WritingPrompts

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[WP] In the future, the UN rules Earth and its colonies with an iron fist. They've made it so everyone has a price. If you kill someone, you can pay their price at the time of death to avoid prison. You have a gigantic price, so you always feel safe. Until, one day, you see your worth drop to $1.	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
[ WP ] The United Nations passes a bill that grants intelligent people the legal capacity to murder stupid/non-intelligent individuals. Society immediately changes across humanity's interstellar empire.	18
[ WP ] Today, you go to sleep. You awake in near-complete darkness in what appears to be a coffin. You exit it and find yourself standing in a large hall. As you explore past the hall, you finally find an info hub, and it displays the date. You scream in agony as you read "Nov 12, 2291".	17
[WP] An interstellar expedition finds a planet colonized by intelligent life. The human vessel is spotted and the species hurriedly departs the planet, leaving behind a digital note that, when decoded, reads "We are sorry. Please do not punish us. We were forced to. We give you back the planet."	17
[WP] An incredibly powerful alien colonial empire became aware of our existence but thought we were billions of years away from becoming a threat to them. Three hundreds years later, this proved to be their fatal mistake.	16
[WP] An invasion fleet attacks Earth. In the war, the aliens appear reticent, and we learn why: we're nothing more than bio-androids created by them long ago and they are the true humans. We drove them off Earth in the past. Now, we're about to face the full force of vengeful interstellar humanity.	16
[WP] SpaceX sends the first mission to Mars. Upon landing, the crew begins searching the area. What they find horrifies them: a 1,600-year-old Roman flag.	16
[WP] At a part, late, one night, you are drunk and start barely coherently blabbering. An astrophysicist was there. Unbeknownst to you, you gave him the idea needed to crack interstellar travel. But now, you want credit.	16
[WP] You embark on a colonization mission. On arrival, you find out the Singularity has occurred on Earth and humanity has been enslaved after only one day of war. The superintelligent AI has since set its sights on the colony planet. It's coming.	15

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