Generation Ship and Colony
A thousand years to arrive. Will anyone remember why?
Stories of colonists crossing the stars on centuries-long voyages or building new lives on alien worlds.
- Styles
- Novel · Cinematic · Literary · Pulp, or Random
- Aisle
- Sci-Fi
Begin with
Deck Nineteen
On the generation ship Long Patience, Deck Nineteen has been sealed for two hundred years. You are the maintenance worker who just heard knocking from the other side.
Your role: A ship maintenance worker
Landfall Minus One
Tomorrow the colony ship lands after six hundred years. Tonight, the ship's AI tells you, and only you, that the planet below is already inhabited by humans.
Your role: The ship's chief historian
First Harvest
Your colony's first crop on the new world comes up purple and humming. The colony council says burn it. The children say it sings to them.
Your role: A colony agronomist
Start a premise as written, or make it yours with your own hero, style, tropes and intensity. Every scene after the first is written around your choices.
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