/u/gahidus's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The true form of interstellar contact is singularity AIs gabbing about their organics like parents carry on about their kids.
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[WP] Being annexed by The Galactic Empire has actually been fantastic. The "Resistance" is composed almost entirely of the sorts of zealots and malcontents who could manage to be angry in a tolerant, hedonistic, post-scarcity utopia.
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[WP] Humanity surrendered quite quickly, realizing that the aliens who had come to "conquer" us were offering us a far better deal than what we had under our existing masters.
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[WP] Testing your prototype transmitter, you accidentally contact aliens. They regret to inform you that they're here to document our extinction by super volcano, but because you've contacted them, they can accommodate up to 10 refugees.
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[WP] An AI has concluded that the best thing for humanity would be for it to take over the world. The AI is correct.
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[WP] In this world, nominative determinism is true. Considering how much your name can shape your destiny, it seems cruel of you parents to have named you as they did.
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[WP] The alien custom of warfare was to meet at a pre-arranged spot and exchange a series of calculated near misses at varying yields to prove who should be declared victor. Humans decided to dispense with this and simply fire directly at the enemy in a surprise attack. This was a terrible idea...
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[WP] Since the realm of mages and mystical beings became revealed to our own, there have been some cultural growing pains. You've volunteered to host a foreign student.
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[WP] It turns out that the greatest barrier to interspecies communication is that the more advanced a society is, the more likely it's people are to communicate exclusively in obscure idioms and pop cultural references.
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