WritingPrompts

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[WP] Earth is renowned for its diplomats who have averted many interstellar wars, despite its feeble military. In reality, it is just that one unsuspecting teenager has accidentally seduced a dozen alien princesses.	4
[WP] A pirate brazenly sails into the capital, hoping to make some quick money rattling his saber, or at least go out in a blaze of glory. The ruling class sees this as an excellent opportunity to abandon this sinking ship of a country, and flee in the dead of night after proclaiming the pirate king	4
[WP] Every part of the spaceship has been researched, and no clues have surfaced. Finally, scientists are left with no choice but to investigate the one remaining lead: a half eaten bag of potato chips.	4
[WP] A hyperinflation crisis is underway in the Sol system due to the positively outrageous prices that aliens will pay for red Martian dirt.	4
[WP] We probably should have seen that creating clones as body doubles would cause a massive civil war for the throne, but it seemed like a really good idea at the time.	4
[WP] Once per year, a portal opens in every country, connected to the year 1000+n. Each portal can take one person.	4
[WP] Scarcity is a thing of the past and all of mankind lives in utopian abundance. To stay true to their roots, however, all people are required to undergo the Trial of Poverty for a year to experience the struggles of their forefathers.	4
[WP] Your job is to conduct various experiments that involve hurling asteroids at planets. After receiving a distress signal from your most recent target, you have a difficult decision to make: paperwork, or the lives of billions?	4
[WP] As a merchant ship, you got caught up in a massive armada and decided to go with the flow. Several years later, after hundreds of battles, the paperwork is starting to catch up to you.	4
[WP] You are the ruler of an intergalactic empire. Most of your advisors tend to agree with you, because you are an immortal being the size of a solar system, but things have been getting more difficult lately.	4

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