/u/Sachyriel's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Space Agencies have a secret test in Astronaut Training to weed out people with latent psychic powers, as these strange abilities are magnified in orbital free fall. Your psychic abilities went unnoticed due to a mutation, and couldn't be harnessed until you left the gravity well of Earth.
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[WP] You're a Supervillain with a dark secret: you used to be an intern for a different supervillain. One day they disappeared, and you took over their secret lair, found success & made a name for yourself, even snagged yourself a recurring superhero. But now all of a sudden your old boss is back.
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[WP] Humans are a vain, petty, stubborn and generally disliked animal at the galaxy's least-popular Petting Zoo: Earth. They walk around like they own the place, unaware that they're responsible for the poor reputation and declining profits, leading to the system sold to an Alien Animal Shelter.
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[WP] Aliens come to Earth and tell the UN that it will be allowed into the Galactic Federation if all the Navies of the world can be consolidated into a single Global Military Union. Until we can prove that we can present a unified armed force for Peacekeeping they won't even consider us ready.
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[WP] You're part of a volunteer NGO that calls elderly people to provide some companionship to the lonely, you've learned a lot and seen things in different perspectives; One day you call a Senior Citizen and they try to sell you something, you can't hang up until they're satisfied.
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[WP] New legislation that legalizes superheroes has been a losing money sink for insurance companies, and they’ve started to contest more mundane claims by normal people to save $. You disagree, and have to convince regulars to claim superhero status or convince supers they’re regular people
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[WP] Humanity has gone extinct by it’s own hand before Salvation Day. Our Would-be-saviour arrives to kick rocks (for real) and finds 7 things that remind him of humanity. Number 3 will shock you!
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[WP]In 2061 The Kessler Cascade kicks in, and Earth orbit is filled with too much junk to send up new Sats safely. One of the side-effects is a decrease in orbital monitoring of nuclear missile tests, leading to ambitious countries to restart dormant "Defence" programs involving WMDs.
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[WP] The UN Environmental Modification Treaty made Weather Superweapons illegal, and publicly broadcast weather reports by all nations made it impossible to hide new tech in Weather Control. Now Climate Change brings about the adoption of censored weather news and nations begin to make Weather WMDs.
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