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[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | I sat in the back of the room, so the prof barely noticed my hand raised in the air.
"Yes, Rai?"
"Sir," I spoke, "I must disagree with your point here."
"Why so? You, as a human, should be all-too familiar with their docile nature, should you not?"
"The thing is professor - we are not a docile species" The rest of ... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor's words hung in the air, Andy looked around the class room. A group of Rovallian Crodurs, a species famed for eating their young during times of celebration, sat hunched together in the back. Slumped in a desk across from him sat an enormous Bullmali male, his giant horns nearly touching the ceiling - ... | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "Is it really alright for me to be here?"
Faces turned. Attention slid from the digital black board to her. A thousand eyes in a dozen faces, knowing, amused. She saw herself refracted in them, multiplied, stacked.
"Why yes, of course it is!" the professor said, mandibles clicking. "Why wouldn't it be?"
"I just nev... | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | "Is it really alright for me to be here?"
Faces turned. Attention slid from the digital black board to her. A thousand eyes in a dozen faces, knowing, amused. She saw herself refracted in them, multiplied, stacked.
"Why yes, of course it is!" the professor said, mandibles clicking. "Why wouldn't it be?"
"I just nev... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | "Is it really alright for me to be here?"
Faces turned. Attention slid from the digital black board to her. A thousand eyes in a dozen faces, knowing, amused. She saw herself refracted in them, multiplied, stacked.
"Why yes, of course it is!" the professor said, mandibles clicking. "Why wouldn't it be?"
"I just nev... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | “Your species, Joshua, has the potential for happiness, because of their innate characteristics to remain tranquil under adversity and to adapt to situations when the time comes.”
Joshua admired Professor Bogart, a descendant of the horned frog family, lecturer of the new humanities and chief engineer of the des... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | “Your species, Joshua, has the potential for happiness, because of their innate characteristics to remain tranquil under adversity and to adapt to situations when the time comes.”
Joshua admired Professor Bogart, a descendant of the horned frog family, lecturer of the new humanities and chief engineer of the des... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | I sat in the back of the room, so the prof barely noticed my hand raised in the air.
"Yes, Rai?"
"Sir," I spoke, "I must disagree with your point here."
"Why so? You, as a human, should be all-too familiar with their docile nature, should you not?"
"The thing is professor - we are not a docile species" The rest of ... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | 'what are you basing that on' I say
the professor said from watching earth media. it is full of cooperation and love, peaceful conflict resolution and acceptance of diversity.
So I ask when they first started noticing earth media. he says roughly around the equivalent of earth year 2073.
I smile inside knowing the f... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | I sat in the back of the room, so the prof barely noticed my hand raised in the air.
"Yes, Rai?"
"Sir," I spoke, "I must disagree with your point here."
"Why so? You, as a human, should be all-too familiar with their docile nature, should you not?"
"The thing is professor - we are not a docile species" The rest of ... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | “And in conclusion, humans are the most peaceful species in the universe”
I held my breath for a second before raising my hand.
“Becky, yes, let’s get a human perspective on this!” My face flushes as the whole room turns and looks at me.
“Um, as a whole, yes, definitely. My mom always talks about how violent other s... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | I sat in the back of the room, so the prof barely noticed my hand raised in the air.
"Yes, Rai?"
"Sir," I spoke, "I must disagree with your point here."
"Why so? You, as a human, should be all-too familiar with their docile nature, should you not?"
"The thing is professor - we are not a docile species" The rest of ... | 'what are you basing that on' I say
the professor said from watching earth media. it is full of cooperation and love, peaceful conflict resolution and acceptance of diversity.
So I ask when they first started noticing earth media. he says roughly around the equivalent of earth year 2073.
I smile inside knowing the f... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | “And in conclusion, humans are the most peaceful species in the universe”
I held my breath for a second before raising my hand.
“Becky, yes, let’s get a human perspective on this!” My face flushes as the whole room turns and looks at me.
“Um, as a whole, yes, definitely. My mom always talks about how violent other s... | 'what are you basing that on' I say
the professor said from watching earth media. it is full of cooperation and love, peaceful conflict resolution and acceptance of diversity.
So I ask when they first started noticing earth media. he says roughly around the equivalent of earth year 2073.
I smile inside knowing the f... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | 'what are you basing that on' I say
the professor said from watching earth media. it is full of cooperation and love, peaceful conflict resolution and acceptance of diversity.
So I ask when they first started noticing earth media. he says roughly around the equivalent of earth year 2073.
I smile inside knowing the f... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | “And in conclusion, humans are the most peaceful species in the universe”
I held my breath for a second before raising my hand.
“Becky, yes, let’s get a human perspective on this!” My face flushes as the whole room turns and looks at me.
“Um, as a whole, yes, definitely. My mom always talks about how violent other s... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "Are you sure about that?" I asked. The professor sighed. "Alex, stand up." I stood, waiting. "Alex, I don't understand why you're so insistent that humans are not docile. You're easy to get along with-" At that point I had enough, so I pulled out a blaster and shot him in the chest multiple times. As he lay there, I w... | "But", you blurt out a bit louder and more forceful than you intended. You catch yourself, not wanting to offend your teacher or classmates before continuing, "but only 200 years ago we fought a couple wars where millions of people died. And even after that we have had numerous wars, terrorist attacks and economic warf... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "What about the Xartoxiens? They only have one recorded war that ended with just two casualties. And they lead the council to great success for the last 50 years. I think they might be up there, too."
As the class discusses why "we" humans are still the prime example of a species, I quietly smile to myself. Yes, human... | "But", you blurt out a bit louder and more forceful than you intended. You catch yourself, not wanting to offend your teacher or classmates before continuing, "but only 200 years ago we fought a couple wars where millions of people died. And even after that we have had numerous wars, terrorist attacks and economic warf... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong.
Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad... | "But", you blurt out a bit louder and more forceful than you intended. You catch yourself, not wanting to offend your teacher or classmates before continuing, "but only 200 years ago we fought a couple wars where millions of people died. And even after that we have had numerous wars, terrorist attacks and economic warf... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong.
Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad... | "What about the Xartoxiens? They only have one recorded war that ended with just two casualties. And they lead the council to great success for the last 50 years. I think they might be up there, too."
As the class discusses why "we" humans are still the prime example of a species, I quietly smile to myself. Yes, human... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "Yes, Alexis? Anything to add about your species? It would be great to hear from someone with more direct first hand knowledge"
"Umm well... I have a few concerns... not many of which are with the source material. It is pretty accurate, slavery and ownership of people of the same species as us. The multiple wars. And ... | "May I use the bathroom?" I asked, even though that was not the reason my hand, against my will, raised itself. The professor looked a little puzzled, their feelers twitching at my need for explaining why I needed to be excused.
Students walk in and out of the lecture all the time, though discreetly so as to not disru... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong.
Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad... | "May I use the bathroom?" I asked, even though that was not the reason my hand, against my will, raised itself. The professor looked a little puzzled, their feelers twitching at my need for explaining why I needed to be excused.
Students walk in and out of the lecture all the time, though discreetly so as to not disru... | |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong.
Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad... | "Yes, Alexis? Anything to add about your species? It would be great to hear from someone with more direct first hand knowledge"
"Umm well... I have a few concerns... not many of which are with the source material. It is pretty accurate, slavery and ownership of people of the same species as us. The multiple wars. And ... | |
[WP] Amendment #4517: Due to Dave's actions, a new rule has been added once again- The introduction of nanotechnology to create a 'magic system' on a primitive world is prohibited. Edit: You may not use bio-engineering either Dave. Edit 2: Or any other advanced technology. | So, I've had this idea for a while. I haven't written it yet, but I've been outlining it. Here's a brief, quickly written bit of exposition for the world.
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"So, kid, you wanted to know what's going on. What's going on is that I just saved your life. Well, probably." The scruffy man in a tattere... | “That was a bad decision”
Dave slowly opened his eyes. Everything was fuzzy, but he could vaguely pick out a human face surrounded by bright blue hair. The hair was a recent addition, but it definitely made his sibling more noticeable.
“Where am I and why has my amazingly perceptive and wise sibling come to tease me?... | |
[WP] Amendment #4517: Due to Dave's actions, a new rule has been added once again- The introduction of nanotechnology to create a 'magic system' on a primitive world is prohibited. Edit: You may not use bio-engineering either Dave. Edit 2: Or any other advanced technology. | "But it's fuuuuun!" Dave complained as the announcement echoed over the ship's speakers.
"This is your fourth time getting deified, Dave." Jasmine responded. Jasmin was Dave's favorite co-worker. Despite all of them being scientists, like himself, Jasmine was the only one Dave could actually *talk* to. "How many times... | Dave was a man with the sensibilities of a fantasy author and the resources of a somebody who opted not to write fantasy, and instead became a very successful businessman. It was a dangerous mix, like pouring liquid orichalcum into octiron—an explosive unlike any other.
It was with great relief that Dave now stood in ... | |
[WP] If there was one thing that helped alleviate Prometheus's punishment, it was that Hephaestus always came to talk about Humanity. He'd listened as he told him of their achievements. Their failures. Everything. Today, he comes, seemingly in shock. It is April 26, 1986. | The worst part of being punished by the gods was not the pain of having his liver devoured each day, as Prometheus learned. Instead, it was the sheer, repetitive boredom of it all. Sun up, sun down. Another futile day of existence. Even Hephaestus, who visited daily, was bored of the routine at this point, as the two g... | Short Friendly prompt :D
Hephaestus:
Ah Today the humans have discovered the flame that Prometheus bestowed upon them truly a proud moment today
Zeus:
You see you swine I couldn’t care less about those foul humans they are basically animals! And act much more ruthlessly then most
380BC
Hephaestus:
Zeus they have d... | |
[WP] Every time you died, you went to the Pearly Gates, but there were always a problem with the records that you get sent back down to Earth, to live again unaging. It's your umpteenth time and you're starting to get tired of this incompetence. | Saint Peter frowned, flipping pages.
"Nope," he said. "Your S1N form seems to be missing."
"You're *kidding,"* I groaned. "That's exactly what happened last time!"
Saint Peter flipped a few more pages and ran a blessed finger down the celestial page. "Nooo," he said, "last time it was form HMNa."
"Whichever," I sa... | *I want... to speak... to the MANAGER!*
Karen's voice reached a shrill tone that shattered the ear-drums of all the angels manning the pearly gates on the most dreaded shift, black friday.
"Maam, we've told you before that we have no record of your deeds on earth. Our bookkeeper needs records to let the big man know ... | |
[WP] Your bank specializes in accounts of villains and monsters; accepting currencies from gold and cash, to blood and souls. As the only cashier of the bank, write about your daily work or about your most interesting clients. | "Hello welcome to Craft Credit Union!", I always hated saying that. I am a witch, granted not as powerful as some, powerful enough that I was placed here. Given the nature of what we do and who we work with, I was allowed to be "witchy", with our clients. They knew this, management knew this, yet I have to play nice at... | The heels of the man's well-polished shoes clicked against the marble floor as he strode evenly towards the counter.
Behind the kiosk, the cashier bowed his head in greeting. "Asmodeus. A pleasure to see you back here."
"Yanluo." The voice clawed its way out from the back of the man's throat, scratchy from disuse. "W... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | *It was time. I'd finally managed to get my son out of his books for long enough to have a conversation face to face.*
He looked at me expectantly, full of the sass of one with a new vehicle.
"Son, you need to know something. This may change the way you see me, but it's for the best that you know. I am a god."
"Is t... | "Well Jesus" my dad said.
"What?" said my best friend, Jesus, who had joined us for lunch.
"I guess I can't sneak one over on the Son of God", dad's brow furrowed.
"Yeah, you should've realized when he didn't fall for the whole Satan- I mean Santa charade", Jesus chortled.
I chimed in "so, obviously you're not omni... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | He closed the oven, letting the roast finish cooking. "Ok son, I think it's time you and I had a little talk"
"Dad, I already know about birds and the bees"
He slammed his beer down, "Damnit I'm trying to be serious"
"Well thats a first"
"Well your turning 21 soon and my family wants to visit to celebrate"
"O... | I’ve always knows my dad was… “special”
My mom had died in childbirth, so all my life it was just my dad and I. Every other kid in school had two parents, but I never felt jealous because my dad was more than enough.
In second grade, when Tommy shoved me into a locker and peed on me somehow my dad knew. When I got hom... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | "I'm so glad you came home for Thanksgiving, JJ. But before everyone else arrives I'd like to get a chance to talk with you about something. Can you sit down?" The words Mama H used implied it was a polite request, but the tone of her voice struck Jule's brain like a command. She had learned to ignore Mama H's commands... | I’ve always knows my dad was… “special”
My mom had died in childbirth, so all my life it was just my dad and I. Every other kid in school had two parents, but I never felt jealous because my dad was more than enough.
In second grade, when Tommy shoved me into a locker and peed on me somehow my dad knew. When I got hom... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | The tide of mortals rises and falls.
Swells like a symphony.
Crashes like a wave against the tallest rocks.
And sure as a golden age rises, it will someday set– the land left bitterly shrouded in the one and only constant truth between myth and mortal alike.
Darkness.
From ember and ash, we clawed our way into bei... | I’ve always knows my dad was… “special”
My mom had died in childbirth, so all my life it was just my dad and I. Every other kid in school had two parents, but I never felt jealous because my dad was more than enough.
In second grade, when Tommy shoved me into a locker and peed on me somehow my dad knew. When I got hom... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | He closed the oven, letting the roast finish cooking. "Ok son, I think it's time you and I had a little talk"
"Dad, I already know about birds and the bees"
He slammed his beer down, "Damnit I'm trying to be serious"
"Well thats a first"
"Well your turning 21 soon and my family wants to visit to celebrate"
"O... | "Son, I need to tell you something. I am a dog"
"No, dad. You're dyslexic."
"Dog gone it. Son, I need to tell you something. I'm a Dad."
"I'm 20 and studying biology. You don't think I've figured that out?"
"God. Dammit. What I meant to say is: I'm a god."
"Yeah, a god-damned good dad."
"Well yeah, but that's not... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | "I'm so glad you came home for Thanksgiving, JJ. But before everyone else arrives I'd like to get a chance to talk with you about something. Can you sit down?" The words Mama H used implied it was a polite request, but the tone of her voice struck Jule's brain like a command. She had learned to ignore Mama H's commands... | "Son, I need to tell you something. I am a dog"
"No, dad. You're dyslexic."
"Dog gone it. Son, I need to tell you something. I'm a Dad."
"I'm 20 and studying biology. You don't think I've figured that out?"
"God. Dammit. What I meant to say is: I'm a god."
"Yeah, a god-damned good dad."
"Well yeah, but that's not... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | The tide of mortals rises and falls.
Swells like a symphony.
Crashes like a wave against the tallest rocks.
And sure as a golden age rises, it will someday set– the land left bitterly shrouded in the one and only constant truth between myth and mortal alike.
Darkness.
From ember and ash, we clawed our way into bei... | "Son, I need to tell you something. I am a dog"
"No, dad. You're dyslexic."
"Dog gone it. Son, I need to tell you something. I'm a Dad."
"I'm 20 and studying biology. You don't think I've figured that out?"
"God. Dammit. What I meant to say is: I'm a god."
"Yeah, a god-damned good dad."
"Well yeah, but that's not... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | The tide of mortals rises and falls.
Swells like a symphony.
Crashes like a wave against the tallest rocks.
And sure as a golden age rises, it will someday set– the land left bitterly shrouded in the one and only constant truth between myth and mortal alike.
Darkness.
From ember and ash, we clawed our way into bei... | "I'm so glad you came home for Thanksgiving, JJ. But before everyone else arrives I'd like to get a chance to talk with you about something. Can you sit down?" The words Mama H used implied it was a polite request, but the tone of her voice struck Jule's brain like a command. She had learned to ignore Mama H's commands... | |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | The tide of mortals rises and falls.
Swells like a symphony.
Crashes like a wave against the tallest rocks.
And sure as a golden age rises, it will someday set– the land left bitterly shrouded in the one and only constant truth between myth and mortal alike.
Darkness.
From ember and ash, we clawed our way into bei... | Alex watched his father pour water over a bundle of spaghetti sitting in a pot.
It was funny, really. His dad confessing to him that he was God, like a sinner confessing a secret to a priest, hoping for forgiveness. But he’d known already. Had for a long time.
“So when did you find out?” Dad asked. “You know, that I’... | |
[WP] When a person dies, the grim reaper grants them a single wish. People usually ask for their favorite food, or to see a loved one one last time. You are the first to ask to be forgotten. | The gaunt figure lifted a bony arm. "Your final wish, mortal," it intoned. "What would you have before you leave the physical realm?"
I froze. For one thing Death was *quite* a lot taller than I'd anticipated. For another I wasn't expecting to get a wish. I felt like there had to be a loophole here somewhere.
"OK," I... | As their soul left their mortal body they were greeted with the face of death, they had no reason to fear the being seeing as they had already passed, feelings were the point of this in the first place. "You get one wish before you disappear forever" death spoke, leaving the now deceased human silent for a few seconds ... | |
[WP] When a person dies, the grim reaper grants them a single wish. People usually ask for their favorite food, or to see a loved one one last time. You are the first to ask to be forgotten. | "To be forgotten?" The mysterious figure slowly uttered the words, never did it expect for such a request made by a race so utterly focused on leaving their mark in this world.
"Yes" The tall man in the torn jeans and white shirt replied, his brown wavy hair moved with his head, back and forth.
"This is a most pecul... | - To be forgotten? - Death was surprised at the request
- Yes.
- Dude, You are the freaking prime minister! Do you know much paperwork that is?
- I wish to be forgotten - The Prime minister was standing in attention, as the military man he has been his whole life.
- Can you ask for your favorite meal or to see your ch... | |
[WP] We’ve learned to prolong life by replacing the human heart with a small but complex biotech battery. However, it must be charged daily by sleeping to avoid a total body shutdown. You’re an insomniac and a workaholic. What is seen as a boon by society is a constant ticking clock for you. | “Work work work, take a break, close your eyes, sleep, watch the clock, work, work work,” These thoughts stream through my head as my wrist watch vibrates to remind me that twenty four hours is bearing down on me like a bullet train. My heart taunts me, like a loaded gun it forces me to rest even when it is uncomfortab... | You could write a workaround, like the tec only works when you sleep, or the charger is too big to wear, but I prefer reasons, not workarounds.
This would work beautifully in a utopian society like ‘The Giver’ where everyone gets an artificial heart at birth, and it’s used as a control device. If you try to escape yo... | |
[WP] We’ve learned to prolong life by replacing the human heart with a small but complex biotech battery. However, it must be charged daily by sleeping to avoid a total body shutdown. You’re an insomniac and a workaholic. What is seen as a boon by society is a constant ticking clock for you. | Tick tick tick tick tick tick... I swear I can hear that little fucker counting down to my death. Here I am, lying awake at 3 in the morning scared that I might have truly overdone it this time. The deadline had been just too close and my workflow just not fast enough, so here I was, listening to the one thing that kep... | You could write a workaround, like the tec only works when you sleep, or the charger is too big to wear, but I prefer reasons, not workarounds.
This would work beautifully in a utopian society like ‘The Giver’ where everyone gets an artificial heart at birth, and it’s used as a control device. If you try to escape yo... | |
[WP] In a world full of supers, you were destined to have a power. Unfortunately, your power is ad-blocking. Every where you go, ads disappear. Form billboards, to signs, to commercials, you never see anything new making life difficult. And the big corporations just deemed you a threat. | ***First time posting. Sorry if this is too long or has grammar mistakes.***
“It’s corporate sabotage Damo, that you’re doing here. I could have you jailed, you know? Or extradited to any one of the,” Detective Sulley paused to study the clipboard in front of him, “thirty countries where you’ve been directly linked to... | Life is good. Ever since my awesome superpower activated, I've never had to deal with the soul sucking horror of ads. Everywhere I go, ads cease to exist until after I pass by. I never have to see or hear about the awful garbage that corporations try to trick people into buying with claims of it being new and improved.... | |
[WP] In a world full of supers, you were destined to have a power. Unfortunately, your power is ad-blocking. Every where you go, ads disappear. Form billboards, to signs, to commercials, you never see anything new making life difficult. And the big corporations just deemed you a threat. | Ad Agent: We're paying you $100,000 per year to live on a rural town.
Bob: Do I get free housing, fiber internet, taxes, and electricity?
Ad Agent: Let me see...
Bob: Nope, no deal.
Ad Agent: Wait! Uh, you still have to pay your taxes, and the internet might not be fiber, but everything else is free.
Bob: Hm, not... | Life is good. Ever since my awesome superpower activated, I've never had to deal with the soul sucking horror of ads. Everywhere I go, ads cease to exist until after I pass by. I never have to see or hear about the awful garbage that corporations try to trick people into buying with claims of it being new and improved.... | |
Saw this in “two sentence horror stories” and thought y’all could make something good out of it. | [WP] Every time you die, you flash back to 10 seconds before so you can try to save yourself. Unfortunately, the fall was 11 seconds. | The water below me swirls and crashes and flows below me, stunning when so out of reach from the railing of a bridge. For a close look however, it was a sea of concrete. From the moment my toes left the railing in the sky, the pit in my stomach sank to the rush of blue and black faster than my body. Again. And again. A... | But my god I'm alive. I am not sure how or why I got into this loop and why it is so short though. Is this something that has been done to trick me by a human or is this a reality of existence? Do we always flash back to a new life? Do we flash back as a new person with no memories? Do we flash to a new dimension wher... |
Saw this in “two sentence horror stories” and thought y’all could make something good out of it. | [WP] Every time you die, you flash back to 10 seconds before so you can try to save yourself. Unfortunately, the fall was 11 seconds. | The water below me swirls and crashes and flows below me, stunning when so out of reach from the railing of a bridge. For a close look however, it was a sea of concrete. From the moment my toes left the railing in the sky, the pit in my stomach sank to the rush of blue and black faster than my body. Again. And again. A... | I fall a lot. Well, I'm always falling. Everyone gets one chance to go back ten seconds and try to not die. My fall was eleven seconds, so I'm kinda screwed.
It gets boring. I tried to stop it. Didn't work. A whole lot of ledges, none of them close enough to grab. Close enough for false hope, though. Eventually I got ... |
Saw this in “two sentence horror stories” and thought y’all could make something good out of it. | [WP] Every time you die, you flash back to 10 seconds before so you can try to save yourself. Unfortunately, the fall was 11 seconds. | I see the ledge appear again just out of my reach.
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It didn't happen instantly I got to feel the impact each time.
1
Each time I felt a pain that made me wish it would end.
1 m
I twisting and contorting my body as I hit the ground only prevented the pain for fractions of a second.
1mi
I wanted... | I fall a lot. Well, I'm always falling. Everyone gets one chance to go back ten seconds and try to not die. My fall was eleven seconds, so I'm kinda screwed.
It gets boring. I tried to stop it. Didn't work. A whole lot of ledges, none of them close enough to grab. Close enough for false hope, though. Eventually I got ... |
Saw this in “two sentence horror stories” and thought y’all could make something good out of it. | [WP] Every time you die, you flash back to 10 seconds before so you can try to save yourself. Unfortunately, the fall was 11 seconds. | I’ll give Maulter this much. The bastard is creative in his punishments. Sure, being an immortal sorcerer can benefit from annoying an equally immortal gunslinger. You may be asking yourself, “Randal, how did you get into this position in the first place? And how are you going to save yourself?”
To answer the less dea... | I fall a lot. Well, I'm always falling. Everyone gets one chance to go back ten seconds and try to not die. My fall was eleven seconds, so I'm kinda screwed.
It gets boring. I tried to stop it. Didn't work. A whole lot of ledges, none of them close enough to grab. Close enough for false hope, though. Eventually I got ... |
Saw this in “two sentence horror stories” and thought y’all could make something good out of it. | [WP] Every time you die, you flash back to 10 seconds before so you can try to save yourself. Unfortunately, the fall was 11 seconds. | Do you know what the air sounds like when it stands still, blows gently; a simple, tame breeze rather than an unending storm?
\*\*\*
Because I don't.
I did at one point, I think. It was one of my favorite things to sit in the park when the weather was like that, calm and gentle, cool and forgiving.
\*\*\*
I could ... | I wince as I feel my fall restart, trying desperately to grab onto a balcony, a window frame, anything, as I fall past. It’s useless, though, so I shut my eyes, curling into a ball and trying to position myself so I can land on my knees. Maybe I can survive if I just try harder. Maybe this time. I know it won’t work, d... |
[WP] Wizards have the same trust in magic that software designers have in software, which is to say, almost none at all. | "Telemechus, come look at this!"
"What?"
"Take a look at this glyph."
"Negative Zone? What on earth is that?"
"Hell if I know, but the glyph is used as a compound part of 20 different spells I've been able to find so far. From healing pool to dome of warding. Something to do with ... uh ... an area, I guess. That's... | Dressed up and annoyed, burgers were plowing their way through the myriad of lights floating in the air of the ornately decorated Town Square. At least the light mages had some sense to turn the lights yellow and white from the usual blue. One such light had collided with my velvet-clad chest and burst into sparkles, l... | |
[WP] Wizards have the same trust in magic that software designers have in software, which is to say, almost none at all. | Renowned Magician Jornithix Levekul stood at the edge of a crater where moments prior a farmhouse had been, trying to account for what exactly had gone wrong. He had no serious hope that figuring it out would bring the house back, but it might at least prevent such mistakes from happening in the future.
"So," said his... | The clock that marked the seconds until the end of time sat upon a dreary yellow wall. So utterly depressing was that faded yellow paper that until recently it had been hidden behind a large oak bookshelf, it’s edges just barely visible in the crevice between it and the other great shelves that lined the floors and cei... | |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep in the middle of the night, beat up and weak, when the villain opens the door the hero weakly says,”I’m sorry, I didn’t know where else to go” | “Tariel? Where in the hell have you been?!” I yelled at the top of my lungs.
“Listen Zorro,” Tariel replied, holding onto his broken arm. His golden suit was wrecked, covered in soot and scars. He was limping ever so slightly, and looked at me with only one clean eye. The other was swollen shut by a massive bruise. “W... | batman: "i didn't know where else to go" he says with a cough
joker: \*starts to laugh manically "you know how easy it would be to kill you right now, how easy it is to hit you over and over again how easy it would be... to kiss you \*the joker blushes
batman: "oh joker, i didnt think you liked me like that"
joker: ... | |
[WP] After billions of dollars invested, and decades of research, the most powerful corporate executives in the world have finally done it. They've finally ended the need for humans to sleep. | I didn’t mean to start a revolution, I really didn’t.
How simply it began. One question, only asked out of courtesy.
“Congratulations Mr. President, you’re having a boy,” the doctor had said, rubbing the ultrasound device over my wife’s growing belly. “Shall we run the Sleep Cure edit today? It’s quick, I’ll get you ... | One of humanity’s great loves is sleep. Any competent C-suite executive would tell you that that’s one-third of the day gone to waste—no productivity, no advertising, and no exploited labour.
Like most other things in the world, billions of dollars were thrown at a potential solution to this not-a-problem. And like mo... | |
[WP] Humanity thought they knew enough to study black holes in space. One day a researcher discovers they knew nothing, because instead of being matter consuming voids, it turns out black holes are just the way that advanced civilizations cloak themselves from view. | It's a funny thing really.
We ridicule ostriches for sticking their heads into the ground whenever they feel threatened. It's endearing and tik-tok'd when children haphazardly hide themselves behind curtains or sofas. Our young sons and daughters giggle and laugh, thinking that because they can't see us, we cannot see... | It was 2105 when the first probes reached the event horizon. Exceptionally shielded from radiation and the intense pressure of gravity, they were to scan as closely as they could and maintain a regular connection with the *Daedalus*, a computer-operated "FTL relay ship" that pinged a binary signal back at Earth through... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The real meaning of war
“ Hush child. Give them a moment. Not everyone has as strong a stomach as you.” Ms Thomson allowed a small comforting smile to pass over her lips as she extended her hand with a ceramic pitcher of water, her age adding only a small tremble to the heavy weight. Here Anna, take this to them and le... | \[Poem\]
I laughed about these rules of war,
Dumb humans done no fights before.
'Cause why would we need rules of war?
If the point of it is to win all?
Too late did we realize,
What it meant to fight with lies.
The smiles turning to tears on cheek,
As our children began to bleed. | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | “I don’t... understand...” The drone chittered. “Your... conventions...”
“They don’t apply to scum like you.”
Colonel Reed lifted his revolver and set two 9mm rounds through the bugs withered carapace. The virus they had introduced at the “failed” peace negotiations was doing its job remarkably well, turning h to e ... | \[Poem\]
I laughed about these rules of war,
Dumb humans done no fights before.
'Cause why would we need rules of war?
If the point of it is to win all?
Too late did we realize,
What it meant to fight with lies.
The smiles turning to tears on cheek,
As our children began to bleed. | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | “I don’t... understand...” The drone chittered. “Your... conventions...”
“They don’t apply to scum like you.”
Colonel Reed lifted his revolver and set two 9mm rounds through the bugs withered carapace. The virus they had introduced at the “failed” peace negotiations was doing its job remarkably well, turning h to e ... | The real meaning of war
“ Hush child. Give them a moment. Not everyone has as strong a stomach as you.” Ms Thomson allowed a small comforting smile to pass over her lips as she extended her hand with a ceramic pitcher of water, her age adding only a small tremble to the heavy weight. Here Anna, take this to them and le... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | “I don’t... understand...” The drone chittered. “Your... conventions...”
“They don’t apply to scum like you.”
Colonel Reed lifted his revolver and set two 9mm rounds through the bugs withered carapace. The virus they had introduced at the “failed” peace negotiations was doing its job remarkably well, turning h to e ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Less than a century ago the Krahzak Pride was the most powerful and feared interstellar civilization. No other species or alliance could hope to survive a war with them, though a scant handful were powerful enough to make the prospect unenticing enough to the Krahzak. Instead they would discreetly scour the forest for ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | We all couldn't quite believe it when 2022 started off like this. I remember since I was no more than five when it happened. But apparently SETI had found this recording.
"Um, uh...hey, did I fall asleep on this thing? Okay, okay. Testing, testing...alright, so, good- sometime in the future humanity. We are the Tyrhor... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Humanity burst onto the scene a fair few centuries ago, but had always endeavored to make themselves helpful. They adapted technology in creative ways but ultimately they were poised to take but a minor note in galactic history.
Or they were until the Rh'nouts provoked them. A smallish race themselves they stood just ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | "So, this is your final say on the matter," Ambassador Corrin spoke into his microphone, struggling to be heard over the cacophony of alien laughter. It took a few short seconds for his words to be translated into the various alien languages, and the laughter slowly diminished. His galactic translator had played the al... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The galactic imperium council observed humanity’s colonization of planets for decades, amused as the first tentative steps seemed to come from the whole planet, and then devolved into a race for materials, that then sparked wars amongst the human “nations”. Pitiful race that couldn’t even align itself to the great caus... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | There were horrors outside the door.
Horrors upon horrors upon horrors.
Nothing that no one else had not lived through before, learned before, seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched before.
Screaming blades in the dark and stark flashes of light in the void.
But none of that mattered, because it was outside the ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Voxl abruptly closed the human history book given to her so she could learn a bit about there past, well, the past for the Americans. She just left Australia in her trip to learn more about humanity and there kind. She was amused when she learned that humans had specific ways of war to make it “less vile”. She found it... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The great Warchief, the leader of the most powerful fleet in known space, waited patiently on his ship orbiting a planet. It had gone two years since his ships conquered the human settlement at the border of the empire he served.
The victory was swift. The few human military vessels was defeated in matter of minutes. ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The Rindan were the first to encounter them. Those organic masses of flesh and bone. Humans.
They were placated with trinkets and waste, and allowed their young to be carted off world to be held and displayed by the noble and powerful.
Their attempts to negotiate peace and harmony only allowed further exploitation. S... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | "With all due respect, don't you think we should lay down some ground rules about civilian targets and so forth?" spoke General Kitt to the assembled warcouncil of Terra. "It seems like the humane thing to do."
"Humane implies humanity, and these creatures have none. I am questioning the military's priorities if it do... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | August 18th, 4057:
Fuckin Xeno scum got carpet bombed and napalmed into non-existence. That's the 8th or so planet that's been given the "Ring of Fire" treatment. We've been blasting "Napalm Sticks To Kids" at them for a while before flattening them. Apparently some other species are more vulnerable to psychological w... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Title: Message in a bottle
An alien spaceship detects a storage vessel floating through space. Inside they find a hand written alien message, and a key for decoding the language. After some study by their crew, the message is translated …
Greetings. I will be quick and to the point. Who I am is no matter. By the time... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | My name is Dr. Asclepius. I am not here in the senate chambers to make any demands. I am simply an ambassador, here to speak on behalf of all humanity.
It has been a year and a half since humanity stood on the galactic stage.
But this year and a half is already filled with more bloodshed, more atrocities, and more un... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Know this. You have done this to yourselves.
You were warned. Even as you laughed and called us primitives, wanting our planets to add to the so-called Million Worlds of your dominion. So many times you were warned: our hyperdrives are not like yours.
We told you this when you arrived to terraform our colonies. We w... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | It is a sad day. The newcomers to our little slice of home declared war. We sent communiques inquiring as to the rules of engagement to their leadership, and they responded with images of our diplomats tortured, abused in the cruelest, most inhumane of ways, signed in the name of the Kiej Dominion.
Those insect bast... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | "You need rules? For war?"
"Oh do we ever."
"Well that's just ridiculous! How the hell do you issue 'rules' for war? War is war!"
"You don't know much about our history, do you?"
The human clicked his pen impatiently as the alien investigator pulled up their historical records on his computer.
"Oh you humans are l... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Commander Xenov wrapped his head-tentacles together as he stared at the battle holo; a sign of contentment for his species, the fearsome Carnovians. Feared throughout the galaxy for their terrifying prowess in battle, both in space and on planet, they had been at an uneasy peace for nearly 200 solar cycles. Back then, ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | A booming laughter erupted throughout the great egg-shaped hall so tall clouds formed at the very top, they were left there for aesthetics if nothing else, he pondered. At the sides grew massive steely arches joining at the very top, between them were built balconies, filled with ambassadors and other representatives o... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | "I don't believe your High Serpahic Council understands what they have asked for here." Celes said. "You have denied my people the opportunity to parley for peace, and you have threatened them with war being brought to their very homes." Celes' voice rose and trembled as she spoke, the anger and fear that gripped her ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | “Yeah, that sucks for them. But why are you angry at us?” Amanda Smith, leader of the elite Beartooth division, looked up at Commander Her’clud in confusion. “You said you wanted the planet taken at any cost, so we took it. So what’s the problem?”
“The problem? The problem is that you killed every single sentient bein... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | In the swirling blizzard of North Palax, planet Haranox 7, a group of Aranids, a spider like race, gather together inside a secluded, secure building to discuss one thing.
Surrender
The normally proud race had made 2 mistakes that had cost them dearly. They had aggravated humanity to war, and laughed at humanities so... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | This is a continuation of my [last WP comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/s98qyp/wp_projectile_weapons_were_considered_ancient/htmol5h/?context=3), b/c the themes are similar and why the hell not right?
​
*I remember fondly in the first year of my mandatory enlistment feeling the warm... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | A council chamber. Rectangle. Ornate. Boring.
Earth and humanity's representatives sat on one side of the curiously balanced tables, seated across a neighboring species often thought as bloodthirsty cretins.
Once more had an earth mining operation been sabotaged and mined materials stolen, very few survivors. Humanity... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Ta'reb thought that this whole hearing was a laughable farce as he maneuvered into his chair. His race (the dothram) were a reddish spherical entity with one eye that moved with one single long appendage and had been nicknamed by the humans as "mono-people". How could you enforce rules in war? War is when negotiations ... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | In the far reaches of space a lone human cargo hauler came under attack by an alien race that they had yet to meet. An emergency drone dropped out of the hauler with a dump of the ships computers highlighting the attacker. In a flash, the drone was off to the nearest human star system.
That lone incident introduced... | ...
"Thats the line?" Marcus said looking at the script.
"I thought the whole goal was the calm them down so we while we stole their sun.."
Marcus Tillborn, head of diversity inclusion and population management was at his prime before the gate explosion. Now he was stuck in yet another sentient shitstorm gone bad.... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Less than a century ago the Krahzak Pride was the most powerful and feared interstellar civilization. No other species or alliance could hope to survive a war with them, though a scant handful were powerful enough to make the prospect unenticing enough to the Krahzak. Instead they would discreetly scour the forest for ... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Humanity burst onto the scene a fair few centuries ago, but had always endeavored to make themselves helpful. They adapted technology in creative ways but ultimately they were poised to take but a minor note in galactic history.
Or they were until the Rh'nouts provoked them. A smallish race themselves they stood just ... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | "So, this is your final say on the matter," Ambassador Corrin spoke into his microphone, struggling to be heard over the cacophony of alien laughter. It took a few short seconds for his words to be translated into the various alien languages, and the laughter slowly diminished. His galactic translator had played the al... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The galactic imperium council observed humanity’s colonization of planets for decades, amused as the first tentative steps seemed to come from the whole planet, and then devolved into a race for materials, that then sparked wars amongst the human “nations”. Pitiful race that couldn’t even align itself to the great caus... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The great Warchief, the leader of the most powerful fleet in known space, waited patiently on his ship orbiting a planet. It had gone two years since his ships conquered the human settlement at the border of the empire he served.
The victory was swift. The few human military vessels was defeated in matter of minutes. ... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | My name is Dr. Asclepius. I am not here in the senate chambers to make any demands. I am simply an ambassador, here to speak on behalf of all humanity.
It has been a year and a half since humanity stood on the galactic stage.
But this year and a half is already filled with more bloodshed, more atrocities, and more un... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... |
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