/u/MidKnightshade's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] An alien vessel crash lands in a nation with relatively political clout. After helping them they give them advance biotechnology. Overnight they become the new dominant power. All attempts to take the technology have been deterred with relative ease. They go to the UN to explain the change.
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[WP] After joining the Galactic Federation Humanity is forced onto a reservation after making a bad deal with an elder species. They fail in a lawsuit to regain custody and must sharecrop inedible flora on their parcel to pay off the debt. Elders use special plants that emit a repellent to humans.
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[EU] You’re a lab assistant at a top secret facility. They specialize in attempting to recreate forbidden experiments. They are working on the invisibility of Dr. Griffin, reanimation of Frankenstein, transmogrification of Dr. Moreau, and transformations of Dr. Jekyll. You work with test subjects.
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[WP] Alien overlords send lower castes to clear planets of pests (sentient species) and upon completion take up residence. The lower castes discovered if they never “finish” they can continue to occupy the planet. The overlords eventually realize and fire them so they release their entire stock.
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[WP] A criminal mastermind in a high security prison is informed their secret apprentice has been killed. They were content with prison knowing their work would continue. The killer did this to replace them as apprentice. The mastermind plays along and begins manipulating them to break them out.
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[WP] A dirty cop recruits a group of criminals to kidnap a wealthy socialite. The cop has leverage on all of them for serious crimes. The team decides to delay the ransom long enough to try and find the leverage so they can release the hostage but they need to string the cop along playing both sides
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[WP] Aliens learn about humanity through broadcasted professional DJing sets. Finally feeling confident they decide to initiate first contact with humanity in the most epic way possible.
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[WP] A speedster is sent to capture an escaped mid-range teleporter. The teleporter has a tracker inside them that recharges from the energy of their teleportation. The speedster’s plan is to keep chasing until the teleporter gets tired and begins making shorter jumps and then capture them.
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[SP] After being severely injured you find yourself being trailed by scavengers. You pass out occasionally and wake up but every time they are closer and bolder.
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[WP] A spacefaring Cosmic megafauna passes likes to pass through the atmospheres of living planets to use their gravity to pull of parasites and other refuse on its body. It’s so massive sometimes it shifts a planet’s orbit. It also likes to resupply on these pit stops. All Earth can do is observe.
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