WritingPrompts

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[WP] Multiple methods of teleportation have been discovered. However a teleportation "transit", while being subjectively instantaneous regardless of distance teleported, always takes exactly 48 minutes and 33.725 seconds. It took years of research, but we've finally found out why the delay occurs.	301
[WP] Just weeks after the completion of the Universal Learning Translator, tens of thousands of alien starships arrive in orbit and jam all radio frequencies. Within minutes, it's discovered that they are all begging for a copy of the translation system and will do just about anything to get it.	283
[WP] Aliens experience great pain when jumping to hyperspace and generally need sedation of some kind to endure it. Humans do not. When humans were described the pain of jumping to hyperspace and asked why they don't feel it they responded with "That? Oh, we feel that all the time".	282
[WP] Human magic has always been termed 'Rage Magic' due to it's users being mostly berserkers. But it has always confused the other races how some humans seem to be able to do anything with it. What they should have called it is 'Passion Magic', and humans can be passionate about many things.	221
[WP] Congratulations human, you are the first person to summon a Demon in more than a millennium! But I must ask, what is the meaning of all this tiny print? In response, the Lawyer grinned evilly.	221
[WP] Your haggard-looking friend confides in you that they've been stuck in a one day time loop for years. You know exactly what they mean and you know that they have to pass it on to someone else. After all, you were in the loop for decades.	198
[WP] Earth is a hellworld that would boil the blood of any alien that dared to visit. But this is only because all other sapient life in the galaxy evolved on cryogenic worlds. Though we may die young, we live with speed and incandescent energy.	195
[WP] You can't stop war with peace because there'll always be some fool who wants more. Instead you must use war to make peace more desirable. And upon seeing the state of the galaxy, humanity realized the purpose for which it is uniquely suited. To make wars that end wars as the 'Peacemakers'.	177
[WP] It turns out that humans are the best natural psychics in the universe. Only when they are away from the incredibly noisy Earth do they find out how effortlessly readable aliens are.	159
[WP] For strange psychological reasons, regardless of their various alien genders, all aliens look extremely attractive to humans. Humans, of course, are also known to be the biggest perverts in the universe.	150

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