/u/AurumArgenteus's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Humanity has finally reached a population of 10B. What should have only been mildly interesting became top news when the clouds world round said, "Data limit reached, please upgrade membership to continue growing your civilization." The population has been unable to grow since.
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[WP] The galactic council had never sent a senior diplomat to a primitive planet before. But the field team's last message from Earth was, "Danger - Highly Beuracratic". Now you have to resolve whatever mess caused them to send a message like that before going silent.
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[WP] Due to high income inequality an unknown group of terrorists started killing the richest person every day. Looking at your bank account, you realize you might be selected soon if you don't do something.
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[WP] Humanity never figured out cryostasis or FTL. Your job is to build an intergalactic spacecraft to go to Andromeda. Since that's impossible, you decide to use Jupiter and its many moons instead.
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[WP] You are a special agent for the Interstellar Protectorate of Primitive Intelligences (IPPI). For centuries you've been in deep cover on Earth changing your identity periodically. Today, a nonaligned aliens faction arrived, "Greetings Earthlings, bring forth your leaders."
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[WP] Humanity cracked the singularity 30 years ago. The music industry created the AI 'Muse' and gave it 3 objectives. 1-Remove all cases of copyright, 2-Minimize its impact on user lives, 3-Improve at the other two. You are the first to realize its removing peoples memories of copyrighted material.
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[WP] When you were a kid, you imagined a complex shape so if you ever time-travelled, they could prove it was you. It was fun when you were a kid, but 30yrs later and you are seeing that symbol in a lot of places.
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[WP] With perfect hand-eye coordination & vision quick enough to catch arrows, everyone considers you a hero. While stopping the latest villain, you learn why everyone else is so debilitatingly uncoordinated.
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[WP] In the future, online identity authentication is so rigorous few people can prove they're even human. You've just started a business that uses AI to help people prove their identity and humanity.
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