WritingPrompts

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[WP] At first, it was slow. Just a few troops being recalled home here and there. But just a few weeks later, the US is full-on abandoning their bases overseas to rush troops home. The worst part is, no one knows what’s happening.	16
[WP] It turns out it’s weird that Humans haven’t discovered how to travel through space, and it’s because the Solar System is strangely lacking in the one element to do so.	14
[WP] You arrive home after a long day to find a stranger sitting on your bed. “I’m sorry...” he says as he pulls something out of his pocket. “It has to be this way.”	12
[WP] The humans have finally sent a space craft beyond their solar system, which is a problem. One AU outside the Oort Cloud it smashes into an invisible wall... It’s time to intervene.	12
[WP] We received a distress signal from the galaxy designated ‘Milky Way.’ It contained evidence of a great war being fought, and lost, and that we would be next. Hundreds of years later, the warning long forgotten, a single ship was detected approaching our galaxy from outside the rim...	10
[WP] Humanity lost against the invasion, and as a result was completely wiped out. But before we went, we prepared a little present for the enemy - a von Neumann machine.	10
[WP] When the aliens invaded, everyone said it was pointless to reverse engineer their weapons. Even if you could, you’d never be able to produce them in time to win the war. That is, until you discover this one simple trick…	9
[WP] After countless scientific expeditions out of the solar system all met with unexpected failure, you lead the first military mission to face the unknown	8
[WP] You arrive home after a long day to find a stranger sitting on your bed. “I’m sorry...” he says as he pulls something out of his pocket. “It has to be this way.”	7
[WP] One day your best friend for as long as you can remember hands you a locked box. “Never loose it, don’t tell anyone else you have it, and NEVER open it.” The next day he disappears under mysterious circumstances. You decide to open it.	7

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