Space Exploration Writing Prompts

Humans didn’t evolve, they were made as a warrior caste for another species. When they didn’t work out their creators dumped them on earth with no tech, now that they have discovered warp travel…

Our planet shares the same orbit with Earth- on the opposite side of the sun. We see their lives on the internet and TV, but we’ve never been able to actually GO there.

You're a dimension-hopper, who can walk through parallel worlds like turning a corner. The increasing number of apocalyptic Earths is really starting to bother you, though

You’re one of the best space doctors known across the galaxies, easily able to analyse and assess any alien’s condition and treat them accordingly. You’ve cured creatures bigger than moons and microbes smaller than atoms, but this next patient has you utterly perplexed.

A group of the empire's young knights are boasting about how they're going to mop up the pathetic primitives as they drop into the atmosphere. From the corner of the dropship, a grizzled veteran suddenly asks: "Have you ever been outnumbered a million to one?"

A alien empire is currently trying to figure out how a primitive ship managed to destroy their finest battleship. In turn, the human space pirates are trying to figure out why this random ship had such a piss poor hull and why it was trying to attack them with such horrible lazer weaponry.

You are in a failing Dyson sphere around the last black hole, an hour away from its final moments of evaporation before it explodes and gives the universe its last moment of light. The remnants of your civilization will witness the end of the universe.

"Why are we bringing weapons? Isn't it a diplomatic meeting?", asked one crewmember. The sole alien member of the crew explained, "In my culture, it would be highly offensive to be unarmed. We think you guys are crazy not being armed all the time. Haven't you seen what's out there in space?"

As President of the Universe you often have wannabe Overlords and Dictators break into your house and demand your title. Your policy is to just give it to them. None have lasted longer than a week before returning it.

You've awoken after a light year travel to a new planet, only to be greeted by other humans because they invented a faster spaceship after you left.

Humans spread across the galaxy millennia ago and in that time the origins of humanity have become lost to history. While there are many competing theories, it is universally agreed that the most ridiculous one is that humans originated on a remote trash-world called "Earth".

Nearing the end of Earth, humanity united to send passenger ships across the universe the preserve the species. But that's not your story, you're one of the ones deemed unfit to send.

Escape pods are built for two, but it's basically like being trapped in a closet with a stranger. It's a week until the rescue ship arrives, and the other passenger is already really getting on your nerves. You’re going to end up killing them or fucking their brains out, whichever comes first.

You spent 3000 years in hypersleep traveling to a distant planet that can support life. you arrive and find human skeletons and a barren wasteland, apparently they invented better spaceships 50 years after you left

Most sapient species go extinct without ever leaving their cradle world. As a result those that do make it to space struggle to find habital planets that aren't haunted

Many years ago, your ship crash landed on Earth, and met a young human. You remember him fondly. Twenty years to the day, he just stepped out of the rocketship that landed on your home planet.

Stars actually do grant wishes, but they are too far away to arrive immediately. You are the first person to live long enough to have your wish granted.

Big space empires get into “shadow godfather” programs, which mean they take a small civilization under their wing to watch over. In 1910, the human watchers take a break of a few years to see what would happen. They comes back: it’s 1945.

You swiped right on a tinder profile which only had an Athena-class deep space cruiser for a pic. After flirting for a few days, you ask if they want to meet. "When?" They ask. "I dunno, now?" You answer, moments before a hyperspace rupture opens up above your home.

One thousand ships were sent. One came back.

Space is incredibly vast and life is rare. Therefore we explored and colonised space unopposed for many millennia, until we finally met another intelligent, space-faring species, long after we accepted that we are alone.

A female intergalactic bounty hunter spares the last larva of a dangerous alien race. Years later, the larva emerges from its chrysalis in a mature feminine form, perfectly suited to breed with human women like the bounty hunter.

Upon finding out that you've been kidnapped by a band of female space Pirates they reveal that humans are the only species that can mate with any species in the known universe and reproduce with them and they plan to sell you as a rare sex toy to the highest bidder.

She was exited to try out Biotech’s new bodysuit. It can keep tabs on your health, can be adjusted to cover as much (or as little) skin as you want, and more. But a bug in the “adult functions” leave her seemingly stuck under constant stimulation, a heavy distraction during space travel.

"The only evidence left of 'Humans' is that massive, derelict generation ship we've arrived to. Your exploration team is charged with exploring the ship and finding out what happened."

The technology in your skin-tight spacesuit can alter your body to adapt to the ship’s requirements. When a population decline led to a shortage of woman on board, it adapted your body in an unexpected way...

HumansAreSpaceRabbits

Everyone said immortality was a curse, that you'd be floating in the void forever once the last sun died. turns out they're wrong, it's surprisingly easy to recreate the universe in your own image.

The colony ships were populated by lotto of young candidates (20-25) from across the doom Earth; by chance ship 13 had a 1:3 male to female ratio. Then they found they're assigned cabins had 4 inhabitants and only 2 cramped beds, and things got interesting.

Space travel has created a lot of question on the morality of interacting with aliens species. This crew has some strict rules on the mater, sex between species is ok if they can pass the Harkness test first. Now you have a naked alien woman grinding against you.