/u/sycolution's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]Earth has joined the galactic community and you, the captain of a crew of different aliens, come across a hostile ship manned by your ship's navigator's species and tell them to smooth it over. But they don't understand the other ship's message. They're from a different part of their planet.
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[WP]Like lactose tolerance, everyone is born with a superpower that they have for the first year and a half of their life before fading. Also like lactose tolerance a freak mutation allows you to keep yours.
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[WP]Like fish, humans are limited in growth by their container. Problem is, no one can survive in space. You're an immortal whose spaceship just vented them into the void.
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[WP]New shielding technology has rendered anything travelling as fast or faster than the average bullet useless in combat. Because of this, infantry has now been equipped with more technologically advanced close combat gear.
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[WP]You always knew there were monsters under your bed, so you gave your plush toys classes. The teddy was a fighter, the ferret a rogue, and so on. It's when a few portals open on the side of the bed and several meteorites plummet under it that you realise things have gotten out of hand.
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[WP]♪Here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus, holding little Jim's braaaain. He's got a beef with the boys and girls who have all been bad agaaain♪
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[WP]"Time Travel" has been invented. People enter a perfectly sealed chamber and get "transported" to the time of their choice, exiting after 2 hours in the experience. You, the inventor are the only one who knows the truth. It's really just hyper-realistic VR.
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[WP]Aging and death are not natural in the galaxy. Humans, the savages that we are, were put on Earth, a massive prison/aging machine as a punishment for crimes against the galaxy. But we evolved...we developed reproduction. Now we are legion. And we are coming back.
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