/u/Nomyad777's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] "What iteration of civilization are you on? It always takes, like, a hundred just to get to farming, then civilization falls back and resets, and it takes a thousand to trade, ten thousand to get to government... What do you mean 'One?' Your species has never been reset to hunter-gatherers?"
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[WP] The Galactic Council welcomes new species after their planets dies; all planets do. Now they're watching a new species pull away from their latest apocalypse and re-terraform their planet back into working shape for the umpteenth time.
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[WP] Every species shares some part of their technological tree. Fire, then bio-mutating wood, then bio-starships. The Unoids, Renexalla, Renni... and now, First Contact has been made with a unified FTL-capable species that fly in metal boxes, use inorganic computers, and refer to 'electricity.'
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[WP] "This chemical is known to the state of California to cause unknown potentially harmful effects to the Human body. Of course, it is only known to work as such in the state of California because California's weird like that. Cross into Nevada and the effects should dissipate within two days."
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[WP] The Galactic Federation contacts new species immediately after they send the first sapient from their cradlemoon to their local planet and back to their cradlemoon. For the past hundred years the Galactic Federation has been arguing over what to do with about tiny apes called Humanity.
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[WP] "What you see before you through that window is the Voyager 1, the first artificial object in the 23 trillion light-years of the observable and unobservable universe and all 4 known alternate dimensions to reach interstellar space."
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[WP] The Kobolds, tired of being hunted, settled down in the middle of nowhere and start building. For centuries, they out-innovated Goblins and grew to include outcasts from other races. Now out of the shadows, the world now has a new power to contend with.
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[WP] "Sapient life was a mistake in this universe," God said. As He moved to snap His fingers, however, He felt something and looked down. The last thing He saw was an incorporeal railgun bolt burried in His chest, His divine energy starting to bleed out.
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