WritingPrompts

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[WP] It has finally been confirmed. We are aliens: we did not originate on Earth. Now, Earth's true possessors want it back.	28
[WP] SETI manages to pick up an alien transmission. While our best minds scramble to decipher it, another one is received. And another one. And many more. More than fifty million chaotic messages are picked up before, suddenly, the galaxy falls dead silent.	25
[WP] 2031 CE. Earth is invaded. Due to the invaders' much more advanced technology, humanity is forced to surrender to avoid total annihilation. When the invaders finally descend to the surface for the negotiations, we are horrified. Not because they look weird, but because they are humans.	24
[ WP ] You've finally solved the Fermi paradox, and its true solution is far more horrifying than the absence of extraterrestrial life.	22
[WP] You're a colonist on humanity's first colony starship. After a 13-year near-lightspeed journey, you arrive at Tau Ceti. You look out the window of the ship. You're horrified. Screams are heard across the ship.	22
[EU] [WP, EU] In 2060, half a century after the outbreak, Clementine stares at the sky as hundreds of dropships exiting massive starships in orbit pierce the clouds. "They've finally returned," she says.	21
[IP] UNS-44, first voyage to the stars	19
[WP] You live on a planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani. The colony is new, and resources take 12 years to arrive from Earth. Finally, starships with supplies brake from lightspeed and enter orbit around the planet. Dropships are seen approaching. You could almost hear the people screaming from orbit.	19
[ WP ] Aliens choose the Sun as their next star to be encased in a Dyson sphere. Slowly, all life on Earth will die due to the lack of solar radiation. Everyone is panicking, but you are relaxed. You know what to do.	18
[WP] You've legally bound someone so that they have to fulfill your every request lest they die. At last, you think they've outlived their usefulness, so you absurdly demand: "Crack cheap lightspeed interstellar travel." You are horrified when they survive and give you a big document.	18

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