CREATIVE ADVENTURES — 87

Imagine You Live in a Starship

In this thought experiment, you will imagine that you are living in a starship. Please respond to the following prompts:

1. Why are you living in a starship? What happened? Write down your background story.
2. Where are you headed? What year is this (on Earth)? How far are you from the Earth? What is your mission? When will you come back to the Earth (if ever)?
3. Describe the starship. How many people are living here? What is your role? What do you see and experience around you? Describe your typical day and schedule from the minute you get up until you go to bed. You can use this website for inspiration.
4. Imagine that you are headed to another star system. We know that interstellar travel has a lot of dangers and perils. Think of the top 3 challenges and how you will deal with them.
5. Write a science fiction story where you make a surprising discovery. What could be this ground-breaking discovery?
6. Imagine that your starship is huge and advanced, like a futurist city. Write a science fiction story set in this starship. You can watch the movie Passengers for a bit of inspiration.
7. Write an adventure story where your starship encounters another mystery starship in space. Who are they? What happens next? You might explore a space adventure game here to get started.
8. Write a horror story or a tech dystopia where you are trapped in a starship. You might get some ideas here.
9. Write a science fiction story where you are the only human survivor on this starship. What happened? What happens next?
10. Write a science fiction story where you are the only human living on a starship. Your companions are a lot of robots and advanced AI systems. Write down your story.
11. It’s the year 3490 and humans have built cities all over the galaxy. Using groundbreaking technologies of teleportation, imagine that you can travel faster than light and to any star system within our galaxy. Your new job is to extend the search for life beyond Milky Way. What happens next? Where do you go? Write a science fiction story.

Fahri Karakas is the author of Self-making Studio. He is passionate about doodling, creativity, asset creation, and the future.