THREAT
• YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHIES Xenomorphs, facehuggers, necromorphs, predators, whatever: the threat you're up against is some kind of being you've never seen before. Perhaps they're engineered somehow, perhaps they've evolved this way. Either way, I hope you can figure out how to kill them before they kill you.
• I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT Why the hell did we think building un-tethered AI was a good idea? Your threat is an android, or a ship's AI, or I don't know, a sentient race of evil ships that want to destroy all life and suck it into tubes to make a weird baby shaped ship. WHATEVER. The point is, technology is going against you. Can you beat out something with that much processing power? Maybe having bigger firepower will help.
• I LOVE... ROCKS Your threat is environmental. An exploding sun, an alien planet with an inhospitable atmosphere, your ship's life support systems have failed, your shuttle has gone down in flames. Can you cobble together some way to fix the problem before you all die?
• THIS IS NOT A RESCUE SHIP Screw the other problems, what you're up against are HUMANS. Or, you know, whatever species/race matches yours. We're not xeno-racist here. Anyway, you're being targeted by your own. Maybe you're in the way of a scientific development, or you've become expendable, or they want to take over your ship, or they're just plain evil.
• ABOUT 15 SECONDS Holy shit. Holy... shit. You were outside your ship making repairs and you got knocked off track. Maybe your fancy magnetic boots failed. Maybe some debris from your ship took you down with it. Either way, your space walk has become a space "holy shit help I'm going to get spaced, someone get me back on board." Try not to panic.
• WE'RE THE ENEMIES You've been out in space too long. Everything is going strange and everything is a threat. Is your space sickness psychological or physiological? Is it spreading? Is there a cure?
LOCATIONS
• PLANETSIDE Crash landed. In an outpost. Building a new life. You're on a planet not your own and things are going horribly wrong. What can you do when you have no way home?
• STATION SWEET STATION Whether you're out in your ship or in a streamlined space station, things are rotten in Denmark. You'd better fix that circuitry before you all die. Just a suggestion.
• THE GAPING MAW There's nothing around you and all you can hear is your breathing. Are you calm? Panicked? What's it like floating in the vast expanse of space?
• IT'S INEVITABLE You're lost in your own head. You can be anywhere, but maybe you're the threat because you've short-circuited from being in space too long. The mind can only take so much. Try to be gentle. Try to breathe. No one's after you, it's all in your head.
As always, these are just suggestions. Also, not all examples are strictly hard sci-fi but we do what we want in these parts. Make up anything you want, as long as you're having fun! |
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bakerstreet2017-05-24 11:13 pm
Peter Quill | Guardians of the Galaxy
legolas, lord of the rings (novels)
Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight | ota
Michael Corvin | Underworld
The Rat King | TMNT (2012)
elizabeth shaw | prometheus/alien series
daniels | alien: covenant
peter quill | mcu | ota
morgan yu / prey (2017)
Samus Aran | Metroid/Smash Bros.| OTA
poe dameron | star wars | ota
no subject
Only no crew showed up.
That was how Legolas woke up. Groggy and confused, blinking his eyes up at the milk coloured glass too close to his face for comfort. He breathed once, twice, and pushed his palms up against the smooth surface. Nothing happened. He tried again, and again, and each next time had more force to it than the previous one. There was not enough space in this closed bed, or cage he couldn't tell, for a proper punch, but that did not mean he wasn't trying. Finally, the glass began cracking, finally something gave way and the entire top part came off. He shoved it off to the side carelessly and immediately pushed himself up into a crouch, fighting a wave of dizziness that overcame him.
Yet seeing what lay beyond the glass did not do much to soothe the confusion and a sense of dread he felt. He was surrounded by metal, a construction unlike anything in Middle-earth and by noises that he had never heard before. The scents were foreign as well, except something that he could only call blood. Everything felt foreign, and worst of all, he could not even recall how he found himself here.
Wherever here was.
A few feet beneath his cage-bed was a broad, metal catwalk and he leaped down to it, landing as easily as he could, still feeling the effects of that forced sleep in his bones and muscles. To his left, he caught the sight of someone - no orc, which was a relief, but it was no elf either - in similar situation to himself, dressed in the same strange garb that stuck to the skin like a second layer of it. To his right there was something else, a creature unknown to him.
If there was one thing that was universal among many species, it was the expression of rage and violence, the threat in the body language, no matter how strange it was. That was exactly what he was facing to his right. The snarling could mean only one thing. ]
jyn erso | sw | ota
leia organa | sw | ota
any preferences for prompts?
no subject
abel ( starfighter ) ota
joe hibiki | gatchaman crowds | ota
lao huang | xenoblade x | ota
Bluey | OC | OTA
76 | overwatch
Delia Battista | Star Trek OC | OTA
Spock - Star Trek - OTA
Mantis | Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU
fausta ( original )
kurama | yu yu hakusho | ota
Harry Osborn › Spider-Man
elizabeth shaw | prometheus + alien series
Wheatley | Portal 2
No, wait, that's just a rock.]
Eli Vanto | Star Wars: Thrawn | OTA | voicetesting
agent Kallus | Star Wars: Rebels | OTA
thomas nightingale | rivers of london
Jamie Hemeros | Zoids /0
hey jamie you wanna help your stepdad not fly inTO THE SUN
[Oh shit oh shit.]
[Being the self-sacrificing type, there's some repair outside the ship? Terry will be the one to take that risk; even going so far as to literally take the suit and leave the ship before anyone can stop him. It's not like he offers all that much else,
and they sure as fuck don't have the time or resources to come out after him.]
[And part of him thinks it's a good thing it was him when a piece of debris knocks him away from the ship. Another part of him is screaming in terror, but that's fine,
he's fine. And he's like 78% certain he at least completed the repairs fist.]
Jamie--? [fuck shit damn fuck] Jamie, can you hear me? Did the repairs take?
Leonard Snart/Captain Cold | The Flash/Legends | OTA
Catherine Chun | SOMA | OTA