/u/EmperorOfNipples's posts
[WP] You were born on the 29th of February 1964, a leap year. It didn't take long to notice that you only aged a quarter of the speed of everyone else. You have now been alive for 54 years, but with the body of a teenager.
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[WP] Two years ago the sun winked out, utterly without warning. You are a member of one of the last human settlements on earth, huddled around a geothermal vent in Iceland. This morning, again without warning, the Sun rose.
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[WP] On your 110th birthday surrounded by loved ones you fell asleep for what you knew was the last time. You woke the next day. On your 120th birthday you felt like you did on you 100th. On your 130th, you feel 90 years old. The local press is starting to notice.
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[WP] Turns out faster than light travel is easy, most worlds manage it soon after splitting the atom. There are vast areas called "doldrums" where physics makes that impossible. We have detected an unusual very high energy FTL signature in one of these areas, a planet called Earth. Impossible!
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[WP] Your plane from Orlando to London has just landed and as it taxies in it's surrounded by police and press. You disembark and a police constable tells you. "It's 2036, your plane went missing 15 years ago."
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[WP] Faster than light travel is routine but faster than light comms does not exist. You work on a "packet ship" delivering information. You come across an old radio distress call from a lost ship...following it back to it's source you find a small but prosperous colony. They are hiding, something.
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[WP] A Swedish lab develops a serum that allows effectively unlimited lifespan, but the side effects are so horrific that nobody would take them, or sign them off. That is until the US justice department places a contract to allow people to serve their multiple life sentences, despite the horror.
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[WP] With an IQ of 80 you have managed in life but struggled at times. You wish to be as smart as everyone else, but the listening genie put the decimal in the wrong place and added 200 rather than 20. You awake the next morning with an IQ of 280.
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[WP] The American Revolution failed in the 1770's. The year is now 1910 and you are a detective in the British Crown state of Virginia. Investigating the murder of a dissident separatist. What you discover, and what you decide, will affect the future of America and the wider British Empire.
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