WritingPrompts

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[WP] In the 2060s, an immense starship is built in orbit to take humans to Mars. You're one of the colonists. When you board the ship, you see it's far bigger than anticipated. As the craft departs Earth, a debriefing session begins. The instructor begins by saying "First, we're not going to Mars."	393
[WP] Earth is invaded. Seeing that the war is unwinnable, Earth's gov'ts evacuate to Tau Ceti. Those who are abandoned are thought to have been killed. 300 yr later, humanity sends warships back to liberate Earth. Upon arrival, they see a thriving planet inhabited by both humans and the invaders.	324
[WP] Turns out the most important thing in the galaxy is willpower. All other species evolved in perfect natural conditions and never struggled for survival but took eons to reach interstellar expansion. When humanity is discovered, they are deemed clinically insane and an existential threat.	257
[WP] Humanity finally achieves interstellar flight and finds a massive super-station at the edge of the Solar System. Upon aproaching it, a message is broadcast: "Finally. The wait is over. The Collapse is history. Come, children, and you will acquire all knowledge your ancestors possessed."	222
[WP] Every species in the galaxy evolved only to create articial superintelligences, which destroyed their creators every time. The ASIs have merged into one, collective ASI. The only biological species to avoid this fate is humanity, which has been at war with the ASI for eons.	220
[WP] All human activity transitions from day to night after a UN global directive. People sleep during the day and go about their routine at night. Eventually, you and your friends decide to go out at 12 PM to see why it is now forbidden to do so. Upon doing so, you all are horrified.	193
[ WP ] We make first contact with a hyper-xenophobic alien species. However, they do not seem to fear us and do not attack us. When confronted about this, they say, "Why would we fear our own kind?"	186
[WP] You find what appears to be an old iPhone 4 on the ground. You take it into your hands and open it, revealing it to be fully functional. Nothing about this would've been weird had you not been on Proxima Centauri b.	184
[WP] 400,000 years ago, remnants of the human empire fled their home galaxy, Andromeda, to escape a genocidal super-AI. They settled a few planets in the Orion arm, including Earth, and renounced technology. Now, in the mid-22nd century, the Andromeda AI finally decides to depart for the Milky Way.	181
[WP] You awake on a near-lightspeed ship in interstellar space. You have no idea how you got there. Frightened, you ask the captain, "When do we return to Earth?" People start laughing, leaving you puzzled. The captain answers, "These myths again?"	177

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