Space Horror Meme

[sockalareine]

IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU MEME Sure we've got your fun interplanetary romps, your space spaghetti westerns, your xenoromance. This is none of those things. This is you getting lost in the depths of space. This is you being stuck in a silent hulking dead ship with no idea where to turn. This is you hiding in the dark and hoping the creature doesn't see you. This is you, surviving some kind of horrors. Or not. Do your best.

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!

Comments

lt. ellen ripley | alien/s

[flamethrowers]

[ i mean, i gotta. (alien3 version also available.) ]

[dark_lady_sariss]

[I absolutely have to deal with the OG space badass lady :D Any ideas for a dark jedi? Would it be nice to have useful help with the Xenomorphs for once? :P]

jesse faden | control | OTA

[outlierdirector]

[wireghost]

[ jesse 😍 ]

Tony Stark | MCU | ota

[houseparty]

( crosscanon loved, assumed cr preferred. )

[arkproject]

[ Would you be interested in a ship or space station's AI that used to be a person? I was thinking Catherine could be a red herring (seems like the threat; actually is not the threat) and then the real threat shows up?

If you want to pick the real threat and whether it's prose or brackets, I would be happy to write the starter :) ]

dwayne hicks ( aliens )

[colonialmarine]

[flamethrowers]

[ first one? y/n? ]

elżbieta `ela` bosak | rainbow six siege

[huksztuk]

Sebastian Michaelis | Black Butler | ota

[extensively]

[Could au Sebastian here as an advanced AI or an alien lifeform. Voicetesting, prose preferred for this one]

Zoey | Left 4 Dead | OTA

[genresurvivor]

[ I love all these prompts, hit me up. ]

rebecca "newt" jorden | aliens au

[tunneler]

[ hey remember when we were supposed to get a sequel where she lived? good times that we never got to see. ]

Cassandra de Rolo | Critical Role | OTA

[ofwovenstone]

Padmé ⋆ Star Wars

[nexubait]

Inquisitor Lavellan | Dragon Age

[stumbledfromtheashes]

[Space elves?]

Darth Traya | Star Wars: Kotor II | OTA

[apathy_is_death]

[She pretty much IS the predator. Want to see Xenomorphs get utterly crushed? Or help her do it?]

Sariss | Star Wars: Jedi Knight | OTA

[dark_lady_sariss]

Admiral Natasi Daala | Star Wars: Expanded Universe | OTA

[empires_finest]

[Also available: EU flavor Pellaeon.]

Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[fromwinter]

[zealots]

[ He's the last man standing. Or running, as it were. All the other mutants aboard the station have been taken or killed by the insectoid creatures currently pursuing him. Eight feet tall things, with fangy jaws, scorpionoid tails, and chitinous exoskeletons. And intelligent. Diabolically intelligent.

At first, he'd been able to slay the invaders easily. But that was days ago, and through relentless pursuit and sheer attrition they've worn him down. He'd tried to lead an offensive to retake the control room but hadn't been able to break through. Most of his squad had fallen in the attempt and the few who escaped with him were brought down, one by one, until only he was left. ]

You want me, beasts? Come and get me.

[ His voice is dry, his face haggard and grim. There's nowhere left to fall back to. The bugs have finally cornered him, and all Exodus can do now is take as many of them as he can down with him.

A blast of psychokinetic energy takes the head off one, and he rips the stinger off another, but the rest of him rush him and force him to the floor with their sinewy front legs. He bucks and struggles, but they hold his arms down, then his legs. One of them skitters up to straddle his prone body, grinning a ghastly grin as Bennet strains with all his might to free himself. The leering monster leans in and...

A low choonk sound, and the alien atop Exodus blows apart in an explosion of chitin and sickly green blood. A hot splash of it hits him in the face and he wrenches one of his arms free, the alien holding it now focused entirely on something or someone else. Another choonk, another bug blown to pieces, and suddenly the beasts don't care about him anymore. They scatter, onto the walls and across the ceiling, fleeing from this new foe.

He sits up unsteadily, his head ringing, and wipes the blood from his face so he can see. It looks like someone's approaching him, someone with two arms and two legs and a large firearm of some kind. ]

Bluey | Space Pirate OC | OTA

[bluey]

Sylar/Gabriel Gray || Heroes

[aptly]

The Grand Inquisitor | Star Wars Rebels | OTA

[spinsaber]

Grand Admiral Thrawn | Star Wars | OTA

[admiralchiss]

Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight | ota

[doctor_terror]

The Rat King | Ninja Turtles (2012) | ota

[rateyes]

(Lt) Ellen Ripley [] Alien franchise [] OTA

[getawayfromheryoubitch]

[ Ripley is available in all badass flavors, some comic knowledge, AUs welcome, Cross canon is fun. ]

Newt | Aliens AU | OTA

[only_survivor]

[ She's all grown up and she's ready to take the fight to anything that wants to hunt or kill her people. ]

Ben Solo/Kylo Ren | Star Wars

[niteofren]

Lt Col Wilma Deering | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | OTA

[25thcenturygirl]

[ Oh the retro space adventures in store. ]