WritingPrompts

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[WP] The radiation shield has been destroyed; most of the crew are dead; you will not make it to your final destination. Your only hope is the nearest planet, which is listed on the Federal database as "forbidden/off limits", but if you don't evacuate there soon, you'll be fatally irradiated.	178
[WP] The actual year is 1972; the last five decades have not actually happened yet; in 1972, extraterrestrials invaded and stuck all humans in a realistic "Matrix-like" simulation for humans to experience their projected futures. Now...everybody wakes up...in the present day (October 7th, 1972)	68
[WP] The teleportation device had malfunctioned. In all of the confusion, the destination inputted had been incorrect. We did not know where we were or where the rest of the troops were. We were far, far away from home...	48
[WP] It is the late 29th century (2876) and you, a multitrillionaire, have just acquired your very own Earth-sized "private planet" from Delaware Interplanetary. Your planetary defense AI contacts you one morning and informs you that a ship full of refugee children has just entered your exosphere.	39
[WP] 800 MILLION years ago, a series of massive solar flares effectively destroys the first modern civilization on Earth, a species of intelligent humanoids, but not before you and a few others are saved and preserved by extraterrestrials. 800 milion years later, you return home...to Earth in 2021.	24
[IP] "But...but...it...shouldn't even exist yet." The Liberty, a deep space human exploratory vessel, had inadvertently stumbled upon a large object in the outer edge of the Orion Arm, an apparent "black dwarf" star which emitted no heat, light or radiation, a cosmic body which should not exist yet.	24
[WP] Between October 7, 2021 and October 13, 2021, 7.2 billion humans all dream the exact same dream at various points whilst asleep: a 200m-wide asteroid weighing 36 billion kilograms and travelling at 30km/s slamming into the Greenland Sea in the Northern Hemisphere.	20
[WP] It is the late 30th Century, in 2991 and a lone human explorer from the IPA (The Human Interplanetary Alliance) is making first contact with the first known extraterrestrial species, a Type III civilization on the Kardashev scale. Until now, mankind had thought itself alone in the Universe.	18
[WP] "Mr Johnson, Mr Dreyfus will be meeting you on the 68th floor." "Umm...where is that? I'm sorry but I've never been in an earthscraper before..."	18
[WP] An interstellar craft carrying 6,500 passengers and crew is journeying to a human outpost in Alpha Eridani (139ly away). Suddenly, you are the only one that has been awoken from cryosleep, about 20 years early. The ship VI informs you that "there is an unidentified lifeform onboard".	16

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