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[WP] "Seeing them now" said the alien queen, "I don't think there's anything special about them. They took out a dreadnought by pure luck. Still, they love to be told they're special. If we keep telling them that, they'll probably fight and die for us." She had forgotten you had a translator.	8
[CW] Write about (and try to convey) how you feel right now, from the perspective of someone totally different than you, in a situation totally different from you.	8
[WP] Able to watch nearly all in real time, the AIs that ran our society rarely cared for the motives or logic of a crime. They saw it, found the guilty, and punished immediately. Until the first digital lifeform murder, possibly by another. As a retired detective, you’re brought in to assist.	8
[WP] "You can stay here in Terran Imperial space if you want... It's plenty safe. But there's too many laws! No booze or whores or guns?? Nah, me boyo, you need to go beyond the horse-head nebula! That's pirate country... That's where yer fortune lies!"	7
[WP] A fantastic chase has begun through an alien world for a lost artifact! Behind you, pirates who want to sell it, behind them, your rival professor who wants to steal it, and behind them, a warring government who believes it may be an ancient weapon. Good thing you have the map!	7
[WP] Damaged by our nuclear weapons, the aliens pulled back to an orbit beyond Mars, but they left something on earth to finish off humanity- a genetic contaminant that mutates our world.	7
[WP] Halloween post- You've been a big city cop for years, but you moved to a sparse, northern, New England town to find a little quiet on some long, wooded back roads. It turns out the county is down to one Sheriff and one Deputy though... They had a staff of thirty only this summer.	7
[WP] It finally happened, an infectious disease with 100% transmission rate, 89% death rate, no antidote, immune to all current medicines, and no chemical can sterilize. The only way to kill it, temperatures of 300ºF or higher. Your environment suit was just splashed with a study sample...	7
[WP] The Earth Empire knew they were woefully unprepared for the rise of AI, and criminalized any attempt to create a machine that thought like humans, or better. However, this created a black market for AIs, and a resulting escalation between the government and crime in a new, horrible, direction.	7
[MP] The Hunted Shape-shifter	7

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