of the war get lost inside a mine during a firefight. They encounter each other in the dark, rifles aim at the other head. But before they can pull the trigger, they discover that they aren't alone underground.
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[WP] "My lord, the enemy is approaching our gates. What shall we do?" "Let them in and their confident shall be their downfall!" "But we are outnumber 20 to 1, my lord! It is madness!" "There is nothing to be afraid of, everything is going according to plan."
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[WP] After decades of natural disasters and a rising sea level, the planet’s climate have finally stabilized itself. Now the equator is a frozen barrier separating the two burning hot poles. Humanity survive in the archipelagos dotted between these two extremes.
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[WP] During the oil fields fires of the Gulf War, several soldiers reported sightings of black human like being walking among the raging fires and under the black oily rain. Those reports were sealed and forgotten until now.
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[WP] After regaining consciousness in the darkness, you saw with the help of your cellphone that the sky outside your 12th floor office window was replace by a wall of dirt and rocks. How deep had the skyscraper sunk into the ground? How could this had happened?
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[WP] The Large Hadron Collider suffered a catastrophic failure opening a rift between dimensions. From the rift, a new form of energy started emanating that scientifics name "Mana". Due to drones losing signal not long after crossing, the first human expedition is sent through the rift.
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