WritingPrompts

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[WP] In 2033, we finally receive a communiqué from an alien species. After deciphering it, the message reads as follows: "Abandon your planet and leave for another. Our near-lightspeed colonization fleet is due to arrive in five of your years."	95
[WP] You're a rich, freshly engaged entrepreneur. Your life seemes perfect. One day, you wake up in a strange pod, hearing the message: "Simulation ended. Colonists waking. 12-year near-lightspeed voyage ended."	93
[WP] In 2067, an alien delegation arrives on Earth. They've come to negotiate the purchasing of Earth from us. They've assumed that we, like them, have many colonies among the stars and won't suffer from the loss of one planet.	83
[WP] In 2097, you are in the deadly Belt Games, out in the Asteroid Belt. The only way out? Victory. During the Games, contact is progressively lost with outposts beyond Jupiter. As order falls apart, you must survive the Games and race back to Earth before whatever lurks beyond Jupiter catches up.	78
[WP] We send a message to a star system 12.5 light-years away in 2017. Against all odds, in 2042, we do get a response: an incoming fleet of starships.	74
[WP] An interstellar colony ship heads out to colonize a distant world. The crew and passengers are all in suspended animation. After 25 years in deep sleep, they awake with no memory of who they are or how anything works – an unforeseen side-effect of the long sleep.	66
[WP] An alien probe lands on Earth. After accessing the Internet, it works out every human language and broadcasts a single message across the planet: "No traffic to or from any of your sixty million colonies has been recorded in 291,738 local years. Is this system still under quarantine?"	65
[WP] Circa 10,000 years ago, a new gene developed in human DNA. After death, this gene would activate and would use surrounding resources to resuscitate the human body. The process would take... roughly 10,000 years.	61
[WP] Through sheer determination, humanity became a supercivilization, the second strongest in the galaxy, with ten million colonies. We then warred the stronger race and won by dumb luck. But then we realized we had annihilated our only possible ally in the face of the extragalactic invaders.	58
[WP] On all of the UN's colony planets, prisons are no more. Instead, the criminals' memories are altered in order to rehabilitate them. You are one of them. You remeber having killed only one person. You're horrified when you learn you're responsible for the death of half of humanity.	55

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