WritingPrompts

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[WP] When humans achieve interstellar space flight we discover that we live smack dab in the midst of several massive squabbling ancient alien empires. So we do the only sensible thing we could, and become space Switzerland.	4524
[WP] The greatest limiting factor when it comes to fitting more people on a planet isn't space, or resources, or energy. It's heat management. Write a story about how an advanced civilization keeps its heavily populated planets cool.	84
[WP] Knowing that actually using a magic wish is courting disaster, you decide to simply lock away the lamp/monkey's paw/what-have-you. Unfortunately, without really thinking, you mistakenly say aloud "I wish I had the power to safeguard the world from capricious reality warping entities."	63
[WP] A Government bureau isn't trying to hide the existence of the supernatural, they're trying to expose it and bring it under their control. Unfortunately, the cabal of supernatural beings that do hide the existence of the supernatural are more powerful, so the g-men have to be clever and cautious	56
[EU] Archmagos Ferb and his brother Magos Phineas have come in their Ark Mechanicus to explore a Necron tomb world. With them are Battle-Brother Buford of the Black Templars, Sister Isabella of the Order of the Emperor's Fire, and Captain Baljeet of the Tempestus Scions.	33
[EU] In the 26th century, ONI abducts 150 children for use in the SPARTAN-II program. Unfortunately for them, they made the mistake of abducting the child of a man who in the distant past had been known as Kratos of Sparta.	31
[WP] Humanity arrives late to the space colonization game, and is now just one of a multitude of insignificant minor powers, barely noticed by the true great powers of the galaxy.	20
[WP] Humans are the only race that don't use magic, not because they can't, but because using it makes them go insane.	20
[WP] There is no grandiose future waiting for humanity amongst the star, because the aliens already beat us to it. This is a good thing. Grandiose futures tend to distract from what's really important in life.	20
[WP] Earth's minerals are used up, and, due to Kessler syndrome, space-based resources are inaccessible. Fortunately, mankind manages to replace all their traditional tech with biotech. The only problem is that now everything looks like an H.R. Giger painting, and some people find it hard to adjust.	12

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