Alien Encounters Writing Prompts

"Having seen how well humans treat their defeated enemies we wish to formally declare our surrender." "But we're not at war.", "Of course not we were hoping to skip that bit"

You are an alien assassin tasked with killing the human ambassador. Only to find out all your poisons like caffeine, chocolate, capsaicin, tabacco mint etc. Don't work

"No, no. Trust me; it works. Humans love to take care of pregnant and baby things. I've even seen them adopt things they eat!" "What about things that eat them?" "Oh, humans like those best of all! So just go up and act weak, they'll take care of the rest."

After Earth was declared a galactic safe haven, anti-xenoterrestrial sentiment began to rise. You, a second generation immigrant from another planet, calmly walk down the street when a voice yells at you "Go back to Mars!" You snap back "I was born in Chicago!"

An alien race destroyed half of one continent, in in response the Humans destroyed half of the alien homeworld. When called to the Galactic Council for trial the humans response was "It's a proportional response!"

"A warning: Humans, from the planet known to them as Earth, will adopt anything they deem childlike and will go to extreme lengths to protect that adopted creature and spoil it to eternity." The high representative's letter addressed to the galaxy read as some previous incidents became clear.

"What do you mean the humans REJECTED our declaration of war?! That's not how that works!"

Ever since joining the galactic society, humanity has been in a golden age of peace, restoration, and learning. We just learned that we are, in truth, the newest slave world of an evil empire, most people just had it so bad that it's still a step up.

After finally achieving space travel, humans quickly discovered evidence of alien life in the forms of ruins. MANY ruins. Entire planets devastated, massive fields of debris floating in space and no sign of living beings anywhere. Until we picked up a distress call from an unknown source.

Your exploration vessel has worked well with its new human crew members, since humans are eager to see all sorts of different worlds. However when your ship comes across it’s first Oceanic planet, the humans absolutely refuse to leave the ship

Humans are often abducted as exotic pets for aliens. One day, your owner enters with a book and starts trying to speak your language.

Humans have discovered how to make habitable subspaces before FTL travel, so the humans have the "smallest" territory of all the species in the galaxy.

There is no humanity. We never made it to the stars, just petered out on our little mud ball. A galactic community finds our overgrown cities, data banks, and what little culture remains- and wishes we had.

All children under the age of 13 vanishes with only a note left behind that says "Due to humans not caring about the future of their young, all children have been relocated. If you truly love (Name), you will not intervene as we restart your race. -Signed 'The Protectors'"

"A human body's chemicals for fear and excitement are identical. A human that experiences the effects of that chemical and does not think they are in danger will conclude that they are excited. I believe this explains certain species' rising popularity with humans."

You have been abducted by a UFO. After you slowly regained your senses, you thought that the alien would dissect, torture or experiment on you, instead they are talking about saving you and others from that oppressive and hellish planet called Earth.

It turns out hell isn’t just for humans.. it’s for all species across the galaxy. Fortunately for you, it seems they have no idea how humans work, or what they find painful.

Humans were just discovered by the intergalactic community right after they defeated the Maw, a terrible species fueled by hunger. No one knows how they did it. That is why they called you to the gathering of great species, to explain how the humans defeated those terrible monster.

The Galactic Council and their enemy’s have always used energy based weapons. The sudden scrabble to develop defences against physical weapons REALLY should have started when the humans began to have interest in Mass Drivers capable of firing over 1,000 tons at FTL speeds.

When the alien crew learned that humans will go practically insane and be willing to eat anything or anyone when left without food for too long. It led to aliens frantically trying to feed the human crewmate whenever they said they were hungry

Your scientist co-worker has found an alien relic containing immense power and tries to convince you to help them harness it. What they didn't count on was your excessive consumption of media warning you against this very thing.

"How can you claim they are friendly? They have never been registered." "All spacefaring organisms are harmless. If they weren't, they could have defended their native habitat. After all, why would an apex predator need to expand its territory into space? Let them land and you'll see."

The Galactic Council welcomes new species after their planets dies; all planets do. Now they're watching a new species pull away from their latest apocalypse and re-terraform their planet back into working shape for the umpteenth time.

First contact is established with an intelligent alien species. Oddly, they find humans adorable, and compulsively want to pet them. This wouldn't normally be a deal breaker per-se- they're a gentle and sensitive species... its just that they happen to be giant 12 legged spider creatures.

The first thing aliens translated were the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Now all the aliens are freaking out.

After a series of mutual misunderstandings during First Contact, a young human military officer has found themself accidentally married to an alien princess.

You have been kidnapped by aliens to be a zoo animal. They expect you to be upset & try to escape, but you love your new life & become an "ambassador animal" for humanity.

When you were little, you formed a symbiotic relationship with an alien larva parasite, who's been your closest companion ever since. Today is your college graduation, and after the ceremony, you hear words from the parasite in your mind: "We need to talk."

The war has ended, and all governments have collapsed. Now the world is so devastated that recovery is but a pipe dream. Now, in a cruel twist of fate, a massive alien fleet arrives, demanding to speak to the leaders. You are chosen at random to address them.

When type 4 civilization patched a black hole that was dangerously next to a human colony, usually other species of the intergalactic community ran away, but humanity was the first to excitingly contact this civilization.