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A group of astronauts on a routine mission to Mars discover a strange object buried on the planet’s surface. As they begin to study it, they realize that…
You were the weakest and least athletic person on the ship. So you were surprised when you were the only one to survive the crash onto this undiscovered…
You have been assigned to The Potent Void VFP – one of the faster ships in the fleet. The problem is the ship AI has very strong opinions…
Here is a sampling of our Twitter-based sci-fi writing prompts. Many of them are HFY type prompts but feel free to take them anywhere you want.
Grand Elder Tashmin has ordered you to give a presentation to the Star Magus Council explaining why humans are not the ideal familiars they think they are. The…
Six months after the founding of the second Martian colony, it declared war on the first Martian colony. You have been sent to find out what they are…
Vegnault Grats was frozen in place. No amount of captain’s training could have prepared him for this. The Grand Destroyer Sword of Slaughter was no more. Grats had…
Vegnault Grats was writing another missive to his Forebear3 begging to be reassigned out of the Thirteenth Voids. That was when the order arrived. Some new race called…
You gave up hoping for rescue months ago. Since then you have settled into making a home for yourself on this isolated planet. The loneliness is hard to…
Invite the humans, they said. It will be fine, they said. Humans are friendly, they said. What they did not say is that humans recreationally imbibe toxins, poisons,…
You sat on the command chair of the new flagship. It was designed to face enemy ships in head-on fire for solar cycles on end. You would, you…
Your engines failed mid-trip. This should have meant certain death for you and your five crew members. Fortunately, you were picked up by an unknown race of massive…
United fleet command has declared war on an emerging race. You have been given command of a small yet powerful fleet of ships. Your orders are to wipe…
You have been selected by your government to initiate first contact with a freshly discovered race. You feel honoured to have been selected. That is until you meet…
You return from an eventless tour of the outer colonies to find that half the fleet is missing or damaged; someone has moved the earth; and no one…
What if the dragon was kind and gentle and only wanted to know how her children were enjoying the nursery planet she had made? What if she was…
While flying through a volume of unexplored space, your ship picks up an SOS beacon. The signal is coming from inside a nebula which scans suggest will seriously…
You finally get the radio telescope to yourself for an evening. With a little luck, you might get useful data for your thesis. You turn the dishes towards…
I recently found a great Twitter account (@CommanderGunn) posting space opera sci-fi plot ideas. Here is a small selection of my favourites.
One evening, you are looking at the sky. A small alien ship plops down in front of you. The pilot has selected you as humanity’s envoy to go…
The Twitter account @WeWriteDragons shares a lot of great writing prompts. Here are just a few that I really liked. If you liked these, follow @WeWriteDragons for loads…
You decided to take a year out visiting the nine core alien homeworlds. The only issue is no one warned you that humans are easily three times larger…