WritingPrompts

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[WP] Earth is classified as a hellworld just like other hellworlds where the wicked of the galaxy are reincarnated as punishment. Except that Earth residents are not reincarnations. Earth just happens to be the only naturally evolved hell.	674
[WP] All intelligent aliens fall into one of two categories for humans: Adorable or Uncanny Valley Horror. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that humans are firmly in the Uncanny Valley Horror category for all other intelligent species.	560
[WP] After a seismographic survey locates an unexplored deep cave system with unusual symmetry and a large central cavern, a caving expedition is sent to check it out. The expedition eventually reaches the huge cavern and finds what appear to be tens of thousands of stone sarcophagi.	504
[WP] It turns out that strange energies of hyperspace are deadly to humans, even in cryostasis. Eventually we resort to measures that no other people dared to consider. We choose to be deconstructed at the molecular level, buffered, and then reconstructed when the ship reaches it's destination.	460
[WP] The galactic standard protocol for conducting an invasion is to seed the target world in advance with ultraviolent self-propogating bioweapons. But then of course, humans had to ruin it by domesticating them.	384
[WP] The troopship carrying thousands of sleeping super-soldiers drifts through interstellar space, waiting for the signal to wake and go to war. The ship AI is unaware that humankind is otherwise already long extinct, but a signal is received nonetheless.	381
[WP] When humans finally leave the Sol system, they discover that it resides in a region of space where organic chemistry is somehow vastly inhibited. Only enzymes allowed life to thrive in what should be dead space. The rest of the universe is not prepared for hyper-efficient Terran biology.	366
[WP] Humans are legally required to wear a full face mask in mixed species environments. Human spittle and tears contain banned substances.	358
[WP] A lot of people say the station is haunted, but the old-timers say the AI has always been a little quirky. Joke's on them though, the AI core was burned out decades ago. The station actually IS haunted, but it's by the old AI. As the resident AI technician, you're the only one who knows.	324
[WP] When you were 4 years old you found a Genies lamp and made 3 wishes. However, by Genie law, the Genie was required to wait until you were 18 before the wishes could take effect. You worry as you near your 18th birthday, you can't remember what your 4-year-old wishes actually were.	303

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