Humans are space orcs Archives - The Muse of Last Resort

Here is a sampling of our Twitter-based sci-fi writing prompts. Many of them are HFY type prompts but feel free […]

Never underestimate humans

Vegnault Grats was frozen in place. No amount of captain’s training could have prepared him for this. The Grand Destroyer […]

Vegnault Grats was writing another missive to his Forebear3 begging to be reassigned out of the Thirteenth Voids. That was […]

Invite the humans, they said. It will be fine, they said. Humans are friendly, they said. What they did not […]

The junior offer’s party was going well. There was food, dancing, and great music. Then the human delegation arrived. They […]

You sat on the command chair of the new flagship. It was designed to face enemy ships in head-on fire […]

Your engines failed mid-trip. This should have meant certain death for you and your five crew members. Fortunately, you were […]

You wonder if you did something wrong. Normally, the Galactic Council only asks for you when the situation is dire. […]

You were hoping that your last year as the chief advisor to the Galactic Council would be unremarkable. Sadly, no. […]

Star Command has built a huge robotic facsimile of one of the giant aliens they recently lost a war to. […]